10-20 Songs to represent your fav genre (2 Viewers)

[hiphophooray123]

If you were in the ever-so common 'my fav genre is good, urs is shit' argument what 10-20 songs would u pick from ur favourite genre to convince the other that its good music.

mine:

Genre: Hip-Hop

1. Jay-Z - Dead Presidents (Part 1)
2. The Roots Feat Raphael Saddiq - What They Do
3. Jay-Z - Wishing On A Star
4. Nas Feat AZ - Life's A Bitch
5. Big L - Da Graveyard
6. The Roots - The Seed 2.0
7. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones II
8. LL Cool J - The Boomin' System
9. KRS-One - Step Into A World
10. Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
11. Eric. B & Rakim - Paid In Full
12. Nas - The World Is Yours
13. Common - I Used To Love H.E.R
14. LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl
15. Run DMC - You Be Illin'
16. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
17. A Tribe Called Quest - Find A Way
18. OutKast - 13th Floor/Growing Old
19. Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M
20. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader

edit: alot of run dmc too

 

[artheterosexual]

genre: country


Waylon Jennings - Lukenbach, Texas
Jerry Reed - East Bound & Down
Jean Shepard - A Dear John Letter
Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars
Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
Ralph Emery - Hello Fool
Willie Nelson - Crazy
The Statler Brothers - How to Be a Country Star
Dock Boggs - Country Blues
Faron Young - Alone With You

 

[Phanatical]

I've attempted to present a varied selection:

Genre: Mainstream Classical
1. Rachmaninov, S., Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor
2. Vivaldi, A., The Four Seasons
3. Puccini, G., "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot
4. Chopin, F., Grande Polonaise in Eb Major, Op. 22 "Allegro Molto"
5. Beethoven, L.V., Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
6. Holst, G., The Planets Suite
7. Handel, F., The Messiah
8. Paganini, N., 24 Caprices
9. Stravinsky, I., La Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
10. Chen, G. and He, Z., "The Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto
11. Debussy, C., La fille aux chevaux de lin
12. Wesley-Smith, M., White Knight and Beaver
13. Bach, J.S., Das Wohltemperite Klavier, Vol. I and II.
14. Bizet, G., Carmen
15. Rodrigo, J., Concierto de Aranjuez
16. Rossini, G. The Barber of Seville
17. Barber, S., Adagio for Strings
18. Faure, G., Requiem
19. Tchaikovsky, P., Symphony No. 4
20. Strauss, R., Also Sprach Zarathustra

 

[artheterosexual]

genre: sludge metal

eyehategod - anxiety hangover
sleep - inside the sun
electric wizard - wizards of gore
fistula - the basilisk
kyuss - 50 million year trip (downside up)
melvins - revolve
boris - huge
fu manchu - over the edge
neurosis - purify
monster magnet - spine of god

 

[artheterosexual]

psych. folk

pelt - a capsized moment pt. 2
nagisa ni te - ‰Ô‚Æ‚¨‚È‚¶
ghost - fukeiga
hala strana - spiraling plume
lau nau - kuula
skygreen leopards - where do songs come from
vashti bunyan - diamond day
xenis emputae travelling band - some cosmic rubicon
donovan - colours
maher shalal hash baz - open field

 

[hiphophooray123]

Genre: Neo-Soul/Soul

1. Musiq Soulchild - Love
2. D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)
3. Raphael Saadiq Feat D'Angelo - Be Here
4. Jill Scott - Long Walk
5. Anthony Hamilton - Charlene
6. D'Angelo - Smooth
7. Raphael Saadiq - Body Parts
8. D'Angelo - Allright
9. Erykah Badu - On & On
10. The Roots Feat D'Angelo - The 'Notic
11. Musiq Soulchild - Halfcrazy
12. Maxwell - Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)
13. Bilal - Soul Sista
14. Maxwell - This Womens Work
15. D'Angelo - Spanish Joint
16. Raphael Saddiq - Chic Like You
17. Nappy Roots Feat Raphael Saddiq - Leave This Morning
18. Erykah Badu & D'Angelo - Heaven Must Be Like This
19. Erykah Badu - Appletree
20. D'Angelo - Cruisin'

 

[artheterosexual]

20th c classical / proto-noise and electronica

holger czukay - canaxis
glenn branca - light field (in consonance)
morton feldman - for samuel beckett
john cage - 4'33"
iannis xenakis - hibiki-hana-ma
karlheinz stockhausen - elektronische musik
morton subotnick - silver apples of the moon
gyorgi ligeti - metamorphosis nocturnes
lamonte young - the tamburas of pandit pran nath
terry riley - concerto for two pianos and five tape recorders

 

[hiphophooray123]

Genre: R&B

1. Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
2. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
3. 112 - Call My Name
4. Jagged Edge - The Way That U Talk
5. 112 - Can I Touch You
6. Anthony Hamilton - Comin' From Where I'm From
7. Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
8. Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
9. Luther Vandross - Here And Now
10. Blackstreet - No Diggity
11. 112 - It's Over Now
12. Blackstreet - Don't Leave Me
13. Ginuwine - Pony
14. Bel Biv Devoe - Poison
15. New Edition - Hit Me Off
16. Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity
17. Tevin Campbell - Can We Talk
18. Boyz II Men - Thankyou In Advance
19. 112 - Pleasure & Pain
20. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

 

[ariande]

