I've wanted to post about music for a couple of days now; it's just been a matter of me not being lazy and actually posting. As you may recall, I made a post last week about video game music. Well now I shall discuss not-video-game music.

Now, my loose grasp on modern music genres only tells me a few things: If it's got heavily distorted guitars and lots of bass drum, it's metal. If it has no real instruments and a heavy beat, it's techno. If it's rock and was released within the...