PunK (e.g., Germs, Bad Brains, Ramones, X-RaySpex, Joy Division, Suicide, Sham69, Damned, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, etc.)
New Wave (e.g., Gary Numan, Devo, Red Noise, Pere Ubu, Red Krayola, Urban Verbs, Magazine, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello)
Progressive rock (e.g., Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Yes, Be Bop De Luxe, Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Avant-garde (Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Residents, Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band)
Classical (Mahler, Ives, Beethoven, Bach, Bartok, Glass, Reich, Zappa)
Jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Sharrock, Horace Tap-Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp)
Metal (Metallica, Megadeth, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Sunn ((0)))))) )
Industrial/Alternative (Einsturzende Neubauten, KMFDM, NIN, SPK)
Country (Hanks I-III, Dwight Yoakum, Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss)
Classic Rock (Doors, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Bowie, Jeff Beck)
Electronic (Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Mother Mallard, Silver Apples)
Proto-punk (Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The Godz, New York Dolls)