Topic: Types of rock and typical rockers:

[Clive]

1 punk rock (Sex Pistols)
2 roots rock (The Long Ryders)
3 glam rock (The Sweet)
4 prog rock (Yes)
5 blues rock (Cream)
6 indie rock (The Wedding Present)
7 garage rock (The Seeds)
8 space rock (Loop)
9 goth rock (Sisters of Mercy)
10 boogie rock (Canned Heat)
11 pub rock (Dr Feelgood)
12 Southern rock (Little Feat)
13 folk rock (Jethro Tull)
14 rap rock (Limp Bizkit)
15 Latin rock (Santana)
16 Christian rock (The 77s)
17 Kraut rock (Neu)
18 college rock (They Might Be Giants)
19 hard rock (AC/DC)
20 retro rock (North Mississippi Allstars)
21 psychedelic rock (13th Floor Elevators)
22 frat rock (The Kingsmen)
23 soft rock (Chicago)
24 country rock (The Eagles)
25 noise rock (The Boredoms)
26 art rock (King Crimson)
27 acid rock (Iron Butterfly)
28 post-rock (Labradford)
29 heartland rock (Blue Rodeo)
30 arena rock (Journey)
31 math rock (Chavez)
32 hair rock (Poison)

NB ? only genres which generally contain the word 'rock' are here; some of these genres have crossovers with others; some genre names are more pejorative than definitive.

[GillE]

Crikey - it's years since I heard anyone mention The Wedding Present.  Their Ukranian version of Anarchy in the UK was fabulous.

How on earth can anyone declare Jethro Tull to be synonomous with folk rock?  Surely bands like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Oysterband have got far stronger claims?

And as for Sweet being the epitome of glam rock... you'd have to overlook Wizzard, T Rex, David Bowie and quite a few others.

Gill

[Simon]

The Sweet were more a cross over of glam / heavy rock, and were my favourite group of the 70s, next to Queen.  They moved away from their glam image, when they stopped using Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman as their songwriting team, and started to write their own, much stronger, material.

[sam]

The Wedding Present.

they rock! I saw them live at reading this year, their new album is great! (this is assuming we are talking about the same band, which i'm sure we are!)