Your faves outside your usual genre

[Nom de ploom]

I was thinking the other day that whilst my record collection is largely dominated by rock and heavy metal I really like some other songs too.

a kind of top ten of my favourite non-genre (metal) songs would be....in no particular order...

Purple Rain - Prince
Insomnia - Faithless
In between days - The Cure
Hold up a light - Take That
You can't always get what you want - the stones
Saturday's alright for fighting - elton john
Graceland - Paul Simon
Baba O'reilly - The Who
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Various ABBA - musical genius

i'm sure I've forgotten loads..

[Chris71]

Hmm. I do genuinely like a lot of different stuff, but I guess it's mostly rock/metal/indie 'guitar music'. So...

Sugahill Gang - Rappers' Delight
Quite a lot of random classic tunes - Dvorak's Serenade for Strings; The Four Seasons; Beethoven's Pastoral Symphoney; Concerto D'Aranjuez and various other classical guitar pieces to name a few...
Faithless and Prodigy on the dance side
Miles Davis - Milestones
Stan Getz/Astrid Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
Coolio - Gangster's Paradise
Weird Al Yankovic

Lots of stuff. To be honest, the hardest thing is defining what my genre is. Like the classical stuff I grew up surrounded by but don't listen to a great deal these days. Or the dance music. I'm not a huge dance fan, but I've still got a stack of dance albums on my computer.

I think a lot of it is nostalgia. Prodigy were huge were when I was in my teens and a lot of good times link back to the music. Ditto virtually any '90s indie.

[Captain Flashman]

i listen to sod all rap but i like the roots and public enemy. i hate electro music and listen to none, massive attack is about as close as i get to that crap

[MGZRod]

Im a metalhead, but last couple days i've been listening to biggie smalls and wu tang clan etc...

Biggie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZniFNh0oIe4

wu tang: [urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZRAvsZf1g[/url]

[Snoop Bagg]

I don't confine myself to specific genres, I like what I like!

[ShadownINja]

I don't have a usual genre but I do like trance...

Nom de ploom said:

Insomnia - Faithless

And I really cannot stand Faithless. Their productions are too cut and paste: dull beat+tedious rap... pause... synthy loop until end. I have no idea how they made it above other trance names who produce stuff I've actually bought.

[Z06George]

Absolutely love metal but like you, I have many random artists I like.

Anything by...
Hans Zimmer
Will Smith
80's film/TV stuff like Rocky,KnightRider,Hawai Five O(sp)
JSU marching band
And please don't judge but I quite like Tempa-T's Next Hype. I have no idea why

[TedMaul]

Mostly metal of all genres, but have a fair collection of classical and opera, 80s electro-pop, fair bit of rap. TBH the only thing i won't listen to is Jazz, not talking about classic jazz like Ella Fitz, but the Fast Show Jazz Club drivel. Always made me laugh when people said Napalm Death were just noise.... I mean, ok, Fast Show was a parody, but the real stuff is not that much better.

[Nom de ploom]

TedMaul said:

Mostly metal of all genres, but have a fair collection of classical and opera, 80s electro-pop, fair bit of rap. TBH the only thing i won't listen to is Jazz, not talking about classic jazz like Ella Fitz, but the Fast Show Jazz Club drivel. Always made me laugh when people said Napalm Death were just noise.... I mean, ok, Fast Show was a parody, but the real stuff is not that much better.

hmmmmm, niiice niiice. Double great.

[kiteless]

Chris71 said:

Dvorak's Serenade for Strings

Little heard, but utterly delicious.