Music - the Favorites of a Genre

List your top 5 favorite songs in each genre:


Note: With so many subgenres, do your best to categorize accordingly. (indie via Alternative, metal or classic rock via Rock, R&B via Hip-Hop, etc...) Also, feel free to omit a category if needed. Also Also, list your favorites at the moment, I know they change all the time.

Rock
Jazz
Blues
Hip-Hop
Country
Alternative
Pop
Classical

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Rock

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance



Steve Miller Band - The Joker



Pink Floyd - Money



Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

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The Beatles - Come Together



I'll hit other genres later.

Will post in a while... working on it now.

I've been thinking about this and good lord it's hard to limit it to just five per genre...

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I find it best to assume these lists change daily, no?

Rock

Agalloch - Fire Above, Ice Below
Opeth - Hessian Peel
The Cure - Disintegration
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black

Jazz

Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris
Miles Davis - Sanctuary
Avishai Cohen - Nu Nu
Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain
Al Di Meola - Flight Over Rio

Blues

Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Earl Hooker - Calling All Blues
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do
Satan And Adam - CC Rider
Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Black Angel

Hip-Hop

Deltron - Madness
Liquid Swords - Cold World
Eminem - Kim
Black Star - Respiration
Dalek - Paragraphs Relentless

Country

O Brother Where Art Thou OST

Alternative

Faith No More - Malpractice
Fields Of The Nephilim - Wail Of Sumer
Neverending White Lights - The Grace
Bat For Lashes - Siren Song
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

Pop

Kent - Palace & Main
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Bjork - Joga
Scott Walker - Seventh Seal
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook

Classical

Franz Liszt - Danse Macabre
Rachmaninoff - Prelude In G Major
Elend - The Luciferian Revolution
Henryk Gorecki - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile
Vivaldi - Autumn

Electronica/Ambient (I'm adding this)

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Ulver - Let The Children Go
Justice - Stress
Starofash - Beautiful As Torment
Coil - Chaostrophy

Other (There are other genres outside of these)

Dead Can Dance - In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The One-Eyed Man Is King
Scott Walker - Farmer In The City
Current 93 - Passenger Aleph In Name
David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours
Peccatum - Parasite My Heart

Rock

House of the Rising Sun ~ The Animals


All Along the Watchtower ~ Jimi Hendrix


Lightening Crashes ~ LIVE


Paint It, Black ~ The Rolling Stones


Dead Souls ~ Nine Inch Nails

Top 5s At the moment..

Rock:
NIN-Right where it belongs

Slipknot pt.2

TOOL-Parabola

Deftones w/Maynard-Passenger


Country:
Dwight Yokam-If there was a way

Garth Brooks-Callin baton rouge

Sawyer Brown-The race is on

Travis tritt-Best of intentions

Tim McGraw-My best friend


Rap/hip hop:
Eminem,obi trice,dmx-Go to sleep

Joe budden-Walk with me

Petey Pablo-Lets Roc

Cypris Hill-trouble

Dmx-Ruff Ryder's anthem

Rock

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "I Should Have Known It" (though you could insert any Petty song here, I just chose this because it's new and I'm obsessed with it)


Fleetwood Mac, "Go Insane" (actually this is a live version of a Lindsey Buckingham solo song, from the band's reunion album The Dance)


Eric Clapton, "Run Back To Your Side" (another one I love almost universally. This is a new song that I'm addicted to)


Bob Seger, "Wait For Me" (any of his songs would do as well)


Warren Zevon, "Prison Grove" (any of his songs would do as well, but I've been hooked on this one recently)


Blues (though much of this is blues rock rather than straight up blues)

Jonny Lang "Walking Away" (though really anything from Wander This World, that album is amazing)


Cream, "Sunshine of Your Love"


Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, "Need Your Love So Bad"


Samuel L. Jackson's "Stack O Lee" from Black Snake Moan


Alternative (Not sure how this is even defined, but whatever)

Depeche Mode, "Enjoy the Silence"


Stabbing Westward, "Shame"


Nirvana, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"


Live, "Lakini's Juice" (Also love everything they've done, but I've been hooked on this one recently)


Modest Mouse, "Float On"


Country (can't find videos, so just listing them)

Dwight Yoakam "Thinking About Leaving"
Bekka & Billy "Better Days"
Montgomery Gentry "Lonely and Gone"
Little Big Town with Lindsey Buckingham (Crossroads special) "Bring It On Home"
Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

Pop

George Michael "Careless Whisper"


George Michael "Too Funky"


Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You"


Berlin, "Take My Breath Away"


Savage Garden, "Truly Madly Deeply"


Rap/Hip Hop

Black Eyed Peas, "Where Is The Love"


Eminem, "Lose Yourself"


Everlast, "What It's Like" (probably doesn't belong here, but whatever)

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I had a very hard time deciding on the 4th and 5th ones I posted under Rock... and have thought about editing my choices several times so I could add this one because I love the words so much... so, doesn't matter to me which category you put it under... cool choice...

Alrighty. List changes daily, and as I'm not too familiar with some of these genres, I'll make a list of the ones I consider genres. One song per artist

Rock:
A Day in the Life by The Beatles
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
Hotel California by Eagles

Metal:
Master of Puppets by Metallica
The Leper Affinity by Opeth
The Czar by Mastodon
March of Mephisto by Kamelot
King of Those Who Know by Cynic

Alt Rock:
There, There by Radiohead
Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta
Art is Hard by Cursive
The Mob Goes Wild by Clutch
Limousine by Brand New

Indie:
Rebellion (Lies) by Arcade Fire
Mistaken for Strangers by The National
Summertime Clothes by Animal Collective
I Summon You by Spoon
A More Perfect Union by Titus Andronicus

Folk:
Alameda by Elliott Smith
Oh, Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel
This Year by The Mountain Goats
Skinny Love by Bon Iver
Love Ire & Song by Frank Turner

(indie) Pop:
All the Pretty Girls by fun.
New Slang by The Shins
Sun Hands by Local Natives
Champagne Supernova by Oasis
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

I don't know much classical and jazz, and I really hate rap and country

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Yeah I love that song. I struggled with where to put it. I'd already booted Live to the "Alternative" section to make room for all the artists I posted and I'd already had to omit Stone Temple Pilots' "Big Bang Baby" from "Alternative" to make room for Live. So I figured I'd stick it in Rap/Hip Hop because that's where Everlast's roots are and much of the rest of the album is more in line with that genre, even though the song itself is more rock. Plus I was struggling to come up with anything to put there.

I'm not familiar with most of your choices, but major plus rep for these two.

Thanks

A lot of the other stuff is more indie/alternative, which is pretty much what I listen to. I generally despise everything on the radio these days, however there's an entire world of alternative and indie music that the average person never gets to hear unless they go looking for it

Country

I'm not the biggest country fan but I do like these...


Ring of Fire ~ Johnny Cash


Seminole Wind ~ John Anderson


Ghost Riders in the Sky ~ The Highwaymen


Let it Go ~ Tim McGraw


The Dance ~ Garth Brooks



And.... I'm gonna add this category.... yeah, yeah, I'm cheating just a tad but wasn't sure where any of these songs would fit into any of the listed categories... so...

Native American

Ghost Dance ~ Robbie Robertson


Yeha Noha ~ Sacred Spirit featuring Cree Elder Kee Chee Jake


Ly o Lay Ale Loya ~ Sacred Spirit


Cherokee Morning Song ~ Rita Coolidge and Robbie Robertson


Mahk Jchi ~ Ulali