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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: 2022-09-28 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.