Best in Class

[Corpsey]

Is Todd Edwards the exemplar of garage, or is he a genre unto himself?

 

[luka]

Indian - Ravi Shankar

Self Pity - The Smiths

 

[luka]

Why is biscuits giving me the sad face

 

[luka]

Latin - Shakira

 

[IdleRich]

French genre - Serge Gainsborogh

Spanish genre - Manu Chao

American - Jon Bon Jovi

We've got a problem here cos Manu Chao is French isn't he?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Is Todd Edwards the exemplar of garage, or is he a genre unto himself?

To my mind, the best in class typically meets the principal criteria for the genre but sits partly outside the genre too, as it's hard for others to copy.

 

[version]

Grime - Wiley.

 

[luka]

We've got a problem here cos Manu Chao is French isn't he?

Is he? He's still the best Spanish music even if he is.

 

[IdleRich]

Best John Carpenter-style synth music for films - Giorgio Moroder.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Grime - Wiley.

above Dizzee?

 

[version]

Best John Carpenter-style synth music for films - Giorgio Moroder.

I'd say Carpenter or Tangerine Dream.

 

[IdleRich]

Is he? He's still the best Spanish music even if he is.

I think he as to compete with SG as the best Frenchman.

 

[luka]

The most quintessentially Spanish encapsulating and exemplifying all it means to be Spanish

 

[Benny Bunter]

We've got a problem here cos Manu Chao is French isn't he?

Substitute for enrique iglesias

 

[IdleRich]

I'd say Carpenter or Tangerine Dream.

I'd probably say Carpenter too really.

 

[version]

above Dizzee?

Yes.

 

[luka]

This is what Barcelona sounds like

 

[IdleRich]

The most quintessentially Spanish encapsulating and exemplifying all it means to be Spanish

He sings in all different languages.

 

[version]

Drums - Steve Gurley.

 

[Corpsey]

Grime: Mike Skinner