Are the beach boys the most diverse band?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

How many bands can you think of that has at least one song that fits in each of the following genres?

A cappella: And Your Dreams Come True
Adult Contemporary: Kokamo
Avant-garde: Vegetables
Soft rock/ballad: Surfer Girl
Big Band: Life is for the Living
Christmas: pop: Little Saint Nick
Classic Rock: Sail on Sailor
Classical: Lady Lynda
Country: Cotton Fields
Disco: Here Comes the Night
Doo wop: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Experimental: Mrs Olearys Cow
Folk: Looking at Tomorrow
Garage rock: Surfin
Hard rock: All I Want to Do
Hawaiian music: Diamond Head
Jazz: Good Vibrations
New wave: Male Ego
Prog Rock: Feel Flows
Psychedelic: Sail Plane
Punk: Drip Drop
Rap: Wipe Out
Rhythm and blues: Darlin
Spoken poetry: Beaks of Eagles
Surf rock: Stoked
Symphonic pop: God Only Knows
Synth pop: Let Us Go On

Modified: I named one song that fits each.

I might be missing some. I'm not totally sure on some. Would you consider Feel Flows ambient? Does Lady Lynda intro count as entering the classical genre? So I may be cheating somewhat. I didn't count solo stuff, but I do consider unreleased Beach Boys material such as Drip Drop as punk.

[CenturyDeprived]

How many bands can you think of that has at least one song that fits in each of the following genres?

A cappella
Adult Contemporary
Ambient
Avant-garde
Soft rock/ballad
Big Band
Christmas: pop
Classic Rock
Classical
Country
Disco
Doo wop
Experimental
Folk
Garage rock
Jazz
New wave
Psychedelic
Punk
Rap
Rhythm and blues
Spoken poetry
Surf rock
Symphonic pop
Synth pop

I might be missing some. I'm not totally sure on some. Would you consider Feel Flows ambient? Does Lady Lynda intro count as entering the classical genre? So I may be cheating somewhat. I didn't count solo stuff, but I do consider unreleased Beach Boys material such as Drip Drop as punk.

Not too much of a stretch to consider the likes of "All I Wanna Do" to be proto-shoegaze/dreampop too.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

How many bands can you think of that has at least one song that fits in each of the following genres?

A cappella
Adult Contemporary
Ambient
Avant-garde
Soft rock/ballad
Big Band
Christmas: pop
Classic Rock
Classical
Country
Disco
Doo wop
Experimental
Folk
Garage rock
Jazz
New wave
Psychedelic
Punk
Rap
Rhythm and blues
Spoken poetry
Surf rock
Symphonic pop
Synth pop

I might be missing some. I'm not totally sure on some. Would you consider Feel Flows ambient? Does Lady Lynda intro count as entering the classical genre? So I may be cheating somewhat. I didn't count solo stuff, but I do consider unreleased Beach Boys material such as Drip Drop as punk.

Not too much of a stretch to consider the likes of "All I Wanna Do" to be proto-shoegaze/dreampop too.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with that genre. I could have said prog rock, or acid rock, but they might be too samilar to psychedelic or ambient. Maybe Feel Flows would be better described as prog rock?

[MugginsXO]

This list seems a bit of a stretch. I don't know if they are any more adventurous or diverse than any other high profile 60s success, particularly any group that stuck around for a few decades.

Lady Lynda certainly doesn't qualify I don't think as working in Classical. I would also say that including unreleased or unfinished work is not playing fair as surely being creatively diverse demands believing in cross genre songs enough to actually put them out.

Can you list the songs you are thinking of for Ambient, Jazz, Experimental and Avant Garde?

[MugginsXO]

Ps your Wyatt Family support is positively noted!

[Michael Edward Osbourne]

Hard Rock - All I Want To Do

[Shady]

They did it all really.

Apart from metal it's hard to think of a genre they didn't touch on.

[phirnis]

Is there a genre tag addressing the Fine Young Cannibals beat they used in Strange Things Happen? "1990s coffee-machine commercial pop" perhaps?

