I really enjoy getting to know other orgers' tastes. So let's hear it!

You may pick whichever -- and however many -- genres you wish to highlight, but challenge youself by sticking to only 3 songs per category.

Country

Reba McEntire - The Greatest Man I Never Knew
Linda Ronstadt - A Long, Long Time

Anne Murray - Danny's Song

Jazz

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanmea

R & B

Stevie Wonder - Ribbon in the Sky
Janet Jackson - Anything
Earth, Wind & Fire - After The Love Has Gone

Alternative


Alanis Morisette - Thank You
Third-Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Fastball - Out Of My Head

Disco

Diana Ross - Love Hangover
Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby

Funk

Rufus - Tell Me Something Good
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots

Wow. I'm surprised anyone could be so decisive. I may actually try this myself.

SuperSoulFighter said:

What genre are the Rolling Stones? They even made reggae. Prince? Anyway, it's still fun, I'll give it a try. I'll stick to famous songs so everyone will know them. BLUES: I'm a Man Hobo Blues I Just Want to Make Love to You FUNK: Sexmachine I Want to Take You Higher Mothership Connection SOUL: Respect I Heared It Through the Grapevine I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Lobe You)

Good question. You decide and answer as you see fit. I'd like to see the discussion that may come of it.

Vocal:

Ella Fitzgerald - Stairway to the stars

Josephine Baker- Bye Bye Blackbird

Soundtrack

Carmen Jones - Deres a cafe on the corner

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Thats all

Funk

Play that funky music - WILD CHERRY

Rock

Born to be wild - Steppenwolf

New York Groove- Ace F.

Beatles-Don't let me down

R&B

Angel of the Night - Angela Bofill

Barkays-Trippin Out , Soul Finger

Prince - When the doves cry

Disco

Soup for one - Chic

Never can say goodbye - Gloria Gaynor

rog/Experimental

Robert Wyatt – Sea Song

Scott Walker – Bouncer See Bouncer

Brian Eno – 2/1

Kraut-rock

Can – Bel Air

Neu – Fur Immer

Faust - Krautrock

Singer/Songwriter

Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

John Cunningham – Taming the Family

Gene Clark – Dark Hollow

Indie/alterna-rock

Bill Callahan – One Fine Morning

The Delgados – Reasons for Silence

Clinic – The Second Line

Country

Scud Mountain Boys – Massachusetts

Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Story of You

Merle Haggard – Here in ‘Frisco

Guitar Pop

The Pooh Sticks – Susan’s Sleepwalking

High Llamas – Peppy

Kinks – Johnny Thunder

Standard Classic Rock

The Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice

Spirit – Mr. Skin

Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks

Punk/noisy

The Fall – New Puritan

The Mekons – Club Mekon

Wire – Mannequin

Electronic

Plastikman – Marbles

Spring Heel Jack – Suspensions

The Field – A Paw in My Face

i'll go with the stuff that i am currently listening to, my favourites change quite often

Rock

1. Purple Haze- (Jimi Hendrix)

2. Refugee- (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

3. Man on the Silver Mountain- (Rainbow)

Blues

Lenny- (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

All your Lovin (John Mayall and the bluesbreakers)

Red House (Hendrix)

Pop

1. Smooth- (Santana)

2. Raspberry Beret - (Prince)

3. Close to you- (Maxi Priest)

Funk

1. The work pt 1 (Prince)

2. Superstition (Wonder)

3. The Everlasting Now (Prince)

Naturally, this list is far from complete (...it's even far from scratching the surface). I could go on for pages with the genre of Funk, and didn't even include genres like Progressive Rock, Classical, The Blues, or whatever catagories you'd throw artists like Prince or Frank Zappa into. Nevertheless, here it is; my three favorite songs by genre (...as I feel about it at the moment, and for the sake of this particular thread, anyway):

Contemporary Pop/Rock:
America - "Ventura Highway"
Jim Croce - "Operator"
Carole King - "You've Got A Friend"

Disco:
Donna Summer - "On The Radio"
Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
Rod Stewart - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"

Electronic:
Kraftwerk - "It's More Fun To Compute"
Komputer - "Headphones And Ringtones"
Larry Heard - "DNA-RNA"

Funk:
Bootsy's Rubber Band - "Stretchin' Out (In A Rubber Band)"
Con Funk Shun - "FFUN"
Captain Sky - "Bubble Gum (I Chewz You)"

Jazz/Hard Bop:
Grant Green - "Idle Moments"
Wes Montgomery - "Besame Mucho"
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"

New Age:
Hennie Bekker - "Nkana"
Patrick O'Hearn - "Let Truth Prevail"
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai - "If Men Were At Peace"

Rap:
Ice-T - "Ed"
Public Enemy - "More News At 11"
Run-DMC - "You Be Illin'"

Soul:
Al Green - "Tired Of Being Alone"
Aretha Franklin - "Don't Play That Song"
The Commodores - "Zoom"

Soundtrack:
Isaac Hayes - "Cafe Regio's" (from "Shaft", the original motion picture)
Rose Royce - "I Wanna Get Next To You" (from "Car Wash", the original motion picture)
Bette Midler - "The Rose" (from "The Rose", the original motion picture)

Vocal:
Louis Prima - "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody"
Annie Lennox - "Why"
Martha Wash - "Proud"

