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* Similar to the other one, the only rappers that most people will be able to name are {{Jay-Z}}, {{Eminem}} and possibly KanyeWest.
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** Latin American/Hyspanic instruments include maracas, guitars and castanets. They all [[{{Spexico}} originate from the same culture.]]
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*** In a 2013 review of the album ''Twenty-Four Seven'' by {{Nickelodeon}} boy band BigTimeRush, the band was erroneously referred to as a "Disney pop" band.
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* Mocked in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': "We got both kinds. We got country *and* western!"
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* There is only one reggae artist, Music/BobMarley. And everything with a reggae beat will have been written by him. For that matter, reggae is usually portrayed as being the ''only'' genre of music in the Caribbean. Apparently, ChutneyMusic, soca, and calypso don't exist in fictional settings.
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* Except perhaps for Music/BlackSabbath and Music/{{Metallica}}, the only Music/HeavyMetal that people know of or remember is HairMetal, and it's all from TheEighties. Try finding any non-metal fans who've seriously listened to Rainbow. Or Music/JudasPriest. Or Music/{{Motorhead}}. Or Music/IronMaiden. Or Slayer. Or Pantera (except for the song "Walk", which just about everybody's heard). Or Megadeth (except for "Symphony Of Destruction"). Or Cradle of Filth. DeepPurple - the group that practically ''invented'' metal - will get mentioned, but only for "Smoke on the Water" (a.k.a. "that really dumb song that any mediocre guitarist can play"). Even among hair bands, there are examples (when's the last time you heard anybody mention Dokken?).
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* Pop divas? Music/Madonna, Music/BritneySpears (who will be known only for erratic behavior in media produced after 2005), Music/ChristinaAguilera, and Music/Beyoncé. Whoever is super-popular at the moment will get mentioned too, such as Music/HilaryDuff if the work was made in the mid-2000s.
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* Pop divas? Music/Madonna, Madonna, Music/BritneySpears (who will be known only for erratic behavior in media produced after 2005), Music/ChristinaAguilera, and Music/Beyoncé.Beyoncé. Whoever is super-popular at the moment will get mentioned too, such as Music/HilaryDuff if the work was made in the mid-2000s.
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* Pop divas? Music/Madonna, Music/BritneySpears (who will be known only for erratic behavior in media produced after 2005), Music/ChristinaAguilera, and Music/Beyoncé. Whoever is super-popular at the moment will get mentioned too, such as Music/HilaryDuff if the work was made in the mid-2000s.
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* Because they are promoted heavily on Radio Disney, Music/JustinBieber, Cody Simpson, Willow Smith ([[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's hair-whipping daughter]]) and Music/TaylorSwift are considered Disney stars as well, though they record for different labels.
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** You know it from "Tora-adora, don't spit on the [[PainfulRhyme floor-a]]" or maybe "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be" (which is actually from ''{{Hamlet}}'', by way of ''GilligansIsland'').
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** Southern rock acts from the '70s - Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Eagles - often get lumped in with the country acts, even though they were inspired by diverse styles of music.
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* The only Twisted Sister song people remember is "We're Not Gonna Take It". "I Wanna Rock" will ''sometimes'' get mentioned. The only people who remember "Burn in Hell" are either those who saw ''PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (and that was [[LighterAndSofter a considerably toned-down version]]) or have heard the Dimmu Borgir (a Norwegian extreme metal band) cover.
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* The only Twisted Sister song people remember is "We're Not Gonna Take It".It", mostly because it was the theme for ArnoldSchwarzenegger's successful campaign for governor of [[FunetikAksent "Colliefohnia"]] in 2003. "I Wanna Rock" will ''sometimes'' get mentioned. The only people who remember "Burn in Hell" are either those who saw ''PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (and that was [[LighterAndSofter a considerably toned-down version]]) or have heard the Dimmu Borgir (a Norwegian extreme metal band) cover.
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* According to millions of Baby Boomers (and Generation X'ers and Generation Y'ers), the only song Music/{{Kiss}} ever recorded was "Rock 'N' Roll All Nite." Which means you can forget about "Deuce," "Detroit Rock City" (although that one ''has'' resurged in popularity due to the 1999 movie of the same name), "Christine Sixteen," "I Was Made For Loving You," "I Love It Loud," "Lick It Up," "Heaven's On Fire," "Tears Are Falling," etc.
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** Most barely have any clue about the difference between thrash or death or speed or traditional metal genres.
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* Christian:
** All Christian music produced or sold is by Amy Grant. She is the only Christian musician in the world. Also, whenever Amy comes up she is usually the punchline to a joke, as if the entirety of artists in the genre (or the religion itself) can be represented in her. Add to this the only reason the mainstream audience even knows of Amy's existence is because she "crossed over" and released a few non-religious albums, which got play on Top 40 radio. To top it off, only Amy gets this kind of persecution for her origins -- few people know Sixpence None The Richer started out as a Christian band.
** Creed is another matter. After they broke out, every new band in Christian music became a Creed clone. Suffice to say, the whole genre went downhill from there.
** All Christian music produced or sold is by Amy Grant. She is the only Christian musician in the world. Also, whenever Amy comes up she is usually the punchline to a joke, as if the entirety of artists in the genre (or the religion itself) can be represented in her. Add to this the only reason the mainstream audience even knows of Amy's existence is because she "crossed over" and released a few non-religious albums, which got play on Top 40 radio. To top it off, only Amy gets this kind of persecution for her origins -- few people know Sixpence None The Richer started out as a Christian band.
** Creed is another matter. After they broke out, every new band in Christian music became a Creed clone. Suffice to say, the whole genre went downhill from there.
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** ''Moonlight Sonata'' might [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses pop up]] [[VideoGame/JetSetWilly here]] [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim and]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil there]]. Even then, it's only the first movement.
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* Music/MichaelJackson didn't do anything after TheEighties except be alarmingly weird. Even after his death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by the SeriousBusiness branch of his fanbase. (This caused trouble for the CirqueDuSoleil tribute show ''Theatre/MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; both professional reviewers and commenters at Ticketmaster.com complained about songs like "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" getting full production numbers while hits like "Billie Jean" and "Black or White" were squashed up against each other in medleys.)
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** But thanks to the promotion for VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2, now the only song by AC/DC anyone knows is "Back In Black." This was largely true beforehand as well, but the ad pushed the song to new heights, doing everything save bringing it to pop radio (which is possibly very well could have.)
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** Increasingly, NuMetal band LinkinPark is averting this treatment, but this is something of a double aversion in that the band relinquished the nu-metal labeled years ago.
** Most barely have any clue about the difference between thrash or death or speed or traditional metal genres.
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** Most barely have any clue about the difference between thrash or death or speed or traditional metal genres.
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* Music/MichaelJackson didn't do anything after TheEighties except be alarmingly weird. Even after his death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by the SeriousBusiness branch of his fanbase. (This caused trouble for the CirqueDuSoleil tribute show ''MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; both professional reviewers and commenters at Ticketmaster.com complained about songs like "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" getting full production numbers while hits like "Billie Jean" and "Black or White" were squashed up against each other in medleys.)
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* Music/MichaelJackson didn't do anything after TheEighties except be alarmingly weird. Even after his death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by the SeriousBusiness branch of his fanbase. (This caused trouble for the CirqueDuSoleil tribute show ''MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; ''Theatre/MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; both professional reviewers and commenters at Ticketmaster.com complained about songs like "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" getting full production numbers while hits like "Billie Jean" and "Black or White" were squashed up against each other in medleys.)
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MANY non-metal fans know who these bands are. The number that have really listened to them, however, its another story.
