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| 4 | [[folder:Classical Music]] |
| 5 | * General Notes: Instrumental Music |
| 6 | ** All music containing violins is "Classical". |
| 7 | ** Technically, the "true" classical period was from roughly 1750 to 1820. It's just that people 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). |
| 8 | ** 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 Music/PhilipGlass. |
| 9 | ** 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. If someone ''really'' wants to show off, they might mention Varese, Cage, or Stockhausen. |
| 10 | * General Notes: Vocal Music |
| 11 | ** During the first half of the 20th century Music/EnricoCaruso would regularly be namedropped as the most famous male opera singer. Near the end of the second half Music/LucianoPavarotti is the most popular choice. If you are lucky the other two tenors, Music/PlacidoDomingo and Music/JoseCarreras might be mentioned as well. Female opera singers are even more obscure. Music/MariaCallas is the one everyone knows; thanks to Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballé might ring a bell as well. |
| 12 | ** Almost no opera contains more than one aria. No single operatic role ''ever'' has more than one aria. There are no duets or ensemble pieces. |
| 13 | * General Notes: Choral Music: There exist three compositions for full choir: the Hallelujah Chorus, the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th symphony, and "O Fortuna" from Orff's ''Carmina Burana''. |
| 14 | * Opera: |
| 15 | ** There are no altos, baritones, or basses; all singers are dignified tenors or temperamental sopranos, regardless of their actual vocal ranges. |
| 16 | ** ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (Bizet) contains the only mezzo-soprano aria, the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Habanera]]". Elsewhere ''Carmen'' is known from "Toreador-a, don't spit on the floor-a" or maybe "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be" (which is actually from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', by way of ''Series/GilligansIsland''). |
| 17 | ** ''Rigoletto'' (Verdi) contains only the song'"La donna è Mobile". |
| 18 | ** ''Pagliacci'' (the opera with the "crying clown", by Leoncavallo) contains only the aria "Vesti la giubba". |
| 19 | ** ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' (opera by Mozart) is better known for the visuals (specifically the Commendatore's statue coming to life) than for the actual music. |
| 20 | ** The only tenor aria is "Nessun Dorma" from ''Turandot'' |
| 21 | ** The only baritone aria is ''Largo Al Factotum'' from ''The Barber of Seville'' |
| 22 | * [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] |
| 23 | ** 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. |
| 24 | ** ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'': A little night music is an easily recognizable melody. |
| 25 | ** ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro,'' based on the sequel to the play Rossini's ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' was based on. |
| 26 | ** ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' is often referenced, due to WickedCultured characters often liking to identify witht he charismatic and sexy VillainProtagonist. It is, however, rarely if ever actually heard. |
| 27 | ** 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". |
| 28 | * [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]: |
| 29 | ** 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. |
| 30 | ** The last movement of the Ninth Symphony, commonly known as the "Music/OdeToJoy". |
| 31 | ** ''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. |
| 32 | ** ''Moonlight Sonata'' might [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses pop up]] [[VideoGame/JetSetWilly here]] [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim and]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil there]]. Even then, it's only the first movement. |
| 33 | * [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] |
| 34 | ** Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major (only cello piece, and only the prelude). |
| 35 | ** [[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D Minor]] (always played on an OminousPipeOrgan) 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 ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' movie, they used Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' instead.) |
| 36 | ** "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. |
| 37 | * [[Music/GeorgeFredericHandel Händel]] |
| 38 | ** The "Hallelujah" chorus from the ''Messiah'' oratorio. That's the only part of the entire composition, by the way. |
| 39 | ** Rarely the ''Music for the Royal Fireworks'', often erroneously called part of the "Water Music" suites. |
| 40 | * 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. |
| 41 | * Music/RichardWagner. |
| 42 | ** "Music/RideOfTheValkyries". |
| 43 | ** Otherwise, the [[Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen opera cycle]] from which it comes appears only if "Viking" helmets are involved, usually ''without'' any of [[Music/RichardWagner Wagner's]] music. |
| 44 | ** For Wrestling/{{WWE}} fans, it's [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan's]] old theme song. At least before he adopted a rock version of it in its place. |
| 45 | ** The wedding march from ''Lohengrin'': instrumental or organ-only. Can be credited as "'Here Comes the Bride' (traditional)", and can be used in works whose dramatic date is earlier than ''Lohengrin''. |
| 46 | * Music/EdwardElgar wrote only one march, "Land of Hope and Glory", and it only exists in two contexts: First, graduation ceremonies. Second, [[Wrestling/RandySavage The Macho Man]]! OOOOH YEAHHH!!! If you are in the US, the name of this march is "Pomp and Circumstance" (formally the name of a complete set of marches, ''one of which'' is "Land of Hope and Glory"). |
| 47 | ** Thanks to Eric Emanuel Schmidt's play, the "Enigma Variations" are also not entirely unknown. Even then, most people only know the ninth variation (of 14), "Nimrod". |
| 48 | * Music/AntonioVivaldi |
| 49 | ** The "Spring" concerto from ''The Four Seasons'' -- and only the initial ''Concerto Grosso'' section of its first movement. |
| 50 | ** And thanks to the "Four Seasons" connection, expect people to get him mixed up with Frankie Valli. |
| 51 | * Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from his music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. |
| 52 | * Antonín Dvořák only ever wrote the "New World Symphony" and only the Allegro part, or so it seems. In the UK, substitute the Largo part, which is extremely well-known thanks to [[RevivalByCommercialization a popular bread advertisement]]. |
| 53 | * "Por una Cabeza" (tango) |
| 54 | * "La Cumparsita" (tango) |
| 55 | * ''Theatre/SwanLake'' (ballet) |
| 56 | * ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (ballet). Which consists entirely of Uncle Drosselmeyer's theme, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Waltz of the Flowers, and the Russian Dance (the Chinese Dance too, if you're lucky). |
| 57 | * ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' (ballet) |
| 58 | * The only piano piece ever written is Music/FranzLiszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"; what happened to No. 1 is as much a mystery as the first four versions of Chanel perfume. Basically the classical equivalent of ''TheEntertainer'' (AKA ''Film/TheSting''). |
| 59 | * Debussy intended Clair de Lune as an ode to sparkly vampires, right? Or contemplative music for casino thieves. (See the end of 2001's ''Ocean's Eleven'' and the middle of ''Ocean's Thirteen''.) |
| 60 | * Grieg's ''Peer Gynt Suite'' consists solely of "Morning" and [[VideoGame/ManicMiner "In the Hall of the Mountain King"]]. |
| 61 | * Music/MauriceRavel only ever wrote the ''Bolero''. And incidentally, nobody else ever wrote a bolero. The only other one people ''might'' have heard of is Bizet's, which used to be the only bolero anyone knew, until first the film ''Film/Ten1979'' and then Torvill and Dean popularized Ravel's. |
| 62 | * 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". |
| 63 | * Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, a.k.a. "that tune from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981.''". |
| 64 | * Music/AaronCopland only did ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' and ''Rodeo'' (and then only the Hoe-Down part; y'know, "Beef: It's What's for Dinner". Dun dun dun.) |
| 65 | * Music/GeorgeGershwin either didn't write any classical music (only showtunes) or only wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" (and we only know that one because United Airlines uses it as their theme song). |
| 66 | * Asked to name a composer, most wouldn't name Gioacchino Rossini or Giuseppe Verdi but it's a toss-up between the two who wrote the most tunes everybody recognises and can hum but can't identify. Rossini gave us the fast bit from ''William Tell'' aka the ''Series/TheLoneRanger'' music, the overtures from ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''The Thieving Magpie''; Verdi the chorus of Hebrew slaves from ''Nabucco'', "La donna è mobile" from ''Rigoletto'', the brindisi from ''La Traviata'', the triumphal march from ''Aida'', and the "Dies Irae" from the ''Requiem''. |
| 67 | * Music/IgorStravinsky is only known for ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring''. And perhaps also for ''Theatre/TheFirebird'' and ''Theatre/{{Petrushka}}''. Never mind the fact that he wrote music well worth hearing for over ''fifty years afterwards''. |
| 68 | * "O Fortuna" [[NewerThanTheyThink (ironically, composed in the late 1930s)]] is the only part of ''Music/CarminaBurana'', and it exists only for OminousLatinChanting. |
| 69 | ** Or [[MundaneMadeAwesome melodramatic sports or news montages]]. |
| 70 | ** And at that it's usually only the end that's used, which is impressive as the piece is less than 3 minutes long. |
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| 73 | [[folder:Popular Music]] |
| 74 | * When a radio station claims to play "Top 40" music, it's highly unlikely that they'll play every song that's in the Top 40. Adult Contemporary stations in particular rarely ever play any song that features rapping or hip-hop style production (often cutting [[AWildRapperAppears guest rap verses]]). Mainstream Top 40 stations on the other hand are more likely play rap songs and leave guest rap verses intact, but not if they're "too urban". Also, despite their claim that they play "Top 40" music, the bulk of their airplay consists of songs that reached the Top 20 (with maaaaybe some songs in the upper-Top 30). Urban stations on the other hand focus mostly on HipHop and RAndB, but they exclude anything that doesn't "blend in" with the rest. As for rock songs that make the lower-end of the Top 40, well... airplay is scarce at best. |
| 75 | * Most people will only know an artist by their hit singles. At best, they'll only know a handful of songs they've made despite having dozens of other material. Many will only know the 1 or 2 hit songs off an album despite having at least 11 others available for listen. {{One Hit Wonder}}s are an extreme case of this in action, who could have numerous other songs that people would like but are only known for their one hit. Naturally, if someone wants to show they're a fan of a particular artist, they'll bring up an artist's non-singles in a discussion. |
| 76 | * Music Hall and Vaudeville are quickly fading away out of the public consciousness. The only legendary names still remembered are Creator/JosephineBaker and Creator/MauriceChevalier. |
| 77 | ** Just look at any list of radio, first- or second-generation film, or first-generation TV stars. Chances are most of them got their start there. |
| 78 | * Jazz musicians consist of Music/LouisArmstrong, Music/DukeEllington, Music/CharlieParker, and Music/MilesDavis. Jazz singers will be either Music/BillieHoliday or Music/EllaFitzgerald. Most people assume there was no jazz music after 1965, and that there were ''never'' any white jazz artists (though some would name Norah Jones when they acknowledge the existence of modern jazz artists, especially if they grew up during the period in the early-to-mid-2000s when she was popular). The "big-band" music of the 1930s and '40s, considered jazz in its own day, is "easy listening" now. |
| 79 | * Blues musicians will be Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Music/JohnLeeHooker, or B.B. King. |
| 80 | * Crooners are Music/FrankSinatra, Music/DeanMartin, or Music/BingCrosby. Music/TomJones or Music/TonyBennett might be thrown in there too. |