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Synthpop

Depeche Mode-Blashphemous Rumors

Pet Shop Boys-End Of The World

Eurythmics-Here Comes The Rain

Goth/Deathrock

Christian Death-Romeo's Distress

Siouxsie And The Banshees-Belladonna

Bauhaus-In The Flat Field

Shoegaze/Dreampop

Cocteaus Twins-When Momma Was A Moth

MBV-When You Sleep

Ride-Vapour Trail

Glam Rock

T.Rex-Ride A White Swan

Bowie-Starman

Jobriath-I'm A Man

Blues

-Cross Road Blues

-The Sky Is Crying

-Mannish Boy

Country

-Walk the Line

-Make the World Go Away

-Proud Mary

Rock & Roll

-Blue Suede Shoes

-Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)

-Fun Fun Fun

Folk

-California Dreamin'

-The Sound of Silence

-Blowin' In the Wind

Latin (for lack of a better word-including all subgenres)

-Quimbara

-Oye Como Va

-Dos Gardenias

Motown

-You Can't Hurry Love

-Ain't Too Proud to Beg

-Reach Out I'll Be There

Soul

-Try a Little Tenderness

-What's Goin' On

-Never Loved a Man

Art-Pop/Rock

-Good Vibrations

-Strawberry Fields Forever

-Life On Mars?

Hard-Rock

-Foxy Lady

-Black Dog

-Walk This Way

Reagge

-I Shot the Sheriff

-Rocksteady

-The Harder They Come

Glam-Rock

-20th-Century Boy

-Suffragette City

-Killer Queen

Funk

-Mothership Connection

-Sex Machine

-I Wish

Disco

-Le Freak

-Stayin' Alive

-Hot Stuff

Punk

-Blitzkrieg Bop

-Last Caress

-New Rose

New Wave

-Is There Something I Should Know?

-One Way or Another

-Don't Stand So Close to Me

Classic Metal

-Hallowed Be Thy Name

-Victim of Changes

-Children of the Grave

Adult-Contemporary

-Avalon

-I Wanna Know What Love Is

-How Deep is Your Love

Synth-Pop

-Push It to the Limit

-Master & Servant

-Cars

Electro-Funk

-Head

-More Bounce to the Ounce

-When Doves Cry

Dance-Pop

-Express Yourself

-Can't Get You Out of My Head

-Rhythm Nation

Rap

-My Adidas

-Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

-Gangsta Gangsta

Extreme Metal

-Angel of Death

-Wake Up Dead

-The Usurper

Alternative-Rock

-Sunday Bloody Sunday

-Personal Jesus

-Where Is My Mind?

Grunge

-Lithium

-Rusty Cage

-Them Bones

Britpop

-Trash

-Wonderwall

-The Universal

EuroDance

-Wannabe

-The Sign

-Another Night

Rave/Electronica

-Revolution 909

-Their Law

-Simon from Sydney

then the 00s came

and

...

and no, I don't like Jazz

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Impossible!

damosuzuki said:

rog/Experimental

Robert Wyatt – Sea Song

Scott Walker – Bouncer See Bouncer

Brian Eno – 2/1

Kraut-rock

Can – Bel Air

Neu – Fur Immer

Faust - Krautrock

Punk/noisy

The Fall – New Puritan

The Mekons – Club Mekon

Wire – Mannequin

Electronic

Plastikman – Marbles

Spring Heel Jack – Suspensions

The Field – A Paw in My Face

Very interested in these, Mister.

It's very hard to choose. The easiest for me so far is what has become one of my favorite genres: italo disco.

Three clear highlights for me:

1. Tantra - The Hills of Katmandu

2. Bagarre - For Your Pleasure

3. Kano - It's a War

R&B

"Meet Me On the Moon" - Phyllis Hyman

"Can't Let Go" - Mariah Carey

"Be My Eyes" - Chaka Khan

Pop

"All At Once" - Whitney Houston

"Do It To Me One More Time" - Captain & Tennile

"Hard Habit To Break" - Chicago

Rock

"Alone" - Heart

"Start Me Up" - The Rolling Stones

"Dancing In the Dark" - Bruce Springtein

Hip/Hop

"If I Ruled the World" - NAS

"I Ain't No Joke" - Eric B & Rakim

"Jingling Baby" - LL Cool J

Country

"Fist City" - Loretta Lynn

"Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson

"Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Crystal Gayle

Jazz

"Guess Who I Saw Today" - Nancy Wilson

"I'll Get Along Somehow" - Nancy Wilson

"High Wire: The Aeriolist" - Chaka Khan

Gospel

"Great Things" - Tessie Hill

"He's That Kind of Friend" - Tramaine Hawkins

"Holy One" - Tramaine Hawkins

Moonbeam said:

damosuzuki said:

rog/Experimental

Robert Wyatt – Sea Song

Scott Walker – Bouncer See Bouncer

Brian Eno – 2/1

Kraut-rock

Can – Bel Air

Neu – Fur Immer

Faust - Krautrock

Punk/noisy

The Fall – New Puritan

The Mekons – Club Mekon

Wire – Mannequin

Electronic

Plastikman – Marbles

Spring Heel Jack – Suspensions

The Field – A Paw in My Face

Very interested in these, Mister.

Hello! I'm truly happy to see that username show up.

and happy birthday (I think?).

damosuzuki said:

Moonbeam said:

Very interested in these, Mister.

Hello! I'm truly happy to see that username show up.

and happy birthday (I think?).

Almost! April 29th it is.

Moonbeam said:

It's very hard to choose. The easiest for me so far is what has become one of my favorite genres: italo disco.

Three clear highlights for me:

1. Tantra - The Hills of Katmandu

2. Bagarre - For Your Pleasure

3. Kano - It's a War

Hey, you!