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** Which consists entirely of Uncle Drosselheimer's theme, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Russian Dance (the Chinese Dance too, if you're lucky).
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** For {{WWE}} fans, it's [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's]] old theme song.
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** For {{WWE}} Wrestling/{{WWE}} fans, it's [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's]] old theme song.
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* [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]
** If characters like listening to or playing classical music, he will be mentioned. In a world of classical music, this is ''the'' name to be dropped.
** ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'': A little night music is an easily recognizable melody. Quite an EarWorm.
** ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro,'' based on the sequel to the play Rossini's ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' was based on.
** That cheery-sounding coloratura aria from ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''. The one where the BigBad ''[[LyricalDissonance coerces her daughter to kill someone under threat of disowning her]].'' And named "Hell's vengeance roasts in my heart".
* [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]:
** Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Only the ''first four notes'' of the ''first movement'' of the Fifth Symphony. The first 8 notes, if they let it go on for an "interminably" long time.
** The last movement of ''The Ninth Symphony'', commonly known as the "OdeToJoy".
** ''Für Elise''. Nearly every music box has this pleasing tune. There was even a toy - a plastic iron - that would play this melody when children would iron with it.
** ''Moonlight Sonata'' might [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses pop up]] [[VideoGame/JetSetWilly here]] [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim and]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil there]]. Even then, it's only the first movement.
* [[Creator/JohannSebastianBach Bach]]
** Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major (only cello piece, and only the prelude)
** ''[[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D Minor]]'' (always played on a pipe organ) for vampires and other "creepy" things. Usually only the first few bars are played, and the not-so-creepy fugue is almost never played, though its association with the toccata means that sometimes, the fugue is used for "creepy" things. (Ironically, when a score was first put to the Creator/BelaLugosi ''{{Dracula}}'' movie, they used Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' instead.)
** "Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe"/"Jesus bleibet meine Freude", the sixth and tenth movements, respectively, of the cantata ''Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'' The melody of the two movements is better known as ''Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring''. The tempo is slower than what Bach intended, and the original German lyrics never appear, if any lyrics are used at all. The melody played is always an arrangement of the original melody.
* [[GeorgeFridericHandel Handel]]
** The "Hallelujah" chorus from the ''Messiah'' oratorio
** Rarely the ''Music for the Royal Fireworks'', often erroneously called part of the "Water Music" suites.
* Richard Strauss's ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' also known as that music from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and Wrestling/RicFlair's Entrance Music -- which is only about two minutes long, for all most people know of the piece.
* Richard Wagner.
** "Music/RideOfTheValkyries".
** Otherwise, the [[Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen opera cycle]] from which it comes appears only if "Viking" helmets are involved, usually ''without'' any of [[Creator/RichardWagner Wagner's]] music.
** For {{WWE}} fans, it's [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's]] old theme song.
** "Here Comes the Bride" from ''Lohengrin'' (always played as an instrumental tune, can be falsely credited as "(traditional)" in film credits.
* Edward Elgar only wrote "Pomp and Circumstance," a song that's only known for two things: First of all: graduation ceremonies. Second of all: [[Wrestling/RandySavage The Macho Man]]! OOOOH YEAHHH!!!
** Actually, it is one of several marches by Elgar called "Pomp and Circumstance".
** Thanks to Eric Emanuel Schmidt's play, the "Enigma Variations" are also not entirely unknown.
* Music/AntonioVivaldi
** The "Spring" concerto from ''The Four Seasons'' -- and only the initial ''Concerto Grosso'' section of its first movement.
* Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from his music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (opera by Bizet)
* ''Rigoletto'' (opera by Verdi)
** But only the song ''"La donna è Mobile"''.
* ''Pagliacci'' (the opera with the "crying clown", by Leoncavallo)
** Specifically the aria ''"Vesti la giubba"''.
* ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' (opera by Mozart)
** But more for the visuals (specifically the Commendatore's statue coming to life) than for the actual music.
* "Por una Cabeza" (tango)
* "La Cumparsita" (tango)
* The only tenor aria is "Nessun Dorma" from ''Turandot''
* The only mezzo-soprano aria is the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Habanera]]" from ''Carmen''
* The only baritone aria is ''Largo Al Factotum'' from ''The Barber of Seville''
* There are no altos, baritones, or basses in these operas; all singers are dignified tenors or temperamental sopranos, regardless of their actual vocal ranges.
* ''Theatre/SwanLake'' (ballet)
* ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (ballet)
** Which consists entirely of Uncle Drosselheimer's theme, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Russian Dance (the Chinese Dance too, if you're lucky).
* ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' (ballet)
* The only piano piece ever written is Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; what happened to No. 1 is as much a mystery as the first four versions of Chanel perfume.
** Its the classical version of ''TheEntertainer'' (AKA ''TheSting'')
* Debussy intended Clair de Lune as an ode to sparkly vampires, right?
** Nah, he obviously intended it as contemplative music for casino thieves. (See the end of 2001's ''Ocean's Eleven'' and the middle of ''Ocean's Thirteen''.)
* "O Fortuna" is the only part of ''Music/CarminaBurana'', and it exists only for OminousLatinChanting.
** Or [[MundaneMadeAwesome melodramatic sports or news montages]].
** And at that it's usually only the end that's used, which is impressive as the piece is less than 3 minutes long.
* Grieg's ''Peer Gynt Suite'' consists solely of "Morning" and [[ManicMiner "In the Hall of the Mountain King"]].
* Music/MauriceRavel only ever wrote the ''Bolero''.
* Rossini's "William Tell Overture". And even at that, people are unlikely to realize that the two best-known parts are part of the same piece of music. And the latter part is just as likely to be known as "Franchise/TheLoneRanger theme".
* Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, a.k.a. "that tune from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs.''".
* Creator/AaronCopland only did ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' and ''Rode''o (and then only the Hoe-Down part; y'know, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner". Dun dun dun.)
* Music/GeorgeGershwin either didn't write any classical music (only showtunes) or only wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" (and we only know that one because it's in airline commercials).
* In general, the "classical music canon" that average viewers can be expected to know only covers a little over 200 years of music, from the late Baroque period (starting around 1700) to the early 20th century. Good luck finding a non-aficionado who is familiar with medieval, Renaissance, early baroque music, or anything written in the last 60 years that isn't a film score or Philip Glass.
* Unfortunately, fiction can ignore most of the early 20th century in the musical development. No one wrote anything more adventurous than the Debussy and Ravel above; certainly not late Scriabin or the Second Viennese School. ''Maybe'' the audience can get Stravinsky, if they're lucky.
* The most hardcore music aficionados will tell you that the "true" classical period was from roughly 1750 to 1850. It's just that people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord tend to use the term]] to refer to any music from after the Renaissance and from before jazz (or ragtime, in the case of Americans).
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* Classical composers will usually be Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven, or Creator/JohannSebastianBach. If other composers are mentioned they are usually from the Romantic period (Chopin, Liszt, Wagner,...), but never from the 20th century. Music/IgorStravinsky is usually the only 20th century composer worth referencing.
* Jazz musicians consist of Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/DukeEllington, Music/CharlieParker, and Music/MilesDavis. Jazz singers will be either Music/BillieHoliday or EllaFitzgerald.
* Blues musicians will be Music/RobertJohnson, MuddyWaters, JohnLeeHooker, or B.B. King.
* Crooners are Music/FrankSinatra, Music/DeanMartin, or Music/BingCrosby. Tom Jones or TonyBennett might be thrown in there too.
* During the first half of the 20th century EnricoCaruso would regularly be namedropped as the most famous male opera singer. Near the end of the second half LucianoPavarotti is the most popular choice. If you are lucky the other two tenors, PlacidoDomingo and JoséCarreras might be mentioned as well. Female opera singers are even more obscure. MariaCallas is the one everyone knows; thanks to Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballé might ring a bell as well.
