Hi there,
Work is slow today so this has turned into quite a list.
Rock:
KORN (Love this band, its a good honest racket)
SOAD (Chop suey is one of my all time favourites)
VoiVod
Industrial:
NIN (Before the fragile)
LARD
Ministry (Before Jesus built my hotrod)
Pop Will Eat Itself
front line assembly
front 242
Electronic:
Autechre
Crystal Method
Apex Twin
Soul:
Otis Redding
Wilson Pickett
Bill Withers
Spencer Davis Group (Yes, i know its R&B really)
Funky stuff:
Ohio Players
The O'jays
KC and the sunshine band (Sorry, it's a sickness)
Punk:
The Sex Pistols
Dead Kennedys
The exploited
Rancid
The Cure (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Goth)
The Damned
No Means No
The Pixies
Rap:
Cannibal Ox
The Beasty Boys
Roots Manuva
Classical:
Tchaikovsky (The nut cracker suit is one of my favourites in classical)
I love any competent rendition of anything by Andre Segovia, Fernando sore and Francisco Teragga. (I used to teach classical guitar)
Jazz:
Miles Davis
Weather report
Count Basie
Dance:
The Prodigy (New cd rules, their best since the Prodigy Experience)
The Chemical Brothers
Eat Static
Orbital
Early Underworld
Ambient/Mellow stuff:
The Orb
Ozric Tentacles
Contemporary:
Steve Reich (Useless piece of info - The floaty tune on the orb single "Little Fluffy Clouds" is a loop from Steve Reich's masterpiece "Electric Counterpoint")
John Mclaughlin (Shakti, The Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Country:
I find it strangely creepy or seedy or something. Albert Lee is a great guitar player but its still soding country music.
In the future we will not spank the monkey, the monkey will spank us.