Categorize music artists you love using your own descriptions

[mvd]

You don't have to use strict genre labels. It will be interesting to see what DUers come up with. I'll use more traditional genre labels. My list is just a sample and not a complete list.

Big band - Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, Bing Crosby

Classic rock & folk - The Beatles, Elvis, Simon And Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul & Mary, The Who, Blondie, The Shangri-Las, Herman's Hermits, CCR, Rolling Stones, James Taylor, The Moody Blues, Dusty Springfield, The Police, CSNY, The Byrds, Cat Stevens

Power pop - Cheap Trick, Big Star, Badfinger, The Cars, Teenage Fanclub, Weezer (not most recent Weezer, which has gone downhill), Kay Hanley & Letters To Cleo, The Go Gos, The Raspberries, Jimmy Eat World, They Might Be Giants, The Zombies

Heartland rock: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge, Bon Jovi

Mainstream pop, pop/rock and singer songwriter: Abba, B-52s, Elton John, The Bangles, Madonna, Michael Jackson, The Eagles, Cher, Duran Duran, The Corrs, Michelle Branch & The Wreckers, Bree Sharp, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Aly & AJ, new Mandy Moore, Fountains Of Wayne, Anna Nalick, Amy Winehouse, A Fine Frenzy, Cyndi Lauper, The Veronicas, Aimee Mann, Indigo Girls & Amy Ray solo, Lenka, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Pink, Riko Kiley/Jenny Lewis solo, Pink, Alanis Morissette (sorry Parche :P ), Paramore, Tori Amos, Saving Jane, Lisa Loeb, The Sundays, Butch Walker, Chris Isaak, Dido, Barenaked Ladies, Bon Jovi, M2M/Marion Raven, Katy Perry, The Shins, Vanessa Carlton, KT Tunstall, Coldplay, Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, Travis, Sixpence None The Richer, Dar Williams, Lillix, Belle And Sebastian, Shawn Colvin...

Lesser known pop, pop/rock, and singer songwriter: Kate Voegele, Karmina, Damone, Bonnie McKee, The Dollyrots, Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer, The Love Willows, The New Pornographers, Tilly & The Wall, Stacie Rose, Leona Naess, Cara Luft, Maggie Walters, The Pierces, Eliza Gilkyson, Cindy Alexander, Camera Obscura, Josh Ritter, Tegan & Sara, Brandi Carlile, Jo Davidson, Laura Dawn, Abra Moore, Leslie Mills, Jag Star, Lisa Mychols, The Faders, Eisley, Cat Power, Amy Rigby, Lisa Palleschi, Thea Gilmore, Susan Cagle, Neil Finn/Finn Brothers, Nina Gordon, The Essex Green, The Clientele, The Donnas, Stars, Suzanne Vega, The Decemberists, Margot & Nuclear So & So's, Holly Brook, Alison Ray, Maria Mena, Guster, Marie Digby, I Nine, The Jayhawks, Lucy Walsh, Amie Miriello, The Like, Fisher, Hem, Nerina Pallot, She & Him, Sufjan Stevens...

Alternative/modern rock: Pearl Jam, R.E.M, U2, Against Me!, The Hold Steady, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, Hole, TV on the Radio, Regina Spektor, Sinead O'Connor, The White Stripes, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, The Wallflowers, Garbage...

Country: Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, The Dixie Chicks, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Jim Reeves, Charley Pride, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, Sugarland, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Vince Gill, The Mavericks, Taylor Swift, Patty Loveless, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Dwight Yoakam, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Brad Paisley, Doug Stone, Trisha Yearwood, Deana Carter, Lee Ann Womack, Nickel Creek...

Alt-country: Steve Earle, Kasey Chambers, Wussy, Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Alison Moorer, Kim Richey, The Weepies...

Motown/Soul/R&B/Spector: Aretha, Smokey Robinson, Luther Vandross, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, The Crystals, The Temptations, The Supremes, Janis Joplin, The Temptations, The Ronettes...

New age: Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Kate Rusby

Classical: Beetoven, Mozart, Bach Handel..

[mvd]

1. BTW, this is all I'm posting.. it's a long enough sample

I'm sure I missed some good ones that others will mention, though. :hi:

[mvd]

2. A kick before bed

Surely DUers have some lists to categorize.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear mvd!

Wow, you have compiled quite a long list!

Mine will be much shorter...

Classical: Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Brahms, Salieri, Copland, Ravel, Gershwin, Holst, Delius, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin...

Rock: Huey Lewis, Billy Joel, Men at Work, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle

And I know there are many others that I have forgotten!


:hi:

[mvd]

4. Hi, Peggy!

Thanks for coming by!

Billy Joel could be on my list. :hi:

[SoxFan]

9. Salieri? You Mozart-killing monster!

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. ROFL!

I am not!

That is a very controversial point of view, I'll have you know!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I tend to catergorize by mood

happy
sad
mellow
party
driving
background

that type of thing.

[billyskank]

6. "Classical" is a strange term.

I know what people mean when they say it, and I use the word in the same sense myself: music played by old-fashioned instruments (anything more traditional than a saxophone) usually written 100 years ago or more.

But I think it can also refer to a specific period; as opposed to (say) the romantic period, or the baroque period. Not all of your quoted composers may qualify as classical: I do not know what the timeline is, though I daresay a google search could provide me with the answer.

[mvd]

7. In a general sense, they can all be considered classical composers

Definition can give a very broad time period, from the 9th century to present times.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. OK I will try my hand at this and I know I am going to leave out something

Classical: Mozart, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Widor, Strauss, Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaicovsky, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ravel, Bizet

Rock: Mostly from 60s and 70s. Stones, Beatles, Eagles,Steppenwolf, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Boz Skaggs, Beach Boys, Doobie Brothers, Ronstadt, Van Morrison, Doors, Carol King

Polka: (and so much more) Brave Combo


Jazz: Gershwin, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Dave Brubeck

Country: not many. Dolly Parton Chet Atkins Patsy Cline Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins. Johnny Cash

Bluegrass: Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley,

Pop: Pink Martini, Squirrel Nut Zippers,

Blues B B King, Ray Charles

Motown, practically everybody

odd stuff: BareNakedLadies, Moxie Frugel,