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Best/Worst Genre Names

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? by thommo
for instance, i like the names 'post-rock', 'gabba', 'bastard pop' and 'blip-hop'.
i dislike the names 'Britpop', 'punk rock', 'art-rock' and 'urban'.

you?
thommo | 21 Jun '05, 00:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i decreed long ago that the futureheads should be 'post-barbershop'.

never took though. bastards.
carrotrope | 21 Jun '05, 00:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A lot of people use 'barbersho' when discussing TV On The Radio.

I hate the genre name Intelligent Dance Music.
monpot | 21 Jun '05, 01:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i quite dislike 'dance' overall, really. Bit too vague. Surely all music is dance music?
thommo | 21 Jun '05, 01:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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well not all... try dancing to faure's requiem. not everything's designed to be danced to. but yeah, before i go getting all traynor on your arse, fair point. plus it means that a lot of good music gets creatively dismissed on account of being 'dance music', i.e. part of a subculture that narrow-minded people aren't prepared to dip their toes into.
-gen- | 21 Jun '05, 01:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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you can dance very slowly to Requiem, non?
Like you can dance twitchingly to...ugh..."IDM".
thommo | 21 Jun '05, 02:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i suppose if you moved v-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-y-y-y s-s-s-l-l-o-w-w-w-w-l-l-y-y-y-y-y-y.

But it would look a bit silly.
-gen- | 21 Jun '05, 03:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Shoegazer is the only one the makes sense to me. And it doesn't really make that much sense. But I like it all the same.

I have never heard of 'gabba'. Is that music that sounds like the Ramones?

The worst is 'emo'. As if the bands like Taking Back Sunday, Relient K, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Yellowcard, etc etc. are ee-mooo-tion-al. I think my biggest complaint about these bands is that they all sound exactly alike. Not a little bit. Exactly alike. Weird. Ought to be called Samo.
oceanRain | 21 Jun '05, 01:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh and 'indie'...for similar reasons as 'emo' really in how it's become bands that sound similar rather than bands who separated themselves and sounded 'independent'/worked 'independently'. Plus they look/sound a bit rubbish.

Grime, now there's a genre name...
thommo | 21 Jun '05, 01:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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shoegaze is a bit lame, but at least it's not as bad as 'dream-pop' which is what the american music press labelled it.
the_instone | 21 Jun '05, 13:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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GOD i hate the term urban. such a fucking politically correct, lazy, meaningless use of the word. if it's soul, say so. if it's rap/hip-hop/hip-pop/two-step/crunk/grime/r'n'b/vaguely-r'n'b-or-dance-influenced-pop/whatever else gets consistently lumped under this distinctly holey umbrella... fucken say so. gah.
-gen- | 21 Jun '05, 01:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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noisecore and artrock
*shakes fist*
fishplums | 21 Jun '05, 02:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Classical! HAHAHAHAHAHAH! Oh, when will they learn.
mostly_panic | 21 Jun '05, 07:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I like names that randomly add "tronica" at the end. i.e. folktronica, emotronica... and 'glitch-hop' = great, although that is basically just prefuse 73.

IDM is clearly the most stupid name ever, I think I'll be the judge of whether it's intelligent or not. And that's like saying that other "dance" music is just STOOPID or something.
homesick_alien | 21 Jun '05, 08:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Emo-Hop! Eminem's Mockingbird is the best example.
mostly_panic | 21 Jun '05, 08:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah, eminem's new stuff is emo-hop for sure.
homesick_alien | 21 Jun '05, 08:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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p.s. that's quite funny actually, I thought I was the only one who called it that.
homesick_alien | 21 Jun '05, 08:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You may have made it up, I heard it somewhere here.
mostly_panic | 21 Jun '05, 08:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the absolute worst are garage and R and B, in the modern senses, because they were already genres.....

and don't you think Rhythm and Blues is so much more appropriate to Howlin' Wolf rather than some modern shitbag girl group
grockle | 21 Jun '05, 09:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I've never really understood exactly what Math Rock is - can anyone define it? I'm quite fond of the addition of -core to the end of something to mix and match your own genres - metalcore / indiecore / jazzcore etc etc...
JudeOne | 21 Jun '05, 09:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think it's something to do with time signitures- 'okay lads, theres an intro of three and a half bars in 5/4, half a bar of 6/8, then a bar of 7/8....etc etc'

I preferred the good 'ol days when everything from James Last to Mrs Mills was 'popular'
grockle | 21 Jun '05, 12:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Why yes, yes I do.

My favourite shite genre names:

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). Catchy!
New Wave of New Wave. Clever!
Alt rock/alt country. So alternative they've abbreviated the alternative!
Crunk. WTF?

My favourite favourites:

Drill and bass
Grunge
thewarn | 21 Jun '05, 09:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I read someone using the term Post-Hop once, just no. Pitchfork seem to be using 'Lap-Pop' alot recently, which is actually a pretty good genre name.
whiteboydanceparty | 21 Jun '05, 11:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The term 'gabba' originates with the dock workers in Rotterdam, and means 'friend'. This is where the music started.

Someday everyone will listen to gabba...when I ruuule the worrrld...HAHAHAH er sorry.
carrot_ram | 21 Jun '05, 11:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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for the worst they can only be winner

and that is a sub-genre of punk under the name of Oi
zombie_crew_1985 | 21 Jun '05, 12:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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for the worst they can only be one winner

and that is a sub-genre of punk under the name of Oi
what it actually is, i have no idea, but still terrible genre name
zombie_crew_1985 | 21 Jun '05, 12:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The RIOT-GRRRRL movement was the best for once it seemed as though the male dominated 'music-industry' was shit-scared. We need it back fucking badly.There is currently a fucking retarded regression going on where mostly male dominated bands mean fuck all to us looking for positive, female role-models.Meg and her sexy accomplice Jack are about the only 'role-models' left.

Hey, i didn't know you had to have prick and bollocks, and a brain the size of a pea just to play the drums! and the electric guitar for that matter.
Spider | 21 Jun '05, 12:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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People who know where its at always will and always have listened to brilliant music made by women, without needing to have it rammed down their throats by any kind of movement though........

Some of my favourite musicians/writers are women- margo guryan, vashti bunyan, shirley collins, kate bush, judee sill, delia derbyshire, Barbara Manning etc, but that whole riot grrrl stuff just annoys me-. Sure you don't need to HAVE a prick and bollocks, but that doesn't mean you have to BE a prick and bollocks etc...etc...etc...
grockle | 21 Jun '05, 13:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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They're all shite and I try to avoid them wherever possible.

Math Rock, I fuckin ask you!
Jack_the_Biscuit | 21 Jun '05, 13:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Good
Drum and Plaice
Had-Rock

Bad
Shark Metal
Tuna-Pop
Jordan_229_2 | 21 Jun '05, 19:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Alko-pop! Ace. We used to describe my old band as Electro-Grindcore. Casio-core!
John_Brainlove | 21 Jun '05, 19:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hippy Hop and things with Core or Tronica on the end. I like anything that mashes several genre's into one because it points to more intresting music.

i have a deep personal hatred of the term punk-pop. and i also have objections to 'rock/indie' (usually meaning foo fighters/feeder/idlewild bleeeeurgh) and 'r'nb' as used to describe black chart pop.
pretty_vacant | 21 Jun '05, 20:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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There was a band called Alcopop some years ago, if i remember correctly.
lyle | 21 Jun '05, 20:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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