Songs that define their respective genre

[zen5887]

Express yourself by NWA does a pretty great job of defining what hip hop should be.

 

[AgentNein]

Always wondered why gamers more often than not love metal so much. I never really 'got' metal, except for Nordic dwarf metal, which is both badass and hilarious.

 

[SantoUno]

Thrash metal: Destruction - Bestial Invasion

Power metal: Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Melodic Death Metal: Arch Enemy - The Immortal

Death Metal: Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Doom Metal: October Tide - 12 Days Of Rain

Technical Death Metal: Atheist - ...And The Psychic Saw

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

Viking Metal - Equilibrium - Wingthor's Hammer

Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

 

[MrPatience]

Pretty much anything from The White Stripes' debut album defines garage rock.
Take the veil Cerpin Taxt by The Mars Volta for experimental progressive rock.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

"Imagine" by Brunch, for the modern Rock genre, perhaps?
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[AgentNein]

Thrash metal: Destruction - Bestial Invasion

Power metal: Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Melodic Death Metal: Arch Enemy - The Immortal

Death Metal: Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Doom Metal: October Tide - 12 Days Of Rain

Technical Death Metal: Atheist - ...And The Psychic Saw

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

Viking Metal - Equilibrium - Wingthor's Hammer

Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

Honest question because I'm not a metal fan and I don't really know, but do you (as a metal fan) feel that there is a need for that many different subgenre's in the overall metal genre? At some point isn't it sort of overkill? Or do you feel that each of those is legitaately different enough to stand in it's own separate sub-genre?

I ask because I love punk rock, and there are tons of sub genres in punk as well. You've got thrash punk, you've got street punk, oi, gutter punk, pop punk, commercial pop punk (two very different things), hardcore punk, cali surf punk, psychobilly (essentially rockabilly with Misfits sensibilities), Trash punk, irish pub punk (which is more often than not not really that irish so much as it's bands from boston that fancy themselves as irish), folk punk, cow punk, and I could honestly go on. These are all seen by some as legitimate, but I feel that most of them are completely useless distinctions.

By the way as I've said I don't dig much metal but That folk metal song is freaking awesome. Thanks for that.

 

[Rawker]

Eminem - Beautiful


That is, and will always be, what hip-hop should be. It's perfect. Gtfo if you don't think so.

You REALLY want to avoid that attitude on here.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

Thrash metal: Destruction - Bestial Invasion

Power metal: Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Melodic Death Metal: Arch Enemy - The Immortal

Death Metal: Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Doom Metal: October Tide - 12 Days Of Rain

Technical Death Metal: Atheist - ...And The Psychic Saw

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

Viking Metal - Equilibrium - Wingthor's Hammer

Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

Honest question because I'm not a metal fan and I don't really know, but do you (as a metal fan) feel that there is a need for that many different subgenre's in the overall metal genre? At some point isn't it sort of overkill? Or do you feel that each of those is legitaately different enough to stand in it's own separate sub-genre?

I ask because I love punk rock, and there are tons of sub genres in punk as well. You've got thrash punk, you've got street punk, oi, gutter punk, pop punk, commercial pop punk (two very different things), hardcore punk, cali surf punk, psychobilly (essentially rockabilly with Misfits sensibilities), Trash punk, irish pub punk (which is more often than not not really that irish so much as it's bands from boston that fancy themselves as irish), folk punk, cow punk, and I could honestly go on. These are all seen by some as legitimate, but I feel that most of them are completely useless distinctions.

By the way as I've said I don't dig much metal but That folk metal song is freaking awesome. Thanks for that.

It's overkill for a general conversation with non-metalheads. However, within the "metal community" people have very different tastes based on the specific subgenre. It helps when you want to recommend music to a fellow metalhead friend. If they like Metallica or Children of Bodom, you don't recommend them Slipknot or Korn. You recommend them Megadeth or In Flames.

Someone who likes Dio is more likely to like power metal.

I imagine it's the same in the "punk community".

 

[AgentNein]

Thrash metal: Destruction - Bestial Invasion

Power metal: Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Melodic Death Metal: Arch Enemy - The Immortal

Death Metal: Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Doom Metal: October Tide - 12 Days Of Rain

Technical Death Metal: Atheist - ...And The Psychic Saw

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

Viking Metal - Equilibrium - Wingthor's Hammer

Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

Honest question because I'm not a metal fan and I don't really know, but do you (as a metal fan) feel that there is a need for that many different subgenre's in the overall metal genre? At some point isn't it sort of overkill? Or do you feel that each of those is legitaately different enough to stand in it's own separate sub-genre?

I ask because I love punk rock, and there are tons of sub genres in punk as well. You've got thrash punk, you've got street punk, oi, gutter punk, pop punk, commercial pop punk (two very different things), hardcore punk, cali surf punk, psychobilly (essentially rockabilly with Misfits sensibilities), Trash punk, irish pub punk (which is more often than not not really that irish so much as it's bands from boston that fancy themselves as irish), folk punk, cow punk, and I could honestly go on. These are all seen by some as legitimate, but I feel that most of them are completely useless distinctions.

