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If you just want to noodle around in a scale and have it fit with different styles, this should get you pretty far:
Minor Pentatonic: Rock, Blues
Major Pentatonic: Country, Bluegrass, happier-sounding Blues
Major (Ionian) Scale: General happy music, simple jazz, nursery rhyme style stuff, happy sounding classical music style stuff
Dorian Scale: Darker sounding modern music, jazz/rock fusion, post-rock, modern rock, simpler metal
Minor (Aeolian) Scale: Darker sounding classical music style stuff, classical-sounding metal
Mixolydian Scale: Jam band music
Phrygian Scale: Very dark, exotic, middle-eastern/arabian sound, exotic-sounding metal