One al*** per music genre

Posted by: jcs_smith on 15 February 2009

This idea was stolen from the Danny Baker radio show. Imagine that a totalitarian government has taken over and decreed that you can only own one album per musical genre. What would you choose?
Anyway here’s my suggestions:

Jazz: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Blues: Muddy Waters – Hard Again
Country Blues: Robert Johnson – King of the delta blues singers volume 2
Reggae: Mighty Diamonds – Deeper Roots Back to the channel
Ragga – Buju Banton – Til Shiloh
Ska: The Skatalites – Ball of fire
Neo-folk/martial industrial: Der Blutharsch – Track of the hunted
Industrial: Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Ambient: Tetsu Inoue – Ambiant Otaku
Dark Ambient: Satori – Contemptus Mundi
Ambient Dub: Divination – Ambient Dub Vol 1
Punk Funk: Deadline – Down by law
Funk: Funkadelic – One Nation under a groove
Rap: Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet
Hip-hop: Terminator X in the Valley of the Jeep Beats
Drum and bass: Ed Rush & Optical – the creeps
Soundtrack: Miles Davis – Jack Johnson
Black metal: Skitliv – Amfetamin
Grindcore: Napalm Death – From enslavement to obliteration
Sludge Drone: Sun O)))/Boris/Earth – Altar
Jazz Rock: Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame
Electronic: Klaus Schulze/Pete Namlook – Dark side of the moon XI
Systems music: Philip Glass – Akhenaton
Punk: Ruts – The Crack
Meringue: Juan Luis Guerra – Ojala que llueva café
Japanoise: CCCC – Chaos is the cosmos
Rhythmic Noise: Boyd Rice – The black album
Dubstep: Burial – Burial

Posted on: 15 February 2009 by Chris Kelly

If a totalitarian government takes over they'll probably ban "Meringue" and Sludge Drone", on the gounds that what they don't understand is a threat. Please tell me you have made some of these up? "Neo-folk/martial industrial"? WTF?

Posted on: 15 February 2009 by JamieL

I would choose revolution, I could not live with less than a dozen prog rock albums, and I would fight for it.

However, whilst organizing it I might do some allocation trading with Ska fans.

Jamie

Posted on: 16 February 2009 by Pete

Seems the genres suggested are a bit unfair. I'd say "jazz" covers a lot more ground than the space between, say, "Rap" and "Hip-hop", for example.

Pete.

Posted on: 16 February 2009 by BigH47

Jamie more prog? Easily rectified:-
Prog Jazz:
Prog Blues:
Prog Country Blues:
Prog Reggae:
Prog Ragga –
Prog Ska:
Etc:
You get the idea.

Need more genres just keep making the up, everyone else does.

Neo-Folk/ martial industrial, AYFJ?

Posted on: 16 February 2009 by Ghom

It's on Wikipedia, so it definitely exists

Martial Industrial

Neofolk

Not familiar with very much of it, but do like Current 93 (the later folk inspired stuff rather than the earlier industrial things like "Nature Unveiled")

Posted on: 16 February 2009 by JamieL

quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
Jamie more prog? Easily rectified:-
Prog Jazz:
Prog Blues:
Prog Country Blues:
Prog Reggae:
Prog Ragga –
Prog Ska:
Etc:
You get the idea.

Need more genres just keep making the up, everyone else does.

Neo-Folk/ martial industrial, AYFJ?

www.progarchives.com has the following categories:
Canterbury Scene, Crossover Prog, Eclectic Prog, Experimental/Post Metal, Heavy Prog, Indo-Prog/Raga Rock, Italian Symphonic Prog, Jazz Rock/Fusion, Krautrock, Neo-Progressive, Post Rock/Math Rock, Prog Folk, Progressive Electronic, Progressive Metal, Psychedelic/Space Rock, RIO/Avant-Prog, Symphonic Prog, Tech/Extreme Prog Metal, Zeuhl, Various Genres/Artists, Prog Related, Proto-Prog

At first a very tempting website, but after a few minutes you realise there are no critical standards, many reviews can be summarised by 'I like Camel, this sounds like Camel, it is good.' or 'I like Camel, this doesn't sound like Camel, it is bad.' A website that leaves me with a bad taste every time I look at it. Useful for discographies though.

Many types of music can be broken down into sub genres, and in some cases it is quite valid, Jazz for instance.

I do find the above categories pretty silly, the same too for the 'We are faster and harder than you' metal categories.

Still just listening to a little 'Pre indie, semi-avant garde, non industrial, literary, semi-acoustic, jazz cross over, fusion pop' - second Steely Dan album.

Posted on: 17 February 2009 by John M

Tyrannical Baroque Donkey Funk Dub

Posted on: 17 February 2009 by Chris Kelly

quote:
Tyrannical Baroque Donkey Funk Dub

John
That is just so last year!

Posted on: 17 February 2009 by Whizzkid

quote:
Originally posted by munch:
PROG RULES.
If we never had prog? Music would of died.
Duck for the incoming.

Munch,

People who don't like Prog should really stop listening to music full time because their ears are not working properly, sad really.

Dean..