Music Genres

[Scary Guy]

So I figured out a while ago that Susan Vega's "Tom's Diner" is early trip-hop. This has got me wondering what else could be considered early trip-hop. For that matter what other songs could fit into other categories that didn't exist when the song was originally created.

[sass_in_the_pants]

Blondie's rapture as rap?

I mean, she doesn't actually sing it.

And she says the word fly.

[Steven]

shit.

i remember when the term rock and roll was universal.

i miss that.

[Msterbeau]

The Clash's "Magnificent Seven" was rap by a non rap band when rap was in it's infancy. For a "punk" band, The Clash crossed more genre's then any band I can think of.

[BrassFusion]

gregorian chant is early trip-hop.

and i'm mid-fusion.

[Msterbeau]

and i'm mid-fusion.

Jazz and goth?

[Scary Guy]

Jazz and goth?

Jill Tracy?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

The Clash get most of thier sound from Ska and Reggie. At leas at the time.. early 80's they would tell people they were a blend of Punk/Ska with a little reggie mixed in.

[n0Mad]

they would tell people they were a blend of Punk/Ska

Skunk?

[Msterbeau]

The Clash get most of thier sound from Ska and Reggie. At leas at the time.. early 80's they would tell people they were a blend of Punk/Ska with a little reggie mixed in.

Their influences were all over the map and it changed over time. The first couple albums were decidedly punk rock... but thereafter you start to hear all the other stuff find it's way in. Listening to London Calling or Sandinista is like a trip through the history of music. What's really interesting to is to listen to their post-Clash projects. B.A.D., Joe Stummer's various projects, Havana 3AM, etc... The Clash started out as a punk band but they were really much more.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

It is warming to my soul to see someone else with a great appreciation of The Clash.

[Msterbeau]

Heh. I've loved them since I first heard them back in 81 or 82. If I was a couple years older I might have actually caught them in their prime. I remember people talking at school about a Who concert that The Clash opened for. Apparently they weren't very appreciated. I can imagine why. If my parents had let me go to such things at that age... I would have.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I remember when the Plasmatics were on.. was it Fridays or SNL?,, cant remember... just watching her (WoW) take that TV apart with a chainsaw... changed my life.

[Msterbeau]

Wendy O was one scary chick... I always thought The Plasmatics were kind of a joke.

[LuluVox]

One of my friends from back in Georgia was Wendy O. Williams' nephew, apparently.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

They were like... glam-punk... if that makes any sense at all. Wendy had issues with people though.

[Steven]

The Clash was big in So Cal in the early 80's, I was a staunch NWOBHM headbanger (I was young once) but I always dug them. Black Flag and the Misfits and Flipper were legends in So Cal though.

[the eternal]

"Paint it Black" "The Man in Black"-goth

1st Stooges Album-punk

1st Suicide Album-punk/new wave

(Suicide kicks major ass IMO)

[LuluVox]

The Velvet Underground were proto-everything.