best artist at each genre
 

lets try and compile a list of the best artist for each genre. i dont like to classify artist in genre, but because it is to hard to compare apples to oranges lets try this. comparing copy and paste and either add to or edit this list.

blues - bb king
classical - beethoven
country - johnny cash
electronica - daft punk
folk - bob dylan
guitar - SRV
alternative/grunge - pearl jam
metal - metallica
pop - elvis pressely
psychedelic - pink floyd
punk - the ramones (i say velvet underground... but i dont think everyone would agree they are punk)
raggae - bob marley
rap - wu tang clan
rock - the rolling stones

its not that the beatles dont deserve to be the best of their genre... they just kind of covered so many genres that it is hard to tie them to one.

alot of these might also come of as being obvious because they started/popularized that style of music... but usually if you make a sound that is beautiful enough for people to try and imitate, then there is a good chance you were probably the best at making that sound.

Corrections: Biggie>Wu Tang Clan
Pink Floyd only released one Psychedelic album, so...Pink floyd>The Rolling Stones
Blues: Eric Clapton>B.B. King
Pop: I'll say the Beatles, just to fit them in, and Elvis belongs nowhere near any best-of list.

^ he is not my favorite either (elvis)... but as far as other people, well they seem to really love him. like i have said before, whenever i make lists i try my best to exclude my personal opinion.

as far as pink floyd goes, they are most assuradly physcadelic space rock beyond just piper at the gates of dawn. how could you say that dark side of the moon (among others) doesnt fall in that category?

Blues - Muddy Waters
Country - johnny cash
Electronica - Brian Eno
Folk - Fairport Convention
Guitar - Jimi Hendrix
Metal - Celtic Frost
Pop - The Kinks
Psychedelic - 13th Floor Elevators / Hawkwind (Can't decide between these)
Punk - The Clash
Reggae - Lee Scratch Perry
Rap - De La Soul
Rock - Motorhead

And i'll throw in The Fall for best post punk act.

Wu Tang is 100x better then that fatty. And you're doing the "less than" symbol rather than "Greater Than".

blues - Muddy Waters
classical - Bach
country - Waylon Jennings
electronica - n/a
folk - bob dylan
guitar - BB King
alternative/grunge - radiohead
metal - n/a
pop - michael jackson (is it debatable?)
psychedelic-n/a
punk- n/a
raggae - jimmy cliff!
rap - talib kweli nowadays, public enemy back in the day
rock - the beatles

Oops, lol. The only part of rap I enjoy is the beats, so maybe that's it. To jdg85, I would consider most of Pink Floyd's pop influenced prog.

Many corrections to be made.

1. Pink Floyd had two psychedelic albums. Saucerful of Secrets is very much in the same vein as Piper.
2. If you think The Stones are a better psychedelic band you're completely out of it.
3. Not to mention they only had one psychedelic album in their whole carreer. Her Majesties Satanic Request, and it was mediocre.

Damn it, I messed up those thingies again! <>><

Rubbish ,It's not great but it's nowhere near the abomination you are making it out to be.
Plus bands like Echo & The Bunnymen , Primal Scream and others have claimed that the Stones version of psychadelia was much more of an influence than that of Pink Floyd or The Beatles.
If Brian Jones had got his way the Stones would have done a lot more of this stuff a lot sooner than they actually did.

how did he make it out to be an abomination? he said it was mediocre.

It probably dosen't help that Pink Floyd and The Beatles >>>>>>>>>> Primal Scream and Echo & The Bunnymen.

By what he has said about before in past threads

What do you mean?

And that matters how exactly?

What significance does The Stones influencing Primal Scream have to do with weither or not Floyd are a better psychedelic rock act?

Theres traces of Pscyhedelia is all of Floyds albums, as opposed to The Stones, who dropped the sound almost instantly after they adopted it.

Where did I say anything about anybody being a better psychadelic band than another? The point I was making was that there are some successful artists in their own right that have used it as an influence and that while not being one of the stones greatest albums it's certainly not a total dud.

Like I already explained to you , it was Brian Jones who wanted to do it and had been on at the band to try it for a while. And it's a bit hard to write material when your dead.

Woody Guthrie should replace Bob Dylan.

Is there a particular reason that jazz wasn't included in the genre list?

I prefer CSNY to both as far as folk/folk rock or folk anything is concerned.

blues - BB King
classical - Mozart
country - Steve Earle
electronica - Tangerine Dream
folk - Clannad
guitar - guitar player? Hendrix
alternative/grunge - Fields Of The Nephilim
metal - Iron Maiden
pop - The Beatles
psychedelic - Hawkwind
punk - The Stooges
reggae - Burning Spear
rap - Public Enemy
rock - Black Sabbath

Lot's more genres though:

SOUL
JAZZ
PROGRESSIVE
AMBIENT etc etc

Ambient - Miners of Moria
Blues - John Lee Hooker
Classical - Shostakovich
Country - Joe Diffie
Electronica - Chemical Brothers
Guitar - John Frusciante / Joe Satriani
Jazz - Thelonious Monk
Pop - Michael Jackson
Rap - Wu-Tang Clan


