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* [[The Damned]]: Late 70s British [[Punk]] band turned [[Progressive Rock]]/[[Gothic Metal|ProtoGothic]] (before it was even known as "gothic") in the early to mid-80s, with use of early electronic instruments. Cites influence from many different genres, and has a singer who dresses like a vampire and sings like a pub crooner.
* [[Queen]]: Both individual songs and their discography as a whole.
* Blondie : Starting off in the punk and garage rock movement but their discography gradually covered pop, hard rock, new wave disco, rap reggae, calypso, motown and electronica. Most critics either call them a punk band with pop tendencies or a pop band with punk tendencies, but the band would admit that they don't belong to any classification. They not only brought a lot of variety to pop music, but they also challenged punk's [[ethos]] of being anti-disco and helped to create new wave in the process.
* The [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]: Especially evident in the video for "Dani California", where they took the time to point out several.
* [[The Residents]] are, um, avant-garde classical punk psychedelic synth-pop... usually.
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* [[Tool]]. Just...[[Tool]]. People have tried to classify them as such things as alternative metal, progressive metal, hard rock, but they don't seem to fit into just one genre.
* Butthole Surfers have a similar problem, with not all of their songs even identifiable as "music."
* [[Oingo Boingo]]. Most pop music historians classify them as "new wave," but then there are other critics who claim that they invented pop-punk. And some of their songs are so solo-driven ("Dead Man's Party," anyone?) that they would fit comfortably on most hard rock or classic rock stations. Frontman [[Danny Elfman]] even said, when asked to sum up his band's [[ethos]]: "I wanted to piss everybody off!"
* [[Kaizers Orchestra]]. You could, if you had to, classify them as Rock, in it's most broad sense. More specifically, depending on the song, you'll find polka, Eastern European folk music, surf rock, gypsy rock, jazz, whatever the hell Maskineri is, and so forth. They've also been described as a "punk rock Tom Waits", and Tom Waits desribed them as "Norwegian storm-trooping tarantellas with savage rhythms and innovative textures". Whatever that means.
* [[Alexander Rybak]]. The Other Wiki describes his music as pop, classical, and folk, among others.
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