Good and Bad Genre Names

[Bang Diddley]

And anything prefixed by 'nu' is going to be ghastly.

Except D'Angelo and Badu. Weren't they nu-soul.

 

[Bang Diddley]

While were here, does R'n'B (in the modern sense) still stand for rhythm 'n' blues ?

 

[gumdrops]

yeah. its just a default term though isnt it. not much blues (unless you count 'singing the blues') or rhythmic excitement in most of the stiff 808/clap-heavy tracks around at the moment.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Tesco

As for made-up genres, pace Mr Tea:

jangle - jungle through a high pass filter
dearth metal - doom-laden songs about the recession
drabstep - dubstep

 

[Mr. Tea]

I like Dearth Metal.

There are loads of potential '-step' pseudogenres. Pubstep (Chas'n'Dave meet Burial uptown?) and blubstep (emo dubstep), for example.

I'm convinced this ought to be the most righteous genre ever conceived: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_House

Edit: 'flunk' (Jamiroquai/RHCP/Lenny Kravitz)

 

[Amicose]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_violence

 

[Aww Nein]

screamo is pretty good, as is its lesser used alternative "skram", cartoonish panic encapsulated in a genre.

 

[Dr Awesome]

While were here, does R'n'B (in the modern sense) still stand for rhythm 'n' blues ?

Rhymes and Booty.

 

[Bang Diddley]

Dr A. Oddly enough I always call the Iration Steppars style of dub techsteppas as per your tag.

 

[dave]

I like
Ponk = pop punk = blink 182 and such
Rugby Techno = 2 unlimited and other euro stuff that was blazed over sports highlights in the 90s = rugbytechno.com*

*disclaimer: it's my website

 

[owengriffiths]

daddy long legs techno. creeping through the speakers

 

[Mr. Tea]

Tech No Prisoners would be an awesome name for a really uncompromising techno night, label or whatever. Sure it's been done though.

I've heard that terrible modern cod-grunge stuff (you know, Staind, Nickleback etc.) described as 'constipation rock', on account of the inevitably angsty/tormented facial expression and vocal timbre the 'singer' is obliged to affect, which generally just makes him look and sound like he hasn't managed to pass solids for about three days.

 

[grizzleb]

Nickleback might just be the worst thing ever. I can't imagine the type of person who enjoys such music.

 

[FairiesWearBoots]

I think names are bad in general, once you get into naming themes/sub genres within a sound it tends to push
producers/listeners/promoters/Dj's down fixed paths and this becomes divisive and pushes the sound apart, obv example is drum&bass (too many specific bullshit names/sub genres)

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nickleback might just be the worst thing ever. I can't imagine the type of person who enjoys such music.

I'd love to be a music journalist so I could refer to them as Stickleback, I mean pretending that's what I thought they were actually called. See also: intentionally confusing Ryan Adams with Brian Adams.

 

[Pestario]

I think names are bad in general, once you get into naming themes/sub genres within a sound it tends to push
producers/listeners/promoters/Dj's down fixed paths and this becomes divisive and pushes the sound apart, obv example is drum&bass (too many specific bullshit names/sub genres)

yes but what will all the poor journalists write about???

 

[FairiesWearBoots]

lol, price of FLAC's?

I dunno, I understand the need for general names (similar bpm/influences/themes/beat structures i.e 2 step)
but micro labelling does way more harm than good, imo

again I will always come back to some of the seminal sets from Blue Note days when you heard everything in a set and the crowd WANTED to be challenged, when DnB started being labelled it became liquid/neuro funk (I mean WTF?)/ etc etc and you didnt get the range of sounds in sets/nights

I love the fact that there is a very exciting middle ground/meeting point at the moment that cant be named

 

[Big Nose]

Drum & Bass is pretty shit imo.

 

[Tentative Andy]

I always hoped 'grimstep' would take off for stuff on the borderline between grime and dubstep.

 

[Dr Awesome]

again I will always come back to some of the seminal sets from Blue Note days when you heard everything in a set and the crowd WANTED to be challenged, when DnB started being labelled it became liquid/neuro funk

Drum and Bass had been divvied up into subgenres long before Neurofunk and Liquid.
Round these parts people call really techy-heavy type stuff (Limewax, Tech Itch, Cooh, Current Value etc etc) Gash which is a fantastic name.