X Meets Y/Music

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Examples of X Meets Y/Music include:

Angels and Airwaves was (by Tom Delonge's own admission) envisioned as a combination of U2 and Pink Floyd. They combine U2's soaring, arena-rock sound with Pink Floyd's lush soundscapes and outer-space motifs.
God Is An Astronaut's early music was post-rock meets techno/downtempo. Their newer stuff is closer to straight-up post-rock but still with an electronic influence.
In the documentary film Punk: Attitude, Darryl Jenifer of the Bad Brains describes his band as a combination of the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and Dead Boys.
Radiohead is essentially The Pixies meets REM meets Aphex Twin plus Pink Floyd.
The band Zipthunk! was described in a review as "Like The Monkees getting fucked by The Pixies while Elvis Costello films the whole thing."
Hawkwind are basically "Pink Floyd meets MC5".
3 Inches of Blood are something akin to Judas Priest meets Hammerfall with harsh vocals.
- Or Slayer meets Iron Maiden.
Rings Of Saturn is Arsonists Get All The Girls meets Viraemia... IN SPACE!!
The psychobilly genre is basically 1950s rockabilly meets a Zombie Apocalypse.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was described by one reviewer as NWA meets John Moschitta, Jr., meets Boyz II Men.
Battles could be described as "Radiohead meet Frank Zappa."
Rap act Dead Prez was considered a amalgamation of NWA and Public Enemy.
Demons And Wizards is literally Iced Earth meets Blind Guardian.
Iron Maiden is 70's progressive rock (Kansas, Rush, Jethro Tull ect.) meets Judas Priest.
- Much more Thin Lizzy than Judas Priest, though.
Early Metallica was essentially Diamond Head meets Discharge.
In Flames began essentially as Ceremonial Oath with a dash of Iron Maiden.
Scar Symmetry can be described as Dismember meets Stratovarius.
Threat Signal is the child of Fear Factory, Killswitch Engage and Meshuggah.
Dio is more or less Black Sabbath meets Rainbow.
Symphony X is what you would get with Dream Theater playing power metal.
Lady Gaga could be described as "Fergie and Gwen Stefani had a baby".
- Isn't that inbreeding?
- No, she's Gwen meets Madonna.
- I'll see your Gwen and Madonna and raise you Marilyn Manson.
- Lady Gaga is Madonna meets Shazza (or any other kitschy starlet popular in your country) meets True Art Is Incomprehensible meets Electropop.
- Lady Gaga is Emilie Autumn meets Madonna meets Marilyn Manson.
- Another description is Adam Lambert meets Marilyn Manson.
Lady Sovereign could be described as "Miley Cyrus and Eminem had a baby, with anti-aging drugs."
- She could also be considered as an English Distaff Counterpart to Eminem.
- Another description could be an unholy merger of Ke$ha and Eminem. In a good way.
Mother's Finest was described by some fans as Led Zeppelin meets Ike and Tina.
Maxwell is often described as Marvin Gaye meets Sade
The German EBM group And One sounds like a cross between Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk.
Nightwish's "Meadows Of Heaven" song is like Gospel music + choir vocals (especially towards the end) mixed with Epic Rocking.
- The band itself is Opera meets Power Metal.
Nirvana has been self-described as The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.
The solo album by Dan Swano of Edge of Sanity was self described as "Rush playing Death Metal in the 70s."
Finntroll is traditional Norwegian black metal meets polka music. From Finland. Really.
Dismember is Autopsy meets Iron Maiden.
Video on Trial once described Adam Lambert as "what would happen if Madonna grew a penis and had sex with Lady Gaga."
The Birthday Massacre is 80's Synth pop meets Nine Inch Nails.
Iwrestledabearonce is The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza meets Mr. Bungle.
Turisas have been described as "the bastard offspring of The Levellers and Manowar".
Folk punk bands are inevitably described as "The Pogues meets [whatever punk band seems most appropriate]". Given that The Pogues are the Ur Example of the genre, this can seem a little redundant.
In Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, the Requiem Mass meets the poems of Wilfred Owen.
Fishbone is Living Colour meets The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and a case of Red Bull.
Rich Girl is when Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland decide to call up Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls to form a super group.
Rock and Roll can be described as Blues meets Country Music.
Disco polo is Italo Disco meets traditional Polish drinking songs.
Kraftwerk = The Beatles + Jean Michel Jarre
Porcupine Tree is Pink Floyd meets Rush meets Metallica.
Deep Purple - Pink Floyd meets ACDC
- Odd example, considering by how much Deep Purple predates ACDC.
Muse is Queen meets Science Fiction: particularly Orwell
- Or rock meets electronic.
They Might Be Giants are "Weird Al" Yankovic meets Mind Screw meets Word Salad Lyrics meets Crazy Awesome !
The New Wave of Heavy Metal was punk energy with Heavy Metal musicianship.
Brave Combo were so named when people told them how brave they were to play Jimi Hendrix tunes as polkas.
Black Sabbath are Blue Cheer meets The Who Live at Leeds.
- And later, Motorhead are Blue Cheer meets a fistful of amphetamines.
Panic! at the Disco could be described as Fall Out Boy meets The Killers or The Beatles, depending on the album.
Hollywood Undead is Rage Against the Machine meets Slipknot, under the influence of strong depressants.
This is essentially the entire point of 'mashups', where you take two songs and mesh them into one. The quality of these mashups, however, tends to vary.
Drake is Lil Wayne meets Kanye West (in fact Lil Wayne was the one who gave him a record deal).
The Toyes are Bob Marley meets the Barenaked Ladies .
A Billboard review of Miguel ("All I Want Is You") describes him as Babyface meets R. Kelly.
Tourniquet is Slayer + Petra with a dash of Rush
Chevelle is Tool plus Nirvana with a dash of Radiohead
Tyler the Creator is early Eminem meets Lil Wayne meets MF DOOM meets Anal Cunt.
Sikth is The Dillinger Escape Plan meets Korn
Wolfmother is ACDC meets Black Sabbath meets Led Zeppelin
Skindred is System of a Down + Reggae - middle eastern elements.
Of Mice and Men are Attack Attack! minus electronic music.
Beatallica is, well The Beatles meets Metallica.
King Crimson are Pink Floyd plus The Beatles meets Metallica.
On the other hand, Tool are King Crimson meets Nine Inch Nails.
Pogo is Todd Edwards meets either Nujabes or Owl City.
Dream Theater is Yes meets Metallica.
Jennifer Lopez is Janet Jackson meets Paula Abdul.
Beyoncé is Janet Jackson meets Whitney Houston meets Tina Turner.
Nickelodeon's band The Squish is BTS meets Mindless Behavior meets Alvin and The Chipmunks.