good " crossovers" -genre-blending

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what are some of your favorite "combinations"/"crossovers" or "subversions" of genre cliches within a song? theres so many. for some bands, every song is genre-blending (like reggae-rock with sublime or classical-rock with GYBE or rap-rock with rage against the machine); for some bands, genre is hard to identify (fantomas, neurosis); some bands are in their own zone and dont seem to be caught up in genre stuff (slint); some stuff involves sampling/interpolation from other genres (rap beats, negativland); some artists cover bands from another genre (the clash cover of "police and thieves"); some artists constantly focus on subverting genre cliches (mike patton); theres all the punk-metal hybrids (sepultura, crossover thrash bands, metalcore, dillinger escape plan); theres entire genres that are really just combinations of other genres (jazz-fusion).

so, artists have flipped genre forms in all sorts of ways. what do you think are the most interesting cases of this?

i love the mariachi horns in johnny cash's "ring of fire"

recently ive been listening to bill laswell, a frequent collaborator of PIL's jah wobble... he has tons of good tracks that fuse one genre with another (usually, reggae is one of the genres)
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good " crossovers" -genre-blending

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There are too many examples in sample-based rap production to list (though Public Enemy probably deserves particular mention for some of their stuff, which gets to be like music-concrete beatmaking at points) and too many bands devoted to particular crossovers (i.e. Funkadelic, Tom Waits).

The NOLA-funeral-jazz horn section on Radiohead's "Life In A Glass House" is an excellent violation of expectations.

TV On The Radio doing an a cappella doo-wop "Mr. Grieves." Their entire catalog would qualify in some sense, but this one is a particularly obvious crossover.

Two Sage Francis songs: "Sealion," which has that indie-folk-meets-hip-hop thing and somehow works, and "Jah Didn't Kill Johnny" which is a sort of awkward-bedroom-country song about to collapse into a rap battle.

If you don't know Tinariwen, you should.
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good " crossovers" -genre-blending

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I love it when elements of jazz sort of creep into rock, crazy rock compositions, like Rumah Sakit and obviously stuff like Don Cab.

Boris are doing a good job of being original with a bunch of genres that already exist, taking old stuff and making it sound fresh. Sometimes they fail in my opinion but I almost respect them more for that. But yeah, every song is another avenue.

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