By the way as I've said I don't dig much metal but That folk metal song is freaking awesome. Thanks for that.

It's overkill for a general conversation with non-metalheads. However, within the "metal community" people have very different tastes based on the specific subgenre. It helps when you want to recommend music to a fellow metalhead friend. If they like Metallica or Children of Bodom, you don't recommend them Slipknot or Korn. You recommend them Megadeth or In Flames.

Someone who likes Dio is more likely to like power metal.

I imagine it's the same in the "punk community".

To an extent. I feel it's just as often used for divisive purposes as well (at least is my experience).

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

Thrash metal: Destruction - Bestial Invasion

Power metal: Stratovarius - Black Diamond

Melodic Death Metal: Arch Enemy - The Immortal

Death Metal: Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Doom Metal: October Tide - 12 Days Of Rain

Technical Death Metal: Atheist - ...And The Psychic Saw

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

Viking Metal - Equilibrium - Wingthor's Hammer

Folk Metal - Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei

Honest question because I'm not a metal fan and I don't really know, but do you (as a metal fan) feel that there is a need for that many different subgenre's in the overall metal genre? At some point isn't it sort of overkill? Or do you feel that each of those is legitaately different enough to stand in it's own separate sub-genre?

I ask because I love punk rock, and there are tons of sub genres in punk as well. You've got thrash punk, you've got street punk, oi, gutter punk, pop punk, commercial pop punk (two very different things), hardcore punk, cali surf punk, psychobilly (essentially rockabilly with Misfits sensibilities), Trash punk, irish pub punk (which is more often than not not really that irish so much as it's bands from boston that fancy themselves as irish), folk punk, cow punk, and I could honestly go on. These are all seen by some as legitimate, but I feel that most of them are completely useless distinctions.

By the way as I've said I don't dig much metal but That folk metal song is freaking awesome. Thanks for that.

It's overkill for a general conversation with non-metalheads. However, within the "metal community" people have very different tastes based on the specific subgenre. It helps when you want to recommend music to a fellow metalhead friend. If they like Metallica or Children of Bodom, you don't recommend them Slipknot or Korn. You recommend them Megadeth or In Flames.

Someone who likes Dio is more likely to like power metal.

I imagine it's the same in the "punk community".

To an extent. I feel it's just as often used for divisive purposes as well (at least is my experience).

I understand what you mean, hardly a music thread can go by without someone going "nu-metal is for fourteen year old noobs" or "death metal sounds like shit why don't you listen to power metal with clean vocals lulzors".

 

[Instant K4rma]

The Beatles - Revolution.

Rock N' Roll at its finest.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

These two songs are probably the definitions of classic rock, right here. I would also include "All along the Watchtower" and "Highway to Hell" in there as well, maybe Hotel California as well.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Everything Sucks, by Reel Big Fish

This. Or maybe Sell Out. Or possibly The Impression That I Get by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Third Wave Ska is just awesome.

 

[Keepitclean]

House-Harder Better Faster Stronger-Daft Punk

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

You are so wrong it's not funny, Ghost of Perdition defines Prog Metal, saying Pull Me Under is like searching Progressive Metal on google and using the very first one that comes up, there is no way that is the defining song.

Progressive Death, I would have to say White Walls, that song is a masterpiece, seriously.

Mathcore, that's harder, but it's gotta be Sequoia Throne.

Rock, Don't Stop Believin' you cannot beat the classic.

Instrumental Guitar, probably The Audience is Listening by Vai.

 

[SantoUno]

Progressive Metal: Dream Theatre - Pull Me Under

You are so wrong it's not funny, Ghost of Perdition defines Prog Metal, saying Pull Me Under is like searching Progressive Metal on google and using the very first one that comes up, there is no way that is the defining song.

Oh mai gosh I'm that wrong?? /sarcasm

Well then I guess maybe you don't know what progressive metal is?? Who cares if Dream Theatre would be the first band to come up? They are definitive as they can be for Progressive metal, imo anyway. And as for your choice, are you serious? Opeth is progressive death metal, that is a sub-genre, and if that song defined progressive metal then everyone would think prog metal is nothing more than another death metal subgenre. But progressive metal is something much more than that.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

Johnny B. Goode-Buck Cherry Defines old-school Rock'n'Roll

Skullcrusher Mountain-Jonathan Coulton Nerd Rock

All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix 60's Rock

So What!-Miles Davis Improvisational Jazz

Killing In the Name Of-Rage Against The Machine Rap Metal (Welcome to any metal elitists saying it goes into *Metal Sub-Genre #677*)

Smells like Teen Spirit-Nirvana Grunge


I think that's enough for now.

 

[Aunel]

Reigning Blood sums up thrash metal pretty well IMO

dude, it's either reign in blood, or raining blood, you don't get to throw them into one word.

OT: Manowar is THE 80's metal, it's just ultra-generic.