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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: pat101 on 10 Apr 2006, 23:54
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Basically I've always had the idea that I'd really like a website with an all inclusive list of all the musical genre's out in the world and an easy way to access them. I figured why not get started on a list on this very board?
Here's what I'm thinking anyone can post and the defenition should include some examples of artists in the genre. Defenitions wouldn't have to be orginal as i'm sure wikipedia has pretty much everything, but the certinally could be. Than I figure we make a giant ass list of every musical genre we can think of and alphabitze it and say to ourslves "we're awsome"
I apolgize for this whole post being so poorly written but it's 2am and I'm very tired.
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Speedcore - hardcore (the electronic kind, not the "beat the shit out of fellow audience members" kind) with obscene tempi; generally from about 250 to 1000 BPM. You need to take a hell of a lot of drugs to be able to dance to this stuff.
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they have one for trance/techno/euro
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html
pretty neat and nicely done too.
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gore: pig squeals. blastbeats. downtuned. that is all you need to know.
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Drinking Water: I'm thirsty.
Edit: What? Fuck I should go to bed.
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Kindercore: childhood inspired music ranging from deranged to angel sweet.
Bands: Happy Flowers, The Unicorns, Ween, The Innocence Mission, James Superstar Kochalka etc.
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My brother's done this already:
http://qntm.org/genres
And he's constantly adding to it. If you have any additions, drop him a line.
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That's not really much use though, as it doesn't give any descriptions of the genre.
The only way to really do this well would be to link together lots of spider diagrams like Ishkurs guide, doing it all chronologically, so right at the centre you'd have tribal drumming and jolk and whatnot, then branching out. A lot.
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I think you'd have to be very sad, very bored, very lonely or exactly like me to do a list as big as that with descriptions.
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You actually probably need to come up with a definition of "genre". It sounds stupid but otherwise this might literally take forever. Can a genre just refer to the process used to make the music? Just the aesthetic? Just the instrumentation used?
For exampleKindercore: childhood inspired music ranging from deranged to angel sweet.
I'd say thats an aesthetic not a genre.
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Odd, i always thought that one of the goals of indie music was to degenrefy, and concentrate instead on what is good and what isn't. I've always thought that the best music can trancend genre boundaries.
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Odd, i always thought that one of the goals of indie music was to degenrefy, and concentrate instead on what is good and what isn't. I've always thought that the best music can trancend genre boundaries.
The goal of indie music was not to sign to a major label. That's just down the crapper.
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http://www.allmusic.com , "explore by genre" on the left.
Or did I miss something here?
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The indie thing, I think, is coming up with ridiculous sub-genres that only inlude one band. Ex: Post-gothic psychobilly noise-pop flamenco dance.
I don't know of a band that plays in that genre but they'd be awesome.
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Allmusic's genres (especially in description) are vague and inchoate, and their coverage of representative artists in many genres is spotty at best. Their coverage of international genres (even well-known genre like Chanson) is typically American-- in other words, shitty.
Now, Gracenote's 1600 genre hierarchy, on the other hand...
Also:
My brother's done this already:
http://qntm.org/genres
And he's constantly adding to it. If you have any additions, drop him a line.
Could use more differentiation at international level, as the granularity's a bit spotty in places. For example, Neue Deutsch Valle is there, but where are other Alpine region musics Schrammelmusik or Alpunk? And where the hell is Portugal? And does it make sense to go into such detail as Nederhop when you so broadly apply labels to musics from other foreign countries, like lumping all traditional pop Japanese into "Enka"? Is "Top 40" even close to being a genre? Do you see the bias that has already been formed in this seemingly simple genre list?
My point is not to sound like a puffed-up asshole (though that's probably a side effect)-- I want to express that these are the kinds of concerns that pop up when people try to make an all-inclusive genre list and warn about the level of debate the construction of such a list could spur here.
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The indie thing, I think, is coming up with ridiculous sub-genres that only inlude one band. Ex: Post-gothic psychobilly noise-pop flamenco dance.
Or coming up with 50 different genres for a single band.
Side note - whatever music journalist coined the term Math-Rock needs to be tied to a pole back to back with the journalist who coined the term Post-Rock, after which point each will be forced to wear footie pajamas with water moccasins jammed in each leg.
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melodic-hard-death-power-core-speed metal
-um....i made this genre up to classify Children of Bodom (not their crummy new album "Are You Dead Yet?" all their good stuff before that)
i realize its silly, verbose, and unecessary but i was drunk when i thought of it and it just stuck in my mind because its so goofy
edit: i did just what the above post was condeming haha. its not really meant to be taken super seriously
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Simplest way to describe CoB is what they are: Harsh Power Metal.
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Nerdcore hip hop, or geeksta rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that is performed by nerds, and is characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot coined the term in 2000 in the song "Nerdcore Hip-Hop." Frontalot, like most nerdcore artists, self-published his work. As a niche genre, nerdcore has a strong amateur tradition of self-publishing and self-production.
Of all nerdcore artists, Frontalot and mc chris are probably the most widely known.
Popular nerdcore subject matter includes Star Wars (Frontalot's "Yellow Lasers", 2 Skinnee J's "Mind Trick", mc chris's "Fett's Vette"), science (MC Hawking's "Entropy", 2 Skinnee J's "Pluto"), and computers. Some non-nerdcore hip hop compositions exist that focus on similar topics.
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mc chris will kick your ass he's so awesome.
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Cubist funk
Wait, what does Cubism have to do with funk?
Vomitcore
No comment.
Intergalactic punk rock hip-hop
Intergalactic?
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Is Intergalactic Punk Rock Hip-Hop anything like Intergalactic Superstar Midi Metal/Space Opera/Deathwave Electro Power Metal?
As I'm pretty sure the first refers to The Beastie Boys, and the latter is the genre sobriquet of Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom, I'll assume not.
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Please tell me that's a real band.
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Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom are totally real:
http://myspace.com/iotmsbod
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Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom - Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12C2IJWXZ97HI01SM06HO6RSI8)
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom - Thunderbats of Batsylvania (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=239NIIO993U6L138P6M9ZDP701)
EDIT: damnation, that would have been so simpler.
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The indie thing, I think, is coming up with ridiculous sub-genres that only inlude one band. Ex: Post-gothic psychobilly noise-pop flamenco dance.
I don't know of a band that plays in that genre but they'd be awesome.
Allow me to introduce you to Hola Ghost.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=28235365
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The indie thing, I think, is coming up with ridiculous sub-genres that only inlude one band. Ex: Post-gothic psychobilly noise-pop flamenco dance.
I don't know of a band that plays in that genre but they'd be awesome.
Allow me to introduce you to Hola Ghost.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=28235365
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Cubist funk
Wait, what does Cubism have to do with funk?
Blame Tom Waits.
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More like Thank him.