* All operas were apparently composed by either Music/GiuseppeVerdi, GioacchinoRossini, or Creator/RichardWagner.
* Name a chansonnier and they will either be EdithPiaf, Music/JacquesBrel, or GeorgesBrassens.
* There is only one reggae artist, Music/BobMarley. And everything with a reggae beat will have been written by him. For that matter, reggae is usually portrayed as being the ''only'' genre of music in the Caribbean. Apparently, ChutneyMusic, soca, and calypso don't exist in fictional settings.
* Punch "Music/WeirdAlYankovic" into a [=LimeWire=] search, and you're bound to find scores of parody songs with his name on them that [[MisattributedSong he didn't write]]. Apparently, people have never heard of Bob Rivers or Cledus T. Judd. It's particularly unfortunate when this happens with songs about subjects the artist it's attributed to would never touch. The fairly family-friendly artists have had their names attached to stuff they'd never have written in a million years.
* If you were a fan participant of modern ''a cappella'' (a musical style which is too cheap to buy instruments) at the dawn of the millennium, you were crippled by the ignorance of the user who did the first major file-sharing for the genre: he thought the only two bands were Brown University's Brown Derbies and [[WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Rockapella]]. Even songs by all-female groups were attributed to them, which is amusing seeing as how [[CrossDressingVoice both groups are all-male]].
* Among Canadian listeners, the Arrogant Worms get this a lot too (though still not as much as Weird Al). Again, often with stuff much racier or more offensive than the Worms themselves would ever do.
* On the same note, it seems that any goth or dark-themed music associated with goths is made by one of four artists, according to [=P2P=] networks: The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Anything female is attributed to Siouxsie; anything else to one of the other three (mostly Sisters). 'Cry Little Sister' from ''The Lost Boys'' has been attributed to the Sisters of Mercy. Movie about vampires = Must have been made by the Sisters of Mercy?
* There have only ever been two German bands making popular music: Music/{{Kraftwerk}} and Music/{{Rammstein}}. Music/{{Scorpions}} are fairly well-known, even in the USA, but not necessarily associated with Germany.
* A weird example is that a Dutch parody of ''[[GuiltyPleasures Barbie Girl]]'' is often attributed to Music/{{Rammstein}}, despite A) being sung in Dutch, not German, B) not being similar to their musical style (poppy music instead of metal), C) featuring a female vocalist, and D) Rammstein not being known for parodies (they've done lyrics and videos with parody content, but these are hardly their main claim to fame; and full-blown parodies of specific songs by other artists ''really'' aren't their thing).
* Any country music parody tends to get attributed to JeffFoxworthy, regardless of quality, theme, or voice. Simply because the one-off "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" was a hit, people apparently assume Foxworthy to be a singer. Hasn't anybody ever heard of Cledus T. Judd?
* In the 1970s UK, BillyConnolly would parody the only country music then known to your average Brit: TammyWynette singing about cheatin' men.
* All musical scores are by Music/DannyElfman, Music/JohnWilliams, Music/EnnioMorricone, Music/BernardHerrmann, NinoRota or Creator/HansZimmer. Granted, these guys have written a flipping TON of them, and often tutored all the others.
* You'd be forgiven if you think of Remote Control. There's a very high chance that composer is part of that gang being managed by Hans Zimmer.
* There's also an outside chance of it being James Newton Howard, or more recently, Michael Giacchino.
* Music/JerryGoldsmith is also a popular choice for misnaming.
* If anyone waxes poetic about a film composer being a "genius," they're talking about Music/BernardHerrmann.
* All Music/DannyElfman soundtracks are for Creator/TimBurton movies.
* Corollary: All anime soundtracks are by Music/YokoKanno.
* Corollary #2: All instrumental TV themes are by John Tesh.
* There's apparently only one band that did live performances of video game songs: The Minibosses. That is, if you believe filenames...
* Irish musician Enya, who does neo-Celtic new age music, will sometimes get credit for anything that vaguely resembles her work. Somewhat understandable for works by her sister Moya Breannan or her former band Clannad, but stranger when it's actually, say, Loreena [=McKennitt=], a Canadian musician who sounds nothing like her apart from working in more or less the same genre. Karl Jenkins Adeimus is attributed to her too.
* Any Irish-sounding DrunkenSong is credited to the Pogues. Of particular note on file-sharing services is ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Token Celtic Drinking Song]]'', which will never, ever, be found credited to the band Jimmy George.
* Ireland has only ever produced just two rock bands: U2 and Thin Lizzy (though U2 are ''much'' more likely to get a mention than Lizzy.) My Bloody Valentine, Horslips, The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Boomtown Rats and Ash apparently don't exist. (Though The Corrs and The Cranberries ''sometimes'' show up on the occasional rom-com soundtrack, ''maybe''.)
* To judge by oldies-station playlists (at least in the UK), the only song Soft Cell ever recorded was their cover of "Tainted Love". No playlist compiler has, it would seem, ever heard of "Bedsitter", "The Torch" or "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" amongst others. (Ironically, recent covers of ''Tainted Love'' are usually covers [[CoveredUp of the Soft Cell cover, rather than of the original]].)
* All {{nerdcore}} is by mc chris, even the stuff where the artist introduces himself. The worst part is mc chris doesn't even consider himself nerdcore.
* Apparently, some people believe ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was Music/PinkFloyd's only album. For double bonus amusement, ask them to name a Pink Floyd ''song''. It will be from "The Wall". Roger Waters will always be referred to as Pink Floyd in these conversations.
* The only songs Music/{{Queen}} have ever recorded are:
** "[[BohemianParody Bohemian Rhapsody]]"
** "We Will Rock You"
** "We Are the Champions"
** "Don't Stop Me Now" (Thanks to ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'')
** "Another One Bites The Dust"
** "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
** "Under Pressure" (It helps that it's a collaboration with Music/DavidBowie ''and'' was sampled by Music/VanillaIce)
* The only {{grindcore}} band in existence is Music/NapalmDeath.
* A popular joke on metal boards used to be: "You're a newbie to grindcore if the first band you can name is AnalCunt."
* The sketch "Uses of the Word ''Fuck''" will usually be attributed to Creator/MontyPython or Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
* The only progressive rock bands are Music/KingCrimson, Music/{{Yes}}, Music/{{Genesis}}, Music/PinkFloyd, and maybe JethroTull. And sometimes not even all of them - lots of people only know Genesis for their more pop-oriented 80s material and have no idea they ever did prog rock or had Peter Gabriel as a member. To a lesser extent, Yes and Tull sometimes gets the same treatment from people who only know the songs that show up on the radio. And King Crimson suffer a ''severe'' case of MainstreamObscurity - lots of people have heard the name and are vaguely aware that they're an influential band, few could name even one of their songs or albums.
* Good luck on anyone knowing any song by Chris de Burgh except "Lady in Red", his BlackSheepHit. Honourable mention goes to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' for referencing "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in at least two different episodes.
* Music/TheBeeGees are overshadowed by their disco era; relatively few people are aware of their Beatlesesque pop era from the '60s and early '70s, nor are very many people aware they began as teens playing an obscure-in-America musical genre called skiffle.
* Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are founding members of Music/FleetwoodMac.
