X Meets Y/Music
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.