| 81 | * Name a chansonnier and they will either be Creator/MauriceChevalier, Music/EdithPiaf, Music/JacquesBrel, or Music/GeorgesBrassens. |
| 82 | * When it comes to rock music, this is — notoriously — an EnforcedTrope. Criticism of the genre has long been dominated by Baby Boomers with a heavy '60s (and, to a lesser extent, '70s) bias. So lists of the "best bands/artists ever" can be an extremely short one: The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles (but only their post-1966 material), The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band — all guaranteed to be on the list. Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Eagles are usually on the list too. The Beach Boys, Queen, or Frank Zappa ''might'' manage to sneak in there. Black Sabbath are almost always slighted, despite being contemporaries of many of the above bands. With the exception of Springsteen, if you gained popularity at any time after 1975, then forget it. The irony is, most of these "classic" bands aren't getting imitated much anymore, which erodes their so-called classic status a great deal. And if you define "classic rock" broadly as "blues- or psychedelia-inspired hard rock that isn't metal", then a number of more contemporary rock bands -- AC/DC, Guns 'N' Roses, Oingo Boingo -- are "classic" in all but era. |
| 83 | * There is only one reggae artist, Music/BobMarley. (Though some may be able to name a few others who were popular for a while such as Shaggy or Music/{{UB40}}). 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, ska, mento, rocksteady, ragga, dancehall and dub don't exist in fictional settings. Well, maybe they do, but they'll be classified as reggae music, and if ska is acknowledged as a separate genre, expect it to be represented by SkaPunk bands. |
| 84 | ** Along that note, Bob's GreatestHitsAlbum ''Legend'' is often treated as his only album by both the buying public and the media, to the point where it has had specials made on it despite being a posthumous compilation. This is a BerserkButton for many fans. For many of the general public it's the only reggae album they own. |
| 85 | * In the heyday of [=P2P=] services, if you were to search up "Music/WeirdAlYankovic", you'd be 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 -- not to mention earlier practitioners of this art such as Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Victor Borge, Music/TomLehrer, [[Music/PDQBach Peter Schickele]], and Stan Freberg. 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. |
| 86 | * 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. Some of the most persistent errors of this kind involve attributing songs by Edmonton band Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie to the Worms. |
| 87 | * It seems that any goth or dark-themed music associated with goths is made by one of four artists: Music/TheSistersOfMercy, Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, Music/{{Bauhaus}}, and Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees. 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? |
| 88 | * There have only ever been three German bands making popular music: Music/{{Kraftwerk}}, Music/{{Scorpions|Band}} and Music/{{Rammstein}}. |
| 89 | * A weird example is that a Dutch parody of Music/{{Aqua}}'s "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). |
| 90 | * Any country music parody tends to get attributed to Creator/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? Or, for that matter, Music/RayStevens? |
| 91 | * In the 1970s UK, Creator/BillyConnolly would parody the only country music then known to your average Brit: TammyWynette singing about cheatin' men. |
| 92 | * All musical scores are by Music/DannyElfman, Music/JohnWilliams, Music/EnnioMorricone, Music/BernardHerrmann, Nino Rota or Music/HansZimmer. Granted, these guys have written a flipping TON of them, and often tutored all the others. |
| 93 | ** 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. |
| 94 | ** There's also an outside chance of it being Music/JamesNewtonHoward, or more recently, Michael Giacchino. |
| 95 | ** Music/JerryGoldsmith is also a popular choice for misnaming. |
| 96 | ** If anyone waxes poetic about a film composer being a "genius," they're talking about Music/BernardHerrmann. |
| 97 | ** All Music/DannyElfman soundtracks are for Creator/TimBurton movies. |
| 98 | ** Corollary: All anime soundtracks are by Music/YokoKanno. |
| 99 | ** Corollary #2: All instrumental TV themes are by John Tesh. |
| 100 | * There's apparently only one band that did live performances of video game songs: The Minibosses. That is, if you believe filenames... |
| 101 | * Irish musician Music/{{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. |
| 102 | * Any Irish-sounding DrunkenSong is credited to Music/ThePogues. 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. |
| 103 | * To judge by oldies-station playlists (at least in the UK), the only song Music/SoftCell ever recorded was their cover of "Tainted Love". "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" gets the occasional spin but no playlist compiler has, it would seem, ever heard of "Bedsitter", "What" or "Torch" amongst others. |
| 104 | * 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. |
| 105 | * Apparently, some people believe ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was Music/PinkFloyd's debut or only album; It was their eighth. For double bonus amusement, ask them to name a Pink Floyd ''song''. It will be "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (and maybe Part's 1 & 3), and it'll often be described as a track on ''Dark Side'' rather than ''Music/TheWall''. Music/RogerWaters will always be referred to as Pink Floyd in these conversations. |
| 106 | * The only songs Music/{{Queen|Band}} have ever recorded are: |
| 107 | ** "[[BohemianParody Bohemian Rhapsody]]" |
| 108 | ** "We Will Rock You" |
| 109 | ** "We Are the Champions" |
| 110 | ** "Don't Stop Me Now" (Thanks to ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'') |
| 111 | ** "Another One Bites The Dust" |
| 112 | ** "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" |
| 113 | ** "Radio Ga Ga" (Thanks to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'') |
| 114 | ** "Under Pressure" (It helps that it's a collaboration with Music/DavidBowie ''and'' was sampled by Music/VanillaIce) |
| 115 | * The only {{grindcore}} bands in existence are Music/NapalmDeath and Full of Hell. Music/PigDestroyer, Music/AnalCunt, Brutal Truth, Nasum, and Rotten Sound may get ''extremely'' rare mentions, and there may also be mistaken mentions of Music/{{Carcass}}, Music/{{Exhumed}}, Music/CattleDecapitation, Music/CephalicCarnage, and Music/MiseryIndex; while the first four did indeed play it at one point, they no longer do so, and Misery Index never really played it to begin with despite having extremely prominent elements of it in their music. |
| 116 | * Mathcore? Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan and Music/{{Converge}}, maybe (''big'' maybe) also The Chariot and/or Ion Dissonance. |
| 117 | * The sketch "Uses of the Word ''Fuck''" will usually be attributed to Creator/MontyPython or Creator/GeorgeCarlin. |
| 118 | * The only progressive rock bands are Music/KingCrimson, Music/{{Yes}}, Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, Music/PinkFloyd, and maybe Music/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 Music/PeterGabriel 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 are versed in their output beyond ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'', if at all. |
| 119 | * Good luck on anyone knowing any song by Music/ChrisDeBurgh except "The Lady in Red", his BlackSheepHit. (In December only, people may also recall [[ChristmasSongs "A Spaceman Came Travelling"]].) Honourable mention goes to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' for referencing "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in at least two different episodes. |
| 120 | * 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. |
| 121 | ** To many people, their only songs are "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever" and "Tragedy". (and maybe "You Should be Dancing", "Too Much Heaven", "You Win Again", and "Alone"). |
| 122 | * Lindsey Buckingham and Music/StevieNicks are founding members of Music/FleetwoodMac. |
| 123 | * The only forms of rock music since 1991 are {{Grunge}}, PostGrunge, PopPunk, EmoMusic, and hipstery IndieRock. Everything else before that is just typical ClassicRock stuff. |
| 124 | * 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 (with both terms actually being used interchangeably for a very brief period). 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 artists — The Knack, The Go-Gos, Cyndi Lauper, The Bangles; suspiciously almost all Los Angeles acts — 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 one song by The Knack ("My Sharona"). 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", "Drive", 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. |
| 125 | * 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: the Music/{{Ramones}}, the Music/SexPistols, Music/TheClash (who weren't even purely punk rock), Music/{{Blondie|Band}} (who was barely punk at all), or Music/GreenDay. Nobody remembers the Dictators. Or the Circle Jerks. Or Black Flag. Or... |
| 126 | * Except perhaps for Music/BlackSabbath, Music/OzzyOsbourne, and Music/{{Metallica}}, the only HeavyMetal that people know of or remember is ThrashMetal and HairMetal, and it's all from TheEighties. Try finding any non-metal fans who've seriously listened to Music/{{Rainbow}}. Or Music/JudasPriest (except for "Breaking the Law" and ''maybe'' "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" or "Painkiller"). Or Music/{{Motorhead}} (except for "Music/AceOfSpades", aka "that one song that everyone learning to play bass with a pick plays incessantly"). Or Music/IronMaiden (except for "Run to the Hills", "The Number of the Beast", "2 Minutes to Midnight", and maybe "The Trooper"). Or Slayer (except for "Raining Blood", aka the other song that every beginning guitarist can play, since the intro riff is all that ever shows up, and ''maybe'' "Angel of Death" or "War Ensemble"). Or Pantera (except for the song "Walk", which just about everybody's heard and everyone learning guitar has played the riff to, and maybe "Cowboys from Hell" or "Cemetery Gates"). Or Megadeth (except for "Symphony of Destruction", which everyone knows the riff to and every beginning guitarist has played, "Hangar 18", "Trust", and "Peace Sells", another one of those songs that every beginning bassist learns). Or Cradle of Filth. Music/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," and the guitar riff is the only part of the song that exists) and ''maybe'' "Highway Star" or "Hush" (the latter of which is a cover). |
| 127 | ** Hell, even the big three fall victim to this; ask a mainstream listener to name a Sabbath song that isn't "Iron Man", "War Pigs", "Sweet Leaf", "Children of the Grave", or "Paranoid"; an Ozzy song that isn't "Crazy Train", "Mr. Crowley", "Flying High Again", "Bark at the Moon", "Mama, I'm Coming Home", or "No More Tears"; or a Metallica song that isn't "Enter Sandman", "Master of Puppets", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Unforgiven", "Sad But True", "Nothing Else Matters", or "One", and you'll probably be met with a blank stare. |
| 128 | ** Combined with this and PublicMediumIgnorance, Music/{{Slipknot}} has become the masked public faces of both modern metal and the extreme end of it. This is despite the fact that they don't play DeathMetal, and never have before (though it ''is'' a well-known influence and elements of it pop up in their sound with reasonable frequency). In reality, the type of metal they play is heavy yet accessible enough to be played on mainstream rock radio. Yet, when asked to name a "modern metal band" or "extreme metal band", Slipknot will likely be the one who pops up. [[MainstreamObscurity Most people who aren't fans can't name a single song from them]], except ''maybe'' "Wait and Bleed", "Duality", "Before I Forget", "Psychosocial", or "The Devil in I". Along with Slayer, they are most likely to be mistakenly thought of as a "death metal band". And hardly anyone is going to bring up frontman Corey Taylor's ''other'' band, Music/StoneSour. |