* Most people associate New Wave music with a limited selection of music from the latter era of New Wave and the synthpop era. Not a lot of people know New Wave existed in 1975 - 76 or that it originated as a subgenre of punk rock. Or that a lot of punk rockers morphed into more conventional New Wave acts (cf. Classix Nouveaux, Lords of the New Church). New Wave itself had several substyles, and most of the best-remembered groups- The Knack, The Go-Gos, Cyndi Lauper, The Bangles; suspiciously almost all Los Angeles bands- were highly-commercial Power Pop acts who had little or no connection to the earlier ones who gave the movement its name. Some people believe the 4 groups only had like 2-3 songs each. Most of these people only know 1 song by The Knack. Part of the problem is that many of the original and/or most famous New Wave acts (The Cars, Dire Straits, Talking Heads) [[UnbuiltTrope didn't comfortably fit the stereotype]], as they performed music in a variety of styles and sometimes even genres. The Cars, for example, tend to be remembered for their '80s hits ("Shake It Up", etc.), but their career actually took off in the late '70s. Their first big hit was "Just What I Needed" - but since its synths aren't quite as [[{{Flanderization}} exaggerated]] as on later Cars songs, people can be surprised when they find out who it's by.
* Punk itself gets treated this way. Ask most people over the age of 30 or so to name the first punk band that comes to mind, and you'll probably get one of only five examples: TheRamones, TheSexPistols, TheClash (who weren't even purely punk rock), Blondie (who was barely punk at all), or GreenDay. Nobody remembers the Dictators. Or the Circle Jerks. Or Black Flag. Or...
* Except perhaps for BlackSabbath and {{Metallica}}, the only Music/HeavyMetal that people know of or remember is HairMetal, and it's all from TheEighties. Try finding any non-metal fans who've heard of Rainbow. Or JudasPriest. Or Motorhead. Or IronMaiden. Or Slayer. Or Pantera. Or System of a Down. Or Cradle of Filth. DeepPurple - the group that practically ''invented'' metal - will get mentioned, but only for "Smoke on the Water" (a.k.a. "that really dumb song that any mediocre guitarist can play"). Even among hair bands, there are examples (when's the last time you heard anybody mention Dokken?).
* There was only ever one Ultravox -- the one with Midge Ure as lead singer. Poor John Foxx. Likewise, there was only ever one Human League and that was after 2/3 of the original League left to form Heaven 17 (who some people may only recognize as the guys behind "Let Me Go") and Phil Oakey had to find a way of keeping the Human League going.
* It's a common tendency for people to say they "listen to everything" but mean only the (usually incredibly narrow) range of music that gets decent radio coverage in their area. Grill them for specifics, and watch them backpedal. "Rap? Opera? Bluegrass? Klezmer?" For many of them, there will be at least one form of music on that list whose ''existence'' they were unaware of.
* ''Website/TheOnion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-like-all-types-of-music,10945/ I Like All Types Of Music]]" is a mockery of small reference pools and general ignorance as it applied to music in the late 1990s.
* Mocked in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': "We got both kinds. We got country *and* western!"
* Military bands:
** Everything ever played by a military band is by John Philip Sousa.
** In Central Europe most military music is commonly associated with 'Germany' [[AllGermansAreNazis (and Nazis)]].
** If military music is introduced by [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an old man in rags saying "It's. . ."]], in which case it couldn't be Sousa, because that's a British show.
* Latin American music, as seen in American TV and movies:
** All Mexican music is mariachi.
** All non-Mexican Hispanic music is Salsa, which is played by Tito Puente.
** Brazilian music is that lady with the fruit hat (Carmen Miranda), and bossa nova, which is Stan Getz.
** [[TheElevatorFromIpanema that Tom Jobim song they use on elevators.]]
** Tango is a ballroom dance and some might know about its connection to Argentina and that its moves are explicitly based on sex.
** If the Gypsy Kings exist, then they are singing in Spanish.
** Latin American/Hyspanic instruments include maracas, guitars and castanets. They all [[{{Spexico}} originate from the same culture.]]
* Surf music with vocals has only ever been recorded by Music/TheBeachBoys. Including [[MisattributedSong "Surf City" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena"]]. When the early Nineties incarnation of Music/TheBeachBoys appeared on ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim referenced this trope by mentioning a number of car songs he incorrectly thought were performed by the Boys, only to have them respond with the proper artists. Strangely, one of the songs mentioned is the Rip Chords' "Hey Little Cobra" - and Bruce Johnston fails to mention that he in fact was a member of that group.
* According to pop or oldie radio stations, Nazareth have only ever made rock ballads. Ditto Music/{{Aerosmith}}, The Music/{{Scorpions}}, and Music/{{Metallica}}.
* If you look at many of the more commonplace [[TheEighties 1980s]] "various artists" compilations you'll find a rotating lineup of twenty-to-thirty songs, usually written around 1981-1986, that ''all'' of them will have a chunk of. "Jessie's Girl", "[[LandDownUnder Down Under]]", "The Safety Dance", "Come On Eileen", "[[Music/TearsForFears Everybody Wants To Rule The World]]", "[[DuranDuran Hungry Like The Wolf]]", "Somebody's Watching Me", "RockMeAmadeus", etc. Most of those songs are white HairMetal, ArenaRock or Music/NewWave pop, usually with an iconic video, and maybe 30% of them are {{one hit wonder}}s or novelty songs. Few dance, rap, country or R&B numbers will be included. Made worse by the fact that many major 1980s artists, including Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Music/{{Madonna}}, and GeorgeMichael refuse(d) to license their songs to such best-of's.
* The only Disney pop artists discussed outside of tween/teen media are Music/MileyCyrus (and [[ContractualPurity whatever minor scandal she's caught up in that month]]) and Music/TheJonasBrothers. And [[Music/DemiLovato the girl who]] [[NeverLiveItDown came back from having an eating disorder and self-harming]]. Maybe SelenaGomez too, at least for dating JustinBieber. Music/MirandaCosgrove is likely [[AllAnimationIsDisney still thought of]] as a Disney star, in spite of the fact she works for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}.
* Because they are promoted heavily on Radio Disney, Music/JustinBieber, Cody Simpson, Willow Smith ([[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's hair-whipping daughter]]) and Music/TaylorSwift are considered Disney stars as well, though they record for different labels.
* Often parodies of rappers (or the image that MoralGuardians have at least) will be a GangstaRap-type rapper from the hood who raps about bitches, hos, and money. They will ignore less stereotypical (and usually less mainstream) rappers such as TalibKweli, Common, Music/KidCudi, or Music/KanyeWest.
* According to millions of Baby Boomers (and Generation X'ers and Generation Y'ers), the only song Music/{{Kiss}} ever recorded was "Rock 'N' Roll All Nite." Which means you can forget about "Deuce," "Detroit Rock City" (although that one ''has'' resurged in popularity due to the 1999 movie of the same name), "Christine Sixteen," "I Was Made For Loving You," "I Love It Loud," "Lick It Up," "Heaven's On Fire," "Tears Are Falling," etc.
* The only Music/{{ACDC}} song is "You Shook Me All Night Long" (or maybe "Highway to Hell", if a work is dealing with the themes of Hell, violence, or rebellion). What's frustrating about this is that AC/DC rival the Rolling Stones for the title of most wildly popular rock band ''in the world'', and are continuing to release new material in their classic style. Yet almost no one can name any member of the band except for Angus Young (probably because [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic School Boys Rule]]). Somewhat {{justified|Trope}} as Angus' image is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_(1976_album) widely]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerage used]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_Up_Your_Video in]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballbreaker AC/DC's]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Made_Who album]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC_Live artwork]], more so than with the other band members, with either lead singer or as part of a group image. One might go so far as to almost call Angus the band's MetalBandMascot.
* The only Twisted Sister song people remember is "We're Not Gonna Take It". "I Wanna Rock" will ''sometimes'' get mentioned. The only people who remember "Burn in Hell" are either those who saw ''PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (and that was [[LighterAndSofter a considerably toned-down version]]) or have heard the Dimmu Borgir (a Norwegian extreme metal band) cover.
