Music clicky style names you hate And most over used...

[MarsDustDoug]

dude, lighten the f**k up - i'm entitled to express my opinion too. my point was - what would you rather see? 3-4 genres? rock, country, classical, hip-hop? do you really think that's enough to explain the various subtle but important differences in thing like heavy metal, acid rock, industrial; or bluegrass, southern rock, classic country; or blues, r&b, rap, hip-hip, etc!?

anyway, it's fine, i'll shut up now. i do get it, and i'll let you all get back to your fun. sorry for being a wet blanket...

Torn, i got your back on this.

I spent almost 2 years at a record store in high school and the last 12 years of my life supporting/promoting/marketing music. If I ask you "what does your band play" and you say "well we cant be put into a genre" im not going to be able to help you... I need to genre things to make sense of it. If you tell me you are american psychobilly with a twist of metal; I know what I can expect.

I know I prefer American Psychobilly to "psychobilly" (which would be the euro form or the original form). Old school rock-n-roll to new-school rockabilly. I prefer Industrial to EBM or goth. I prefer metal to nu-metal. Thrash over grind. I prefer west coast and traditional punk to pop-punk or street punk. I LOVE trip-hop but dont dig very much ambient.

if you want a term to add to your list... yes Ill agree with Emo... Original "Emo" was AMAZING stuff. The Pixies and Fugazi to Cars Go Crash and Last Rites of Spring to The Get Up Kids and Keepsake... all EXCELLENT and all spanning about 10yrs plus of music/time.

Hardcore is another... what most kids consider "hardcore" is either a variation of "grindcore" (the bands with 2minute songs that have 4 breakdowns in that 2 minutes) or just straight up Metal. To me REAL hardcore is Coalesce, Sick Of It All, Life Of Agony, Cro-Mags...

next... and this might start an uproar.. but "PUNK"... I LOVE LOVE LOVE Punk... BUT, Blink 182 is not the same as The Distillers... Rancid is not the same as Bad Religion. Black Flag is not the same as Agent Orange.

So yes... Stymie.. in your own way you are kinda right... but Torn Asunder, as someone who works in music your point makes more sense to me. (and this is to me, I dont expect you all to agree with me)

[torn asunder]

genres, subgenres, are necessary, otherwise you end up with this...

"so i heard this great band last night!"

"yeah? what do they sound like?"

"ever heard 'chilled monkey's brians'?"

"nope..."

"how about 'the ugly dionysus'?"

"nope..."

"how about 'your mother's combat boots'?"

"nope..."

"how about 'over the enders' maw'?"

"nope..."

"how about 'primal estrangement'?"

"nope..."

"how about ..."

slightly off-topic, but i was making these names up on the fly, and looking back over them, i love the name "your mothers' combat boots" and "the ugly dionysus"!!

[phee]

I think we should simply ban all words that describe anything.... down with adjectives! Everything in the worlds should speak for itself with its own properties...

Who is with me?

[Stymie]

Torn Asunder,

1st I do value your opinion.

Am not agents it at all.

But seem like someone didn't read and jump the gun,

about how something or anything is well..

what ever really.

Names in them listing was funny or good.

But really do we really need 15 ways to say, one bands classification?

I hear ppl do this all the time.

Even ppl in music world.

From working in the stores, to on airwaves, or in music schools.

Do not need to call it more then what it is.

Like I had a friend that was in a punk band.

Was fast crazy and great!

With a very heavy jazz under tone.

It doesn't need a new name it is is still the same thing.

With a original idea or sound added to it.

No, it doesn't.

[Joey Deadcat]

Only thing that that nags at me is the term "singer-songwriter" applying only to folk/folk-based artists.

Though, you gotta remember, Stymie, that most genre names are the inventions of music journalists.

Personally, not bothered by it but if I had a band I'd probably feel uncomfortable myself with classifying it. I'd be more inclined to describe the band's sound. Always wanted to start a band that plays dark and damaged rock n' roll but I would never label it "Dark & Damaged".