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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther
A genre is a genre if two people recognize it as such and can communicate between each other the style of music by using that genre descriptor. You wouldn't say Talk Talk aren't post-rock because they didn't call themselves that, the band doesn't determine the genre, their fans do.
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So if two idiots are talking to each other about a band on Youtube and totally get the genre wrong, by your standards it has to be legitimately right because two people recognized it as such? That criterion would breed chaos.
I haven't considered Talk Talk as a post-Punk band, and there are a few reasons for that. They don't immediately sound like other post-Punk bands, e.g. The Monochrome Set, Gang of Four, or Wire. Most of which came out during post-Punk formative years around '77, '78. I haven't seen them refer to as "post Punk." They came out after the first wave of post-Punk bands, and were more contemporaries of New Wave, & Synth Pop bands of the 80s. If I knew for a fact that Talk Talk did not think themselves as a post-Punk band I would take that into consideration. Knowing the artist perspective give a better understanding of their music, more so than what fans label them as.
I listen to bands for their music, not because they labeled within a specific genre, and certainly not because what people tagged them as on RYM.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
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