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Homer attends a Bachman-Turner Overdrive concert, demands to hear "Takin' Care of Business", and when they start playing it, yells for them to "Get to the 'workin' overtime' part!"
* The only popular {{electronic|Music}} artists are Music/DaftPunk, {{deadmau5}}, and, occasionally, Music/{{Skrillex}} and Music/{{Kraftwerk}}.
* The "World Music" sections of many music departments in mainstream America tend to be dominated by either African, Caribbean, or Celtic music. If European music is included, it's most likely polka (which is extraordinarily popular in Finland).
* Music/JethroTull seems to be affected by this very trope. As the public perception of the band, largely based on what radio stations and the media display, often emphasizes their harder-rocking material ("Aqualung", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Locomotive Breath", "Teacher"), and they won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album" for ''Crest Of A Knave'' in 1989, a more hard rock/heavy metal/classic rock crowd makes up much of the audience, who tends to have little patience for (or hoots and whistles loudly over, to bandleader Ian Anderson's annoyance) the group's more eclectic, softer, more delicate repertoire. Ian has often joked recently that a segment of Tull's audience sometimes sees Tull as "Music/DeepPurple with a flute". This has led Anderson to release his more experimental works, including a sequel to ''Thick As A Brick'', as a solo album with different musicians. His writing for Tull tends deliberately to be more hard-rocking and band-oriented, with more emphasis on Martin Barre's electric guitar playing.
* DavidBowie is another case of a long, diverse career that mainstream culture only scratches the surface of. The general public will recognize "Space Oddity", "Changes", "Rebel Rebel", "Fame", ""Heroes"", the aforementioned Queen collaboration "Under Pressure", "Let's Dance", and "Modern Love", largely due to frequent licensing for commercials and movie soundtracks. But that's only eight songs, recorded over 1969-1983, from a career that started in 1964 and encompasses (as of 2013's ''The Next Day'') 24 studio albums. Worse, several of them are [[IsntItIronic used without respect to their meanings]]. A good way to test a layperson's knowledge of Bowie is to ask them what Tin Machine was.[[hottip:Answer: A hard rock group he fronted over 1989-92 to escape the rut he felt trapped in post-''Let's Dance''.]] This is less of an issue in his native U.K., though even there attention is paid mostly to his GlamRock period (1971-74). Bowie's three late-1970s "Berlin" albums -- ''Low'', ''"Heroes"'', and ''Lodger'' -- are considered his least accessible, yet have endured to become arguably his greatest work and the most influential. For most of the singles-buying public, though, he did nothing between "Golden Years" (1976) and "Let's Dance" (1983).
* CountryMusic:
** Country music is often thought to be stuck in the 1950s and 1960s with acts such as HankWilliams, PatsyCline, BuckOwens, etc., and otherwise nothing but nasal-voiced singers in Nudie suits singing about drinkin' and cheatin'.
** WillieNelson and JohnnyCash apparently the only other country singers until the likes of Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/LadyAntebellum came along.
** The term "country and western" is still used by many people, despite being a total BerserkButton for anyone who actually enjoys the genre; said term has not been used within the genre itself since ''the 1970s''.
** Expect country to be heard largely in a DeepSouth rural setting inhabited by hillbillies strumming banjos and drinking moonshine from the jug. Small wonder that songs such as "Hillbilly Bone", "Country Must Be Country Wide", and "Southern Comfort Zone" are working on dispelling the "country = Rural South" notion.
* Music/MichaelJackson didn't do anything after TheEighties except be alarmingly weird. Even after his death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by the SeriousBusiness branch of his fanbase. (This caused trouble for the CirqueDuSoleil tribute show ''MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; both professional reviewers and commenters at Ticketmaster.com complained about songs like "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" getting full production numbers while hits like "Billie Jean" and "Black or White" were squashed up against each other in medleys.)
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* [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]
** If characters like listening to or playing classical music, he will be mentioned. In a world of classical music, this is ''the'' name to be dropped.
** ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'': A little night music is an easily recognizable melody. Quite an EarWorm.
** ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro,'' based on the sequel to the play Rossini's ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' was based on.
** That cheery-sounding coloratura aria from ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''. The one where the BigBad ''[[LyricalDissonance coerces her daughter to kill someone under threat of disowning her]].'' And named "Hell's vengeance roasts in my heart".
* [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]:
** Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Only the ''first four notes'' of the ''first movement'' of the Fifth Symphony. The first 8 notes, if they let it go on for an "interminably" long time.
** The last movement of ''The Ninth Symphony'', commonly known as the "OdeToJoy".
** ''Für Elise''. Nearly every music box has this pleasing tune. There was even a toy - a plastic iron - that would play this melody when children would iron with it.
** ''Moonlight Sonata'' might [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses pop up]] [[VideoGame/JetSetWilly here]] [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim and]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil there]]. Even then, it's only the first movement.
* [[Creator/JohannSebastianBach Bach]]
** Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major (only cello piece, and only the prelude)
** ''[[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D Minor]]'' (always played on a pipe organ) for vampires and other "creepy" things. Usually only the first few bars are played, and the not-so-creepy fugue is almost never played, though its association with the toccata means that sometimes, the fugue is used for "creepy" things. (Ironically, when a score was first put to the Creator/BelaLugosi ''{{Dracula}}'' movie, they used Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' instead.)
** "Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe"/"Jesus bleibet meine Freude", the sixth and tenth movements, respectively, of the cantata ''Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'' The melody of the two movements is better known as ''Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring''. The tempo is slower than what Bach intended, and the original German lyrics never appear, if any lyrics are used at all. The melody played is always an arrangement of the original melody.
* [[GeorgeFridericHandel Handel]]
** The "Hallelujah" chorus from the ''Messiah'' oratorio
** Rarely the ''Music for the Royal Fireworks'', often erroneously called part of the "Water Music" suites.
* Richard Strauss's ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra'' also known as that music from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and Wrestling/RicFlair's Entrance Music -- which is only about two minutes long, for all most people know of the piece.
* Richard Wagner.
** "Music/RideOfTheValkyries".
** Otherwise, the [[Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen opera cycle]] from which it comes appears only if "Viking" helmets are involved, usually ''without'' any of [[Creator/RichardWagner Wagner's]] music.
** For {{WWE}} fans, it's [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's]] old theme song.
** "Here Comes the Bride" from ''Lohengrin'' (always played as an instrumental tune, can be falsely credited as "(traditional)" in film credits.
* Edward Elgar only wrote "Pomp and Circumstance," a song that's only known for two things: First of all: graduation ceremonies. Second of all: [[Wrestling/RandySavage The Macho Man]]! OOOOH YEAHHH!!!
** Actually, it is one of several marches by Elgar called "Pomp and Circumstance".
** Thanks to Eric Emanuel Schmidt's play, the "Enigma Variations" are also not entirely unknown.
* Music/AntonioVivaldi
** The "Spring" concerto from ''The Four Seasons'' -- and only the initial ''Concerto Grosso'' section of its first movement.
* Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from his music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (opera by Bizet)
* ''Rigoletto'' (opera by Verdi)
** But only the song ''"La donna è Mobile"''.
* ''Pagliacci'' (the opera with the "crying clown", by Leoncavallo)
** Specifically the aria ''"Vesti la giubba"''.
* ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' (opera by Mozart)
** But more for the visuals (specifically the Commendatore's statue coming to life) than for the actual music.
* "Por una Cabeza" (tango)
* "La Cumparsita" (tango)
* The only tenor aria is "Nessun Dorma" from ''Turandot''
* The only mezzo-soprano aria is the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Habanera]]" from ''Carmen''
* The only baritone aria is ''Largo Al Factotum'' from ''The Barber of Seville''
* There are no altos, baritones, or basses in these operas; all singers are dignified tenors or temperamental sopranos, regardless of their actual vocal ranges.
