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Sep. 26th, 2022 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatMusic Meme
Name the music genres that you like, list five performers in it that you like and songs or albums by them.
[Sigh, it just occurred to me that if you are like me and have wildly eclectic taste... this could take forever.]
I'm going to bed instead. You can do it. Or maybe, if you are really lucky or unlucky (depending on your point of view) and assuming, I remember (which is iffy at this point), I'll do it later in the week.
Name the music genres that you like, list five performers in it that you like and songs or albums by them.
[Sigh, it just occurred to me that if you are like me and have wildly eclectic taste... this could take forever.]
I'm going to bed instead. You can do it. Or maybe, if you are really lucky or unlucky (depending on your point of view) and assuming, I remember (which is iffy at this point), I'll do it later in the week.
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Date: 2022-09-27 03:41 am (UTC)Folk:
The Roches, The Roches
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon
John Prine, John Prine
Joan Armatrading, Joan Armatrading
Fairport Convention, What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
Jazz:
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain
Sonny Rollins, Way Out West
Charles Mingus, Ah Um
Duke Ellington, The Blanton-Webster Band
Rock:
King Crimson, Red
The Who, Who's Next
The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society
Queen, A Night at the Opera
The Beatles, Revolver
Soul/R&B:
Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country Western Music
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
Prince, 1999
Parliament/Funkadelic, Mothership Connection
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Date: 2022-09-28 01:33 am (UTC)King Crimson? Alternative?
Joan Armatrading...Singer/Songwriter, not sure she's truly folk, but maybe.
I'll do it at some point.
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Date: 2022-09-28 02:12 am (UTC)King Crimson's first album in 1969 was the foundation of progressive rock. So the classification fits.
Prince works from a base of funk most of the time, so I thought he fits in R&B. But we could always substitute one of his idols, James Brown. James' 1963 Live at the Apollo is one of the greatest live albums ever.
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Date: 2022-09-28 03:07 am (UTC)But is "progressive rock" = rock? I still think of it more as Alternative (note -not grunge alternative, but Alternative pure or what it was prior to the Seattle grunge movement).
I think Prince is more progressive rock than R&B, or funk. R&B doesn't really fit with Funk, which is a separate category - mainly because there are people who love R&B and hate funk, and vice versa.
James Brown is more rhythm and blues...I think, than Prince. Prince kind of jumped out of it a bit?
Although you could put the Purple Rain album in it. Rhythm and Blues is admittedly a very broad category, it even includes hip hop and rap, along with country. People often throw everything under it.
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Date: 2022-09-28 03:36 am (UTC)Progressive rock (as I define it) is music produced by a blues/rock configuration (guitar, bass, drums, with keyboard or brass) but not primarily based in blues. Crimson incorporated classical and jazz influences for their first six or so albums before streamlining their sound in the 80s and onward. (Guitarist Robert Fripp once said he was influenced by both Chuck Berry and Bela Bartok.)
COULD you classify Crimson as "alternative"? Maybe. Both Nirvana and Tool have cited Crimson as a major inluence, and their more recent material sounded like Fripp's version of dissonant heavy metal.
OTOH, maybe Crimson refuses to neatly slot into ANY category.
Prince is another artist who defies classification. He's a true polymath, something like a cross between James Brown, Eddie Hazel (guitarist for Funkadelic) and Joni Mitchell. I think 1999 is the last of his predominantly r&b albums (after Dirty Mind and Controversy). With Purple Rain onward, he'd expand in a million different directions.