If you had to pick only one genre to listen to for the rest of your life...

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You know, say Geir becomes supreme ruler of the universe, and everyone has to pick only one style of music, listen to only that genre, and defend it with robotic intensity.

It doesn't have to be a "real" genre - I mean, you can make one up if you like.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who says "Analogue Baroque" will be deported to an island for politcal prisoners where they will be promptly shot!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Music I Like"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

porn groove

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

anything that would annoy geir

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Music I Like" is not an option. Pick again, Ned, or you will be assigned something deeply unpleasant, like robotic peasant folkdance.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Bear in mind, we are NOT talking about Geir's taste, we are imagining a world where everyone has to have ONE taste and stick to it. So pick which one you'd go with.

I would not, believe it or not, say dronerock. I mean, even I got bored with dronerock by the end of the Mogwai ATP.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I go along with radio and call "Top 40" a genre?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

electroclash

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

No. Top 40 is not a genre. "All Singing, All Dancing, Robotic ChartPop!" is a genre, though.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

But think of the cruelty Kate - "Hey Tom have you heard this great new single?" "Where did it get to?" "41" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I would choose the anti-ilx genre of all forms of music.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Scary thing is, Tom, many people already exist in this hell, but they don't even know it!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"all forms of music" or "what I like" or other such all-inclusive things are NOT ALLOWED. This is an OPO. This is the way that such things work, so play along nicely.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

also, i could probably listen to the quincy m.e. themetune on infinite repeat. i guess as far as genres go that counts as faux-jazz

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I have decided that I am having "Psychedelic Bubblegum" so I can satisfy my urge for pop melody and my urge for texture at the same time! This means I get to have The Archies, and the first Spiritualized album, too!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i would choose retro mondo-pop.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

robotic peasant folkdance

foour tet to thread!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"four tet"... duh, it's not that difficult to type without errors... really, now is it...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd go for "melodic electronica" as it could mean pretty much anything and has practically every emotional base touched.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh fucking hell.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"prog-drone rock"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, Pash, I'd come over your Geiriverse. Yeah.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Fnarr.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, in the Geiriverse, there are probably very few people's houses I'd be ABLE to visit! And it's frightening to me that I'd be more likely to be allowed over Tom's than be allowed round Pash's!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I would choose Odd Pop which takes in lots of stuff from Cornelius through The Stone Roses. Yes. No. That's not allowed. Oh fucking hell kate.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can successfully define yer genre of Odd Pop, then you can have it. I just don't want "All Music, Evah!" answers. If you can cleverly enough define the parameters of your genre, then you can have it.

(I might readjust mine to Psychedelic Bubblegum Dronepop so I'd still be welcome round Casas Pash and Barrus)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Does this universe allow euthanasia, cos I think I'd need it.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Though I'd maybe have 'classical' cos I've got about 5-10 CDs of that which I love almost as much as my pop/dance/rock.metal/whatever stuff and I think there's a lot of stuff there that I could really end up liking just as much.

Also, I think it's probably the largest genre there is (for those of us who just dismissively label it as classical) and I get Japanese stringed instrument music, Mendelsohn, atonal, experimental, Bach etc. etc. etc.

You can keep opera though.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you hate Rock N Roll Fun, Mei? ;-)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

probably not a genre i have listened to in the past (for example 70s punk or northern soul). actually i'd probably pick motown music.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd pick the 'silence'-genre every time.

― cage bot (jdesouza), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

ummpa (finnish polka music for the elderly)

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Silence is *always* an option, Julio. Would you really give up *all* music for the rest of your life, rather than commit to one option?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but with the 'silence' option everything would be music forever!

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

melancholodictronica - this means i can have BOC, Broadcast, Shadow, Ladytron and all kinds of crazy crap :)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"BOC" = boards of canada or blue oyster cult haha.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Jamaican Music a genre? It encompasses any and all music that is made in Jamaica, by Jamaicans or contains samples of Jamaicans...

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"no, it was *her* idea"

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

melancholodictronica - this means i can have BOC, Broadcast, Shadow, Ladytron and all kinds of crazy crap :)

it was sounding good until you got to ladytron...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can define it, in terms other than subjective ones like "I like it" then it is a genre and you can have it. But bear in mind, you may spend a fraction of the rest of your life listening to 10CC now!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you hate Rock N Roll Fun, Mei? ;-)

I'm no rock'n'roll fun, like a party that's over before it begun...

(And SK = Sleater-Kinney or Shonen Knife)

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

''but with the 'silence' option everything would be music forever!''

and it would be free.