[lostbeachboy]

2 words that describe The Beach Boys... Criminally Underrated

[CenturyDeprived]

Did "Wrinkles" create its own genre? And if so, what would that be?   

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Ps your Wyatt Family support is positively noted!

Follow the buzzards

[Magic Transistor Radio]

This list seems a bit of a stretch. I don't know if they are any more adventurous or diverse than any other high profile 60s success, particularly any group that stuck around for a few decades.

Lady Lynda certainly doesn't qualify I don't think as working in Classical. I would also say that including unreleased or unfinished work is not playing fair as surely being creatively diverse demands believing in cross genre songs enough to actually put them out.

Can you list the songs you are thinking of for Ambient, Jazz, Experimental and Avant Garde?

I would count unreleased material from any band if it has been recorded. I am not as familiar with other bands, so if you think a band is as diverse as the Beach Boys, I would like to see a similar list with a song that matches that genre.

Also, there is a song next to each genre above. You may have read it before I modified. I agreed and mentioned that Feel Flows as ambient may be a stretch. Perhaps I should change it to prog rock.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Hard Rock - All I Want To Do

 noted

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Is there a genre tag addressing the Fine Young Cannibals beat they used in Strange Things Happen? "1990s coffee-machine commercial pop" perhaps?

Not that I am aware of. I'm trying to stick to commonly listed genres. Unless many here accept that as such

[alf wiedersehen]

Ambient: Feel Flows

No

Avant-garde: Vegetables

Not really

Soft rock/ballad: Surfer Girl

Ballad is not a genre

Classic Rock: Sail on Sailor

Classic rock isn't really a genre so much as it is a name retrofitted to rock songs that radio stations play

Classical: Lady Lynda

No

Garage rock: Surfin

I dunno, it's really just surf rock

Jazz: Good Vibrations

No

New wave: Male Ego

No

Spoken poetry: Beaks of Eagles

Not much of a genre

[Magic Transistor Radio]

They did it all really.

Apart from metal it's hard to think of a genre they didn't touch on.

Broadly speaking, they have at least come close in American music. Though I can't think of any blue grass???
Also, international music, I can't think of anything on the top of my head.

How about Hawaiian music: Diamond Head?

[Mendota Heights]

Genres according to Allmusic (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beach-boys-mn0000041874):

AM Pop
Early Pop/Rock
Surf
Contemporary Pop/Rock
Sunshine Pop
Psychedelic Pop
Rock & Roll
Psychedelic/Garage

[Mendota Heights]

Soft rock/ballad: Surfer Girl

Ballad is not a genre

I find this information on Surfer Girl interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form

[rab2591]

Garage rock: Surfin

I dunno, it's really just surf rock

Actually, I'd consider it garage rock. It's a very raw sound, I mean Brian is playing a snare with his index finger haha. At least, the production itself is very garage-rock-y.

On a side note: didn't Murry convert their garage into a music room?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Surfin and many others could cross genres. Good Vibrations has elements of Jazz, symphonic pop, and doo wop

[Mendota Heights]

How many bands can you think of that has at least one song that fits in each of the following genres?

I can think of Benny Andersson (except for maybe surf music). It's everything from glam rock, folk music, funk, country, medieval music, waltzes, rap, reggae, jazz, hard rock, musicals, euro pop, pop, disco, Scottish folk music, Swedish folk music, Christmas music and what not. The list goes on and on and on. Which is kinda annoying because his albums are not coherent at all.

[Ovi]

Influenced by, say jazz, or sounding jazz-y is not the same as being jazz, you know. Many songs named in the opening post I would just classify as pop, with various influences and elements of course, but still pop. They were diverse, but certainly didn't do it all.

[zachrwolfe]

‍

[Jon Stebbins]

I'd say Surfin Safari and especially 409 are closer to Garage Rock than Surfin', which isn't very rock at all.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Did "Wrinkles" create its own genre? And if so, what would that be?    

Yes, of course it did and it's the new rage-Transcendental Rogaine Rock for Swingers.