musicians that are impossible to tie down to one genre

[Laserface]

prince
primal scream


those are the first two that pop in my head.

[Lyman Zerga]

linkin park!

[RobMoney$]

Beastie Boys?

[kleptomaniac]

Beastie Boys?

:)(y)

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

prince? really?!? :)

[cosmo105]

bjork

[Audio.]

I'm not sure of Boards of Cananda and Amon Tobin

[HEIRESS]

zappa

[Documad]

I'd say Beck because I put his CDs into various genres on itunes.

I made Beastie Boys their own genre. I called it "Beastie Boys."

[mickill]

Prince definitely.

If you include Zappa, then you'd have to say artists like Bowie or The Stones, who've all dabbleded heavily in various genres of music. But I don't think anyone classifies them as anything other than rock. Which is how I think of Zappa or Beefheart or any of those guys. That or I'm misinterpreting the topic here.

Ween, perhaps.

[SobaViolence]

prince? really?!? :)

he's over hyped...

[abcdefz]

Costello, maybe. Though he kind of goes from genre to genre rather than sort of defying genres.

Rickie Lee Jones, in the early days, sorta. Really had that jazz/R&B/art song thing going.

Miles Davis, for a while. Is it funk? Is it jazz?

[Auton]

he's over hyped...

i will stab you in the heart.

[DroppinScience]

I'd say Joe Strummer/The Clash. Well, I guess (in particular) The Clash were clearly defined as punk, but they incorporated so much more (dub, reggae, rockabilly, etc.), and especially kudos to Strummer's solo career which had lots of dabbling in world music.

[Jitters]

I guess (in particular) The Clash were clearly defined as punk, but they incorporated so much more (dub, reggae, rockabilly, etc.)

Clash always had the experimentation down (y)

[Laserface]

i agree with the beasties, bjork, and definately beck. probably beck moreso than anyone else, actually.

i'm surprised no one else mentioned primal scream. they did cock rock, house, electrical, punk (sometimes), psychadelic, gospel

[Drederick Tatum]

well, you mentioned them.

[Laserface]

well, you mentioned them.

part of the reason i post shit on here is so people will agree with me and reaffirm my opinions.

[AceFace]

listening to Girl Talk right now and i'd say this would be really hard to put into a genre. i love it though!

[g-mile7]

part of the reason i post shit on here is so people will agree with me and reaffirm my opinions.

well, at least you're honest

[DroppinScience]

Come to think of it, it's surprising that Mike Patton isn't mentioned yet. If you look at all his bands/projects (Faith No More, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, etc.), the guy is all over the map.

[Laserface]

well, at least you're honest

i don't see what's so shameful about it. it's not that i'm doubting whether my taste in music rules or not... i just want to see if anybody else thinks the same

[Laserface]

listening to Girl Talk right now and i'd say this would be really hard to put into a genre. i love it though!

DJ shit doesn't count. otherwise, yeah girl talk is pretty all over the place

[AceFace]

ahh. didn't know that was the rule.

also with the mike patton stuff. Mr. Bungle is the weirdest shit i've ever heard. that's the most uncategorizable (i think i just made up a word!) stuff evah!

[Planetary]

roy orbison, dr. dre

[Lex Diamonds]

Chuck Berry, Pavarotti.

[Laserface]

roy orbison, dr. dre

i don't know about roy orbison, but not really dr. dre. most of his shit is something between funk and bouncy pop music. true, his sound on NWA, and both his solo albums sound different than each other, but they all still fall roughly in the same genre.

[Planetary]

i was joking, but dre is hip-hop through and through.

[abcdefz]

I'd say Joe Strummer/The Clash. Well, I guess (in particular) The Clash were clearly defined as punk, but they incorporated so much more (dub, reggae, rockabilly, etc.), and especially kudos to Strummer's solo career which had lots of dabbling in world music.


I think probably from Sandinista! on, they were undefinable. Not that they couldn't play reggae well, but stuff like "Time is Tight" was still
sort of a rock or punk band playing reggae, you know? But I think those weeks of New York sessions was when they really finally got past
being sort of reined in by "punk."

[Whatitis]

Sublime

Primus

Gorillaz

[banzai]

the residents

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pfff I dunno...Dj Shadow:confused:

[silence7]

They Might Be Giants
Devo
Beck
David Bowie