Stereo Types

Listening to Q107 Classic Rock FM station online. The show is called Psychedelic Psunday. Nice stuff. You can listen online too. Just visit http://www.q107.com/ and click on "Listen Live". Pretty neat eh? Anyway, I was just listening to it and they just played Pink Floyd - Money. Ahhhh bliss! The first sounds of the falling coins and cash registers scream out aloud that it's Pink Floyd - Money coming up. So, I listen to this song and I think to myself, what good is Psychedelic Psunday with no Pink Floyd? Then I realized how I'm being stereotypical. Pink Floyd isn't the only psychedelic band in the world. Maybe the most famous, but not the only one. And I thought to myself, how true is it, when we think of certain genres of music, we end up thinking of just one particular band or artist first. So, I decided to come up with this post listing out the bands that I think of when I hear the name of a particular genre. It may be that I'm not right about the genre in most of these cases, I don't really go by genres. I believe all music is equal and dividing it into genres is like dividing it into races. Of course, in that case, I'm a racist of sorts as I can't stand pop, hip hop, r&b and rap :-D Anyway, here's my list of genres and the bands/artists that I associate with them.

1. Psychedelic rock - Pink Floyd. This is a clear winner. Anyone who knows psychedelic rock, HAS to know Pink Floyd. I'm sure a lot of people will agree with me that when they think Psychedelic Rock, they think Pink Floyd.

2. Thrash Metal - Metallica, Megadeth. Though I usually associate Metallica only with Heavy Metal, I know it comes under Thrash Metal.

3. Black/Death Metal - Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir. Ok, so I have no idea which is which. But these are the two bands that always come into my mind when I think darker side of metal.

4. Shock Rock - Marilyn Manson. This guy feeds on Shock Rockism.

5. Industrial Metal - Nine Inch Nails. I don't know why, but that's the band that comes to mind.

6. Heavy Metal - Metallica, Black Sabbath, AC/DC. Black Sabbath, we all know are the Fathers of Heavy Metal, so no comments about them. AC/DC and Metallica, I dunno just come to mind.

7. Pop Rock - Bryan Adams. I used to think he was soft rock, but I now think otherwise.

8. Hard Rock - Guns N Roses. With stuff like Sweet Child Of Mine, I don't think I need to tell you why.

9. Blues - The Doors, Dire Straits. I'm not sure if they're Blues are not, but they come to mind.

10. Country - John Denver, Bob Dylan. I don't really like Country music, but I know these two for sure.

11. Techno - The Prodigy. That's all I can think of, really.

12. Trance - Paul Van Dyk, Chicane, Paul Oakenfold. I'm not sure if they really belong here.

13. Pop - Used to Backstreet Boys, now Britney Spears. Don't really need to tell you about it.

14. Rap - Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, DMX, Eminem. These are the four rappers I've heard and I know.

15. R&B - Alicia Keys. I had no idea what it was till I heard her. So, she's my R&B example.

16. Classical - Enya, Yanni. These two are amazing

17. Grunge - Nirvana, Pearl Jam. I guess all of us would agree that Grunge was Nirvana and Nirvana was Grunge.

18. Punk Rock - Sex Pistols, Green Day. I don't really like Punk rock much, especially not Green Day.

19. Soft Rock - Bon Jovi, Def Leppard. I somehow always thought these two bands to be soft rock.

20. British Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Somehow, whenever i hear these 2 bands, I'm reminded of this genre instead of vice versa.

21. Progressive Metal - Dream Theater. This band is one of the best progressive acts around.

22. Rock n Roll - Elvis Presley, The Beatles. I guess Elvis was the King of Rock n roll, so it's fair. Somehow, The Beatles also qualify as rock n roll for me.


I guess that's the list as of now. WOW! I didn't know that there were 22 genres that I think of. Anyway, do leave comments and let me know which ones I'm wrong in, so that I can correct them both here and in my head ;-)