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Dunno if it falls under this, but disco.
And rock 'n roll (as in Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, etc., and not the term that generally refers to rock music).
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Not really "dead horse" as much as merely artistically stable but I still enjoy a lot of power metal. It's not really making the same leaps and bounds as black and death metal but there are still a lot of quality acts
that are distinctive in their own way.
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disco remains one of the greatest genres ever and anyone who tries to say otherwise is simply out-of-touch :)
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Shoegazing bands, even though I'm ordinarily a hip-hop fan.
https://soundcloud.com/rich-justice-hinmen Too white for the black kids, too white for the white kids.
Disco and Dubstep (certainly getting there).
Older country that can actually, unironically called "country and western". Stuff like Buck Owens, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, etc.
Protip: If you refer to a modern act as "country and western", prepare to meet the wrath of a bazillion country fans.
Nu metal.
No regret shall pass over the threshold!
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Oh, I also thought of another: hippie music. I don't mean like psychedelic rock, garage, or Phish or anything like that—all those have pretty well stood the test of time. I mean stuff like this:
(I played that for a friend of mine who's a huge classic rock buff and he wanted me to turn it off by the time the chorus was over. 
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I was somewhat into nu metal as a teenager, so I have a certain amount of nostalgia for a few bands in the genre while acknowledging how silly it can be - I'm particularly thinking of early Korn and Limp Bizkit.
By definition it's not really a "genre", but I've come to enjoy Power Ballads, the cheesier the better. I think this sort of started kicking in when I started doing more karaoke, because that kind of song seems like a popular choice.
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I dunno, I prefer Queen when it comes to karaoke, but power ballads are fun to watch people do too.
Unless they don't put any energy into it, which is a crime against all humanity.
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Odd1 that hippie music is basically what GS turned into by 68, which is WHY it died.
The Tigers- This Glorious World
Critics basically found this type of music too pretentious.
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"GS"?
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Group Sounds.
Basically a Japanese folk music/rock hybrid
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Got any examples? Sounds interesting.
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Oh, you posted one above too XD Whoops.
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I guess you could call grunge a dead horse genre (whatever was left of it with was beaten to death my Nickelback et al), but I'm not sure if "dead horse" means discredited or just dead. Also, late 70s/80s (maybe even early 90s, but I'm notsure if that counts) industrial. I mean, what does aggrotech even have to with industrial? Seriously...
Is it just me, or does nearly every genre have 40 billion mutations that have only subtle differences? What makes something post-this but not trans-that? Or beige this instead of chartreuse that?
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Were you talking about my post or?
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Wikipedia. That's who informs everyone which songs are which subgenres.
If a song isn't on Wikipedia, though, then it's obscure, indie, outsider, or alternative.
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In general.
Except for the Wikpedia articles where everyone edit-wars endlessly over the "genre" field in the infobox.
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Disco. If it was done well, it's almost perfect dance music.
It's the grandfather of hip-hop and all electronic dance music as well. It may be a dead horse, but it's one of the most important genres of music ever. It gets too little credit but it affected music and culture to the same extent rock did.
Even so, I don't think it's dead. It just morphed into hip-hop, electropop, and techno by 1982.
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I really like 70s and 80s punk and post-punk.
I also like a lot of the mostly electronic bands and artists from that time frame. Even though the synthesizers and drum machines may sound dated by today's standards in the music of bands and artists like Gary Numan, Tangerine Dream, Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, etc., there's a certain appeal their music has for me.
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Twent, I was being facetious.
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I gotta admit, I have a huge place in my heart for Hair Metal...I dunno why but it was my gateway into "real metal".
also Group Sounds are awesome.
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