| 129 | ** Additionally, when it comes to modern metal bands -- as in, bands that got popular in the mid-'90s onward -- the ones who are most likely to be named outside the metal community are Music/{{Korn}}, Music/RobZombie, Music/{{Rammstein}}, Music/MarilynManson, Music/{{Disturbed}}, Music/SystemOfADown, Music/{{Slipknot}} (see above), Music/{{Godsmack}}, Music/KillswitchEngage, Music/LambOfGod, Music/{{Mastodon}}, Music/{{Trivium}}, Music/AvengedSevenfold, Music/BulletForMyValentine, Music/MotionlessInWhite, Music/SuicideSilence, Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch, Music/WhitechapelBand, Music/{{Volbeat}}, Music/ThyArtIsMurder, Music/{{Carnifex}}, Music/LornaShore, Music/SlaughterToPrevail, Music/IceNineKills, Music/{{Spiritbox}}, and Music/BringMeTheHorizon. In fact, it's often used as a sign of being a recent initiate in metal when one of the above are the first bands you name. The fact that they're the most mainstream friendly, lending them to be played on the radio and featured mainstream media, is the primary cause of this. |
| 130 | ** Most barely have any clue about the difference between thrash or death or speed or traditional metal genres. A newcomer will tend to recognize only three subgenres: HairMetal, [[RockMeAsmodeus "dark, scary metal"]], and blues-rock played really loud and with wild guitar solos (which occasionally overlaps with hair metal). A fourth genre -- prog-metal like Dream Theater or Queensryche -- will get mentioned if the newbie is trying to show off. Blue Oyster Cult were considered prog-metal in their own time (roughly 1975 to 1985), but they are now thought of as just another "classic rock" band, mostly because the psychedelic and rather soft (and, not coincidentally, commercially successful) "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is the only song by them most people can name; people forget how heavy "7 Screaming Diz-Busters", "This Ain't the Summer of Love", and "After Dark" were, and [[ValuesResonance in some cases still are]]. |
| 131 | ** If people aren't mistakenly using Slipknot or Slayer as examples, the only death metal acts that exist are Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Death}}, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/AmonAmarth, Music/{{Carcass}}, Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder, Music/JobForACowboy, Music/CattleDecapitation, Music/AtTheGates, and Music/{{Nile}}, plus ''maybe'' Music/{{Obituary}}, Music/MorbidAngel, or Music/{{Deicide}} if you're in the South or Music/{{Suffocation}} if you're in the New York tri-state area. Fans of hardcore may also name Music/{{Entombed}} and Music/DyingFetus due to a sizable PeripheryDemographic. Music/{{Decapitated}}, Music/{{Revocation}}, Music/{{Obscura}}, Music/{{Aborted}}, Music/HateEternal, Music/{{Cryptopsy}}, Music/RiversOfNihil, and Music/{{Archspire}} might be mentioned on ''very'' rare occasions. |
| 132 | ** Deathcore? Music/SuicideSilence, Music/WhitechapelBand, Music/ThyArtIsMurder, Music/{{Carnifex}}, Music/LornaShore, and Music/SlaughterToPrevail. Music/{{Oceano}}, Music/ShadowOfIntent, Music/DespisedIcon, Music/ChelseaGrin, Music/EnterpriseEarth, Infant Annihilator, After the Burial, Born of Osiris, Music/FitForAnAutopsy, Rings of Saturn, and Brand of Sacrifice may also get mentions. Older listeners may also give Music/AllShallPerish, As Blood Runs Black, and I Declare War a mention. |
| 133 | ** Power metal? Music/{{Sabaton}}, Music/DragonForce, Music/{{Helloween}}, and Music/BlindGuardian. Music/{{Kamelot}}, Music/{{Powerwolf}}, Music/{{Manowar}}, Music/SonataArctica, Music/SymphonyX, and Music/HammerFall may get a mention, as well as Music/{{Angra}} if you're talking to South Americans and Music/XJapan and Music/{{Galneryus}} if you're talking to Japanese. Music/IcedEarth will probably also get a mention, but for reasons [[OvershadowedByControversy wholly unrelated]] to their music. |
| 134 | ** Thrash metal? Aside from the Big Four, Music/{{Testament}}, Music/{{Exodus|Band}}, Music/{{Sepultura}}, Music/{{Overkill}}, and Music/{{Kreator}} are almost guaranteed to receive mentions. Music/{{Destruction}}, Music/{{Sodom}}, Music/DeathAngel, and Music/{{Annihilator}} (especially among [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Europeans]]) will likely also be mentioned, and Flotsam & Jetsam, Sacred Reich, Music/{{Forbidden}}, Music/DarkAngel, Music/{{Tankard}} and Music/{{Coroner}} may get rare mentions. Modern acts will likely be limited to Music/{{Evile}}, Music/PowerTrip, Music/{{Havok}}, Music/{{Warbringer}}, and Music/MunicipalWaste, plus the occasional mention of Music/LichKing, Music/{{Vektor}} and/or Nervosa. |
| 135 | ** Black metal? Music/{{Mayhem}}, Music/{{Emperor}}, Music/DimmuBorgir, and Music/{{Immortal}}, plus the obvious but debatable mention of Music/CradleOfFilth[[note]]many black metal fans and the band themselves take issue with the label, though their early material and their output with Marek Smerda and Richard Shaw probably comes the closest to full-fledged black metal[[/note]]. Music/{{Burzum}}, Music/{{Gorgoroth}}, Music/{{Marduk}}, Dark Funeral, Music/{{Dissection}}, Music/CarachAngren, Music/{{Watain}}, Music/AnaalNathrakh, and Abigail Williams may also get mentions, depending on who you ask. |
| 136 | ** Progressive metal? Music/DreamTheater, Music/{{Opeth}}, Music/{{Queensryche}}, Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe, Music/{{Mastodon}} (though whether they are still prog is a matter of debate), Music/{{Gojira|Band}}, Music/KingsX, Music/{{Nevermore}}, Fates Warning, Music/ArjenAnthonyLucassen, and Music/{{Savatage}}. Voivod, Music/{{Leprous}}, Music/{{Haken}}, Music/{{Ihsahn}}, Music/{{Cynic}}, Music/SymphonyX, Music/RiversOfNihil, Music/NeObliviscaris, Music/CaligulasHorse, Riverside, Music/PainOfSalvation, Music/{{Watchtower}}, Music/{{Amorphis}}, Music/{{Enslaved}}, Intronaut, and Music/TheOcean will likely also receive mentions, depending on who and where you ask. Music/{{Winger}} and Music/{{Mudvayne}} may get mentions, but they tend to be more associated with hair metal and nu metal, respectively. |
| 137 | ** Gothic metal? Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} (even though their most recent albums are symphonic / progressive), Music/TypeONegative, Music/{{Evanescence}} and Music/LacunaCoil. |
| 138 | ** Symphonic metal? Music/{{Epica}}, Music/TransSiberianOrchestra and Music/WithinTemptation. |
| 139 | ** Nu metal? Music/{{Korn}}, Music/{{Slipknot}}, Music/LimpBizkit, Music/{{Disturbed}}, Music/PapaRoach, Music/SystemOfADown and Music/LinkinPark. Older fans may give Music/DrowningPool, Music/{{Mudvayne}}, Music/IllNino, Music/GuanoApes, Music/StaticX, Music/{{Saliva}}, Music/{{Skindred}} and Music/AlienAntFarm a mention. Modern acts will likely be limited to Music/OfMiceAndMen, Music/{{Issues}} and Music/{{Emmure}}. |
| 140 | ** Even the aforementioned hair metal falls victim to this trope. Music/MotleyCrue, Music/DefLeppard, Music/{{Poison}}, Music/GunsNRoses (albeit barely recognized as one) and Music/{{Whitesnake}} are assumed to be the only hair bands that ever existed (Music/{{Dokken}}, Music/{{Stryper}} and Music/{{Ratt}} might get mentions as well), the rest of the hair bands are anonymous (try asking a mainstream listener to name a Music/NightRanger song that isn't "Sister Christian", a Music/MrBig song that isn't "To Be With You" or a Music/{{Europe}} song that isn't "The Final Countdown", and expect to receive blank stares). Modern {{retraux}} hair bands are limited to Music/TheDarkness if you're British or Music/BlackVeilBrides and Music/SteelPanther if you're American -- the Scandinavian "sleaze metal" bands like [=Crashdïet=], H.E.A.T., Reckless Love, Crazy Lixx, Santa Cruz, Eclipse and Wig Wam are practically unheard of in the US outside of hair metal circles. |
| 141 | * There was only ever one Music/{{Ultravox}} -- the one with Music/MidgeUre as lead singer. Poor John Foxx. Likewise, there was only ever one iteration of Music/TheHumanLeague and that was after 2/3 of the original League left to form Music/Heaven17 (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. Additionally, many people outside the UK find it difficult to name songs by Ultravox and the Human League other than "Vienna" (and maybe "Dancing with tears in my Eyes") and "Don't You Want Me", respectively, owed to both acts being considerably less popular abroad. |
| 142 | * 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. |
| 143 | * ''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. |
| 144 | * Mocked in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': "We got both kinds. We got country ''and'' western!" |
| 145 | * Military bands: |
| 146 | ** Everything ever played by a military band is by John Philip Sousa. |
| 147 | ** In Central Europe most military music is commonly associated with 'Germany' [[AllGermansAreNazis (and Nazis)]]. |
| 148 | ** 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. |
| 149 | * Latin American music, as seen in American TV and movies: |
| 150 | ** All Mexican music is mariachi. |
| 151 | *** There are places in Southern California where radio stations have made this literally true. |
| 152 | ** All non-Mexican Hispanic music is Salsa, which is played by Music/TitoPuente. |
| 153 | ** Brazilian music is that lady with the fruit hat (Carmen Miranda), and bossa nova, which only ever produced one song: "The Girl from Ipanema", as heard in [[TheElevatorFromIpanema countless elevators]]. |
| 154 | ** Tango is a ballroom dance and some might know about its connection to Argentina and that its moves are explicitly based on sex. |
| 155 | ** If the Gipsy Kings exist, then they are singing in Spanish. Mostly because their best-known song "Bamboléo" ''is'' sung in that language.[[note]]Their main performing language is actually Catalan, but they throw in Spanish and Occitan.[[/note]] |
| 156 | ** Latin American/Hispanic instruments include maracas, guitars and castanets. They all [[{{Spexico}} originate from the same culture.]] |
| 157 | * 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. |
| 158 | * According to AC and classic hits radio stations, Nazareth only ever made rock ballads. The same applies with Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}, Music/{{Foreigner|Band}} and Music/{{Journey|Band}}. |
| 159 | * Don't you know? The only group to do ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' remixes is Music/{{IOSYS}}. Maaaybe Innocent Key might be brought up, but if you hear about Cool & Create it's probably only for "Help Me Erinnn" and "Night of Nights (Flowering Night Remix)", and Silver Forest only ever made "Kero⑨Destiny". |
| 160 | * 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. "[[Music/RickSpringfield Jessie's Girl]]", "[[Music/MenAtWork Down Under]]", "[[Music/MenWithoutHats The Safety Dance]]", "[[Music/DexysMidnightRunners Come on Eileen]]", "[[Music/TearsForFears Everybody Wants to Rule the World]]", "[[Music/DuranDuran Hungry Like the Wolf]]", "Somebody's Watching Me", "[[Music/{{Falco}} Rock Me Amadeus]]", etc. Most of those songs are white HairMetal, ArenaRock or {{New Wave|Music}} 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 Music/GeorgeMichael refuse(d) to license their songs to such best-of's. |
| 161 | * Pop divas? Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/BritneySpears, Music/ChristinaAguilera, and Music/{{Beyonce}};. Whoever is super-popular at the moment will get mentioned too, such as Music/HilaryDuff if the work was made in the mid-2000s, Music/LadyGaga if the work was made in the early-2010s or Music/ArianaGrande if the work was made in the mid-to-late-2010s. |
| 162 | ** The only songs Christina Aguilera ever recorded were "Genie in a Bottle" and "Beautiful". |
| 163 | ** The only songs Britney Spears recorded were "...Baby One More Time", "Toxic", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Gimme More", and "Scream & Shout" (the last of which was actually a will.i.am song with Britney as a featured artist). "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "If U Seek Amy" ''might'' get mentioned from time to time. |
| 164 | * The only Disney pop artists discussed outside of tween/teen media are Music/MileyCyrus (and [[ContractualPurity especially in works made at the time of any minor scandal she got caught up in]]) and Music/TheJonasBrothers. And [[Music/DemiLovato the one who]] came back from having an eating disorder and self-harming and then came out as non-binary later on.[[note]]Demi is now genderfluid, using both female and gender-neutral pronouns.[[/note]] Maybe Music/SelenaGomez too, at least for dating Music/JustinBieber. Music/MirandaCosgrove is likely [[AllAnimationIsDisney still thought of]] as a Disney star, in spite of the fact she works for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. |
| 165 | ** Back when they were promoted heavily on Radio Disney, Music/JustinBieber, Cody Simpson, Willow Smith ([[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will's hair-whipping daughter]] who then became a pop punk singer) and Music/TaylorSwift were considered Disney stars as well, though they record for different labels. |
| 166 | *** In a 2013 review of the album ''Twenty-Four Seven'' by {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} boy band Music/BigTimeRush, the band was erroneously referred to as "Disney pop". |
