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Choose any number of genres and choose a song (or album, I suppose) for each one that you think best represents what that genre can offer. It can be your favourite song that fits into that genre, or one that you think best exemplifies the possibilities offered by that genre. eg. IDM: Autechre- Pir. Gothic Country: Will Oldham - I See a Darkness Lo-fi: Pavement- In the Mouth a Desert Slow-core: Low- Words

get as specific as you want. Sampled-electro-humor-pop: The Avalanches- Frontier Psychiatrist

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is every artist's nightmare....not only to be easily pigeon-holed and summarily categorized, but to sum up their career in only one brief sampling of their work. But I'm no musician, so....hereth goeth:

HARDCORE: Black Flag - "Rise Above." So-Called "TRIP HOP": Massive Attack - "Daydreaming"

― alex in nyc, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best music to adjust your motorcycle's valves to: Lungfish - "Sound In Time"

I dunno, it happened to me this weekend. It was the *perfect* soundtrack to a valve adjustment. Honest! It made me feel very methodical. Intake valve = .15mm, Exhaust Valve = .20mm, "When and where and to whom you were born!!!!"

― Tim Baier, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay...I'm doing this by what I think is the best recent example I've heard, rather than attempting to be anywhere near definitive! Krautrock = Jail-House-Frog - Amon Duul II

Lo-fi = Lazy Bone - By Coastal Cafe

Indie/ Twee-pop = En Melody of An Melody - Corniche Camomile

Classic Pop = The Winner Takes It All - Abba

Classic Rock = The Weight - The Band

Hair Metal = Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - Bon Jovi

Electronica = California Rhinoplasty - Matmos

Chart Pop = Angel - Shaggy

― james e l, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One time I had this dream where I went into a strange suburban house, and saw Brian Wilson sitting on the couch. Then "Good Day Sunshine" started playing. Seconds later I woke up with a bloody nose.

And so, I nominate the best bloody nose/Brian Wilson-dream song to be "Good Day Sunshine" by the Beatles. Who's with me on this?

― Keiko, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But of course we have established that it was Damon Albarn appearing in the FORM of Brian Wilson.

― mark s, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic country - Faron Young, 'Hello Walls'.

― Kim is Grim, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nicest break-up song ever - 'willow' by the field mice though having your new girlfriend sing it might be a bit cold.

― keith, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But how do we really know that Damon isn't among us?

― james e l's paranoia, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the only genre I can summarize in one song is goth : "moonchild" by fields of the nephilim

― fernando, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do you know thta I am not Damon?

Best Blur-in-Cockney-Phase Song: Country House.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IIRC Ally is/was Justine Frischman. According to deluded usnet posters, anyway.

Imagine Damon and Justine inhabiting the same body - I think I have a great idea for a high concept comedy starring Jim Carrey. Dreamworks, await my phonecall.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh good lord, I forgot about THAT particular nasty rumor. What's the matter with Usenet posters? I am still mortally offended anyone could confuse me with her.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, do you have a desire to savegely rip off Wire also?

Anyway, Best songs for doing *anything* on a sunny afternoon: "Sunny Afternoon" or "Afternoon Tea" by the Kinks. Except, of course, if you are setting the valves on your motorcycle, in which case it would be the aforementioned Lungfish.

― Tim Baier, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does a desire to savagely kick Nicky Wire count?

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, but the phrase "kick Nicky Wire" has a nice ring to it. You can say it fast and probablly over a "phat" beat. Sounds like the catchphrase for a hit song if you ask me!

― Tim Baier, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, there's already that "Nicky Wire Your A Liar" single in the UK. I don't want to be ripping them off.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

when you don't know a genre well, you don't feel qualified to name its best. when you do, it's impossible to choose.
minimalistic hiphop: "PSK What Does it Mean"

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 19 February 2011 03:27 (fourteen years ago)

90s hard dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGNsM1dP8g

Don't even try and beat this shit. Just don't.

― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Saturday, 19 February 2011 05:32 (fourteen years ago)

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