Music movements

This blog introduces music of different pop music movements:

• Psychedelia
  Beatles, Frank Zappa. Jefferson Airplane, Spirit, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Traffic

  

  Album cover: (Psychedelic sounds by the) 13th Floor Elevators

• Progrock: Canterbury scene
  Robert Wyatt, Canterbury scene, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong
  

  

  Soft Machine - Volume Two

• Progrock: Symfo rock
  Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, UK, Supertramp, Styx, Rick Wakeman, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Aphrodite's Child, Curved Air. Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Nektar
  

  

  Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

• Progrock: Krautrock
  Can, Kraftwerk, Neu, Krautrock, Cluster, Amon Duül, Holger Czukay
  

  

  Can - Future Days

• Glamrock
  David Bowie, Lou Reed, T-Rex, The Sweet, Mott the Hoople, Mud
  

  

  David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars

• Ska/Reggae
  The Beat, UB40, The Selecter, Madness, The Specials, Bob Marley
  

  

  UB 40 - Signing Off

• Punk / Gothic
  Bauhaus, Joy Division, XTC

XTC - Drums and Wires

• Soul
• Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder
  

  

  Jackson 5 - Get it together

• Fusion/Jazz
  Chicago, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan
  

  

  Steely Dan - Gaucho

• Funk
  Britfunk, Chaka Khan, Earth Wind & Fire
  

  

  Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All

• Blues
  Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale
  

  

  Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard

• Folk
  America, Bert Jansch, Bruce Cockburn, Cat Stevens, Donovan, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Roy Harper, T-Rex
  

  

  Neil Young - Harvest

• Synthpop
  New Order, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thomas Dolby, YMO
  

  

  OMD - Architecture & Morality

• New Romantics/New Wave
  Icehouse, Scritti Politti, Tears For Fears, ABC, Alphaville
  

  

  Icehouse - Primitive Man

• Hard rock/Heavy metal
  Led Zeppelin, Van Halen
  

  

  Led Zeppelin - III

• Afrobeat
  Fela Kuti
  

  

  Fela Kuti - Open & close