| 167 | * Any reference to Justin Bieber in popular culture will always be solely to make fun of him. |
| 168 | * Music/ArianaGrande will probably be the only name that will come up when mentioning "Nickelodeon stars", though none of her material was produced by Nick. To be fair, she's easily the most successful artist to come out of the channel, while the second most successful act after her would probably be Music/BigTimeRush, who wasn't anywhere near as big in their prime (having been completely stuck in the shadow of their TransAtlanticEquivalent and former opening act Music/OneDirection) and have long since faded into irrelevancy. |
| 169 | * British boy bands? Obviously you mean Music/OneDirection. Apparently, nobody's ever heard of Music/{{Take That|Band}}, Five, JLS, or Music/TheWanted (who are mostly known for their so-called "[[CurbStompBattle rivalry]]" with One Direction). |
| 170 | * Australian boy bands? You mean Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer, even though they're more of a Pop Rock / PopPunk band than a straight-up boy band. Human Nature might get a weak mention from time to time, but Americans know them more for their Las Vegas residencies wherein they mostly performed old-school soul and R&B covers. (And no, Music/SavageGarden don't count. They were only two people, only one of whom sang, and were both well into their twenties when they made it big.) |
| 171 | * Often parodies of rappers (or the image that MoralGuardians have at least) will be (in works made in the 1990s through the 2000s) a GangstaRap-type rapper from the hood who raps about bitches, hos, and money, or (in works made in the later half of the 2010s) a trap rapper who incomprehensibly mumbles about sex, drinking lean, and getting high and will sometimes spout off rhymes that are solely there to be turned into memes. They will ignore less stereotypical (and usually less mainstream) rappers such as Music/TalibKweli, Common, Music/KidCudi, or Music/KanyeWest. |
| 172 | * Similar to the other one, the only rappers that most people will be able to name are Music/JayZ, Music/{{Eminem}} (largely because he's one of the few white rappers to avert the PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy stereotype), Music/FiftyCent, Music/SnoopDogg, Dr. Dre (largely because of his headphones), Music/LilWayne, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/{{Drake}}, Music/KendrickLamar, [[Music/SeanCombs Diddy]], Music/CardiB, Music/PostMalone, Music/TupacShakur, Music/TheNotoriousBIG (the previous two largely thanks to DeadArtistsAreBetter), and Music/KanyeWest, though he is more known for his [[OvershadowedByControversy many personal issues]] than he is for his music these days. Music/TylerTheCreator, Music/TravisScott, Music/{{Future}}, and Music/MachineGunKelly are also likely to get a mention. Music/{{DMX}} is also likely to get a DeadArtistsAreBetter mention. Music/OutKast might receive a rare mention, but only for "Hey Ya!", which is hardly representative of their style. Music/LilJon may get mentioned due to meme recognition. Music/TechN9ne ''might'' also come up, but [[MainstreamObscurity don't expect anyone to be able to name one of his songs]]. They may also be able to name Music/IceCube and Music/IceT, but odds are that they will only know them as actors and not as rappers (though, with the success of ''Film/StraightOuttaCompton'', this may be changing for the former). |
| 173 | * LGBTQ+ hip-hop artists? Music/FrankOcean and Music/LilNasX. Music/TylerTheCreator will also be mentioned if they believe that he is out. Music/JanelleMonae, Music/DojaCat, and [=ILoveMakonnen=] may also get mentions, and Music/AzealiaBanks may also get a mention just by sheer virtue of OvershadowedByControversy. Mykki Blanco and [=Le1f=] may get very rare mentions. |
| 174 | * 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", or maybe "Shout It Out Loud", "Love Gun" or "Hard Luck Woman". 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 songs from their concept album ''Music From the Elder'' are so obscure that ''the band members themselves'' can't remember them. |
| 175 | * The only Music/{{ACDC}} songs are "Back In Black", "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Thunderstruck", "Highway To Hell", and maybe "Hell's Bells". 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. |
| 176 | * The only Twisted Sister song people remember is "We're Not Gonna Take It", mostly because it was the theme for Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's successful campaign for governor of [[FunetikAksent "Colliefohnia"]] in 2003. "I Wanna Rock" will ''sometimes'' get mentioned by fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' (in which it was parodied as "Goofy Goober Rock"). The only people who remember "Burn in Hell" are either those who saw ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' (and that was [[LighterAndSofter a considerably toned-down version]]) or have heard the Dimmu Borgir (a Norwegian extreme metal band) cover. |
| 177 | * 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!" |
| 178 | ** Notably, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" was actually a much bigger hit than "Takin' Care of Business", but your mileage will vary on which one is more remembered. |
| 179 | * The only popular {{electronic|Music}} artists are Music/DaftPunk, Music/{{deadmau5}}, Music/DavidGuetta, Music/{{Skrillex}}, Music/CalvinHarris, Music/TheChainsmokers, Music/{{Zedd}}, Music/{{Avicii}}, Music/{{Marshmello}}, and Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. |
| 180 | ** Music/{{Skrillex}} is the only {{Dubstep}} artist, and he's the one who created it ([[OlderThanTheyThink dubstep actually originated from late-nineties London nightclubs]]). |
| 181 | ** A visually recognizable EDM artist? The only answers are Daft Punk (for the robot suits), deadmau5 (for the mouse mask), Marshmello (for the marshmellow mask), and Skrillex (for the hair and glasses). |
| 182 | * 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). |
| 183 | * 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 (''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum 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. |
| 184 | ** Oddly enough, this is even worse in the band's native country, the UK, where most people know them only for "Living In The Past" and for the origin of their name being a common trivia question. |
| 185 | ** Oh yeah, and Jethro Tull is the name of the flute-playing bandleader. |
| 186 | * Music/TheBlackEyedPeas only made these songs: |
| 187 | ** "I Gotta Feeling" |
| 188 | ** "Let's Get It Started" (and they never did a version called "Let's Get Retarded") |
| 189 | ** "Boom Boom Pow" |
| 190 | ** "Where Is The Love?" |
| 191 | ** "My Humps" |
| 192 | ** "Pump It" |
| 193 | ** "RITMO" |
| 194 | * Music/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" (if your Lucky, you might just name "The Laughing Gnome", "Starman" and/or "Life on Mars" as well), largely due to frequent licensing for commercials and movie soundtracks. But that's only 8-11 songs, recorded over 1969-1983, from a career that started in 1964 and encompassed 25 studio albums, the last of which was released just days before his 2016 death. 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.[[labelnote:Answer]] A hard rock group he fronted over 1989-92 to escape the rut he felt trapped in post-''Let's Dance''.[[/labelnote]] 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). |
| 195 | * Music/NeilYoung wrote "Heart of Gold", "Rockin' in the Free World" and came out of a lengthy retirement to release an unhinged album called "Let's Impeach The President" in 2006. If you frequent home improvement stores, he also wrote a tender love song called "Harvest Moon". "Lotta Love", often heard at drugstores and on "smooth jazz" stations, was written by Music/LauraNyro, the woman who sings it.[[note]]She's actually Nicolette Larson. Young encouraged her to record it when she heard and enjoyed a tape of it in his car.[[/note]] |
| 196 | * Music/CarlosSantana wrote three songs: "Evil Ways", "Black Magic Woman"[[note]]which was actually a cover version of a Music/FleetwoodMac song written by Peter Green[[/note]] and "Oye Como Va". If you are listening to a classic rock station he also wrote "No One To Depend On". If you remember Woodstock, the band also did "Soul Sacrifice". Everyone has also heard "Smooth", "The Game of Love", and probably "Why Don't You & I" as well thanks to their heavy longstanding presence on pop radio and in-store PA soundtracks, but it's unlikely that most of them would be able to name Santana as the main artist. (In the case of "Smooth", especially because Music/RobThomas sang it.) |
| 197 | * CountryMusic: |
| 198 | ** Country music is often thought to be stuck in the 1950s and 1960s with acts such as Music/HankWilliams, Music/PatsyCline, Music/BuckOwens, etc., and otherwise nothing but nasal-voiced singers in Nudie suits singing about drinkin' and cheatin'. |
| 199 | ** Southern rock acts from the '70s like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, plus country-leaning rockers such as the Eagles -- often get lumped in with the country acts, even though they were inspired by diverse styles of music. |
| 200 | ** Music/WillieNelson and Music/JohnnyCash apparently the only other country singers until the likes of Music/GarthBrooks, Music/TimMcGraw, Music/CarrieUnderwood, Music/TaylorSwift, and Music/LadyAntebellum came along. |
| 201 | ** 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''. |
| 202 | ** 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. |
| 203 | ** In one country subgenre, all bluegrass music is either Bill Monroe or Flatt & Scruggs. |
| 204 | *** Referenced by Music/MasonWilliams (who himself qualifies for this trope, being the guy who wrote ''ClassicalGas'', the quintessential instrumental acoustic guitar song) in ''Them Banjo Pickers'': |
| 205 | --> Them banjo pickers, mighty funny ways / Same damn song, three or four days |
| 206 | --> Them banjo pickers, poker faced mugs / Never do smile, just play Scruggs |
| 207 | ** Even in CountryMusic itself, this can happen a lot with recurrent airplay: |
| 208 | *** Although Music/RandyTravis had a consistent career through out most of TheNineties and even had a stray #1 hit as late as 2003, classic shows seem to pretend that he never had a hit after "I Told You So" or maybe "Is It Still Over?" By extension, this shuns all albums after his third. |
| 209 | *** Music/ConwayTwitty had 40 #1 hits, second only to Music/GeorgeStrait, but you'd be hard pressed to ever hear any other than "Hello Darlin'", "I'd Love to Lay You Down", "Tight Fittin' Jeans", or "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (with Music/LorettaLynn). |
| 210 | *** Music/RebaMcEntire has the most Top 10 country music hits of any female artist, beating out even Music/DollyParton, and even starred in [[Series/{{Reba}} a hugely successful sitcom that ran for six seasons]]. But most people would be hard pressed to name any of her hits other than "Whoever's in New England", "Does He Love You", "Fancy", and "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (even though the latter two were covers). |
| 211 | *** Likewise, the only songs from Music/GeorgeStrait that seem to get any attention in TheNineties were "Love Without End, Amen" and the two #1 hits off the ''Film/PureCountry'' soundtrack: "Heartland" and ''especially'' "I Cross My Heart". |
| 212 | *** Most stations seem to pretend that Music/TobyKeith had nothing of note between "Should've Been a Cowboy" (his debut single) and "How Do You Like Me Now?!" except maybe "Who's That Man". |
| 213 | * Even after Music/MichaelJackson's death and the DeadArtistsAreBetter media frenzy that followed, his post-1991 albums are only acknowledged by his most devoted fanbase. This caused trouble for the 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. |
| 214 | * Music/{{Nirvana}} is the only {{Grunge}} band in existence, and, during the years 1991 through 1994, was the only thing teens were listening to. Which is interesting considering that Music/PearlJam has actually ''outsold'' Nirvana and several ThrashMetal bands and even a few HairMetal bands reached their peak during Nirvana's supposed "domination" (i.e., Metallica's "Enter Sandman"). To say nothing of this being the period when Music/{{Pantera}} got big, though the Cowboys From Hell have mentioned in interviews that a lot of bands were afraid to call themselves metal during Grunge's heyday. Not to mention this was also around the time rap and hip-hop were gaining mainstream acceptance outside the inner-city black community. |
| 215 | ** The only song Nirvana contributed is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (though if you're lucky, some may remember "Lithium", "Come As You Are", and/or "Heart-Shaped Box"). |