Genre: Rock and Metal

1. "Touched" - VAST
2. "Dirty Hole" VAST
3. "H" - Tool
4. "Schism" - Tool
5. "Forty-Six and 2" - Tool
6. "Sober" - Tool
7. "Requiem" - The Tea Party
8. "Sister Awake" - The Tea Party
9. "Temptation" - The Tea Party
10. "Aerials" - System of a Down
11. "Innervision" - System of a Down
12. "Streamline" - System of a Down
13. "Chop Suey" - System of a Down
14. "Cigaro" - System of a Down
15. "Surfacing" - Slipknot
16. "Me Inside" - Slipknot
17. "Gently" - Slipknot
18. "Disciple" - Slayer
19. "Space Dementia" - Muse
20. "Master of Puppets" - Metallica
21. "Fade to Black" - Metallica
22. "Good God" - Korn
23. "Freak on a Leash" - Korn
24. "Bid Farewell" - Killswitch Engage
25. "And Embers Rise" - Killswitch Engage
26. "Act of God" - Fear Factory
27. "Haunted" - Evanescence
28. "Lies" - Evanescence
29. "Prayer" - Disturbed
30. "Ihabia" - Deftones
31. "Nosebleed" - Deftones
32. "Bittersweet" - Apocalyptica
33. "Rooster" - Alice in Chains
34. "Orestes" - A Perfect Circle
35. "Brena" - A Perfect Circle


Ok so i've given you 35 songs lol... perhaps i got carried away. i just went from the bottom up in my computer song list so thats why they are in reverse alphabetical order

 

[withoutaface]

Genre-Thrash Metal

Metallica-Blackened
Slayer-War Ensemble
Exodus-Fabulous Disaster
Megadeth-Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Kreator-People of the Lie
Testament-Return to Serenity
Nuclear Assault-Something Wicked
Anthrax-Time
Sepultura-Arise
Sodom-Nuclear Winter

 

[spin spin sugar]

artfag, you are fantastic. can you do a girly genre next pls? a la yeah yeah yeahs/

 

[icecreamdisco]

eh, i'll do UK post-punk.

the chameleons - don't fall
young marble giants - include me out
the fall - futures and pasts
p.i.l. - poptones
swell maps - whatever happens next...
joy division - interzone
this heat - paper hats
the pop group - we are time
wire - another the letter
23 skidoo - last words

 

[icecreamdisco]

psych...

red krayola - hurricane fighter plane
pearls before swine - translucent carriages
13th floor elevators - reverberation
the seeds - evil hoodoo
love - the daily planet
silver apples - lovefingers
spacemen 3 - transparent radiation
acid mothers temple - ange mécanique de saturne
sun city girls - space prophet dogon
comets on fire - antlers of the midnight sun

 

[Ollz San]

Genre: variety of metal

Sorry guys, I can't really single one song out.


Dream Theater - Images and Words album

Nightwish - Once album (song: nemo)

Kamelot - Epica album

Evergrey - The Dark Discovery album

Opeth - Blackwater Park album

Krisiun - Conquerors o f Armageddon album

My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World album

November's Doom - To Welcome The Fade album

Katatonia - Discouraged Ones album

Novembre - Novembrine Waltz album

Pain of Salvation - Entropia album

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes album

Tristania - Widow's Weeds album

Sonata Arctica - Silence album

Iron Maiden - Brave New World album

Dol Ammad - Star Tales album (prepared to be blown away!)

 

[bazookajoe]

Genre: Punk
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
The Clash - Complete Control
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
The Replacements - Favourite Things

 

[withoutaface]

Power/Heavy/Speed Metal

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Saxon - 747 (Strangers in the Night)
Dragonland - Starfall
Dragonforce - Starfire
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Blind Guardian - Script for my Requiem
Iced Earth - Pure Evil
Rob Halford - Wrath of Gods
Kamelot - Center of the Universe

 

[stamos]

genre- sounding like the fall

the fall- how i wrote elastic man
the fall- a new face in hell
the fall- totally wired
the fall- bingo master's breakout
the fall- the man whos head expanded
the fall- rouche rumble
the fall- eat y'self fitter
the fall- to nkroachment: yarbles
the fall- cary grant's wedding
pavement- maybe, maybe

 

[artheterosexual]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to icecreamdisco again.

genre: tropicalia/MPB (musica popular brasileira)

tom ze - o sandalo
gal costa - cultura e civilização
caetano veloso - the empty boat
caetano veloso - tropicalia
os mutantes - dois mil e um
antonio carlos jobim - wave
joao gilberto - the girl from ipanema
gilberto gil - nega
jorge ben - fio maravilha
ana mazzotti - cordao



for grace,
genre: women who kick my ass

afrirampo - kekko
y pants - love's a disease
teenage jesus and the jerks - i woke up dreaming
OOIOO - northern light
adult. - lost love
sleater-kinney - i wanna be your joey ramone
mu - let's get sick
peaches - fuck the pain away
nini raviolette - suis-je normale
gang gang dance - god's money part III

 

[Sarah]

Genre- Rock

Couldn't pinpoint a particular song so i decided to do a mixture of albums and songs. In no particular order....


Crowded house- Best of Crowded House
The Verve- Sonnet
Ben Folds Five- Brick
The Police- Best of sting and the police
Coldplay- A rush of blood to the head
Matchbox 20- Last Beautiful Girl
REM- Best of
Split Endz- Message to my girl
Foo Fighters- Generator
Pacifier- Run
Oasis- Don't look back in anger
Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet

 

[spin spin sugar]

for grace,
genre: women who kick my ass

afrirampo - kekko
y pants - love's a disease
teenage jesus and the jerks - i woke up dreaming
OOIOO - northern light
adult. - lost love
sleater-kinney - i wanna be your joey ramone
mu - let's get sick
peaches - fuck the pain away
nini raviolette - suis-je normale
gang gang dance - god's money part III

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