Your top 3 genres of music and your top three artists in each of those genres?

You have to be specific as well. You can't use a common genre name. You have to use your favorite sub-genre.

Okay, mine are as follows:

1.Progressive Metal

Artists:

1.Cynic

2.Opeth

3.Between The Buried And Me

2.Technical Death Metal:

Artists:

1.Cryptopsy(old)

2.The Faceless

3.Necrophagist

3.Alternative hip-hop

Artists

1.Kero One

2.Kanye West

3.Mos Def

Shoegazer:

1. My Bloody Valentine
2. Ride
3. Slowdive

Indie/Alternative:

1. Interpol
2. The Arcade Fire
3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Post-Punk:

1. Joy Division
2. Smiths
3. The Cure

Symphonic metal:

Nightwish

Apocalyptica

Kamelot

Power Metal:

Blind Guardian

Angra

Falconer

Orchestral (I don't know how you'd classify it):

Globus/Immediate Music

Two Steps From Hell

Future World Music

As per the O.P. I'm going to assume that subgenres can be mentioned here.

Doom Metal

1. Agalloch
2. Draconian
3. My Dying Bride

Symphonic Metal

1. Kamelot
2. Epica
3. Within Temptation (1999 and before period)

Death/Technical Death Metal

1. Morbid Angel
2. Bloodbath
3. Origin

Orchestral (I don't know how you'd classify it):

Globus/Immediate Music

Two Steps From Hell

Future World Music

bangell99

That genre is referred to as incidental music or film score symphony.

1. Late Romantic symphonic music

a) Johannes Brahms

b) Gustav Mahler

c) Samuel Barber

2. Lieder

a) Richard Strauss

b) Pyotr Tchaikovsky

c) Sergei Rachmaninoff

3. Romantic chamber music

a) Johannes Brhams

b) Antonin Dvorak

c) Caesar Franck

Honorable mention to Romantic solo piano music with Brahms, Frederic Chopin, and late Franz Schubert or Beethoven being my favourites.

Hip-Hop:
1. Outkast
2. Biggie
3. Jay-Z

Soul/Funk:
1. Stevie Wonder
2. Sly & the Family Stone
3. Prince

Jazz:
1. Wes Montgomery
2. Miles Davis
3. John Coltrane

2.Technical Death Metal:

Artists:

2.The Faceless

3.Necrophagist

airg6

Alt Rock:

Kazzer

Blur

Red Hot Chili Peppers

House:

David Vendetta

Mylo

Booka Shade

Sync Pop:

Lots, lots here...

Spanish Rock:
Mana
Gustavo Cerati
Zoe

Spanish Pop:
Alicastro
Juanes
Miranda!

Rock:
The Killers
Paramore
Arctic Monkeys

Hip-Hop:
Binary Star
Method Man
Kanye West

Indie Rock

1.The Strokes

2.Grizzly Bear

3.Intetpol or Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Alternative

1.Radiohead

2.Beck

3. Nirvana

Hip-Hop

1.Mos Def

2.Eminem

3.Kanye West

Random Genre bonus top 3!

1.Nine Inch Nails

2.Jay-Z

3. Blink 182

Death Metal: Gorguts Demilich Immolation Black Metal: Deathspell Omega Summoning Peste Noire NecroKvltMuffin

Alternative: The Killers, Muse, The Strokes

Metal: Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Opeth

I can't narrow it down to just 3 genres...

electronica
- aphex twin
- squarepusher
- plaid

ambient
- future sound of london
- global communication
- biosphere

drum 'n bass
- goldie
- roni size
- adam f

jpop
- morning musume
- utada hikaru
- mr. children

alternative
- bjork
- flying lotus
- spinvis

deephouse/club
- koze
- azari & III
- nathan fake

Rock:

1. Matchbox 20

2. Goo Goo Dolls

3. Creed

Country:

1. Faith Hill

2. LeAnn Rimes

3. Martina McBride

Shoegazer:

1. My Bloody Valentine
2. Ride
3. Slowdive

Indie/Alternative:

1. Interpol
2. The Arcade Fire
3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Post-Punk:

1. Joy Division
2. Smiths
3. The Cure

Engrish_Major

Oooo you like the old 80's/early 90's indie music? I loved that era – I saw a number of bands at that time such as ride and MBV. There are some good songs that have been lost in the midst of time over the years. I believe an 80's indie resurgence is what's needed…