| 216 | * Christian: |
| 217 | ** All Christian music by a female vocalist is Amy Grant, and all Christian music by a male vocalist is either Michael W. Smith or Steven Curtis Chapman. 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 or Music/SimonAndGarfunkel started out as Christian bands.[[note]]Unless perhaps they are familiar with Simon and Garfunkel's début album ''Wednesday Morning, 3AM'', which is mostly gospel songs. "Blessèd" from ''Sounds of Silence'' is also an indication.[[/note]] |
| 218 | ** ChristianRock is either just country rock without the hard rock elements mixed with gospel-esque lyrics or Music/{{Creed|band}}-esque PostGrunge with Christian lyrics. |
| 219 | ** Music/{{POD}}, Music/{{Stryper}}, Music/{{Skillet}}, Music/DemonHunter and The Devil Wears Prada are the only Christian metal bands that exist. Only older fans of Christian metal would be able to name Resurrection Band, Daniel Band, Holy Soldier, Barnabas, Barren Cross and Jerusalem as well. |
| 220 | ** The only Christian hip-hop artist is [=TobyMac=]. |
| 221 | * Salt-n-Pepa, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Music/MissyElliott, Eve, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/IggyAzalea, Music/CardiB, Megan Thee Stallion, and Snow tha Product are the only female rappers ever in music history. Music/LaurynHill might get a mention, ''maybe'', though she's probably more famous for her solo career than her run with the Fugees, and old-school fans may also name MC Lyte, Roxanne Shanté, Foxy Brown, The Lady of Rage, Gangsta Boo, and Yo-Yo. Rapsody may also get a rare mention due to her guest spot on Music/KendrickLamar's "Complexion (A Zulu Love)". |
| 222 | * Music/RickAstley only ever made one song in his entire career, "[[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Never Gonna Give You Up]]". In his heyday, he had ''another'' #1 hit, five Top 10 singles and two more that made the Top 40, and he was never considered a one-hit wonder. |
| 223 | * When talking about Music/LinkinPark, most people will only refer to their NuMetal material from ''Music/HybridTheory'' and ''Music/{{Meteora}}''. More specifically the only songs they'll refer to are "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "Papercut", "In the End", and "Numb" (and maaaaaaybe "Breaking the Habit"). The only songs released after they switched their sound that get acknowledged are "What I've Done" and "New Divide" due to them being the theme songs of the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Bayformer]] films. |
| 224 | * White rappers? Music/{{Eminem}} will always come to mind first. The only other names likely to be brought up are the Music/BeastieBoys, Music/VanillaIce, Music/HouseOfPain (though they'll probably forget about Danny Boy due to Everlast's solo career and DJ Lethal's work as the turntablist for Music/LimpBizkit), Music/{{Macklemore}} (Ryan Lewis? Never heard of him), Music/PostMalone, Music/KidRock, the Music/InsaneClownPosse, Lil Peep (due to DeadArtistsAreBetter), Machine Gun Kelly (MGK), The Kid Laroi, Music/JackHarlow, and Music/IggyAzalea, the latter being the only white female rapper. Music/AesopRock, Action Bronson, Music/ElP, 3rd Bass (aside from DJ Richie Rich, who was black), Asher Roth, Yung Lean, Yelawolf, Jedi Mind Tricks (aside from Jus Allah, who is black), 7L & Esoteric (who nowadays are far more likely to be known as part of Czarface), Jelly Roll, Ghostemane, $uicideboy$, Stitches, Music/MacMiller, [=RiFF=] RAFF, Cage, Necro (''maybe'' also Ill Bill, his brother, but it's unlikely), R.A. the Rugged Man, Slaine, Kno, Mickey Avalon, Bubba Sparxxx and Music/GEazy might get a weak token mention, and there may also be a ''very'' rare Eyedea mention that is almost entirely due to DeadArtistsAreBetter (and if they do, they'll probably also mention his friend/protege Sadistik as well). Slug of Music/{{Atmosphere}} (who is sometimes mistakenly called "[[IAmNotShazam Atmosphere]]") is often lumped together in this category, though he's actually of mixed ancestry. The others remain virtually unheard of. |
| 225 | ** This is a cause of much annoyance for many other white rappers. If you're a white male aspiring to be a rapper, expect to get compared to Eminem a lot (even if it's as a compliment); or if you're looking for an insult, Vanilla Ice. If you're a white female aspiring to be a rapper however... well, expect to get called out as an "Iggy Azalea knockoff". If you're a white person in general aspiring to be a rapper, well, expect to be labeled as PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy a lot. |
| 226 | * Hispanic rappers? Music/CypressHill (aside from DJ Muggs, who is white), Music/CardiB and Fat Joe will always come to mind first. |
| 227 | * Asian-American rappers? The Far East Movement are likely to come up first before any others, mostly if one was to call them a OneHitWonder for "Like a [=G6=]". Saweetie may also get a mention, as her mother is Filipina Chinese, and Mike Shinoda of Music/LinkinPark may get a mention as well. Fresh Kid Ice of Music/TwoLiveCrew and apl.de.ap of the Music/BlackEyedPeas (though his father was black) might get mentions from time to time, along with a extremely rare mention of MC Jin. Music/DannyBrown may get a rare mention less because he's obscure and more because the average listener isn't aware that he's part-Filipino. |
| 228 | ** For rappers of Asian ancestry in general, the only one aside from the Far East Movement and Saweetie that'll get brought up is Music/{{MIA}}, but she's usually remembered as a OneHitWonder for "Paper Planes". |
| 229 | * Music/GreenDay only ever released two albums: ''Music/{{Dookie}}'' and ''Music/AmericanIdiot''. The only songs they ever made are the title track from American Idiot, "Basket Case", "When I Come Around", "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" (which is from ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'', for bonus points), "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", and "21 Guns" (from ''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown''!). Considering they were one of the biggest rock bands in both the 90s and 00s, it's a bit frustrating that these are the only songs people refer to. |
| 230 | ** It only gets worse when we're talking about Millennials, many of whom think ''American Idiot'' was their first album. Outside of the album's singles, the only other song of theirs widely known to the new generation is "Good Riddance." Don't expect them to realize it predates ''Idiot,'' though. |
| 231 | * Music/MCHammer is seemingly known for his breakthrough hit "U Can't Touch This" and ''maybe'' "2 Legit 2 Quit", and absolutely nothing else. In his heyday, he was not even close to being considered a one-hit wonder, and believe it or not [[ChartDisplacement "U Can't Touch This" was actually the lowest charting song of his many Top 10 hits.]] |
| 232 | * Music/DestinysChild is better known for being Music/{{Beyonce}}'s former group than Beyoncé is as an ex-Destiny's Child member. |
| 233 | ** Music/TheJacksonFive is a near-identical situation. They wouldn't have nearly the same legacy they do today had Michael not become huge on his own. |
| 234 | * HipHop singers? Due to PublicMediumIgnorance, most people nowadays think it's "just another name for rap". But if the existence of singers in hip-hop is acknowledged, they'll likely name the late Nate Dogg as an example. |
| 235 | * Music/{{Survivor|Band}}, much like MC Hammer, is known for "Eye of the Tiger", ''maybe'' "Burning Heart", and nothing else. In their heyday, they were one of the biggest arena rock bands on the planet, and were never thought of as a two-hit wonder. |
| 236 | * Music/TheClash was one of the pioneering PunkRock bands, and one of the few that actually got critical respect due to their willingness to experiment with other genres. If you asked most people however, the only songs they'll likely be able to name (if they can name any at all) are "[[CoveredUp I Fought the Law]]", "London Calling", "Train in Vain", "Should I Stay or Should I Go?", and "Rock the Casbah". |
| 237 | * '90s RAndB singers? Music/MariahCarey is usually the first to come up. Other names you might hear are Music/ToniBraxton, Music/WhitneyHouston, Music/BoyzIIMen, Music/{{TLC}}, Music/RKelly, Music/MaryJBlige, Music/JanetJackson, and Music/{{Aaliyah}}, along with rare mentions of SWV and En Vogue. Brits may also name Gabrielle and Des'ree as well. |
| 238 | * Female rock artists and female-fronted rock bands? Music/{{Heart|Band}}, Music/FleetwoodMac, Music/JanisJoplin, Music/PatBenatar, Music/TheGoGos, Music/AlanisMorissette, Music/JeffersonAirplane, Music/TheRunaways (and definitely Joan Jett and Lita Ford either way), Music/NoDoubt, Music/AvrilLavigne, Music/{{Blondie|Band}}, Music/{{Pretenders}}, [[Music/CourtneyLove Hole]], Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/{{Garbage}}, Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, Music/BonnieRaitt and Music/{{Paramore}}. Music/ThePlasmatics, Music/{{Fanny}}, Music/PattiSmith, Music/SleaterKinney, Music/BikiniKill, Music/TheSlits, Music/CocteauTwins, Babes in Toyland, Alabama Shakes, Music/{{L7}}, Music/SkunkAnansie, Jinjer, Music/{{Otep}}, Walls of Jericho, Music/{{Halestorm}}, Music/ThePrettyReckless, Music/WithinTemptation, New Year's Day, Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}, Music/{{Epica}}, Kittie, Butcher Babies, Music/LacunaCoil, Spiritbox, and Music/InThisMoment might get a mention. Metal fans are also likely to mention Doro (and probably also Warlock), Arch Enemy, The Agonist, Holy Moses, Delain, The Gathering, Anathema, Unleash the Archers, Theatre of Tragedy, and Battle Beast, and and there may also be rare mentions of Music/{{Girlschool}}, Abnormality, Cerebral Bore (though Simone Pluijmers has not been a member for some time), Fuck the Facts, Nervosa, Avatarium, Oceans of Slumber, Leaves' Eyes, Arkona, Venom Prison, and Entheos; Code Orange may also get a mention despite Reba Meyers not serving as a figurehead (though she is an integral member). Finally, Rickie Lee Jones may get an ''extremely'' rare mention. |
| 239 | ** Transwomen in rock? Mina Caputo and Laura Jane Grace. Jayne County may also receive a mention, and metal fans may also name Marissa Martinez or Melissa Moore. Punks may also give Connie Sgarbossa an ''extremely'' rare mention. |
| 240 | ** This has actually become a bit problematic, as any poppy female-fronted band had inevitably been compared to Paramore. Music/{{Marmozets}}, for example, is often tagged with this despite having ''nothing'' in common with them except the fact that they're fronted by a woman. |
| 241 | * Black rock and punk musicians? Music/JimiHendrix is usually the first that comes to mind. Others who might get mentioned are Clarence Clemons of [[Music/BruceSpringsteen The E Street Band]], Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson of Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, Carter Beauford, Boyd Tinsley, Rashawn Ross, and the late [=LeRoi=] Moore of the Music/DaveMatthewsBand, Music/LennyKravitz, Tom Morello of Music/RageAgainstTheMachine and Music/{{Audioslave}} (though his mother was white), William [=DuVall=] of Music/AliceInChains (though, expect him to be referred to as "that black guy who replaced Layne Staley after he died"), Clive "Benji" Webbe of Dub War and Music/{{Skindred}}, Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone, Jaleel Bunton, and the late Gerard Smith of Music/TVOnTheRadio, Kele Okereke of Music/BlocParty, Tony [=MacAlpine=], Lajon Witherspoon of Music/{{Sevendust}}, Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock of Music/SugarRay (who breaks the norm in that he was their turntablist, given the band's history with the NuMetal genre), the members of Music/BadBrains, and the members of Music/LivingColour (or, at the very least, Vernon Reid). Doug Pinnick of Music/KingsX, Josh Travis of Music/{{Emmure}}, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, and Glass Cloud, Myke Terry of Music/{{Volumes}}, Aaron Heard of Jesus Piece and Nothing, Jason Butler and Stephen Harrison of Fever 333, Skin and Cass of Music/SkunkAnansie, Diamond Rowe of Tetrarch, De'Mar Hamilton of Plain White T's, Traa Daniels of Music/{{POD}}, and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes ''might'' get a weak mention. At least one or two members of Music/{{Fishbone}} may get a mention, likely Angelo Moore and probably Rocky George as well (primarily due to his involvement with Suicidal Tendencies). Darryl Jones may get a mention, mainly for having been Music/TheRollingStones' session and backing band bassist since Bill Wyman's departure. Prince should really be on the list, but he's usually considered rap/R&B, and only "rock" during the ''Music/{{Purple Rain|Album}}'' era; [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking plus, his mother was white]]. Michael Jackson could also be counted if you focused on "Beat It" and a handful of others. Music/DariusRucker of Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish might've gotten a mention as well, but lately he's known more for his fruitful CountryMusic career in TheNewTens. Music/IceT might get a mention due to Music/BodyCount. Lastly, while Phil Lynott of Music/ThinLizzy, Slash of Music/GunsNRoses, Pete Wentz of Music/FallOutBoy, and Tommy "Vext" Cummings of Bad Wolves are well-known figures, it is highly unlikely that they will be mentioned despite all four being mixed-race. |
