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urocyonRather amusing meme, via amethystfirefly.
Bold the songs you like, add the numbers up, and that's "your genre".
Of course, I'm a quibbly enough music geek that I'm questioning some of the classifications, not to mention wishing more genres were listed. ;) ("Gotta have that funk!" Blues, punk, and more.)
Rockabilly
Rock Around The Clock - Billy Haley and His Comets
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On - Jerry Lee Lewis
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (Big Mama Thornton's more like it)
Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio
Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison Some other Roy Orbison, however...
One Hand Loose - Charlie Feathers
Total: 3.
Rock
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown (?!)
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Total: 3.
Alternative
When You Were Young - The Killers
Original Fire - Audioslave
Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers (definitely not their best!)
The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
The Kill - 30 Seconds To Mars
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco
Do It For Me Now - Angels & Airwaves
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
Total: 1. Likeamethystfirefly, I... really dislike most "alternative" nowadays. >.>
Grunge
Alive - Pearl Jam
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Losing My Religion - REM (?!)
Would? - Alice in Chains
Drown - Smashing Pumpkins
Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
Total: 5. Prefer some other stuff from Soundgarden.
Industrial
Du Hast - Rammstein Ah, the Rammstein cheesiness!
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Testure - Skinny Puppy
Vicarious - Tool
Showroom Dummies - Kraftwerk
Superhero - KMFDM
Schism - Tool
Suck - Nine Inch Nails
Spasmolytic - Skinny Puppy
Total: 5. I don't actually listen to much.
Hard Rock
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
Back In Black - AC/DC
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Rock And Roll All Nite - KISS
Total: 5. Again, don't listen to much.
Thrash Metal
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Raining Blood - Slayer
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Megadeth
Seek & Destroy - Metallica
Angel of Death - Slayer
Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath
The Four Horsemen - Metallica
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera In spite of myself.
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Caught In A Mosh - Anthrax
Total: 6. Sepultura, anyone?
Screamo
With Wide Eyes Shut - Bless The Fall
I'm Not A Thief I'm A Treasure Hunter - A Skylit Drive
Not Good Enough For the Truth In Cliche - Escape The Fate
Nothing Left - As I Lay Dying
Hey John What's Your Name Again - The Devil Wears Prada
Faces - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Honesty - Attack Attack
And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman - Dance Gavin Dance
Ambrosia - Alesana
My Heroine - Silverstein
Total: 0. Please gods, no.
Britpop
Live Forever - Oasis
I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
Pictures of You - The Cure
Common People - Pulp
Yellow - Coldplay
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
The Wild Ones - Suede
Wonderwall - Oasis
Total: 2.
Indie
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
Comin' Home - City And Color
Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
Gold Lion - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
My Rights Versus Yours - The New Pornographers
The Con - Tegan and Sara
Cath... - Death Cab For Cutie
Crystalised - The XX
Flume - Bon Iver
First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes
Total: 0. Heard very little, don't want to hear more.
Psychedelic
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
White Room - Eric Clapton
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Grace - Country Joe & The Fish
Strange Days - The Doors
China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
Total: 6.
Folk
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie Other Woody Guthrie? Sure.
Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
Where Have All The Flowers Gone - The Kingston Trio
Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot
The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (?!)
Turn, Turn, Turn! - The Byrds
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Catch The Wind - Donovan
American Tune - Paul Simon
Total: 1. Some kinds of "world music" and mountain music? I'm there.
Pop
Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Get the Party Started - P!nk
Toxic - Britney Spears
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Grace Kelly - Mika
Umbrella - Rihanna
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
Total: 0. Again, I am turning into an old crock.
R&B
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross Not her best, either.
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Yeah! - Usher
Black Or White - Michael Jackson
I Believe I Can Fly - R.Kelly
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
When Doves Cry - Prince
My Girl - The Temptations
Like You'll Never See Me Again - Alicia Keys
I'll Be There - Jackson 5
Total: 4
Hip-Hop
Fight The Power - Public Enemy
Walk This Way - Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith
The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.
Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg
Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z
I Can't Live Without My Radio - L.L. Cool J
In Da Club - 50 Cent
Gold Digger - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx (another guilty pleasure. -facepalms-)
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer Again from user name=amethystfirefly> (Oh, come on. XD) Cheesily fun with Just Dance. ;)
Total: 5. Lately I've been getting a kick out of Wab Kinew.
Rap
Nothin' But A 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre
California Love - 2Pac
No Surrender - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Murder Was the Case - Snoop Dogg
Changes - 2Pac
It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
Notorious Thugs - Notorious B.I.G.
What's My Name - DMX
Hit 'Em Up - 2Pac
Crossroad - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Total: 0.
Reggae
No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Israelites - Desmond Dekker & the Aces
Stir It Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Pressure Drop - Toots & the Maytals
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
One Love - Bob Marley & the Wailers
54-46 That's My Number - Toots & the Maytals
Satta Massagana - The Abyssinians
Funky Kingston - Toots & the Maytals
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Total: 5. Again, don't listen to much in practice.
Country
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Sweet Dreams - Patsy Cline
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson
Our Kind Of Love - Lady Antebellum
The Boys of Fall - Kenny Chesney
All Over Me - Josh Turner
Roll With It - Easton Corbin
Pretty Good At Drinkin' Beer - Billy Currington
Total: 3. I hav me a weakness for Johnny, Patsy, and Willie. And some crossover/more southern rock stuff.
Pretty mixed bag, really. At least pre-2000. ;) Yes, I am well aware that I'm swiftly turning into an old crock.
I found it about as interesting how much you can tell about the person who came up with the list.
amethystfirefly.Bold the songs you like, add the numbers up, and that's "your genre".
