Pointless sub genres

Rexx Shredd · 11-27-2014, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales

so then how do you distinguish between artists that sound completely different but fit within the same broad genre?

generally genres are much more useful than harmful. yes theres a lot, but its way easier to try and find stuff you like this way. looking up "heavy metal" when you want black metal would be ridiculous. how the hell am I ever going find anything that I want??

I answered that earlier - just go one level; maybe two. Heavy Metal can be divided into Pop Metal, Black Metal and/or Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Industrial Metal, Speed Metal etc. Does it really need to go beyond that?

Just as important - the usage of terms that ANYONE can understand, even if they arent familiar with a genre :
A person can be totally ignorant to a genre of music but if I tell them its "Speed Metal", that paints a nice mental picture to describe the music, doesn't it? It communicates the description.....but when terminology gets further subdivided into sub-genres beyond that - using phrases that only make sense to the vernacular artists or fans doing it - is when it gets ignorant.

For example: Mathcore........
I mean, really! WTF does that mean to the layman music listener? That it totally rocks the High School Trigonometry class?