| 242 | ** Black metal musicians? Howard Jones of Light the Torch, Music/KillswitchEngage, and Blood Has Been Shed, Terrance Hobbs and Mike Smith of Music/{{Suffocation}}, Byron Davis of God Forbid (probably at least Doc Coyle as well due to Bad Wolves, maybe also Dallas Coyle or Corey Pierce), Derrick Green of Music/{{Sepultura}}, Tosin Abasi of Music/AnimalsAsLeaders, Adam Warren of Music/{{Oceano}}, and Kyle Anderson of Brand of Sacrifice. Katon W. de Pena of Hirax, Caller of the Storms of Blasphemy, Malcolm Pugh and Stevie Boiser of Music/{{Inferi}}, Mendel bij de Leij of Music/{{Aborted}}, Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber, Beelzeebubth of Mystifier, Trey Pemberton of Creeping Death, Ethan [=McCarthy=] of Primitive Man, Lwandile Prusent of Music/{{Vulvodynia}}, and Dustin Mitchell of Filth may get mentions, depending on who you ask. At least one member of Music/SuicidalTendencies will probably also be mentioned, most likely Dean Pleasants or Rocky George, possibly also Stephen Bruner due to his later fame as Thundercat. Mike Alexander of Music/{{Evile}} may also get a rare mention due to DeadArtistsAreBetter. |
| 243 | * The only song Music/WizKhalifa made is "See You Again". It is also the only song from [[Music/Furious7Soundtrack the soundtrack of Furious 7]] (or for that matter, the ''Fast and Furious'' soundtrack as a whole), despite there being a wide variety of other songs. |
| 244 | * Mark Ronson only made one song: "Uptown Funk!", and it will ''always'' be attributed to Music/BrunoMars. His second biggest selling song[[note]]after "Uptown Funk"[[/note]] is "Valerie", which was apparently an Music/AmyWinehouse song -- the Zutons are almost ''never'' [[CoveredUp credited for it, despite it being their song]]. |
| 245 | * There is only one jazz fusion group, and that's Music/WeatherReport (if you're lucky, you ''may'' get a reference to Brand X, but often it'll have less to do with their music and more to do with them having Music/PhilCollins as a member -- and that's ''if'' anyone remembers that Collins was even in a jazz fusion group at one time). Music/MilesDavis, Music/JoniMitchell, Music/JohnMcLaughlin, Music/PatMetheny, and certain members of Weather Report are the only solo acts in this genre, as well. Every once in a rare while, someone will remember that [=McLaughlin=] helmed Mahavishnu Orchestra and will give them a mention as well, but they definitely won't know any of the other personnel, let alone mention Shakti as well. |
| 246 | * Music/PhilCollins, as far as many people are concerned, only ever made soft rock and '80s pop (with or without Music/{{Genesis|Band}}). It's often forgotten that Genesis actually took a few albums to become a pop band after Collins took the lead singer helm from Music/PeterGabriel, or that the first album he ever performed on (''Ark 2'' by Flaming Youth, which was an AcclaimedFlop) was more straightforward rock, or that he was a member of Brand X, who were moderately successful among the jazz fusion crowd, and remain one of the biggest names in the genre even after disbanding (many people often discuss how successful Collins was in Genesis and in his solo career, but they often leave out Brand X). In addition, while most of his songs are about romantic relationships (in both [[SillyLoveSongs positive]] and [[BreakupSong negative]] contexts), not a lot of people remember that he's written, or helped in writing, a good number of songs that have nothing to do with the subject; not only has he written introspective songs, such as "Take Me Home", but he's also written some instrumentals (not just for Genesis and Brand X, but for his solo career as well). |
| 247 | * The only {{eurobeat}} songs most people will be familiar with are those that have been featured in the anime and video game adaptations of ''Manga/InitialD''. |
| 248 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs? As far as everyone is concerned, the only Vocaloid is Hatsune Miku, or at least the "big five" Crypton-produced Vocaloids (Miku, KAITO, MEIKO, Kagamine Rin and Len[[note]]Sometimes counted as one due to being "mirror images" of each other and part of one package together, sometimes counted as separate[[/note]], Megurine Luka). Even though they're not the first Vocaloids in existence nor the most recent, they're still the five Vocaloids that comes to most people's minds first when the brand is brought up. If non-Japanese Vocaloids are ever brought up it'll only be Oliver. |
| 249 | * The only Music/{{UTAU}} voice banks are the [=VIPPAloids=], mainly Kasane Teto, Namine Ritsu, and Yokune Ruko, plus Momone Momo and Utane Uta. |
| 250 | * To most people, Music/LedZeppelin have two songs ("Whole Lotta Love" and "Stairway to Heaven"), and an EpicRiff that everyone knows but nobody could tell you what it's from ("Kashmir"). |
| 251 | * Christmas music can be prone to this. Unless they're over 60 years old, can anyone name a song by Brenda Lee besides "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", by the Ronettes besides "Sleigh Ride" (or "Be My Baby", which isn't even a Christmas song), by Bobby Helms besides "Jingle Bell Rock", by Music/GeneAutry besides "Here Comes Santa Claus" or "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", by Burl Ives besides "A Holly Jolly Christmas", by Perry Como besides "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", by Vaughn Monroe besides "Let It Snow", by Music/JoseFeliciano besides "Feliz Navidad" (though his cover of "[[Music/TheDoors Light My Fire]]" ''might'' get brought up now and again), or by Andy Williams besides "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", even though none of those artists was a OneHitWonder in their heyday? |
| 252 | * The Series/EurovisionSongContest has somehow lasted since 1956, despite the only acts appearing on it being Music/{{ABBA}}, Music/CelineDion and Music/CliffRichard (who didn't even win, despite competing twice). |
| 253 | * Only Moog ever made synthesisers -- their name is synonymous with "synth". Nobody has ever heard of the Teleharmonium ([[OlderThanTheyThink 1895!]]), the Buchla[[note]]the 1967 album ''Silver Apples of the Moon'' was recorded using a Buchla[[/note]], EMS, Korg etc. |
| 254 | * All 1960s soul music came from one label: Creator/{{Motown}}. Stax and Vee-Jay ''might'' get a mention every now and again, the latter mostly for their efforts in bringing Music/TheBeatles to America than for their contributions to soul music. |
| 255 | * A common response people have when asked what they like is that they "like all music except rap and country" or "all music except classical". This suggests that they are either have particular tastes — or more likely they are just unaware of how diverse music is because they only listen to music on the radio. |
| 256 | * All PopPunk ever recorded came from four bands: Music/GreenDay, Music/Blink182, Music/GoodCharlotte and Music/FallOutBoy. Music/Sum41 ''might'' get a mention from time to time. |
| 257 | * Music/{{Oasis}} only recorded one album: ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory''. They only ever recorded three songs: "Wonderwall", "Champagne Supernova" and "Don't Look Back in Anger" (and ''maybe'' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" or "Stand By Me" if you're lucky). |
| 258 | * The Music/SpiceGirls only recorded one song: "Wannabe". "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1" ''might'' get a mention from time to time. |
| 259 | * The only song Music/NightRanger ever recorded was "Sister Christian". |
| 260 | * All modern children's music was recorded by Music/TheWiggles. |
| 261 | * Heartland rock artists? Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/TomPetty and Music/JohnMellencamp are the only ones who get brought up. Bruce Hornsby ''might'' get a mention, but he's best known outside of the heartland rock fandom for the fact that his sole #1 hit "The Way It Is" was sampled in Music/TupacShakur's "Changes". Maybe also that he wrote "Jacob's Ladder", the final #1 for Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews. |
| 262 | * As far as the general public and snarky online reviewers are concerned, PostGrunge bands only ever made AC ballads (with or without vaguely Christian lyrics). It's often forgotten that many Post-Grunge bands did both harder-edged rock songs and the obligatory ballads, or that quite a few Post-Grunge bands were primarily known among rock audiences ''for their rock songs'' (e.g. Music/ThreeDaysGrace's "Animal I Have Become"). As for Post-Grunge in general? The only bands in the genre the average person can name are Music/{{Nickelback}}, Music/{{Creed|band}} and Music/ThreeDoorsDown, and whenever the former two come up it's usually as a TakeThat to either one of them. |
| 263 | * The only artists played on adult-alternative radio are John Mayer and Norah Jones. |
| 264 | * Music/ScottJoplin is synonymous with ragtime music, to the point that average listeners will not have even heard of any other ragtime composers. What's more, Joplin's own compositional output is reduced to just a handful of hits such as "The Entertainer", "Maple Leaf Rag", and occasionally "The Easy Winners." A bit of short shrift for a genre that was wildly popular for over two decades and had a significant influence on later {{Jazz}} and ClassicalMusic compositions. |
| 265 | * Music/ThirdEyeBlind only made one album: their 1997 self-titled debut. Their only songs are "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", and "Never Let You Go" (the last of which is from ''Blue'', not their debut!) "How's It Going To Be" may get mentioned from time to time, but ask someone in the casual public if they've ever heard "Graduate" or "Deep Inside Of You" before and you'll be met with a blank stare. |
| 266 | * The only songs Music/{{Coolio}} ever recorded were "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage" (though the former is brought up ''far'' more often than the latter). In his heyday, he had a third Top 5 hit and three more songs that reached the Top 40, was a big name in hip-hop and was generally not even close to being considered a one/two-hit wonder. |
| 267 | * Arlo Guthrie's only songs are "Music/AlicesRestaurant" and "City of New Orleans" (the latter of which was actually a cover). |
| 268 | * These days, Music/BobbyBrown is seemingly only known for "Every Little Step", "My Prerogative", maybe "Don't be Cruel" and nothing else. In his heyday he had ''nine'' Top 10 hits and wasn't even close to being considered a two or three-hit wonder. |
| 269 | * During the genre's heyday, the only {{emo}} bands mainstream audiences could name were Music/MyChemicalRomance and Music/FallOutBoy. |
| 270 | * Music/JimmyEatWorld's only song is "The Middle". |
| 271 | * There is exactly one [[{{Shoegazing}} shoegaze]] album, that being Music/MyBloodyValentine's ''Music/{{Loveless}}''. |
| 272 | * The only NewRomantic acts to ever exist, at least according to Americans, are Music/CultureClub, Music/DuranDuran (who ironically disassociated themselves from the movement early on, and had a more HardRock-ish sound) and Music/SpandauBallet (though good luck finding anybody who knows any of their songs other than "True"). Music/AdamAndTheAnts might get a mention from time to time. |
| 273 | * Music/MenWithoutHats only ever recorded one song -- "The Safety Dance". Many people tend to forget they had a ''second'' US Top 40 hit with the #20 "Pop Goes the World". |
| 274 | * Music/{{Magic}}'s only song is "Rude". |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder: WorldMusic]] |
| 278 | WorldMusic: To the general public traditional folklore music that keeps a very identifiable exotic flavor will often be brought in association with a specific country. Therefore, despite the fact that other countries have also their own local jazz, rock or pop bands, it will be the artists who perform traditional music (immediately recognizable as ''authentic to that country'') or whatever big artist(s) that hails from that country that will get the most recognition. There is also a tendency to see African, Latin American, Asian and Eastern European music as WorldMusic, but not Western music. |
