If you could only listen to 3 genres?

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  1. Classical music, e.g. Maxim Vengerov’s rendition of Beethoven Op. 61
  2. Heavy Metal, e.g. Black Sabbath style the map of metal
  3. Indian Pop, e.g. Zara Hatke - not that I have ever listened to this, but I want to broaden my horizons.

I honestly think genres help us learn and play music, but they also limit our imagination. I mean how often will I play | 1 +3 | 1 +3 + :]? :grinning:

Did I mention the map of metal?

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1: Old Skool Funk
2: New Funk/Soul/R&B
3: Rock ala Muse

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  1. what i will call “120 minutes alternative” if anyone recalls the only really good thing MTV ever put on air (Joy Division, REM, Fugazi, The Cure, the smiths, Pixies, Stone Roses, the Breeders, radiohead, NIN, talking heads, PiL, etc…)

  2. electronic (tycho, underworld, boards of canada, rival consoles, el ten eleven, etc…)

  3. “alt-rock” (tv on the radio, interpol, etc…)

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For me it would have to be:

  1. 60’s/70’s rock
  2. Ska
  3. Roots Reggae

Andrew.

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  • Post punk/ new wave
  • Pop punk
  • 90’s alternative
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In no particular order…

Progressive rock, classic (80s/90s) alternative, classic rock.

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  1. Nine Inch Nails
  2. White Zombie
  3. Tool

Yes, I named bands. At least for Nine Inch Nails, I just don’t know which genre all the albums would really fit in. And if those three bands were all I could listen to for the rest of my life, I would be fine.

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Probably a good way to go. I am a Babymetal fan, a Yes fan, and a Pink Floyd fan, and it’s hard to name an album that doesn’t touch on multiple genres. It’s a trick question

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Well, all rap is hip hop, but hip hop is not always rap. Like all metal is rock, but not all rock is metal

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Agree! Hip-hop is broader than rap — and maybe some rap isn’t hip-hop (metal rap?). Genres are fluid, with overlapping Venn diagrams.

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You have a point, and one which could be discussed. Generally in the metal community when we see rap, we will comment something like “look they’re adding hip hop”, but still a very good point.

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Jam Bands
Reggae
Bluegrass

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Thrash metal
70’s rock
Progressive metal

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Pop rock
Prog rock
Heavy metal

Cheers Brian

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Yeah, you’ve got stuff like Body Count in there that are definitely not hip-hop but definitely are rap.

And then there’s stuff like Tricky.

Rap is really more of a vocal style than a pinned down genre.

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  1. 90s alt
  2. 70s rock
  3. Hip hop (I could prob narrow this down to 90s rap exclusively, but let’s stay general lol)
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I’ll just take the liberty and use a somewhat wider definition of ‘genre’ :sweat_smile:

Blues, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal it would be :blush:

If I had to go more into detail, I’d surely not be able to choose :grimacing:

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  • Old-school funk (The combination of fun and musicality at its best.)
  • Classical (I just love to marvel at the fact that someone is able to transfer something so complex like a classical composition from mind to paper.)

and

  • 2008-2012 era electronic music (Yeah, the 90s with Prodigy’s Music For The Jilted Generation and Daft Punk’s Homework were also special for me. But the 4 years around the 2010s were the most interesting and diverse time in electronic music. All genres were either at peak or getting ready to explode. From Trance to Hardcore. Damn, so much fun… I don’t know how I survived that period … )
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Since I started playing, I’ve been listening to genres of music that’s would be considered outside my taste. I have wanted to play bass for a long time and I listen to a lot of different music. Lately as I been playing I’ve been playing

Siouxie and the Banshees
Local H
Limp Bizkit
Violent Femmes
Talking Heads
Rollins Band

I have been on a deep dive for interesting bass lines that’s aren’t too complicated to play so that widened my range a bit. Wait what was the question again? I digressed like a motherf

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Limp Bizkit are IMHO extremely underrated band, especially their role in popularizing hard music in the late 90s with the bands like RATM and Linkin Park. Their first three albums are so damn good.

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