* ''Theatre/SwanLake'' (ballet)
* ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (ballet)
** Which consists entirely of Uncle Drosselheimer's theme, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Russian Dance (the Chinese Dance too, if you're lucky).
* ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' (ballet)
* The only piano piece ever written is Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; what happened to No. 1 is as much a mystery as the first four versions of Chanel perfume.
** Its the classical version of ''TheEntertainer'' (AKA ''TheSting'')
* Debussy intended Clair de Lune as an ode to sparkly vampires, right?
** Nah, he obviously intended it as contemplative music for casino thieves. (See the end of 2001's ''Ocean's Eleven'' and the middle of ''Ocean's Thirteen''.)
* "O Fortuna" is the only part of ''Music/CarminaBurana'', and it exists only for OminousLatinChanting.
** Or [[MundaneMadeAwesome melodramatic sports or news montages]].
** And at that it's usually only the end that's used, which is impressive as the piece is less than 3 minutes long.
* Grieg's ''Peer Gynt Suite'' consists solely of "Morning" and [[ManicMiner "In the Hall of the Mountain King"]].
* Music/MauriceRavel only ever wrote the ''Bolero''.
* Rossini's "William Tell Overture". And even at that, people are unlikely to realize that the two best-known parts are part of the same piece of music. And the latter part is just as likely to be known as "Franchise/TheLoneRanger theme".
* Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, a.k.a. "that tune from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs.''".
* Creator/AaronCopland only did ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' and ''Rode''o (and then only the Hoe-Down part; y'know, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner". Dun dun dun.)
* Music/GeorgeGershwin either didn't write any classical music (only showtunes) or only wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" (and we only know that one because it's in airline commercials).
* In general, the "classical music canon" that average viewers can be expected to know only covers a little over 200 years of music, from the late Baroque period (starting around 1700) to the early 20th century. Good luck finding a non-aficionado who is familiar with medieval, Renaissance, early baroque music, or anything written in the last 60 years that isn't a film score or Philip Glass.
* Unfortunately, fiction can ignore most of the early 20th century in the musical development. No one wrote anything more adventurous than the Debussy and Ravel above; certainly not late Scriabin or the Second Viennese School. ''Maybe'' the audience can get Stravinsky, if they're lucky.
* The most hardcore music aficionados will tell you that the "true" classical period was from roughly 1750 to 1850. It's just that people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord tend to use the term]] to refer to any music from after the Renaissance and from before jazz (or ragtime, in the case of Americans).
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* Classical composers will usually be Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven, or Creator/JohannSebastianBach. If other composers are mentioned they are usually from the Romantic period (Chopin, Liszt, Wagner,...), but never from the 20th century. Music/IgorStravinsky is usually the only 20th century composer worth referencing.
* Jazz musicians consist of Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/DukeEllington, Music/CharlieParker, and Music/MilesDavis. Jazz singers will be either Music/BillieHoliday or EllaFitzgerald.
* Blues musicians will be Music/RobertJohnson, MuddyWaters, JohnLeeHooker, or B.B. King.
* Crooners are Music/FrankSinatra, Music/DeanMartin, or Music/BingCrosby. Tom Jones or TonyBennett might be thrown in there too.
* During the first half of the 20th century EnricoCaruso would regularly be namedropped as the most famous male opera singer. Near the end of the second half LucianoPavarotti is the most popular choice. If you are lucky the other two tenors, PlacidoDomingo and JoséCarreras might be mentioned as well. Female opera singers are even more obscure. MariaCallas is the one everyone knows; thanks to Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballé might ring a bell as well.
* All operas were apparently composed by either Music/GiuseppeVerdi, GioacchinoRossini, or Creator/RichardWagner.
* Name a chansonnier and they will either be EdithPiaf, Music/JacquesBrel, or GeorgesBrassens.
* There is only one reggae artist, Music/BobMarley. And everything with a reggae beat will have been written by him. For that matter, reggae is usually portrayed as being the ''only'' genre of music in the Caribbean. Apparently, ChutneyMusic, soca, and calypso don't exist in fictional settings.
* Punch "Music/WeirdAlYankovic" into a [=LimeWire=] search, and you're bound to find scores of parody songs with his name on them that [[MisattributedSong he didn't write]]. Apparently, people have never heard of Bob Rivers or Cledus T. Judd. It's particularly unfortunate when this happens with songs about subjects the artist it's attributed to would never touch. The fairly family-friendly artists have had their names attached to stuff they'd never have written in a million years.
* If you were a fan participant of modern ''a cappella'' (a musical style which is too cheap to buy instruments) at the dawn of the millennium, you were crippled by the ignorance of the user who did the first major file-sharing for the genre: he thought the only two bands were Brown University's Brown Derbies and [[WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Rockapella]]. Even songs by all-female groups were attributed to them, which is amusing seeing as how [[CrossDressingVoice both groups are all-male]].
* Among Canadian listeners, the Arrogant Worms get this a lot too (though still not as much as Weird Al). Again, often with stuff much racier or more offensive than the Worms themselves would ever do.
* On the same note, it seems that any goth or dark-themed music associated with goths is made by one of four artists, according to [=P2P=] networks: The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Anything female is attributed to Siouxsie; anything else to one of the other three (mostly Sisters). 'Cry Little Sister' from ''The Lost Boys'' has been attributed to the Sisters of Mercy. Movie about vampires = Must have been made by the Sisters of Mercy?
* There have only ever been two German bands making popular music: Music/{{Kraftwerk}} and Music/{{Rammstein}}. Music/{{Scorpions}} are fairly well-known, even in the USA, but not necessarily associated with Germany.
* A weird example is that a Dutch parody of ''[[GuiltyPleasures Barbie Girl]]'' is often attributed to Music/{{Rammstein}}, despite A) being sung in Dutch, not German, B) not being similar to their musical style (poppy music instead of metal), C) featuring a female vocalist, and D) Rammstein not being known for parodies (they've done lyrics and videos with parody content, but these are hardly their main claim to fame; and full-blown parodies of specific songs by other artists ''really'' aren't their thing).
* Any country music parody tends to get attributed to JeffFoxworthy, regardless of quality, theme, or voice. Simply because the one-off "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" was a hit, people apparently assume Foxworthy to be a singer. Hasn't anybody ever heard of Cledus T. Judd?
* In the 1970s UK, BillyConnolly would parody the only country music then known to your average Brit: TammyWynette singing about cheatin' men.
* All musical scores are by Music/DannyElfman, Music/JohnWilliams, Music/EnnioMorricone, Music/BernardHerrmann, NinoRota or Creator/HansZimmer. Granted, these guys have written a flipping TON of them, and often tutored all the others.
* You'd be forgiven if you think of Remote Control. There's a very high chance that composer is part of that gang being managed by Hans Zimmer.
* There's also an outside chance of it being James Newton Howard, or more recently, Michael Giacchino.
* Music/JerryGoldsmith is also a popular choice for misnaming.
* If anyone waxes poetic about a film composer being a "genius," they're talking about Music/BernardHerrmann.
* All Music/DannyElfman soundtracks are for Creator/TimBurton movies.
* Corollary: All anime soundtracks are by Music/YokoKanno.
* Corollary #2: All instrumental TV themes are by John Tesh.
* There's apparently only one band that did live performances of video game songs: The Minibosses. That is, if you believe filenames...