Rock:
Alternative - Faith No More / At the Drive-In
Classic - Allman Brothers Band
Folk - Pentangle
Funk - RHCP
Goth/New Wave - Fields of the Nephilim
Grunge - Alice in Chains
Post - Jakob
Prog - Camel / King Crimson
Psychedelic - Fuzzy Duck
Punk - Husker Du


Metal:
Black - Ulver
Death - Opeth
Doom - Katatonia
Folk/Viking - Windir / Ensiferum
Heavy - Iron Maiden
Post - Isis
Power - Angra / Iced Earth
Prog - Spiral Architect
Thrash - Mekong Delta / Torture Squad

Emocore-Moss Icon
Indiemo-Bells on Trike
Chaotic Emo-Impetus Inter
Screamo-The Fiction
Post hardcore-Fugazi
Folk-Pete Seeger

blues - (don't listen to enough blues)
classical - Mozart, easily.
country - Waylon Jennings
electronica - Brian Eno
folk - (too hard)
guitar - John Petrucci
Death Metal - Opeth
Doom Metal - Agalloch
Black Metal - Windir
Most diverse metal band of our time - Ulver
Avant Garde - Mr. Bungle
Progressive rock/metal - King Crimson
Neoclassical - Dax Johnson (My favorite musician.)'

and I don't feel like typing anymore so there you go.

I'm going to do favorites since thats what everyone else is doing, (I hope). I took out the genres I didn't like or didn't have answers for.


Country: Townes Van Zandt
Folk: Pete Seeger
Pop: the Beach Boys
Punk: Jawbreaker
Reggae: Jimmy Cliff
Rap: A Tribe Called Quest
Rock: Modest Mouse
Emo: Kidcrash
Post-Rock: 65daysofstatic

Most of my favorite artists didn't fit in any of that, what exactly is alternative?

I just love all these sub genres. Reminds me of late 80's metal.

THRASH
SPEED
DEATH
DOOM

blah blah blah

The difference being that metal sucks and punk does not.

I think all the hardcore subsects aren't ridiculous. There's a clear difference.

Indiemo? :laughing:

Could anything sound more unappealing to me?

oh yeah mods cant have strong opinions. theyre supposed to be bland rule enforcers.

That wasn't his opinion. He just wants to start crap with metalheads.

i dunno, i think you should just take things for what they are. he thinks metal sucks, apparently. thats alright with you isnt it?

lol@you saying crowquill shouldnt be mod for being a troll then posting **** like that

I hate metal and always have, anyone on here who knows me well enough (swimintheundertow, lespaul43) knows I actually do think that and i'm not just trying to "troll".

I'm not a metalhead, So that aint it.

But I know for a fact that Ethan does it for the sake of starting a ruckus rather than constructive criticism.

**** like what?

Not that it matters.

The difference is I'm not a mod. That why I'm not a mod nor will I ever be a mod nor do I want to be a mod.

Ethan shouldn't be a mod.

I wish mods were allowed to be not serious every once in awhile.

When are you ever serious?

All you do is bait and make wisecracks. I don't mean as in most of the time, but all of the time.

Why don't you confine your crap to just one thread instead of making a go at me in every other thread? I can't believe you think I don't contribute do I need to wave my threads in your face for you to realize I actually do more then 'bait and make wisecracks.' Because it seems like all you do is go at my bad posts and ignore anything positive I have to say and pretend it doesn't exist.

Lets look at some popular threads i've made:
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...sts-bands.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ame-thing.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...my-albums.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...right-now.html

And all the bands thread i've made, (and theres much more then this just look at the threads i've made most of them are band threads. I'm just pulling some up so you can't say they don't exist.)
Elliott Smith (not an obscure artist but I worked typing all that up with AITA)
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...m-eat-him.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...n-trapper.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/hardcore-...ral-diner.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...8-belaire.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/folk/2327...oks-hands.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/electroni...president.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...lour-fire.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...-collapse.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...ing-ships.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/folk/23611-seabear.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/folk/23279-fruit-bats.html
http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...cant-swim.html

Then theres the emo education thread too, I spent awhile typing that up and then revising later, and i'm still not done. I don't think I need to add more, except for this one thing. What about the polls? Have those been me trying to 'bait' people? No, I realize no one appreciated the winners of the last one and i'm taking a week break from the debut albums poll to get use to being back home, but just because neither is going on now doesn't mean they didn't happen and aren't going to. I worked hard on those things and don't get much thanks for it. I don't complain because I don't care if people don't go 'good job', but if you're going to attack me for not contributing at all at least point out that one thing that I did, instead of ignoring everything i've done.

Thats all i'm going to say about all this demod Crowquill stuff, because this whole disillusion that I don't contribute sort of bothers me. Its kind of disheartening when most of my band/artists threads get ignored and I don't get much thanks for all the uploads, or posts, or all i've done for the songwriting forum, do I complain? No, (except for now) I don't complain because it doesn't bother me, but it does bother me when i'm told all I do is troll and flame and I havn't contributed at all, because I have.

pwnt