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    Posted: September 11 2021 at 07:31
I thought it would be interesting to cover music genres from A to Z as a kind of musical explorative journey. To participate please post one track or sample of the kind of music you propose for a letter. One letter covered and one track per post please, or... (see later in post). If you want to do the next letter next or continue with the same letter with another genre (or just mention another track from the last post's genre), that's fine. I would like to be pretty flexible about how we go about it. Actually, if you want to mention a track from the last letter (either one from a genre mentioned or a different one) and mention another genre from that letter or the next letter as well, that's fine too. I don't want this becoming laundry list type posts, and with lots per post it can make it harder to listen to what has been posted.

I will start with A. I could do have done Art music, art pop, art rock and others, but I will do...

... A for Ambient.

Natural Snow Buildings - "Left For Dead"



If anyone has suggestions on improvements on how to go about this, since I only just had the idea and this is me insomnia posting, feel free to mention those. I'm hoping to become a little more musically educated during the journey through genres.

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Easy. B for Blues.

Whether the originals...



Or the next generation....




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2021 at 08:04
^ Fantastic, that John Lee Hooker is such a great choice. I'll give your post a B plus for a B plus one more.

I want to do another one for B, was thinking Bluesgrass, but then I thought of Brazilian Folk Music (which is considered a genre of music). This was my choice in an early Interactive Poll and it went down very well.

Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho - "Trilha De Sumé"



I love the album it's off.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2021 at 09:29
Okay, I'll do a C for Classical Music:

Beethoven's 7th Second movement may be my favourite music of all (it gives me chills and not just because of how it was used in Zardoz).



It's used in various places in Zardoz (an often thought of as bad movie that had a big effect on me), but here is the final scene using it.






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D is for doom metal 

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This is my kind of topic! Big smile I won't choose the obvious Eclectic Prog, so how about some Euro Disco from Boney M. I love the pounding drumbeat on this song. Thumbs Up

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:24
^^ Thanks Cristi. Doom metal is one of my favourite kinds of metal. I appreciated the track.

Just a note because I thought of this after my first post. This may not need saying, but then things I say rarely do.   While I would ask people not to jump ahead in the genre alphabet, if people wish to revisit a letter already done, feel free, rather than having to wait until we reach Z and then going around again. I want to be flexible, but then it's not like when I make topic the thread belongs to me, if you know what I mean.

I'm kind of tempted to do a C for Canterbury Scene, but I'll do a another D with Dark Jazz: Heroin And Your Veins - The Death Of a Lover



^ I see you got in with E Paul, I had spent some time thinking about what to go with of Dark Jazz. I was going to go with something from Twin Peaks or Portishead.

For E, my obvious choice would be Electronic.

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F is for Funk.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:53
^ Great one, and another F as in F is for Folk:

Nick Drake - "River Man"



Can't resist mentioning this song which is so special to me (it may be my favourite song of all).



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G is for Glam Smile


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^ By the way, Logan, that's the first time I've heard of Dark Jazz, so I've learnt something new today. Thumbs Up

As well as Glam Metal, there's also Glam Rock, with Slade & the "Chrome Nun" (Dave Hill) Smile

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Can I do two for one?

H is for Heavy Metal and Hip Hop

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I is for "I don't know". LOL
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^

^^^Paul, I've been becoming more acquainted with Dark Jazz as a genre. Apparently a lot of music I like is dark jazz that I hadn't really thought of as jazz per se. Oh, and there's also Glam Punk, but that overlaps with Glam Rock.

^^ And yes, referencing two genres of the same alphabetical variety is not only appropriate, but two times as clever.

I is for Indo Prog / Raga Rock.

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I is for "I don't know". LOL


You forgot the video.


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^ thank you! LOLThumbs Up
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Awww...I missed G. Was going to say the not quite ubiquitous "Gypsy Punk"....


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J is for Jugband


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J is for Jazz




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"I" is for Indie Pop and my favourite Indie Pop band. Thumbs Up

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