Which Genre Has The Best Mainstream?

wobbles · Post by **wobbles** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:55 pm

miles davis

DJoe · Post by **DJoe** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:00 pm

Mainstream reggae is all good. Bob Marley, toots etc.

DJoe · Post by **DJoe** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:02 pm

infact mainstream danchall, reggae and dub is all pretty good. mainstream jungle > mainstream dnb

chekov · Post by **chekov** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:03 pm

maybe this should go in unpopular opinions but i'm not really into much bob marley

DJoe · Post by **DJoe** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:06 pm

Not the best i agree but then again he is the mainstream face of a genre

leyenda · Post by **leyenda** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:18 am

garethom wrote:
deadly habit wrote:Most mainstream EDM regardless of sub genre is utter garbage.
Good point.

Actually, what people consider mainstream grime might actually match dubstep for its shitness compared to the underground.

Mainstream grime is weird cos at one point it would have meant early Dizzee, Kano, Lethal B etc so could have been considered good. Now it just seems so far removed from what the underground side of things is. Probably went down the shitter with Dance With Me.

Dunno about recently but at one point just about the only thing that I would consider worthwhile in terms of a MoS compilation would be what they call 'chillout' music. In reality though what they put on these compilations was just stuff from a variety of EDM genres that could be prefixed with the word ambient with some Trip Hop chucked in. Qualitywise these tunes are pretty good and recogniseable by most people if only through adverts etc.

Garage and RnB go without saying. Jazz is also a good shout. Mingus, Coltrane and Davis could all come under 'mainstream' jazz if only because it's mainstream is less known than most other genres.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 6:45 am

POLKA OBVS

wub · Post by **wub** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:45 am

Yeah, still prog house. Rui Da Silva - Touch Me is a tune.

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:58 am

wub wrote:Yeah, still prog house. Rui Da Silva - Touch Me is a tune.

Yeah, grabbed that on 12" not so long ago.

leyenda303 wrote:
garethom wrote:
deadly habit wrote:Most mainstream EDM regardless of sub genre is utter garbage.
Good point.

Actually, what people consider mainstream grime might actually match dubstep for its shitness compared to the underground.
Mainstream grime is weird cos at one point it would have meant early Dizzee, Kano, Lethal B etc so could have been considered good. Now it just seems so far removed from what the underground side of things is. Probably went down the shitter with Dance With Me.

Yeah this is what I meant. Basically, to me, mainstream grime is what papers/shit music channels/tv shows call it, where it's not grime, it just involves people that were once involved in Grime, Dizzee, Wiley and Roll Deep's shit chart stuff, etc.

Geey · Post by **Geey** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:03 am

I think the new deep house type songs on the national radios stations are some of the only songs I can stand to listen to on them.
The disclosure boys and jamie jones's hot natured are bridging the gap between real deep house and pop music quite nicely.

I'm saying disco/deep house

incnic · Post by **incnic** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:05 am

industrial tekkerz

skunktech · Post by **skunktech** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:10 am

southstar wrote:trip hop had some good mainstream for a while

yeah

Lye_Form · Post by **Lye_Form** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:39 am

Mainstream Trip Hop?

Massive Attack, Tricky etc?

Edit: just saw this:

skunktech wrote:
southstar wrote:trip hop had some good mainstream for a while
yeah

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:52 am

John Barnes rap

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:09 am

Hiphop/RnB and California Punk/Ska.

I miss the 90s.

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:10 am

Also, Rock n Roll and pretty much anything ever released on Motown.

Liam92 · Post by **Liam92** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:27 am

Hip-Hop:

Outkast, Beastie Boys, Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Neptunes...

Sexual_Chocolate · Post by **Sexual_Chocolate** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:28 am

jazz & blues

Forum · Post by **Forum** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:34 am

Nevalo wrote:jazz & blues

How much mainstream jazz has there been been in the last 30 years?

Sexual_Chocolate · Post by **Sexual_Chocolate** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:36 am

i didnt realize there was a time frame....

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