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Originally Posted by Alexander the Grape
I've heard The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza described as "groove tech grindcore" and Dance Club Massacre described as "synth dance deathgrind."
Regardless of how accurate those genres are I found them funny.
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i draw the line at two words. besides, 'groove', 'tech', 'synth', and 'dance' are being used as adjectives rather than hardline genres in those cases.
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Originally Posted by Frances
Seems like a bit of a wank to me. What's the point?
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the point is that when I want to listen to Electro I don't want something like Ratatat coming up: they're not Electro. this would be impossible if I just tagged anything and everything that uses synths as 'Electronica', a genre which doesn't even exist. when I want to listen to tough guy I don't want to hear As I Lay Dying come on, but this would be impossible if I tagged it all as metalcore.
the truth is, subgenres are not things people pull out of their asses to sound pretentious. There is a distinct difference between brutal death metal and melodic death metal, between hardcore and punk, between electroclash and electro.