Alternative Ambient Indie Neo Prog-Punk (or Why Genres Suck)

**Shadowstep** · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:

Whenever someone asks me what kind of music I'm in to I usually just use musical umbrellas. Like "Mostly Extreme and Progressive Metal". Umbrellas seem to be really useful in conversation (<--- Lolwut, taking that sentence out of context would be silly).

I really see no harm in how robust and diverse the selection of genres has become. The biggest problem, Elitism, can be very easily ignored.
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I don't really see the harm in categorizing music by its sonic qualities. Seems useful to me. Helps me find music I'm likely to like, and ignore music I'm likely to despise.

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There's a fine line here - I don't think the issue of genres vs. not is quite as stark as black and white. I sympathize more with the OP on this particular subject - but some sort of broad label for some music still seems somewhat necessary. Like others have said, life is short and a lot of times it's simpler to tell somebody you like classic rock instead of listing off bands that all amount to something which is almost inarguably classic rock.

But where do you draw that line? The ridiculousness of genre defining becomes especially apparent on this forum when people discuss metal. "No, no, that's not prog-rock, that's post rock with some experimental rock roots" (might not make sense, but you get my point). What's more crazy is people take offense to this stuff! If you're really going to debate the boundaries of a sub-genre of another sub genre, you need to re-evaluate your priorities in my opinion.

People also get in a huff about the genre label "indie". Most people would say I listen to indie music - I stay away from it because frankily the label makes me cringe and makes me wish some abstract genre labels never existed in the first place.

Nowadays I go the middle of the road and keep things simple - I listen to mostly folk, rock, classic rock, or some combination of the three. If they are truly interested I will list some bands to give them a much better idea: Andrew Bird, Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, The Shins, etc. But at the end of the day I know what kind of music I like and that's good enough for me - I'm not going to expend too much precious brain power trying to classify it for somebody else.
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Making a genre with a "-core" should be banned as humanity has clearly shown we cannot handle that, but most genre's are actually very important.

and alot of bands belong to one umbrella genre, but really go into small subgenres like:

progressive blackenend death metal
melodic blackened death metal

Not to mention, ALOT of the times those stupid prefixes are based on the musics culture, lyrics, and fanbase, not the actual sound.
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