User:Interiot/Music

Music styles

• funk (P-Funk, Rick James)
• arena rock (Queen)
• progressive rock (Jethro Tull, Golden Earing, Ping Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project)
• punk rock (The Clash)
• pop punk (Green day)
• sophomoric/offensive (Presidents of USA, The Bloodhound Gang, Blink-182)
• swing revival

Groups generally

(dates based on first album that I really liked, not necessarily their first release. singles listed when their other songs aren't strongly liked)

• Simon and Garfunkel, American (1966)
• The Beatles, British (1966)
• Parliament/Funkadelic, American (60's and 70's)
• Elton John, British (1970)
• The Who, British, (1971)
• Pink Floyd, British (1973)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, American, 1976 (American Girl)
• Dire Straits, British (1978)
• R.E.M., American (1981)
• U2, Irish (1987)
• They Might Be Giants, American (1989)
• Collective Soul, American (1993)
• The Cranberries, Irish (1993)
• Green Day, American (1994)

Great Intros

(I love songs that have you cranking the volume to 11 within seconds of hearing the song for the first time)

• Foreplay/Long Time by Boston (1976)
• The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Pink Floyd (1979)

Look into

Groups/genres I should learn more about

• Rick James
• Progressive metal
• System of a Down
• Dream Theater
• Neo-classical metal