An A to Z of Music Genres

W = Western

Ah yes, ... Yacht Rock.

Cristi wrote: Logan wrote: Technically it's Spaghetti Western (from the film genre), but I include this under Western, which includes music used in Westerns. I don't know about that to be honest. It's just movie soundtracks, film music...  Watched Once Upon a Time in the West a little while ago. Brilliant movie and music.  Also watched rather poor Italian poliziotteschi just because Morricone did the soundtrack.

Well people will label just about anything as genres to satisfy their obsessions with classifications. That said, something like the spaghetti western soundtracks being made by Morricone, Franco Micalizzi, Bruno Nicolai and Alessandro Alessandroni have a particular flavour to them. Soundtracks are incredibly varied of course in the kinds of music on them, and I'm a big soundtrack collector. John Zorn liked to do his take on this kind of music. I love Morricone for different periods of his music. I've probably listened to the soundtrack of the poliziotteschi without watching it.

And Ill do a Zeuhl with Magma's Theusz Hamtaahk

B is for Big Beat.

Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank



Edited by mathman0806 - September 11 2021 at 16:33

2 seconds earlier and it wouldn't have been up to B.

I'll do C for Canterbury Scene

Soft Machine - Moon in June



(by the way, no worries about repeating genres -- that can lead to more variety of music within categories)

Edited by Logan - September 11 2021 at 16:39

E is for Euro-Power-Metal 

F is Folk. And fortuitously, I just received Pentangle The Albums in the mail yesterday.