An A to Z of Music Genres
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Topic: An A to Z of Music Genres
Posted By: Logan
Subject: An A to Z of Music Genres
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 07:31
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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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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 08:00
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Easy. B for Blues. Whether the originals...
Or the next generation.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 08:04
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^ 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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 09:29
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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. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 09:37
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D is for doom metal |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:12
This is my kind of topic!  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.  Boney M - Working on the Chain Gang. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:24
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^^ 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. Zanov -Green Ray |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:50
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F is for Funk. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 10:53
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^ 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). |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:01
G is for Glam  |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:09
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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. Slade - Cum on Feel the Noize
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:14
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Can I do two for one? H is for Heavy Metal and Hip Hop Slayer and Ice-T - Disorder |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:17
I is for "I don't know". 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:27
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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. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:37
You forgot the video. |
Cristi wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:41
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^ thank you!
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:41
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Awww...I missed G. Was going to say the not quite ubiquitous "Gypsy Punk".... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:45
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J is for Jugband ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:47
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J is for Jazz |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 11:51
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"I" is for Indie Pop and my favourite Indie Pop band. Camera Obscura - French Navy |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:13
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K is for Krautrock Faust - Just A Second (Starts Like That!) ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:18
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^^ I love much Indie Pop and of course ^ Krautrock. Love Faust and want to mention a fave track of mine in Krautrock that doesn't get very much attention. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:21
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L is another favourite of mine with Library Music |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:23
"L" for Lovers Rock - a sub-genre of Reggae.  Janet Kay - Silly Games |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:23
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L is for Latin-American. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:27
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M is for Mariachi! ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:31
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N is for New Age ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:32
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And M is for Musique concrète. Some Stockhausen EDIT: Was a bit slow, already up to N. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 12:35
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Let's combine genre's courtesy of Metalachi. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:01
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One of my favourite songs and videos from the New Romantic era. Visage - Fade to Grey |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:06
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^^ Nice I was thinking Novelty, but will do one with N for Noise qualities. Xiu Xu - Packard's Vibration I've been obsessed with Twin Peaks (caught it late) and Xiu Xiu's album inspired by the music of Twin Peaks. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:06
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O is for Outlaw Country. Waylon Jennings, a few beers and a bar fight.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:09
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And O is for from Outlaw to Opera. Delibes - The Flower Duet Outlaw Opera could be very cool. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:21
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P is for pirate metal. Alestorm - Keelhauled |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:23
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Well shiver me pirate booty. That also works for RRRRR. P is of course also for a plethora of psychedelia. I'll do Psychedelic Folk with Mark Fry's The Witch: |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:40
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Q is for Queercore The Butchies - The Galaxy is Gay |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:56
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^ Who would have guessed there's such a genre as Queercore!?  The Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:11
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Q is for the Somali jazz-funk genre Qaraami obviously. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:20
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R is for Rockabilly. Like Carl Perkins, for instance.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:20
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R is for Rock In Opposition Fred Frith - Speechless ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:33
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S is for Shoegazing ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:47
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I think S is for Spiritual Jazz |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:47
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T is for Thrash |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 14:54
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As always I didn't read the opening text properly. Sorry. But here's Sia singing while pretending to be Lorde in a funny South Park-episode. The genre is Urban: |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:28
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Don't worry about the opening text overmuch. That was just a extremely sleept me thinking about how to approach this and I already think rather differently. Don't have to limit to one video, don't have to go up a letter with each post.... Pretty flexible. All responses have been good and appreciated. I'll do V for Vaporwave. death's dynamic shroud.wmv - 난 괜찮다고 또 웃으며 good bye |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:33
is there anything for W X Y Z? 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:39
| ^ Oh yeah, with Z there is Zeuhl. And I'm big on something called Zolo (Cardiacs, the Residents, Zappa, Devo etc.) With W there is Western CLassical Music, or Western. With X, looking it up there is Xote, but I was going to do Xylophonecore or some such thing. With y there is Yodelling (considered a genre). |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:41
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W is for Worldbeat. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:41
oh yeah, Zeuhl, I forgot. 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:42
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W is for Western (Western Spaghetti in this case): Ennio Morricone - The Ecstacy of Gold EDIT: And there is World Music generally. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:42
| And there's also zydeco for Z. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:44
Never heard of it, just googled to see what it is.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:46
I forgot about that one. I love zydeco. Dr. John, The Night Tripper's Gris Gris being a favourite album of mine that crosses into it. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:48
is Western Spaghetti a genre though?
