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Robbo:
Those bands are either coined with a long ass name, get called Avant Garde if they actually are, or they wait around and get called Experimental til more bands start playing like them and a new subgenre or genre forms.
Genres are great, but they're sort of like stamp collection or trainspotting. Everyone can tell the most basic things form a brief look and that's all some people need. But the more hardcore need all the details and to know the little things. Because it matters to them.
To us, we're the stamp collectors and train spotters, though how bad we are is another issue.
Druid:
Allmusic.com has nice genre descriptors.
I wouldn't get too wrapped up in genres they are just guide posts and aren't supposed to be super sacred institutions. They are nice for finding other similar music, but they can also be bad when speaking with the uneducated. Like mentioning emo and people just going off the misconceptons they've heard.
Robbo:
Music info sites cause more arguments than genres. As for your emo example, I see it and raise you Metal, because it's an on going thing around here :P
But some genres are a very serious thing, because of subcults that grow up around them. Hardcore as mentioned and of course Black Metal.
Like I said, some people are train spotters and care about their genres. And will sit there pouring over tabbed out/sheet music for bands, comparing them to prove thier influences and how they fit with certain styles.
Druid:
Genres are pretty subjective. I've heard the Pixies referred to as hardcore punk before, but think they are more in the Alt Rock catagory. They do have punk influences, but they really aren't true punks especially for the late 80s.
Robbo:
Just because someone referred to them as Hardcore Punk, doesn't make it true.
Some stuff is far less subjective than others. Mainly those coming from small scenes like Hardcore and Black Metal. But then have you ever heard BM played without the distortion and in high quillity? Just not right.
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