Your Genre Defining Mixtape
 

I saw something like this on a forum, could have even been this one, but I searched and didn't find one.

So if aliens landed on Earth, and demanded you to define for them a certain type of music by without actually verbally explaining it, (and if it does not suffice, they will execute you) what would you burn on their CD? It'd be nice to keep it general album appropriate, you know, ten or so songs, perhaps a little more. Unless you're making a grindcore tape of course.

Thrash metal

1. Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh
2. Demolition Hammer - .44 Caliber Brain Surgery
3. Metallica - Whiplash
4. Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
5. Slayer - Angel of Death
6. Kreator - Flag of Hate
7. Exodus - Piranha
8. Sodom - Agent Orange
9. Destruction - Nailed to the Cross

See, a simple, generic, and easy example, but I think an alien would understand after listening to this.

Visual Kei

1. Dir en Grey - Embryo
2. Nounai Moruhine - Pierrot
3. Malice Mizer - Syunikiss
4. Psycho le Cému - Roman Hikou
5. Pierrot - Acid Rain
6. Gackt - Mirror
7. Luna Sea - Gravity
8. GLAY - Yuuwaku
9. Janne Da Arc - Lunatic Gate
10. Baroque - Cherry King

More info...

Emo (2nd wave)

1. Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About an Angel
2. Jawbreaker - Want
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - Shadows
4. The Promise Ring - Red Paint
5. The Get Up Kids - Don't Hate Me
6. Weezer - Across the Sea
7. Mineral - Gloria
8. Cap'n Jazz - Oh Messy Life
9. Jimmy Eat World - Claire
10. The Get Up Kids - Holiday
11. The Promise Ring - Red and Blue Jeans
12. Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone
13. I Hate Myself - Caught in a Flood with the Captain of the Cheerleading Squad
14. Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
15. The Get Up Kids - I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel

Lo-fi

1. Keep Your Dreams - Suicide
2. Lady Godiva's Operation - The Velvet Underground
3. Pacer - The Amps
4. Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafiti
5. Here - Pavement
6. Game of Pricks - Guided By Voices
7. Distortions - Clinic
8. Oscillation - The Men
9. Tarpit - Dinosaur Jr
10. Ohm - Yo La Tengo

All of these 10 are in my top 200 alternative rock songs of all time, apart from Game of pricks.

I've always liked my Beginner's Guide to Post-Punk mix

1. "Disorder" by Joy Division
2. "White Rune" by Iceage
3. "Shot By Both Sides" by Magazine
4. "Damaged Goods" by Gang of Four
5. "Don't Fall" by The Chameleons
6. "Complications" by Killing Joke
7. "Memories Can't Wait" by The Talking Heads
8. "Pink Flag" by Wire
9. "Sense of Purpose" by The Sound
10. "Youth of America" by The Wipers

I decided to cut a few songs from the original 15 track length to keep with 10 song theme and I would probably change up the order a bit so they flow better.