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:55
| There was an annual Cajun food and music festival that I would go to and there would usually be a zydeco band. The last Richmond Folk Festival I attended had a zydeco band playing. Fun music to see and hear live. I don't own any personally except for one track on a compilation CD. I'll post it if it's on YouTube. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:55
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So I will try an X: Xylophone+ Dun - Bitonio Xylophone+ being a genre that included xylophone plus other instruments. ;) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:57
Technically it's Spaghetti Western (from the film genre), but I include this under Western, which includes music used in Westerns. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:58
Love to hear it. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 15:58
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^^^ Dun - Bitonio also works for Z = Zeuhl ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:02
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.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:05
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Y is for Yacht Rock, mateys.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:07
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W = Western King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The God Man's Goat Lust ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:09
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Anyone know the yodeling genre? I can only think of it's inclusion in Hocus Pocus by Focus. Thinking about it, maybe the yodeling cowboy branch of the genre. Gene Autry would yodeling some. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:11
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Ah yes, ... Yacht Rock.
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:13
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Z is for Zydeco. Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers - Gonna Take You Downtown |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:13
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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:17
How could I forget Yacht Rock? Listened to quite a bit of it. For another Z, expect some Zeuhl not DUN (or another Dun track), Zolo. Cardiacs - Big Ship |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:22
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And Ill do a Zeuhl with Magma's Theusz Hamtaahk |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:25
A is for AOR  |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:32
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B is for Big Beat. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:32
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And I can't resist another A for Art Pop Stereolab - A Flower called Nowhere |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:34
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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) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:39
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D is for Delta Blues. Which allowed me to listen to Skip James again today.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:42
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E is for Euro-Power-Metal It's called that because there is also US Power Metal, coming up for letter "U".
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:42
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E is also for Electroacoustic Mica Levi - Lipstick to Void |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:47
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F is Folk. And fortuitously, I just received Pentangle The Albums in the mail yesterday. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:51
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G is for Gothic Rock Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:52
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H is for Hamburger Schule (Hamburg School) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:54
| Hamburger School sounds like a department of McDonalds University. ;) I'm majoring in Big Macs. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:55
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K for Klezmer |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:56
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I is for industrial metal. Perfect and sick song! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:56
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@ Logan's Gothic rock . I was so slow to post and gothic metal
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:58
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I is for Indie Rock and Indian Music Elephant Stone - A Silent Moment |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 16:58
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J is for Jazz Some Alice Coltrane |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 17:01
At least the band name Ostzonensuppenwuerfelmachenkrebs is about food. It means "stock cubes from the eastern zone (this was used in the west for the GDR as long as it wasn't recognized as state) cause cancer".
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 17:04
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L is for Lullabies. Rockabye Baby - Fairies Wear Boots I am having too much fun with this. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 17:05
Speaking of food, I should be cooking dinner now -- all Vegan due to a guest. Hopefully it won't cause cancer -- more likely just food poisoning. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 17:09
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J is for Jazz-Metal Counter-World Experience - Bellatrix (featuring Christian Meyers) ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 17:49
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"L" for lo-fi The Low Anthem - "Yellowed By the Sun" ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 18:00
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M is for Mariachi. And this video makes me want to watch this movie. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 18:00
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And why not "M" for a new category (I think I just made up) - Mimic Rock Here is a progressive favorite playing incognito (performing as The International Tussler Society) mimicking Southern Rock (specifically, The Byrds (Gram Parsons era) and The Allman Brothers Band). They do it so well..... Motorpsycho - "Cassie (Call on Me)" ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 18:15
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N is for New Age, and the great artists who got stuck with that tag. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 18:39
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^It's quite unfortunate that Michael Hedges was ignored because of the New Age tag. He was absolutely amazing. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 20:13
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O - Operatic Rock Klaus Nomi is one of my favourites, with Nina Hagen a close second. But I'll add this fun one as well. Queen was too obvious to use.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 20:30
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P is for Pronk Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 20:43
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Q is for Qawwali. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Intoxicated |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 20:48
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Another Q Q is For Quirkcore: |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 20:54
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R is for Ragtime Scott Joplin - The Entertainer |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 21:03
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S is for Space Rock Hawkwind - Opa-Loka ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2021 at 21:15
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T is for Techno Trance Kenichiro Fukui- Einhänder |