Of course, I'm a quibbly enough music geek that I'm questioning some of the classifications, not to mention wishing more genres were listed. ;) ("Gotta have that funk!" Blues, punk, and more.)
Rockabilly
Rock Around The Clock - Billy Haley and His Comets
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On - Jerry Lee Lewis
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (Big Mama Thornton's more like it)
Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio
Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison Some other Roy Orbison, however...
One Hand Loose - Charlie Feathers
Total: 3.
Rock
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown (?!)
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Total: 3.
Alternative
When You Were Young - The Killers
Original Fire - Audioslave
Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers (definitely not their best!)
The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
The Kill - 30 Seconds To Mars
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco
Do It For Me Now - Angels & Airwaves
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
Total: 1. Like
amethystfirefly, I... really dislike most "alternative" nowadays. >.>Grunge
Alive - Pearl Jam
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Losing My Religion - REM (?!)
Would? - Alice in Chains
Drown - Smashing Pumpkins
Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
Total: 5. Prefer some other stuff from Soundgarden.
Industrial
Du Hast - Rammstein Ah, the Rammstein cheesiness!
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Testure - Skinny Puppy
Vicarious - Tool
Showroom Dummies - Kraftwerk
Superhero - KMFDM
Schism - Tool
Suck - Nine Inch Nails
Spasmolytic - Skinny Puppy
Total: 5. I don't actually listen to much.
Hard Rock
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
Back In Black - AC/DC
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Rock And Roll All Nite - KISS
Total: 5. Again, don't listen to much.
Thrash Metal
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Raining Blood - Slayer
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Megadeth
Seek & Destroy - Metallica
Angel of Death - Slayer
Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath
The Four Horsemen - Metallica
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera In spite of myself.
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Caught In A Mosh - Anthrax
Total: 6. Sepultura, anyone?
Screamo
With Wide Eyes Shut - Bless The Fall
I'm Not A Thief I'm A Treasure Hunter - A Skylit Drive
Not Good Enough For the Truth In Cliche - Escape The Fate
Nothing Left - As I Lay Dying
Hey John What's Your Name Again - The Devil Wears Prada
Faces - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Honesty - Attack Attack
And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman - Dance Gavin Dance
Ambrosia - Alesana
My Heroine - Silverstein
Total: 0. Please gods, no.
Britpop
Live Forever - Oasis
I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
Pictures of You - The Cure
Common People - Pulp
Yellow - Coldplay
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
The Wild Ones - Suede
Wonderwall - Oasis
Total: 2.
Indie
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
Comin' Home - City And Color
Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
Gold Lion - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
My Rights Versus Yours - The New Pornographers
The Con - Tegan and Sara
Cath... - Death Cab For Cutie
Crystalised - The XX
Flume - Bon Iver
First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes
Total: 0. Heard very little, don't want to hear more.
Psychedelic
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
White Room - Eric Clapton
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Grace - Country Joe & The Fish
Strange Days - The Doors
China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
Total: 6.
Folk
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie Other Woody Guthrie? Sure.
Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
Where Have All The Flowers Gone - The Kingston Trio
Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot
The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (?!)
Turn, Turn, Turn! - The Byrds
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Catch The Wind - Donovan
American Tune - Paul Simon
Total: 1. Some kinds of "world music" and mountain music? I'm there.
Pop
Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Get the Party Started - P!nk
Toxic - Britney Spears
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Grace Kelly - Mika
Umbrella - Rihanna
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
Total: 0. Again, I am turning into an old crock.
R&B
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross Not her best, either.
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Yeah! - Usher
Black Or White - Michael Jackson
I Believe I Can Fly - R.Kelly
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
When Doves Cry - Prince
My Girl - The Temptations
Like You'll Never See Me Again - Alicia Keys
I'll Be There - Jackson 5
Total: 4
Hip-Hop
Fight The Power - Public Enemy
Walk This Way - Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith
The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.
Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg
Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z
I Can't Live Without My Radio - L.L. Cool J
In Da Club - 50 Cent
Gold Digger - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx (another guilty pleasure. -facepalms-)
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer Again from user name=amethystfirefly> (Oh, come on. XD) Cheesily fun with Just Dance. ;)
Total: 5. Lately I've been getting a kick out of Wab Kinew.
Rap
Nothin' But A 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre
California Love - 2Pac
No Surrender - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Murder Was the Case - Snoop Dogg
Changes - 2Pac
It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
Notorious Thugs - Notorious B.I.G.
What's My Name - DMX
Hit 'Em Up - 2Pac
Crossroad - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Total: 0.
Reggae
No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Israelites - Desmond Dekker & the Aces
Stir It Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Pressure Drop - Toots & the Maytals
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
One Love - Bob Marley & the Wailers
54-46 That's My Number - Toots & the Maytals
Satta Massagana - The Abyssinians
Funky Kingston - Toots & the Maytals
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Total: 5. Again, don't listen to much in practice.
Country
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Sweet Dreams - Patsy Cline
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson
Our Kind Of Love - Lady Antebellum
The Boys of Fall - Kenny Chesney
All Over Me - Josh Turner
Roll With It - Easton Corbin
Pretty Good At Drinkin' Beer - Billy Currington
Total: 3. I hav me a weakness for Johnny, Patsy, and Willie. And some crossover/more southern rock stuff.
Pretty mixed bag, really. At least pre-2000. ;) Yes, I am well aware that I'm swiftly turning into an old crock.
I found it about as interesting how much you can tell about the person who came up with the list.
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Date: 2010-10-01 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-01 05:23 pm (UTC)I'd like to see a punk category too.