A musical education

I meant to do this ages ago, but never got round to it, but anyway - I'm putting together a playlist by genre to give my kids a proper musical education that's not just tiktok soundtracks.

Rules are: for each genre you have 4 tracks - 3 need to be complete classics of the genre and the 4th can be a wildcard choice - either personal favourite, underappreciated banger etc.

Genres need to be pretty broad (I'm not going to include too many, if any, thrash/death metal subgenres).

I will be including an icons section for a few individual artists/groups - Beatles, Elvis, Prince, Bowie - will accept other submissions but going to keep this to a minimum.

So to kick off, I'm going with:

Punk -
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
Still Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

Your suggestions please...

Grunge -
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Nirvana - About a Girl
Bush - Glycerine
Hole - Celebrity Skin

The thing is there is SO much, how do you possibly narrow it down...

Not editing my original list, they're all great, but it's so difficult to choose.

Yeah - I know. It's tough! But I want to have Jazz, Blues, Northern Soul, Trip Hop, Country etc etc so have to be ruthless. My hope is that after hearing some things they will make a deeper dive on their own.

Country -
Jolene - Dolly Parton
The devil went down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Wrecking Ball - The Gregory Brothers

Ska
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
Symarip - Skinhead Moonstomp
Prince Buster - One Step Beyond
Esperanza (local Glasgow band)- 2 Tone Ain't Dead

YouTube

Get low (white people version)
Mans not hot
Windowlicker
Friday

This may already be in your icons list, as you mentioned you will include Prince. But I'm going to post this anyway. Most enthousiasm I've seen from people for this genre at first, is due to the recognition of the samples used in later music. Then they dive into the rabbithole that is P-Funk.

4 starters to get to know:
Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic
One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament
Flashlight - Parliament
I'll Stay - Funkadelic

There's a nice documentary on youtube, which may make it easier to introduce your kids to it:
https://youtu.be/IjQ5QcM1SfA

I've planned a funk genre, so can use them. Songs subsequently sampled get a strong bonus point!
Ska/Two Tone is in as well - thanks. Will check out that last one.
Strong country choices.

@hugo7 smh, as the kids say.

Female (or female-led) punk:

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
The Slits - Instant Hit
The Distillers - Best Your Heart Out

For the Blues, gotta go back to the beginning

John Lee Hooker - Boom boom
Robert Johnson - Ramblin’ on my Mind
Howling’ Wolf - Moanin’ at midnight
B.B King - The thrill is gone

Here is my funk selection

Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
Cameo - Knights of the Sound Table
A.A.B.B. - Pick up the Pieces (one by one)

Last set from me, Jazz

Teddy Wilson Trio - Whisperin’
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
Donald Byrd - Black Byrd
Grover Washington Jnr. - Inner City Blues

Alternative punk:

The Damned - New Rose
The Clash - 1977
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
Slaughter and the Dogs - Where have all the boot boys gone?

Nice idea but this thread needs to be purged and started again

Is indie rock a genre?
Arctic Monkeys - The view from the afternoon
The Killers - Mr Brightside
The Strokes - Last Nite
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

Trip hop

Massive attack: Daydreaming
Tricky: Pumpkin
Deltron 3030: Virus
Edit: Bomb the Bass; Bug Powder Dust (la funk mob remix)

Yeah - why not.

Haven't heard Deltron 3030,but I would have to have a Portishead track in there.

Deltron 3030 is amazing, add in Dr. Octagonecologyst to that genre.

Yeah you're right. Probably Glory Box. I only left them out as I can't disassociate them with Miles and Anna / This Life.

Kool Keith gets his own genre.

Ooh, this is good.
Before anybody else does it
That unmistakably 60s sound (that doesn't include The Beatles)

Beach Boys- Good Vibrations
The Byrds- 8 miles High
We Five- You were on my mind
Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit

in the category of the fall albums

the frenz experiment - the fall
the unutterable - the fall
bend sinister - the fall
i am curious orange - the fall

Brit Girl Band 90's revival:

The Spice Girls - Wannabe
All Saints - Bootie Call
Sugababes - Push the Button
Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

Bob Dylan reinventions genre

A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
Senor
Things Have Changed
I Contain Multitudes