Songs that define their respective genre

[Acidoctor]

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

Funk metal, you fool!

 

[reg42]

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.

I'm so sorry for making a typo, I guess I'm just not perfect as I thought.

Raining Blood. Happy?

 

[Trotgar]

Anything by Pink Floyd pretty much defines progressive rock.

Well, progressive rock can vary very much, I don't really like the Pink Floyd style, but I do like Dream Theater's (though some may call it progressive metal, I like to call it progressive tock/metal) and Porcupine Tree's (In Absentia rocks, BTW) music, which vary some from Pink Floyd (Porcupine Tree's later production, that is. Ar some point it was kinda Pink Floyd-ish).

 

[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.

I'm so sorry for making a typo, I guess I'm just not perfect as I thought.

Raining Blood. Happy?

now, do you mean the album or the song?
EDIT: and I am not even a true Slayer fan.

 

[reg42]

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.

I'm so sorry for making a typo, I guess I'm just not perfect as I thought.

Raining Blood. Happy?

now, do you mean the album or the song?
EDIT: and I am not even a true Slayer fan.

The song. The album is called Reign in Blood. Specific enough?
EDIT: Neither am I

 

[Virtual_Dom]

Michael Jackson is the only pop artist that has ever done pop well

 

[timmytom1]

Black Sabbath`s "Master of reality" pretty much created the whole metal genre and songs like "Enter the void" would pave the way for the great stoner bands of the 90`s like Sleep and Kyuss(i`d say QOTSA too, but i feel Kyuss covers them for obvious reasons).

 

[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.

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.

Prog Death is way heavier than Opeth, or at least way heavier than Ghost of Perdition, it has a good mix of screaming and singing and everything, besides, Pull Me Under is basically a rock song with some proggy bits, if you wanted the best example of a progressive Dream Theater song then you should use A Change Of Seasons, or Octavarium, or even The Count Of Tuscany, but Pull Me Under is probably their most un-prog song.
And you think Progressive Metal is more than Opeth, Opeth are an incredible band, and they use everything Dream Theater do and more, and way more subtly.

 

[CrashBang]

Rock The Casbah by The Clash and Anarchy In The UK by Sex Pistols define early british punk
Straight Edge by Minor Threat and Nervous Breakdown by Black Flag define 70s/80s american hardcore punk

 

[Revolutionary]

Yous said what I was gonna say "Master!"