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Garcin:
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Fuck yeah.
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Re-seconded with extra "fuck"s for good measure.
In the year 2000 (in the yeaaaarrrr two-thousaaaaaaannd) people will stop concocting stupid-ass "genres" that cover exactly one album and use that energy to do something socially useful, like build houses for the homeless. Also, people will stop saying go for it when they find out that "it" is a goat's testicle.
Nominations for stupid-ass genre names that should have never been:
Trip-Hop Jesus H. Christ, for marketoids to invent this bastard child of a term to describe down-tempo fusion coming out of Bristol is offensive. The fact that most of the bands thereby named either went to disco, or to top-40 style Gwen Stefani influenced pop shows that this term must be under some manner of evil curse.
IDM So entrenched now you can't not use it, but the mind rebels about how this mailing list generated joke term ended up being the label under which good electronica gets pigeonholed when two of the three letters are most often incorrect. (It ain't particularly intelligent. It sure as hell isn't dance. There's honest debate about whether it's music but I'll let that slide. I have a feeling that someone said precisely this in the electronica thread, so yo, sorry 'bout the plagiarism)
Illbient Thank-you DJ Spooky. In the future, everyone will be their own genre for 15 minutes.
sjbrot:
Does anyone remember electroclash? It sends a little shiver down my spine just to talk about it. I just remembered it the other day when I was trying to explain Lesbians on Ectasy to my mom. That didn't help.
Magnet did this long article in their year-end 2003 issue if I remember correctly. That's not something to be proud of.
Garcin:
Woo. Looking that up on wikipedia made me vomit a little bit.
Seriously, the community needs to take it's collective thumb out of its ass, wash it off, and start waving it around. This genre-mania makes this shit sound way more complicated than it really is. Having marketing people determine stupidly named absurdly arbitrary classifications is a bad taxonomy system.
How do you tell indie pop from indie rock? I have no idea, but what I do is count the guitars. More than one and it's indie rock. Am I right? How the fuck should I know? It's not like you can say: "Ahhh, this guy took a classic 4/4 beat generated by drum machine, looped in some distorted guitar, his original vocals, and the sound of a glockenspiel falling down a flight of stairs -- also he's from Gloucester and a real big fan of My Bloody Valentine, and his lyrics are anti-establishment and whiny -- I dub thee electro-shoegazer!"
Well I mean you can say it -- but you'll sound like an asshole.
EDIT: Oh fuck me, it's been done by you-know-who. I suck at satire.
Rizzo:
What about digitalhardcore? What....? There was nothing hardcore about Atari Teenage Riot... damn Germans.
Acid Jazz Industrial pop...
Stoner shoegaze doom punk
Heavy pop
Applecore
Drill and Bass
Christ, people are stupid core
Hell, just chuck core on the end and the kids will love it these days.
KharBevNor:
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Heavy pop
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Reminds me, Riot-pop and Necropop
Not to mention:
Electro-NecroPunk
Zombiecore
Dragon Metal,
Hate Metal (Thrash, but played by Kreator)
etc.
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