If you could only listen to 3 genres?

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The robot apocalypse has arrived. :robot: Except… it’s not what you expected.

Rather than turn the Earth into a post-nuclear wasteland, Skynet has imposed strict orders that no human may listen to more than 3 musical genres. Cuz umm… it damages robot brains. or something.

What would you listen to? Be as broad or specific as you like, feel free to share examples. And answers don’t actually need to be relevant to the robopocalypse scenario lol.

Mine…

  1. Old school funk (60’s and 70’s lumped in here)
  2. Prog rock (cuz then I could listen to Chris Squire’s solo record when I needed a boost, and maybe they’d allow Tool under this heading for when I need dark moody robot killing music)
  3. 90’s alt rock (or whatever subgenre allows me to listen to RHCP and RATM)

Respond quickly so Skynet can record your answers!

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Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll (bands I choose)

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2000’s college radio rock (New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, etc.)
90’s alternative (I have to have my Smashing Pumpkins records)
70’s rock

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I would need to cover different moods because what i listen to changes based on my mood. So with that said

Funk
Blues
Disco

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I’ll have to give this some more thought before giving a real answer.
Until then, I’ll give this example of only needing 2.

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  1. Punk
  2. Drum and Bass
  3. Was gonna say Alt but feel I need something for relaxing times so I’ll try and claim ‘Caribbean’ as a single genre to get some dub,reggae etc in there
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Funk
Cory wong, vulfpek

Contemporary
Nathan East, lari basilio, BWB

R&B/pop
It get subdivided into too many things so there. Lol

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I’ll have to take a pass on this one. I don’t listen to genres. I listen to artists, and just about every genre would be covered on a playlist. I was going to say except polka, but then there’s this Finnish polka song that really earworms you…

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There is like a gazillion genres. Soundcloud wants to know how to classify my music and I don’t even know that… Alt rock? Prog pop? It’s a mess…

I was going to be flippant and say: music, music and music…

but, if we take the next level of granularity, I say:

fusion
prog
jazz

:wink:

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Grunge
Alternative Rock
Heavy metal

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Heavy rock
Grunge
Pop rock

But…… I tend to listen to “stuff “ I like rather than stuff I should listen to

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Hmmm…. Tough one……

Maybe the question should have been stated as,…”Name three genre’s of music that you can’t stand and could (for the rest of eternity),…… live without”……

Much easier for me to answer…… :grin::grin::rofl::rofl:

  1. RAP
  2. RAP
  3. RAP

Keep on Thumpin’!
Lanny

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Three is hard. So I am going to cheat a little with #2, but it was a real term in the '80s.

  1. Electro-industrial
  2. What we used to call “Underground” back in the day - think Darkwave/Post-punk/Goth/Synthwave/New Wave rolled in to one big genre
  3. Punk

Then if we are going to keep going and rise against the robots,

  1. Post-metal/Post-hardcore
  2. Trance techno
  3. NWA/Public Enemy era hardcore rap
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So I will take the option to be as broad as possible here . . .

  1. Jazz
  2. R&B, which traditionally includes all of rock n’ roll as well as soul and funk
  3. Country/folk/traditional

And “RAP” is actually hip-hop, which I will include in the “R&B” category. :slightly_smiling_face:

TL;DR – all genres have good music, and all genres have bad music, and all artists steal from – I mean “are influenced by” – other artists.

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+1, some amazingly imaginative work done both lyrically and musically there.

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  • 60’s Soul, gotta have my Motown
  • Jazz, which feels like cheating, but I need Coltrane as much as I need Snarky Puppy
  • 70’s rock
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  1. Contemporary Christian
  2. 70s/80s Rock
  3. 90s Alternative/Grunge

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This has me conflicted- how many genres does Pink Floyd cover?

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It’s all good, although I recognize others might not agree. But that doesn’t affect my opinion in the least. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Prog rock.
Disco/funk for the bass lines.
Frank Zappa - multi genre but unique!

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