* Irish musician Enya, who does neo-Celtic new age music, will sometimes get credit for anything that vaguely resembles her work. Somewhat understandable for works by her sister Moya Breannan or her former band Clannad, but stranger when it's actually, say, Loreena [=McKennitt=], a Canadian musician who sounds nothing like her apart from working in more or less the same genre. Karl Jenkins Adeimus is attributed to her too.
* Any Irish-sounding DrunkenSong is credited to the Pogues. Of particular note on file-sharing services is ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Token Celtic Drinking Song]]'', which will never, ever, be found credited to the band Jimmy George.
* Ireland has only ever produced just two rock bands: U2 and Thin Lizzy (though U2 are ''much'' more likely to get a mention than Lizzy.) My Bloody Valentine, Horslips, The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Boomtown Rats and Ash apparently don't exist. (Though The Corrs and The Cranberries ''sometimes'' show up on the occasional rom-com soundtrack, ''maybe''.)
* To judge by oldies-station playlists (at least in the UK), the only song Soft Cell ever recorded was their cover of "Tainted Love". No playlist compiler has, it would seem, ever heard of "Bedsitter", "The Torch" or "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" amongst others. (Ironically, recent covers of ''Tainted Love'' are usually covers [[CoveredUp of the Soft Cell cover, rather than of the original]].)
* All {{nerdcore}} is by mc chris, even the stuff where the artist introduces himself. The worst part is mc chris doesn't even consider himself nerdcore.
* Apparently, some people believe ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was Music/PinkFloyd's only album. For double bonus amusement, ask them to name a Pink Floyd ''song''. It will be from "The Wall". Roger Waters will always be referred to as Pink Floyd in these conversations.
* The only songs Music/{{Queen}} have ever recorded are:
** "[[BohemianParody Bohemian Rhapsody]]"
** "We Will Rock You"
** "We Are the Champions"
** "Don't Stop Me Now" (Thanks to ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'')
** "Another One Bites The Dust"
** "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
** "Under Pressure" (It helps that it's a collaboration with Music/DavidBowie ''and'' was sampled by Music/VanillaIce)
* The only {{grindcore}} band in existence is Music/NapalmDeath.
* A popular joke on metal boards used to be: "You're a newbie to grindcore if the first band you can name is AnalCunt."
* The sketch "Uses of the Word ''Fuck''" will usually be attributed to Creator/MontyPython or Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
* The only progressive rock bands are Music/KingCrimson, Music/{{Yes}}, Music/{{Genesis}}, Music/PinkFloyd, and maybe JethroTull. And sometimes not even all of them - lots of people only know Genesis for their more pop-oriented 80s material and have no idea they ever did prog rock or had Peter Gabriel as a member. To a lesser extent, Yes and Tull sometimes gets the same treatment from people who only know the songs that show up on the radio. And King Crimson suffer a ''severe'' case of MainstreamObscurity - lots of people have heard the name and are vaguely aware that they're an influential band, few could name even one of their songs or albums.
* Good luck on anyone knowing any song by Chris de Burgh except "Lady in Red", his BlackSheepHit. Honourable mention goes to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' for referencing "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in at least two different episodes.
* Music/TheBeeGees are overshadowed by their disco era; relatively few people are aware of their Beatlesesque pop era from the '60s and early '70s, nor are very many people aware they began as teens playing an obscure-in-America musical genre called skiffle.
* Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are founding members of Music/FleetwoodMac.
* Most people associate New Wave music with a limited selection of music from the latter era of New Wave and the synthpop era. Not a lot of people know New Wave existed in 1975 - 76 or that it originated as a subgenre of punk rock. Or that a lot of punk rockers morphed into more conventional New Wave acts (cf. Classix Nouveaux, Lords of the New Church). New Wave itself had several substyles, and most of the best-remembered groups- The Knack, The Go-Gos, Cyndi Lauper, The Bangles; suspiciously almost all Los Angeles bands- were highly-commercial Power Pop acts who had little or no connection to the earlier ones who gave the movement its name. Some people believe the 4 groups only had like 2-3 songs each. Most of these people only know 1 song by The Knack. Part of the problem is that many of the original and/or most famous New Wave acts (The Cars, Dire Straits, Talking Heads) [[UnbuiltTrope didn't comfortably fit the stereotype]], as they performed music in a variety of styles and sometimes even genres. The Cars, for example, tend to be remembered for their '80s hits ("Shake It Up", etc.), but their career actually took off in the late '70s. Their first big hit was "Just What I Needed" - but since its synths aren't quite as [[{{Flanderization}} exaggerated]] as on later Cars songs, people can be surprised when they find out who it's by.
* Punk itself gets treated this way. Ask most people over the age of 30 or so to name the first punk band that comes to mind, and you'll probably get one of only five examples: TheRamones, TheSexPistols, TheClash (who weren't even purely punk rock), Blondie (who was barely punk at all), or GreenDay. Nobody remembers the Dictators. Or the Circle Jerks. Or Black Flag. Or...
* Except perhaps for BlackSabbath and {{Metallica}}, the only Music/HeavyMetal that people know of or remember is HairMetal, and it's all from TheEighties. Try finding any non-metal fans who've heard of Rainbow. Or JudasPriest. Or Motorhead. Or IronMaiden. Or Slayer. Or Pantera. Or System of a Down. Or Cradle of Filth. DeepPurple - the group that practically ''invented'' metal - will get mentioned, but only for "Smoke on the Water" (a.k.a. "that really dumb song that any mediocre guitarist can play"). Even among hair bands, there are examples (when's the last time you heard anybody mention Dokken?).
* There was only ever one Ultravox -- the one with Midge Ure as lead singer. Poor John Foxx. Likewise, there was only ever one Human League and that was after 2/3 of the original League left to form Heaven 17 (who some people may only recognize as the guys behind "Let Me Go") and Phil Oakey had to find a way of keeping the Human League going.
* It's a common tendency for people to say they "listen to everything" but mean only the (usually incredibly narrow) range of music that gets decent radio coverage in their area. Grill them for specifics, and watch them backpedal. "Rap? Opera? Bluegrass? Klezmer?" For many of them, there will be at least one form of music on that list whose ''existence'' they were unaware of.
* ''Website/TheOnion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-like-all-types-of-music,10945/ I Like All Types Of Music]]" is a mockery of small reference pools and general ignorance as it applied to music in the late 1990s.
* Mocked in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': "We got both kinds. We got country *and* western!"
* Military bands:
** Everything ever played by a military band is by John Philip Sousa.
** In Central Europe most military music is commonly associated with 'Germany' [[AllGermansAreNazis (and Nazis)]].
** If military music is introduced by [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an old man in rags saying "It's. . ."]], in which case it couldn't be Sousa, because that's a British show.
* Latin American music, as seen in American TV and movies:
** All Mexican music is mariachi.
** All non-Mexican Hispanic music is Salsa, which is played by Tito Puente.
** Brazilian music is that lady with the fruit hat (Carmen Miranda), and bossa nova, which is Stan Getz.
** [[TheElevatorFromIpanema that Tom Jobim song they use on elevators.]]
** Tango is a ballroom dance and some might know about its connection to Argentina and that its moves are explicitly based on sex.
** If the Gypsy Kings exist, then they are singing in Spanish.
** Latin American/Hyspanic instruments include maracas, guitars and castanets. They all [[{{Spexico}} originate from the same culture.]]
* Surf music with vocals has only ever been recorded by Music/TheBeachBoys. Including [[MisattributedSong "Surf City" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena"]]. When the early Nineties incarnation of Music/TheBeachBoys appeared on ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim referenced this trope by mentioning a number of car songs he incorrectly thought were performed by the Boys, only to have them respond with the proper artists. Strangely, one of the songs mentioned is the Rip Chords' "Hey Little Cobra" - and Bruce Johnston fails to mention that he in fact was a member of that group.
