genre extremes in your cd collection

It's always interesting to see the range of music genres that rockers and metalheads listen to. I started out as a very stubborn AC/DC fan who felt unfortable when he first heard KISS' "Unholy" (it sounded to satanic and evil to me at the time). But, I developed broader tastes. Now, (and compared to a lot of the members on this forum, my collection is tiny) I have a cd collection of over 500 albums ranging from Eagles, Oasis, Clapton, etc (softer) to Slayer and Pantera (well, you know).

What are your genre extremes in your collection?

I think the most drastic genre clash I have in my collection is how my Behemoth "Demigod" album sits next to my Curtis Mayfield "Superfly" on my CD shelf. Black/terror metal next to 60's funk, Wow. Variety is the spice of life.

Just looking at the "E" section, I see Entombed right next to Enya. But I'm not mister eclectic like some people here. The three largest sections in my collection (by far) are Psych/Acid rock, Hard Rock, and Melodic/Power metal.

variety: heavy metal (iron maiden), thrash metal (anthrax), death metal (carcass), rap-metal (rage against the machine), metal-rap (judgment night soundtrack), and baloney metal.

just kidding! i like lots of kinds of music. there's something to like/learn from in every genre. some examples in my collection:

-classical (nigel kennedy)
-jazz (django reinhardt, john coltrane)
-country (randy travis, johnny cash)
-punk rock (black flag, bad brains, bad religion, minor threat, the clash)
-what used to be known as alternative before the 90's killed that term (fugazi, pavement, guided by voices)
-buttloads of canadian indie rock (destroyer, sloan, new pornographers, hayden).

metal is just one of many tastes, and really not the dominant one!

From 80s disco, trough AOR/MHR/Heavy/Speed/Thrash/very few doom and black to some selected 90s death metal

I have several extremes but the first one off the top of my head is Debbie Gibson and Deicide. My brain loves both.

Bruce Hornsby to Ministry
Elton John to KMFDM
Sade to Rancid
Indigo Girls to Korpiklaani

The Police to Possessed

Loreena McKenitt to Sentenced
Blackmore's Night to Megadeth

I put my iPod on shuffle and spun through it a bit. What came up:

The Beatles
Mithotyn
The Eric Gales Band
Rainbow
Enslaved
Hank Williams
Symphony X
Voivod
The Lonesome River Band
Don Gibson
Dokken
Alison Krauss
Annie Lennox
W.A.S.P.
Gene Pitney
Danko Jones
Tommy Dorsey
Dio
Frost Like Ashes
Dwight Yoakam
Elvis Presley
Southern Culture On The Skids
They Might Be Giants
Vengeance Rising
(And a bunch of other stuff I doubt anyone here has heard of)

"Unholy" is my favorite Kiss song!

My tastes are extreme. I can listen to Ani Difranco and Edge Of Sanity back to back. How about a quick shuffle on my MP3 player. These are the ten songs that pop up:

Before The Dawn - Vengeance (gothic doom-death)
Kottonmouth Kings - Leave Us Alone (rap)
The Gathering - Black Light District (atmospheric rock)
Big B - Your Friends (rap)
Rehab - Sittin' At A Bar 2006 (rap)
Iced Earth - A Charge To Keep (power metal)
Warren Haynes - Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye (rock/blues)
Therapy? - Denim Demon (alt-rock)
Demons & Wizards - The Gunslinger (power metal)
Charlotte Martin - Melissa (female vocals/piano)

Quite a mix.

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The Eric Gales Band

Wow, I thought I was the only one that owned anything by these guys! I saw them before they had a record deal at The New Daisy in Memphis back around 1990 or so. Tore the roof off!

tohostudios wrote:

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The Eric Gales Band

Wow, I thought I was the only one that owned anything by these guys! I saw them before they had a record deal at The New Daisy in Memphis back around 1990 or so. Tore the roof off!

They were a great band. And Eric Gales was pretty young to be so amazing.

And as usual, because he was a black guitar player, he got tagged as the next Jimi Hendrix. Same thing happened to Jon Butcher.

Out of curiosity, I looked Eric Gales Band up on Amazon. I didn't know they had an album out last year. I have the S/T, Picture of a Thousand Faces and That's What I Am. Didn't know this Psychadelic Underground even came out.

Ordered it!

tohostudios wrote:

And as usual, because he was a black guitar player, he got tagged as the next Jimi Hendrix.

In his case I think it was more than just his skin color. He made his guitar sound like a living thing.

Look, we've hijacked this thread. :geek:

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Look, we've hijacked this thread.

I'm a notorious "threadjacker".

Alabama to Vengeance

ParanoidTime wrote:

variety:
-jazz (django reinhardt, john coltrane)

Nice dude, I love Django Reinhardt.

I'm pretty much a metal purist. Some Journey and Styx is about as mellow as it gets. I can listen to Johnny Cash and Waylon ok and that's where the roads meet musically with my wife and I. Then it's almost any form of metal for me.
Wait, I do like Roxy Music but it serves a specific purpose.

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Wait, I do like Roxy Music but it serves a specific purpose.

Same purpose Sade serves.

i go from hidria spacefolk to bm like horde and lots in between

Alex

Only thing I have in my CD collection that I'm sure most people would say is out of the norm for me is Journey - Frontiers.

My "Rocky Horror" soundtrack CD and two discs of music from "The Simpsons" kinda stick out like sore thumbs from the rest of my collection.

Anyone else have this one in your music collections?


HA!

I win.