| 279 | |
| 280 | * Africa: Music/FelaKuti. Miriam Makeba, if you want a female one. |
| 281 | ** All African music is performed on djembé drums, while black indigenous people do tribal dances. Also typical is [[AfricanChant chanting in canon]], often set to images of a sunrise. More modern African music is Afrobeat. |
| 282 | * The Arctic: Tuvan throat singing. |
| 283 | * Argentine: Ástor Piazzolla. |
| 284 | ** All Argentine music is tango. |
| 285 | * Australia: Didgeridoo music. |
| 286 | ** Australian rock? Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/{{INXS}}, Music/MenAtWork, Music/MidnightOil, Music/LittleRiverBand, Music/ParkwayDrive, and Music/TameImpala (Music/CrowdedHouse are more associated with New Zealand). |
| 287 | ** Australian hip-hop? Music/IggyAzalea. Even though she completely skipped out on the Australian hip-hop scene for the American one. Music/{{Diafrix}} or Bangs may get a rare mention. |
| 288 | ** Australian metal? Music/ThyArtIsMurder, along with rare mentions of I Killed the Prom Queen, Music/{{Psycroptic}}, Aversions Crown, and Destroyer 666. |
| 289 | ** Australian boy bands? Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer. Maybe Human Nature if you're lucky, but they did not gain recognition in the US until they did a few residencies in Las Vegas, wherein they performed doo-wop and Motown covers. |
| 290 | ** Australian country? Music/KeithUrban (even though he was born in New Zealand, and did not have hits until after he moved to the US). |
| 291 | ** Australian pop? Music/OliviaNewtonJohn (even though she was born in England, and did not have hits until she moved back to her birth country), Music/KylieMinogue and Music/SavageGarden. |
| 292 | ** Australian Christian music? Music/{{Hillsong}}. Some older fans of the Music/{{Newsboys}} may be able to remember that the group originally formed in Queensland (though they did not become successful until they moved to the US). The Smallbone family, specifically Rebecca, Joel, and Luke (the latter two being the principal members of For King & Country), is also reasonably well-known, but most don't know all three are siblings because Rebecca records as Rebecca St. James. Also, the family moved to the US when Rebecca was in her late teens, and both she and her brothers have (mostly) lived and worked in the States ever since. |
| 293 | * Austria: Waltz music, Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart and Falco. |
| 294 | * Bali: Gamelan music. |
| 295 | * Belgium: Music/JacquesBrel. |
| 296 | * Barbados: Music/{{Rihanna}}. |
| 297 | * Brazil: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto Gil, João Gilberto, Ary Barroso, Sergio Mendes, Milton Nascimento |
| 298 | ** Carmen Miranda (with her tutti frutti hat) was born in Portugal, but raised in Brazil and closely associated with the country. |
| 299 | ** Samba |
| 300 | ** Tropicalista music. |
| 301 | ** Forro. |
| 302 | ** Brazilian metal? Music/{{Sepultura}} and Music/{{Angra}}. Music/{{Krisiun}} may get an extremely rare mention. |
| 303 | * Even British music probably counted as "world" music for many people prior to the 1960s, when British pop singers were almost totally unknown outside the British Empire (or Commonwealth). Probably the only people who remember Matt Monro (1950s singer) are those who happen to know that he sang the theme to the second ''Film/JamesBond'' movie, ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. |
| 304 | * Canada: Music/BryanAdams, Music/{{Rush|Band}} and Music/MenWithoutHats in the '80s, "Informer", Music/AlanisMorissette, Music/CelineDion, Music/SarahMcLachlan and Music/ShaniaTwain in the '90s, Music/{{Nickelback}}, Music/{{Sum 41}}, Music/ThreeDaysGrace, Music/AvrilLavigne and Music/SimplePlan in the '00s, and Music/JustinBieber, Music/{{Drake}} and Music/TheWeeknd in the '10s (as well as Music/ArcadeFire, Music/{{Deadmau5}}, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen and "Rude" in the ''very'' early half of the '10s -- though [=Deadmau5=] is still a major figure in the EDM scene and Arcade Fire and Jepsen maintain cult followings) |
| 305 | * The Caribbean: Music/HarryBelafonte and Music/BobMarley. |
| 306 | ** Calypso, soca, reggae, ska and dancehall seem to be the only genres popular culture knows from that region. |
| 307 | * China: All Chinese music will be performed on an erhu. |
| 308 | * Colombia: Music/{{Shakira}}. |
| 309 | * Cuba: Pérez Prado, The Buena Vista Social Club, Music/CeliaCruz, Benny Moré. |
| 310 | * Denmark: |
| 311 | ** Danish metal? Music/{{Volbeat}}, Music/KingDiamond and Music/MercyfulFate. |
| 312 | ** Danish Eurodance acts? Music/{{Aqua}} (though frontwoman Lene Nystrøm hails from Norway). Cartoons may get a rare mention. |
| 313 | ** Danish rock? Music/{{Cryoshell}}. Michael Learns to Rock and Dizzy Mizz Lizzy may get rare mentions. |
| 314 | ** Danish pop? Music/{{MO}}. [=Alphabeat=] and Junior Senior may get rare mentions. Lukas Graham may also get a mention, but only because of "7 Years" and/or "Mama Said". |
| 315 | * Egypt: Umm Kulthum. |
| 316 | * England: Pompous bombastic classical music or the BritishRockStar stereotype. |
| 317 | ** English girl groups? The Music/SpiceGirls are likely to come up before any others, though Music/GirlsAloud may get an occasional mention. |
| 318 | ** English metal? Music/IronMaiden, Music/JudasPriest, Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/DiamondHead, Music/{{Venom}} and Music/DefLeppard. Music/CradleOfFilth, Music/TheDarkness, Witchfinder General and Music/{{Girlschool}} may get occasional mentions. |
| 319 | * Estonia: Winny Puhh (best known for their memetic performance in the 2013 edition of ''Eesti Laul'', the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest selection). |
| 320 | * France: Music/EdithPiaf or Music/DaftPunk. Or maybe Music/DavidGuetta. |
| 321 | ** All French rock songs are performed by Creator/JohnnyHallyday. |
| 322 | ** French metal? Music/{{Gojira|Band}}. |
| 323 | ** French hip-hop? MC Solaar. |
| 324 | ** All French music will be played on an accordion. Or can-can dancing in the Moulin Rouge. Or {{Chanson}}. |
| 325 | * Finland: |
| 326 | ** Finnish electronic music? Music/{{Darude}}, and only for one song ("Sandstorm"). |
| 327 | ** Finnish metal? Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}, Music/{{Stratovarius}}, Music/{{Lordi}} and Music/{{HIM}}. Music/{{Amorphis}}, Music/{{Korpiklaani}}, Music/{{Finntroll}} and Music/{{Ensiferum}} may get occasional mentions, as well as the ''very'' occasional mention of Music/{{Insomnium}}. |
| 328 | * Germany: |
| 329 | ** {{Oktoberfest}} oom-pah music played on a tuba. |
| 330 | ** German cabaret singers like Creator/MarleneDietrich. |
| 331 | ** Sentimental romantic music: Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, Music/FranzSchubert, ... |
| 332 | ** Teutonic opera: Music/RichardWagner |
| 333 | ** Experimental atonal music: Music/KarlheinzStockhausen, Music/KurtWeill,... |
| 334 | ** Experimental and quirky {{Krautrock}}. |
| 335 | ** Sappy schlager music. |
| 336 | ** Eurodance. |
| 337 | ** German metal: Music/{{Rammstein}}, Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}, Music/{{Accept}}, Music/{{Helloween}}, Music/BlindGuardian, and Music/{{Kreator}}. Destruction, Music/{{Sodom}}, Music/{{Necrophagist}}, and Music/{{Obscura}} may get occasional mentions. |
| 338 | ** German pop: Nena (who only seems to be remembered for "99 Luftbaloons/99 Red Balloons") and Music/BoneyM |
| 339 | ** German electronic music: Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. |
| 340 | * Greece: All music from there is the ''Sirtaki'', which isn't even a traditional dance to begin with. |
| 341 | * Hong Kong: Cantopop. |
| 342 | * Iceland: Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/SigurRos and Music/OfMonstersAndMen. Skálmöld may get an occasional mention, as well as the ''very'' occasional mention of Quarashi. |
| 343 | * Ireland: Fiddle music, Theatre/{{Riverdance}} and Theatre/LordOfTheDance. Maybe Music/{{Enya}} if you're lucky, or Westlife, [=Boyzone=] and B*Witched if you grew up in the UK in the 90s. |
| 344 | ** Ireland has only ever produced just three rock bands: Music/{{U2}}, Music/TheCranberries and Music/ThinLizzy (though U2 are ''much'' more likely to get a mention than the other two — the Cranberries are mostly remembered by Americans for "Zombie", "Linger", and "Dreams", and Thin Lizzy usually only get a mention because of "The Boys Are Back in Town"). My Bloody Valentine, Horslips, The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Boomtown Rats (with the exception of Bob Geldof) and Music/{{Ash}} apparently don't exist. (Though The Corrs ''sometimes'' show up on the occasional rom-com soundtrack alongside the Cranberries, ''maybe''.) Music/SnowPatrol might get a mention, but only because of "Chasing Cars". |
| 345 | * India: Music/RaviShankar. |
| 346 | ** All Indian music is played on a snakecharmer's flute, tablas or a sitar. Or lifted from a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} musical. |
| 347 | ** Indian metal? Demonic Resurrection. |
| 348 | * Israel: Klezmer music. |
| 349 | ** Israeli metal? Melechesh. |
| 350 | * Italy: {{Opera}}. |
| 351 | ** Italian pop music is Eros Ramazotti, Zucchero and/or Music/LauraPausini. |
| 352 | ** Italian metal? Music/LacunaCoil and Music/FleshgodApocalypse. Music/RhapsodyOfFire may get a rare mention. |
| 353 | * Jamaica: {{Reggae}}, ska, and dancehall. |
| 354 | * Japan: Gong and/or koto music. Something more modern? JPop, usually the kind that was used as a ThemeSong to an {{anime}} (all J music will be referred to as J-Pop, regardless of the actual genre). As for individual artists, Music/HikaruUtada and occasionally Music/{{Gackt}} are usually brought up the most outside of Japan. Music/PuffyAmiYumi and Music/MariyaTakeuchi might get brought up, but only because of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the]] [[WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi cartoons]] and the [[MemeticMutation meme]], respectively. |
| 355 | ** Japanese metal? Music/XJapan, Music/DirEnGrey, Music/MeltBanana, Music/MaximumTheHormone and Music/{{Galneryus}}. |
| 356 | * Mexico: Beyond the US and Central America, all Mexican music will be labelled "mariachi" regardless of its actual style. |
| 357 | * Middle East: No image of the Middle East is complete without a scene where a muezzin is calling/chanting the ritual morning prayer. All Arabic music is mysterious and mesmerizing, lasting one to three hours in length. Adding to the Oriental atmosphere are lutes, an oboe, tambourines, rhythmic percussion and sometimes a singer who sounds hypnotized himself. |
| 358 | * Moldova: [=SunStroke=] Project. Also Music/OZone, but only for "[[MemeticMutation Dragostea din Tea]]". |
| 359 | * The Netherlands: |
| 360 | ** Dutch metal? Music/{{Pestilence}}. |
| 361 | ** Dutch Eurodance? Vengaboys. |
| 362 | * New Zealand: Music/{{Lorde}} and Music/FlightOfTheConchords (Music/KeithUrban is more associated with Australia). |
| 363 | ** New Zealand metal? [=Shihad=] (and usually only because of the fact they briefly changed their name to "Pacifier" after the 9/11 attacks because their name was a mispelling of "jihad") and Alien Weaponry. |
| 364 | ** New Zealand rock? Music/CrowdedHouse (even though they were formed in Australia [Neil and Tim Finn were born in New Zealand], and a number of their members throughout their history have been Australian or American). Music/SplitEnz, which the Finn brothers were also part of, may get an occasional mention. |
| 365 | * Norway: Edvard Grieg |
| 366 | ** Norwegian pop: Music/{{Aha}} (and the only Norwegian pop song to exist is their SignatureSong "Take On Me"). |
| 367 | ** Norwegian metal: The only genre of metal Norwegian metal bands perform is BlackMetal. |
| 368 | * Pakistan: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. |
| 369 | * Portugal: Fado music. |
| 370 | * Poland: Romani music and disco polo. |
| 371 | ** Polish metal? Music/{{Behemoth}}. Music/{{Vader}} and Music/{{Decapitated}} might get a mention. |
| 372 | * Russia: ThatRussianSquatDance and male choirs with bassoon voices. |
| 373 | ** Russian metal? Music/SlaughterToPrevail. Arkona may get a rare mention. |
| 374 | ** Russian pop? Music/{{tatu}}. |
| 375 | * Scotland: Bagpipe music. |
| 376 | ** Scottish rock bands? The Proclaimers are the only one that'll get mentioned, and only because of one song. Music/CocteauTwins (unless you're a DreamPop fan or a hippie), the Bay City Rollers (outside of "Saturday Night"), Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, Pilot (outside of "Magic"), [=Bis=], and Music/BelleAndSebastian apparently don't exist. |
| 377 | ** Scottish metal bands? Music/{{Alestorm}} are the only one to exist, with them also being the only pirate metal band in existence. |