* According to pop or oldie radio stations, Nazareth have only ever made rock ballads. Ditto Music/{{Aerosmith}}, The Music/{{Scorpions}}, and Music/{{Metallica}}.
* If you look at many of the more commonplace [[TheEighties 1980s]] "various artists" compilations you'll find a rotating lineup of twenty-to-thirty songs, usually written around 1981-1986, that ''all'' of them will have a chunk of. "Jessie's Girl", "[[LandDownUnder Down Under]]", "The Safety Dance", "Come On Eileen", "[[Music/TearsForFears Everybody Wants To Rule The World]]", "[[DuranDuran Hungry Like The Wolf]]", "Somebody's Watching Me", "RockMeAmadeus", etc. Most of those songs are white HairMetal, ArenaRock or Music/NewWave pop, usually with an iconic video, and maybe 30% of them are {{one hit wonder}}s or novelty songs. Few dance, rap, country or R&B numbers will be included. Made worse by the fact that many major 1980s artists, including Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Music/{{Madonna}}, and GeorgeMichael refuse(d) to license their songs to such best-of's.
* The only Disney pop artists discussed outside of tween/teen media are Music/MileyCyrus (and [[ContractualPurity whatever minor scandal she's caught up in that month]]) and Music/TheJonasBrothers. And [[Music/DemiLovato the girl who]] [[NeverLiveItDown came back from having an eating disorder and self-harming]]. Maybe SelenaGomez too, at least for dating JustinBieber. Music/MirandaCosgrove is likely [[AllAnimationIsDisney still thought of]] as a Disney star, in spite of the fact she works for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}.
* Because they are promoted heavily on Radio Disney, Music/JustinBieber, Cody Simpson, Willow Smith ([[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's hair-whipping daughter]]) and Music/TaylorSwift are considered Disney stars as well, though they record for different labels.
* Often parodies of rappers (or the image that MoralGuardians have at least) will be a GangstaRap-type rapper from the hood who raps about bitches, hos, and money. They will ignore less stereotypical (and usually less mainstream) rappers such as TalibKweli, Common, Music/KidCudi, or Music/KanyeWest.
* According to millions of Baby Boomers (and Generation X'ers and Generation Y'ers), the only song Music/{{Kiss}} ever recorded was "Rock 'N' Roll All Nite." Which means you can forget about "Deuce," "Detroit Rock City" (although that one ''has'' resurged in popularity due to the 1999 movie of the same name), "Christine Sixteen," "I Was Made For Loving You," "I Love It Loud," "Lick It Up," "Heaven's On Fire," "Tears Are Falling," etc.
* The only Music/{{ACDC}} song is "You Shook Me All Night Long" (or maybe "Highway to Hell", if a work is dealing with the themes of Hell, violence, or rebellion). What's frustrating about this is that AC/DC rival the Rolling Stones for the title of most wildly popular rock band ''in the world'', and are continuing to release new material in their classic style. Yet almost no one can name any member of the band except for Angus Young (probably because [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic School Boys Rule]]). Somewhat {{justified|Trope}} as Angus' image is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_(1976_album) widely]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerage used]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_Up_Your_Video in]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballbreaker AC/DC's]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Made_Who album]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC_Live artwork]], more so than with the other band members, with either lead singer or as part of a group image. One might go so far as to almost call Angus the band's MetalBandMascot.
* The only Twisted Sister song people remember is "We're Not Gonna Take It". "I Wanna Rock" will ''sometimes'' get mentioned. The only people who remember "Burn in Hell" are either those who saw ''PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (and that was [[LighterAndSofter a considerably toned-down version]]) or have heard the Dimmu Borgir (a Norwegian extreme metal band) cover.
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Homer attends a Bachman-Turner Overdrive concert, demands to hear "Takin' Care of Business", and when they start playing it, yells for them to "Get to the 'workin' overtime' part!"
* The only popular {{electronic|Music}} artists are Music/DaftPunk, {{deadmau5}}, and, occasionally, Music/{{Skrillex}} and Music/{{Kraftwerk}}.
* The "World Music" sections of many music departments in mainstream America tend to be dominated by either African, Caribbean, or Celtic music. If European music is included, it's most likely polka (which is extraordinarily popular in Finland).
* Music/JethroTull seems to be affected by this very trope. As the public perception of the band, largely based on what radio stations and the media display, often emphasizes their harder-rocking material ("Aqualung", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Locomotive Breath", "Teacher"), and they won a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album" for ''Crest Of A Knave'' in 1989, a more hard rock/heavy metal/classic rock crowd makes up much of the audience, who tends to have little patience for (or hoots and whistles loudly over, to bandleader Ian Anderson's annoyance) the group's more eclectic, softer, more delicate repertoire. Ian has often joked recently that a segment of Tull's audience sometimes sees Tull as "Music/DeepPurple with a flute". This has led Anderson to release his more experimental works, including a sequel to ''Thick As A Brick'', as a solo album with different musicians. His writing for Tull tends deliberately to be more hard-rocking and band-oriented, with more emphasis on Martin Barre's electric guitar playing.
* DavidBowie is another case of a long, diverse career that mainstream culture only scratches the surface of. The general public will recognize "Space Oddity", "Changes", "Rebel Rebel", "Fame", ""Heroes"", the aforementioned Queen collaboration "Under Pressure", "Let's Dance", and "Modern Love", largely due to frequent licensing for commercials and movie soundtracks. But that's only eight songs, recorded over 1969-1983, from a career that started in 1964 and encompasses (as of 2013's ''The Next Day'') 24 studio albums. Worse, several of them are [[IsntItIronic used without respect to their meanings]]. A good way to test a layperson's knowledge of Bowie is to ask them what Tin Machine was.[[hottip:Answer: A hard rock group he fronted over 1989-92 to escape the rut he felt trapped in post-''Let's Dance''.]] This is less of an issue in his native U.K., though even there attention is paid mostly to his GlamRock period (1971-74). Bowie's three late-1970s "Berlin" albums -- ''Low'', ''"Heroes"'', and ''Lodger'' -- are considered his least accessible, yet have endured to become arguably his greatest work and the most influential. For most of the singles-buying public, though, he did nothing between "Golden Years" (1976) and "Let's Dance" (1983).
* CountryMusic:
** Country music is often thought to be stuck in the 1950s and 1960s with acts such as HankWilliams, PatsyCline, BuckOwens, etc., and otherwise nothing but nasal-voiced singers in Nudie suits singing about drinkin' and cheatin'.
** WillieNelson and JohnnyCash apparently the only other country singers until the likes of Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/LadyAntebellum came along.
** The term "country and western" is still used by many people, despite being a total BerserkButton for anyone who actually enjoys the genre; said term has not been used within the genre itself since ''the 1970s''.
** Expect country to be heard largely in a DeepSouth rural setting inhabited by hillbillies strumming banjos and drinking moonshine from the jug. Small wonder that songs such as "Hillbilly Bone", "Country Must Be Country Wide", and "Southern Comfort Zone" are working on dispelling the "country = Rural South" notion.
* Music/MichaelJackson didn't do anything after TheEighties except be alarmingly weird. Even after his death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by the SeriousBusiness branch of his fanbase. (This caused trouble for the CirqueDuSoleil tribute show ''MichaelJacksonTheIMMORTALWorldTour''; both professional reviewers and commenters at Ticketmaster.com complained about songs like "They Don't Care About Us" and "Earth Song" getting full production numbers while hits like "Billie Jean" and "Black or White" were squashed up against each other in medleys.)
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