― cage bot (jdesouza), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

(that was directed at Jacob, BTW)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

'and it would be free'

ppl don't ever pay for 'ambience'? fuck

― Adam Smith, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Neo-classical symphonic power metal.

― Sam Sam, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

ummpa (finnish polka music for the elderly)

Actually, it's written "humppa". Great choice!

As for me, I'd pick jazz. It's the one genre which can encompass almost anything (and has done so), and which is hardest to get bored of.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Jazz - fuck, that's the obvious right answer... Does that include 'jazz-funk', 'jazz-sampling hip hop' and 'jazzy house'?

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

If I could pick one genre that I *NEVER* had to hear again in my entire life, ever, it would probably be Jazz! Uck! Uck! ::must wash nasty taste out of ears::

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Skitterpunk!

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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what's really the diff between jazz (1920-early 50s) and rock bcz there isn't much to 'get'?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

for me it would probably be hip-hop, as in its broadest sense, encompassing all sub-strands it encompasses or can incorporate just about any other style...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oops!

for me it would probably be hip-hop, as in its broadest sense, if you can include all sub-strands of the genre, then it encompasses or can incorporate just about any other style...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard the same thing about metal. Maybe the two are in fact the uber-genres.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i really like the idea of the ubergenre...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

free balinka

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was a metalhead in high school I would get all my other genres in through metal bands..."b-b-but look there's classical music and they play two bars of jazz here, and over here there's Brazilian percussion!" Then I said fuck it and started listening to everything else except metal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Reggae (1968-78)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

cyberpunk

― bobo t, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock"

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

krautrock

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Post-intelligent progressive booty housecore

― original bgm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Western Music

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, probably digital hardcore. i know it's cheesy, but if i woke up to atari teenage riot every morning id probably get a lot more done.

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dadaismus-Why limit the field to 68-78?

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Honkatonkabilly". I'd always have something to put on while getting drunk or playing trucks.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Rocksteady/Reggae/Dub: people tend to hate on it for 'all sounding the same', but I think it covers just about every emotion under the sun.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

oops--those people who say it all sounds the same just haven't heard enough of it. I say all rock music sounds the same. To me.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Mambo ....

― phil jones (interstar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

true dat, cybele. doesn't it all have to sorta sound the same in order for it to be labeled as a genre? It's like saying all Thai food tastes the same. Well, yeah, it kinda of does, but there's still hella variety within that sameness.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever you'd call the Afroc-Cuban music on those old Syliphone complications from Guinea.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Proto-punk.

― Francis Watlington, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Word, oops. Word.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

hyper-manufactured reality television kraut pop

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

what about when I make my own music? I mean I could probably pick like three albums right now off the stack next to ye olde olive green bazooka-shaped boombox and listen to those for the rest of my life and not get seriously pissed off; as stated before lots of people exist in a similar situation anyway. But if I'm only allowed to make music within a single genre (and later of course listen to it) then this game is FUXORED and I'm NOT PLAYING NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"electronic dance"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

pygmy music. I'm serious.
but what happens when my buddy comes over, who can only listen to mexican tuba music? I hope he can listen to pygmy music at my house, cause I don't want to live in a world where I can't play pygmy music for people in my own place.

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 19 June 2003 04:20 (twenty-three years ago)

folk

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 19 June 2003 04:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Techno.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 19 June 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Dadaismus-Why limit the field to 68-78?

It's my favourite period, I think the invention starts to wane somewhat in the 1980s after the technology "improved", Lee Perry went mad and reggae artists started getting shot every few weeks.

Does Al Green count as a genre?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

classic shoegaze

― kephm, Monday, 2 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd still pick jazz, just like year ago.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yep it's 1970s funk, in all its incarnations

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Romantic (Eroica through, oh, Mahler) symphony

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

classical

― de, Monday, 2 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's a safe bet that this thread's original poster would find that too broad

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dance music, imagine if I only listened to that. hell on earth!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

And "jazz" is wayyyyyyy too broad

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 2 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh* Bach, then. That's my genre.

― de, Monday, 2 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

J.S, not J.C or W.F or C.P.E

― de, Monday, 2 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

of course

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 2 August 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

world music

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Danceable Hard Rock

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

in other words the Chuck Eddy def. of "metal"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thirteen-tone.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Just because that feels like there's probably a loophole in there somewhere.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

klezmer

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the late 60s - early 70s rockers would keep me goin' I suppose.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno, techno i guess.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

east coast hip-hop circa say 89 to 94 (especially if I was spenidng the rest of my life on an island and especially because there so much great stuff I haven't fully dug into yet)

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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