Oooo you like the old 80's/early 90's indie music? I loved that era – I saw a number of bands at that time such as ride and MBV. There are some good songs that have been lost in the midst of time over the years. I believe an 80's indie resurgence is what's needed…

1. Rap

1. Eminem

2. Jay-Z

3. Drake

2. Rock

1. Creed

2. Led Zepplin

3. Def Lepard

3. Techno

1. Justice

2. Matrix and Futurebound

3. Daft Punk

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Oooo you like the old 80's/early 90's indie music? I loved that era – I saw a number of bands at that time such as ride and MBV. There are some good songs that have been lost in the midst of time over the years. I believe an 80's indie resurgence is what's needed…

Engrish_Major

Thanks for the heads up! I'll go forth and wrap my ears around your suggestions – always intrigued by some new sounds…

Rock:

1. Matchbox 20

2. Goo Goo Dolls

3. Creed

Country:

1. Faith Hill

2. LeAnn Rimes

3. Martina McBride

CF3689

Metal: 1. Opeth

2. Gorguts

3. Strapping Young Lad

Jazz:

1. John Coltrane

2. Cannonball Adderley

3. Miles Davis

Soul/R&B

1. Stevie Wonder

2. Otis Redding

3. Marvin Gaye

Progressive:

1. Rush
2. Pink Floyd
3. Dream Theater

Alternative:

1. NIN
2. Radiohead
3. Alice in Chains

Rock:

1. U2
2. Jeff Buckley
3. The Police

[QUOTE="CF3689"]

Rock:

1. Matchbox 20

2. Goo Goo Dolls

3. Creed

Country:

1. Faith Hill

2. LeAnn Rimes

3. Martina McBride

MasterBolt360

Awsome! :D

*high fives back*

Black Metal

1. Immortal

2. Behemoth

3. Satyricon

Thrash Metal

1, Megadeth

2, Kreator

3. Sodom

Progressive Metal

1. Devin Townsend

2. Nevermore

3. Strapping Young Lad

instruemental:

1: The Black Mages

2: Nobuo Uematsu

3: Takeharu Ishimoto

Alt Rock: (I guess these fall under it...)

1: Linkin Park

2: Green Day

3: three days grace (that's a distant third btw)

Rock:

1: Foo Fighters

2: The Who

3: U2

*equips flame shield lvl 5*

Folk/Pagan Metal: Moonsorrow, Falkenbach, Finntroll

Black Metal: Gorgoroth, Burzum, Windir

Viking/Anglo-Saxon Metal: Forefather, Bathory, Manegarm

Punk-pop (*gets ready for the insults*)

Blink-182

Sum 41

All Time Low

Metal (many sub-genres)

Bring Me the Horizon

Devil Wears Prada

Children Of Bodom

Post-Hardcore

Silverstein

Story Of The Year

ESCAPE THE FATE

A. Heavy Metal

1. Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden

3. Judas Priest

B. Death Metal

1. Amon Amarth

2. Bolt Thrower

3. Ensiferum

C. Symphonic Metal

1. Nightwish

2. Edenbridge

3. Kamelot (technically symphonic power metal)

1. Late Romantic symphonic music

a) Johannes Brahms

b) Gustav Mahler

c) Samuel Barber

2. Lieder

a) Richard Strauss

b) Pyotr Tchaikovsky

c) Sergei Rachmaninoff

3. Romantic chamber music

a) Johannes Brhams

b) Antonin Dvorak

c) Caesar Franck

Honorable mention to Romantic solo piano music with Brahms, Frederic Chopin, and late Franz Schubert or Beethoven being my favourites.

pianist

You, sir, have very good musical taste.

Progressive Rock
-Pink Floyd
-The Mars Volta
-King Crimson or Van Der Graff Generator.

Post Hardcore
-At The Drive-In
-Glassjaw
-Fugazi or Quicksand

Death Metal
-Death
-Suffocation
-Immolation or Vital Remains

jaydough,is that a avatar of cedric?

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

-Guns N' Roses

-Led Zeppelin

-Metallica

-Rage Against the Machine

Reggae/Ska

-Bob Marley

-Sublime

-Slightly Stoopid

Hip-Hop

-Eminem

-Tupac

-Biggie Smallz

is that a avatar of cedric?

tab132

Yep. jaydough

[QUOTE="jaydough"] Yep. tab132

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