| 378 | * South Africa: Music/{{Seether}} and Music/DieAntwoord. Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Johnny Clegg might get a mention at times. |
| 379 | * South Korea: [[Music/{{PSY}} Oppan]] Music/GangnamStyle! And more recently, Music/{{BTS}}. Music/{{Rain}} may get a mention from those who've watched ''Series/TheColbertReport'' or ''Film/NinjaAssassin''. If you're lucky, they'll acknowledge the existence of K-Pop, but they won't know that there are Korean artists that perform music that isn't K-Pop. |
| 380 | * Spain: Flamenco music. |
| 381 | ** Spanish pop music is Julio and Enrique Iglesias. |
| 382 | ** Spanish metal: Music/MagoDeOz. |
| 383 | * Sweden: |
| 384 | ** Swedish pop: Music/{{ABBA}}, Music/AceOfBase, and Music/{{Robyn}}. Maybe Music/{{Roxette}} as well if you're lucky, as well as a rare mention of Music/ATeens. |
| 385 | ** Swedish metal: Music/{{Meshuggah}}, [[Music/GhostBand Ghost]], Music/{{Europe}}, Music/{{Sabaton}}, Music/InFlames, Music/{{Opeth}}, Music/AtTheGates, Music/ArchEnemy, Music/YngwieMalmsteen, and Music/AmonAmarth. Music/{{Dissection}}, Music/DarkTranquillity, Music/{{Entombed}}, Music/{{Soilwork}}, Music/{{Katatonia}} and Music/{{Watain}} may get occasional mentions, as well as the ''very'' occasional mentions of the Swedish bands of the "sleaze metal" movement that attempted to resurrect HairMetal, such as Crashdïet, Crazy Lixx, H.E.A.T and Vains of Jenna. |
| 386 | ** Swedish rock: Music/TheHives. |
| 387 | ** Swedish dance music: Music/{{Avicii}} and Music/SwedishHouseMafia. |
| 388 | * Taiwan: Mandopop. |
| 389 | ** Taiwanese metal? Music/{{Chthonic}}. |
| 390 | * Trinidad and Tobago: Music/NickiMinaj, calypso and soca. Even then, the only artist who performed calypso or soca that people outside of Trinidad and Tobago can name is Music/HarryBelafonte (who is American), though they might be able to name Mighty Sparrow and Lord Kitchener as well if you're lucky. |
| 391 | * United States: The country produced many internationally popular genres, but most of the world associates it solely with country, hip-hop and jazz. |
| 392 | * Wales: Their musical output is solely limited to male vocal choirs, Music/ShirleyBassey, Music/TomJones and Music/BonnieTyler (the latter limited to just "Total Eclipse of the Heart" & ''maybe'' "Holding Our for a Hero"). Acts like Music/{{Catatonia}}, Music/ManicStreetPreachers, Music/ShakinStevens (except at Christmas), Music/{{Stereophonics}} and Music/SuperFurryAnimals are never remembered outside the UK or Wales, and if Lostprophets are remembered, it's only because of [[OvershadowedByControversy the lead singer's child sex abuse prosecution]]. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder: People by instrument]] |
| 396 | * Accordionists? Astor Piazzolla and Music/WeirdAlYankovic |
| 397 | * Bassists |
| 398 | ** Jazz bassists: Jaco Pastorius and Victor Wooten, sometimes also Stanley Clarke, Michael Manring, John Patitucci, Esperanza Spalding, and Marcus Miller. There may be an ''extremely'' rare mention of Hadrien Feraud, Jonas Hellborg, or Steve Bailey as well. Wayman Tisdale will be remembered only as the subject of Music/TobyKeith's "Cryin' for Me", and was better known for his prior basketball career anyway. |
| 399 | ** Funk bassists: Bootsy Collins and Larry Graham. James Jamerson will get a mention once in a blue moon even though the majority of his work was either R&B or soul, and Bernard Edwards may also get dropped despite Music/{{Chic}} being a disco act. |
| 400 | ** Rock bassists: [[Music/{{Primus}} Les Claypool]] and [[Music/RushBand Geddy Lee]]. [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]], [[Music/LedZeppelin John Paul Jones]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} Cliff Burton, Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo]], [[Music/PinkFloyd Roger Waters]], [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]], [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], [[Music/TheWho John Entwistle]], [[Music/VanHalen Michael Anthony]], and [[Music/BlackSabbath Geezer Butler]] are also commonly mentioned and you ''might'' find [[Music/{{Yes}} Chris Squire]], [[Music/IronMaiden Steve Harris]], [[Music/DreamTheater John Myung]], [[Music/{{Cream}} Jack Bruce]], [[Music/QueenBand John Deacon]], [[Music/{{Rancid}} Matt Freeman]], [[Music/{{Korn}} Fieldy]], [[Music/{{Tool}} Justin Chancellor]], or [[Music/{{Mudvayne}} Ryan Martinie]] getting namedropped every once in a blue moon. Despite being objectively one of the most famous musicians in history, Music/PaulMcCartney will likely not be mentioned despite being a trailblazing figure in rock bass. [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Paul Gray]] may also get a mention by way of DeadArtistsAreBetter. |
| 401 | * Banjoists? Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck. |
| 402 | * Cellists? Pablo Casals and Yo-Yo Ma. |
| 403 | * Clarinetists? Benny Goodman. |
| 404 | * Conductors? Arturo Toscanini, Music/LeonardBernstein, and Herbert von Karajan will be the only ones the general public may be able to name. And Leopold Stokowski, but only because of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 405 | * Dancers? |
| 406 | ** Ballet dancers will always be female. Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn will be the only ones most people remember. In the current century, Misty Copeland ''may'' get a mention. The only male ones are Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Creator/SummerGlau was originally a ballerina, but don't expect anyone to remember that anymore. |
| 407 | ** Jazz dancers? Music/CabCalloway. |
| 408 | ** Mambo dancers? Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar. |
| 409 | ** Music hall dancers? Creator/JosephineBaker, famous for her ''banana skirt dance''. |
| 410 | ** Pop music dancers? Music/ElvisPresley for his ''pelvis shaking''. Music/JamesBrown for all of his energy. Music/MichaelJackson for the ''MoonWalkDance''. All other pop dancers tend to be remembered only by their fans or the generation that grew up with them. |
| 411 | *** A special mention is Creator/JohnTravolta, despite not being a real musical actor and dancer. |
| 412 | ** Tap dancers? Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/GingerRogers and Creator/GeneKelly. If black tap dancers are remembered it will be The Nicholas Brothers or Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. |
| 413 | * Drummers |
| 414 | ** Jazz drummers: Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. Elvin Jones, Terry Bozzio, Tony Williams, Jo Jones, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lenny White, Art Blakey, Steve Gadd, and Billy Cobham may also receive a mention here and there. |
| 415 | ** Rock drummers: Music/RingoStarr [[Music/TheBeatles is the most famous one]], but not considered the best. If someone else is mentioned it is probably [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]]. Other famous names include [[Music/LedZeppelin John Bonham]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ulrich]], [[Music/Blink182 Travis Barker]], [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Joey Jordison]], Music/DaveGrohl, [[Music/VanHalen Alex Van Halen]], [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee]], [[Music/{{Whitesnake}} Tommy Aldridge]], [[Music/{{KISS}} Peter Criss]], [[Music/DreamTheater Mike Portnoy]], [[Music/PinkFloyd Nick Mason]], [[Music/DeepPurple Ian Paice]], [[Music/AvengedSevenfold James "The Rev" Sullivan]], [[Music/BlackSabbath Bill Ward]], [[Music/{{Pantera}} Vinnie Paul]], [[Music/{{Cream}} Ginger Baker]], [[Music/JimiHendrix Mitch Mitchell]], [[Music/{{Slayer}} Dave Lombardo]], Music/YoshikiHayashi, [[Music/LambOfGod Chris Adler]], [[Music/ShadowsFall Jason Bittner]], [[Music/ThePolice Stewart Copeland]], [[Music/DaveMatthewsBand Carter Beauford]], [[Music/{{Deftones}} Abe Cunningham]], [[Music/{{Meshuggah}} Tomas Haake]], [[Music/{{Death}} Gene Hoglan]], and [[Music/{{Tool}} Danny Carey]]. |
| 416 | ** Gospel drummers: Tony Royster Jr. and Thomas Pridgen. Eric Moore and Matt Garstka are also commonly mentioned, though Garstka is probably more famous for his work with Music/AnimalsAsLeaders. |
| 417 | ** English folk-rock drummers: Dave Mattacks or Gerry Conway. |
| 418 | ** Prog drummers: Music/BillBruford (of Music/{{Yes}} and Music/KingCrimson) and [[Music/RushBand Neil Peart]]. |
| 419 | * Flute players? In the classical world, it's either James Galway or Jean-Pierre Rampal. In jazz, it's Hubert Laws or Herbie Mann. In rock, it's [[Music/JethroTull Ian Anderson]] and ''perhaps'' [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Ray Thomas]]. |
| 420 | * Guitarists |
| 421 | ** Jazz guitarists? Music/DjangoReinhardt and Les Paul. Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Pat Martino, Music/PatMetheny, Shawn Lane, Al Di Meola, and John [=McLaughlin=] sometimes also get tossed out. |
| 422 | ** Rock and metal guitarists? Music/JimiHendrix, first and foremost (at least for the rock side of things). Others that remain legendary are Music/ChuckBerry, Music/JeffBeck, Music/EricClapton, Music/KeithRichards, [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]], [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]], Music/{{Slash|Musician}}, [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Tom]] [[Music/{{Audioslave}} Morello]], [[Music/{{ACDC}} Angus Young]], [[Music/BlackSabbath Tony Iommi]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} Kirk Hammett]], [[Music/RushBand Alex Lifeson]], Music/BrianMay, [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Joe Perry]], [[Music/{{KISS}} Ace Frehley]], [[Music/{{UFO}} Michael Schenker]], [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Duane Allman]], [[Music/JourneyBand Neal Schon]], Music/CarlosSantana, [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers John Frusciante]], [[Music/AliceInChains Jerry Cantrell]], [[Music/DeepPurple Ritchie]] [[Music/{{Rainbow}} Blackmore]], [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Randy Rhoads]], [[Music/{{Dokken}} George Lynch]], [[Music/{{Pantera}} Dimebag Darrell]], [[Music/BlackLabelSociety Zakk Wylde]], [[Music/CreedBand Mark]] [[Music/AlterBridge Tremonti]], [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Marty Friedman]], Music/SteveVai, Music/JoeSatriani, Music/YngwieMalmsteen, [[Music/{{Testament}} Alex Skolnick]], [[Music/DreamTheater John Petrucci]], and [[Music/{{Korn}} Brian "Head" Welch]]. |
| 423 | * Mandolinists: Bill Monroe, maybe Ricky Skaggs, Lester Flatt, or Marty Stuart if you're lucky. |
| 424 | * Mouth Harmonica players: Toots Thielemans in jazz, while any harmonica solo on a pop record will inevitably get miscredited to Stevie Wonder. |
| 425 | * Pianists |
| 426 | ** Classical pianists? Glenn Gould and Arthur Rubinstein, most likely. Maybe Vladimir Horowitz or Music/{{Liberace}} as well. |
| 427 | ** Jazz pianists? Music/DukeEllington and Music/CountBasie. Music/HerbieHancock, Chick Corea, and Hiromi Uehara may also receive a mention, as will Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk if they're trying to impress. Finally, Norah Jones may get an occasional mention, mostly if they're talking about her smash hit debut ''Come Away with Me'' (or even rarely, her other work, which wasn't as successful as her debut). |
| 428 | ** Rock pianists? Music/FatsDomino, Music/JerryLeeLewis, Music/LittleRichard, Music/EltonJohn, Music/StevieWonder, and Music/BillyJoel. [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]], [[Music/DeepPurple Jon Lord]], Music/RickWakeman, and [[Music/TheDoors Ray Manzarek]] are also likely to get mentions here and there despite all being organists. |
| 429 | * Saxophonists? Music/CharlieParker and Music/JohnColtrane. |
| 430 | ** UsefulNotes/BillClinton and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson (and maybe Bleeding Gums Murphy)]] may be thrown in the mix too, though not seriously, as the former is known as a President and the latter two are fictional characters. |
| 431 | * Sitar players? Music/RaviShankar. |
| 432 | * Trombone players? Music/GlennMiller and Tommy Dorsey. |
| 433 | * Trumpet players? Music/LouisArmstrong and Music/MilesDavis. Music/DizzyGillespie can be referenced as well, because of his swollen cheeks whenever he blew the horn. Music/HerbAlpert too. |
| 434 | * Vibraphone players: Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, or (if it's Latin jazz) Cal Tjader. |
| 435 | * Violinists? Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, and Jean-Luc Ponty are most likely. Maybe Niccolò Paganini if you're going waaaaaay back. Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, or Fritz Kreisler might get a mention as well. |
| 436 | * Vocalists: See above ''vocalists''. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
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