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Who Is The Face Of These Genres Of Music?

Discussion in 'Music to Your Ears' started by JoesTele, Sep 9, 2020.

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    JoesTele

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    Can only pick one. Name a genre and then name the face of that genre.
    Examples:

    Rock and Roll - Elvis
    Reggae - Bob Marley
    Alternative - Kurt Cobain
    Punk - Sid Vicious

    New Wave - ?
    Country - Johnny Cash
    Goth - Siouxsie Sioux
    Pop - ABBA (have to take all four of them)

    Heavy Metal - Rob Halford
    Jazz - Miles
    Disco - Robin Gibb (yes, him, and not Donna Summer)
    Brit Pop - Liam Gallagher
    Glam - Marc Bolan (not Bowie)

    Hair Bands - ?
    Funk - George Clinton
    Synth Pop - Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode singer)
    Soul - James Brown
    Rock-A-Billy - Brian Setzer (Yes, Setzer. I'd say Gene Vincent or Eddie Cochran, but who the heck knows what their faces look like?)

    You can use those genres (just copy and paste) or offer some of your own, but tell us who is the face of such and such a genre?

    (I am stumped on New Wave. I was going to say that dweeby looking guy who played keyboards for The Cars. But can you come up with anybody else?)

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    Bluegrass-Bill Monroe
    Country-Carter Family
     
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    thechad

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    David Byrne of the talking heads or Elvis Costello for new wave?
     
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    wacolo

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    Someone mentions new wave this is the first thing that pops in my head.

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    Folk - Woody Guthrie
     
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    Whoa - New Wave is e-x-p-a-n-s-i-v-e.

    Peter Gabriel?

    Sting?
     
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    Heavy Metal needs to be Ozzy.

    A hard one is for 80s glam rock. You can pick anyone. Bon Jovi? Dee Snider? Bret Michaels? Vince Neal?
     
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    JoesTele

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    Yes! That's it.
     
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    JoesTele

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    I thought of Ozzy, but I think Halford with his attire and his poses on stage really becomes the face of the genre. Ozzy was overweight, plodded around on stage, showed no POWER. Halford went over the top with the leather and fist pumping.

    Hair bands? Hmm, tough one. John Bon Jovi didn't look the hair band part for very long, Dee Snider was more comic book rock, Bret Michaels or Vince Neal possibly, but both of those guys dabbled way too much into Glam. Maybe the lead singer of Warrant, Jamie something is the face of hair bands.
     
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    Ian Anderson for Heavy Metal!

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    New Wave - Adam Ant
    Country - Merle Haggard
    Funk - James Brown
    Heavy Metal - John Bonham
    Hair Bands - (young) Axl Rose
    Synth Pop - Howard Jones
    Soul - Aretha Franklin and/or Otis Redding
    Rock-A-Billy - Eddie Cochran

    Surf - Dick Dale
    Hard Rock - Brian Johnson
    Prog Rock - Neil Peart
     
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    Hair band = Poison
     
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    New Wave...Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo). Whip It.
     
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    Neo-classical: Angry Momstain

    New Wave: Creepy Wang Chung Guy

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    Rock and Roll - Chuck Berry
    Reggae - Bob Marley
    Grunge - Eddie Vedder
    Punk - Johnny Rotten

    New Wave - Debbie Harry
    Country - Hank Williams
    Goth - Peter Murphy
    Pop - The Beatles

    Heavy Metal - Ozzy Osbourne
    Jazz - Louis Armstrong
    Disco - Donna Summer
    Brit Pop - nobody
    Glam - David Bowie

    Hair Bands - nobody
    Funk - Sly Stone
    Synth Pop - Prince
    Soul - Otis Redding
    Rock-A-Billy - Gene Vincent (You are out of your mind; he has one of the most immediately identifiable faces in rock-n-roll.)
     
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    If you think The Beatles were Pop, then you probably think ABBA was rock.

    Glam is Marc Bolan.

    Disco - more people would picture Barry Gibb and his hairy chest than Donna Summer and her flat chest.

    Rock-A-Billy - it's Setzer by a mile. Once again, if Gene Vincent were alive and walked into anybody's house, they'd call the cops. If Setzer walked in, they'd ask for an autograph.

    I'll give you Louie for Jazz and Sly for funk. But outside of those two, you were wrong about everything.
     
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    You're wrong.

    Halford never bit the head off of anything.

    Ozzy FTW!
     
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    Classical- Beethoven
    Rock and Roll - Elvis
    Reggae - Marley
    Punk - Rotten
    Dutch Masters- Rembrandt
    Fun Jazz - Louis Armstrong
    Disapproving-of-my-Lack-of-Dedication-to-the-Craft-of-Music Jazz: Wynton Marsalis
    Blues- BB King
    Country - Dolly Parton
    Sinatra and Friends- Frank Sinatra
    70s Piano-Muppet Rock- Elton John
    Pre-1991-when-Nirvana-messed-up-the-pop-station-situation Pop- Michael Jackson
    Post-1991-when-Nirvana-messed-up-the-pop-station-situation Pop- Beyonce
    Radio Metal - Gene Simmons
    Metal Metal - James Hetfield
    Blues Rock- ZZ Top
    Gangsta- Chuck D
    College- Michael Stipe
    Horror Elvis- Glen Danzig
    Goth - The Cure guy's hair
    Industrial- Al Jourgensen (Fine, it's Trent Reznor but if there was any justice in the world it would be Al Jourgensen)
    Celtic Drinking Punk- Shane MacGowan
    God-Awful 90s Blah Rock- Hootie
    Ska punk- Bradley Nowell
    Children's- Barney the Dinosaur
    Oh ****- Marilyn Manson
    Crunk- Andre 3000
    Rave- Deadmau5
     
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    Not a singer...but THIS picture would say "Disco" anywhere in the world....
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    Don't know if there's a genre called "The Party's Over LEAVE"...but this would be my choice.
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    When we were in college, my friends & I actually used to blast "Two Virgins" to get people to leave the house when the party was over.
    It always worked.
     
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