Songlist for different genres of music

Here are some songs that you might like to listen to from each category. There are heaps and heaps of really cool songs out there but this is just a sample of songs that I kinda of like for the moment. Please add to the list under comments or suggest alternatives

Official List of categories and winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grammy_Award_categories

Rock
A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll." The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form", it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody."

The heart of the matter by Eagles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdy3j1gguHw&feature=related
Stand by me by Oasis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2AYeBrt920
With or without you by U2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ye8GLPUVsM&feature=related

Rhythm and Blues
A style of music developed by African Americans that combines blues and jazz, characterized by a strong backbeat and repeated variations on syncopated instrumental phrases.

To love somebody by Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJwBaYAtcM&feature=related
Ordinary People by John Legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDMpkWiex60&feature=related
It's so Hard to say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT50b3BzULU&feature=related

Folk
Music originating among the common people of a nation or region and spread about or passed down orally, often with considerable variation. Contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music

Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg&feature=related
Luka by Suszanne Vegan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyxYL753w4
I'm my own grandpa by Steve Goodman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtHZDPoRdU&feature=related

Pop
Music of general and wide appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love.

Flying without wings by Westlife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LEISP6e9c
Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svR8YA-DXCg
Born to Try by Delta Goodrem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA-plUPT7wM

Indie/ Alternative music
In popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. Independent Labels have been known to strive for minimal influence on the artist they represent, avoiding the artist-cultivating behavior of many major labels. Artists represented by Indie labels have been known to be focused more on producing music than becoming wealthy and/or well known.(In America, this is known as alternative music)

Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5Bib_ql3M&feature=PlayList&p=3AADBAC1CC481DE4&playnext=1&index=4
Viva La Vida (Death and all his friends) by Coldplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE
Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOc2S1AkjE

Opera
A drama set to music is an opera. Opera consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes.

All I Ask of You by The Three Tenors.
The trio consists of Spanish vocalists Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCidmH82UF8&feature=related
The Prayer by Charlotte Church and Josh Groban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBv9-yz9g4
Because we believe by Andrew Bocelli and Marco Borsato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW74L4qNEqY&feature=related

Raggae
It is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythmic style characterized by regular beats on the off-beat, known as the skank. Reggae is normally slower than skank, and usually has accents on the first and third beat in each bar. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including religion, love, sexuality, peace, relationships, poverty, injustice and other social and political issues.

I'm Yours by Jason Marz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYhrYHmUPn0&feature=related
Three Little Birds by Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_NQZyBc3g&feature=related
My time with you by David Choi and Kina Grannis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmetbTknAUk

Blues
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues forms exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered. Blue notes are sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Blues emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influences.

Heart of Life by John Mayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS8NvoMudy8&feature=PlayList&p=437A70221B64A068&playnext=1&index=2
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8
Mercy by Duffy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQwliMAZC8&feature=related

Jazz
Travis Jackson has also proposed a broader definition of jazz which is able to encompass all of the radically different eras: he states that it is music that includes qualities such as "swinging', improvising, group interaction, developing an 'individual voice', and being 'open' to different musical possibilities". In Jazz, the skilled performer will interpret a tune in very individual ways, never playing the same composition exactly the same way twice. Depending upon the performer's mood and personal experience, interactions with fellow musicians, or even members of the audience, a jazz musician/performer may alter melodies, harmonies or time signature at will.

What a difference a day makes by Jamie Cullum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1r6GcPqFSo
Stormy weather by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teXOPAFMOp0&feature=related
What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI&feature=related

Country
A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments.

It's your love by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXeBQmfDmjc&feature=related
Anyway by Martina McBride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE3S7VcyOPU&feature=related
Stairway to Heaven by Dolly Parton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35F8jLFjW0


Hip hop/ Rap
It developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans. Hip hop's four main elements are rapping, DJing, graffiti writing, and b-boying. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion, hip hop slang, and recently VJing. Since first emerging in the Bronx and Harlem, the lifestyle of hip hop culture has spread around the world. When hip hop music began to emerge, it was based around DJs who created rhythmic beats by looping breaks (smalls portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables. This was later accompanied by "rapping" (a rhythmic style of chanting). An original form of dancing, and particular styles of dress, arose among followers of this new music.

Triumph by Wu Tang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA
Just the two of us by Will Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZkJlQAHqw
Classic by Kanye West with Rakim, Nas and KRS One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDCDrcZK4NE

Soul
A type of music, descended from American Negro gospel songs, which has great emotion. Soul music is a combination of R&B and gospel, and began in the late 1950s in the United States. Soul differentiates from R&B because of Soul's use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists and its merging of religious and secular themes. Soul traces its roots to four different sources: racial, geographical, historical and economical factors. The 1950s recordings of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown are commonly considered the beginnings of soul music.

I try by Marcy Gray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kk8PMT2Sk
Sorry seems to be hardest word by Mary J Blige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCaH-SHBZk&feature=related
You've got a friend by Carole King, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Shania Twain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6r1175w_lM&feature=related

Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM)that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988.Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. In general it is any of various styles of dance music characterized by electronic sounds and a high-energy, rhythmic beat.

Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NattlyH0IeM
Time by David Guetta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2RjW5rB0I&feature=related
Time of our lives by Paul Van Dyk and Vega 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZy9BOWWGE&feature=channel

Child singers
Tell me why by Declan Galbraith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhK36tIJqsY&feature=PlayList&p=D786124ECF5ABD9D&index=9
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Connie Talbot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnRXmMn2Ag&feature=related
Stand by me and Beautiful girls by The Choir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxHxloG854&feature=related