Genres

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-10-2013, 12:45 PM

Learning comes with listening.

The more you listen the more you pick up subtle differences.
When you know what these subtle differences are then you may need something to distinguish them when describing them. You're trying to do it the other way around.

You said they all sound the same for you, so you're not in the position of needing to know.

In other words, it's not important, just carry on listening to music and don't worry about it.

khfreek · 02-10-2013, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Arterial Spray

Now this may be showing my stupidity but haven'twe been listeningto weird time signatures since the dawn of music and just called it 'creativity'?

Perhaps but it's weird time signatures being applied to rock music that hadn't happened before. Prog bands made the push and then math rock came about when people used even more complex time signatures/chord patterns and even changed time signatures throughout songs. That's a really oversimplified explanation and there's other qualities to it, if you're interested read the Wikipedia article.

That's math rock anyway, mathcore is that combined with hardcore punk.

Isbjørn · 02-10-2013, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Just FYI there's no apostrophe in the word "genres". It's a plural not a possessive.

Yeah, like:
The dog had a toy. I tossed away the dog's toy.
The dogs had toys. I tossed away the dogs' toys.

Sug0rt · 02-10-2013, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Learning comes with listening.

The more you listen the more you pick up subtle differences.
When you know what these subtle differences are then you may need something to distinguish them when describing them. You're trying to do it the other way around.

You said they all sound the same for you, so you're not in the position of needing to know.

In other words, it's not important, just carry on listening to music and don't worry about it.

Well, I didn't say they all sound the same, I said that people fight over songs being in a certain genre that sounds more or less the same as another genre, so there are differences, however, I do not feel there are enough differences to warrent a whole new genre. I hope that makes sense.

Also, thank you Janszoon as I wasn't sure on which spelling was correct.

Arterial Spray · 02-10-2013, 01:44 PM

Fair point.

To be honest I think we're all making the same point here, if it sounds good then whats it matter if its mathcore, hardcore or britneyspearscore (I may have made the last one up).

Genres('s,s' whatever) is never going to be a subject that everyone agrees on but it could go on until the next millenium!

Quote:

Originally Posted by khfreek

Perhaps but it's weird time signatures being applied to rock music that hadn't happened before. Prog bands made the push and then math rock came about when people used even more complex time signatures/chord patterns and even changed time signatures throughout songs. That's a really oversimplified explanation and there's other qualities to it, if you're interested read the Wikipedia article.

That's math rock anyway, mathcore is that combined with hardcore punk.

BastardofYoung · 02-10-2013, 04:20 PM

http://rateyourmusic.com/rgenre/

Jack in green · 02-12-2013, 11:16 AM

The reality is that the metal gender by now is very much complicated to define, ahahah it's war between metalheads, but they don't know for what war fighting.

Plankton · 02-12-2013, 12:02 PM

Pretty comprehensive list here:

List of popular music genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arya Stark · 02-12-2013, 12:15 PM

If you try too hard to define music by genres, how will you truly enjoy what you're listening to? You're missing the whole point.

doronla · 02-13-2013, 05:48 AM

Never realy liked this genre issue... Why to categorize bands in genres? I understand it's easier for people to relate to new bands based on their genre, but what happen if a band comes up with an album that has different genres inside this one album? the best artists I know are ones that invented them selves again and again not related to a specific expected genre

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Learning comes with listening. The more you listen the more you pick up subtle differences. When you know what these subtle differences are then you may need something to distinguish them when describing them. You're trying to do it the other way around. You said they all sound the same for you, so you're not in the position of needing to know. In other words, it's not important, just carry on listening to music and don't worry about it. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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BastardofYoung Buzz Killjoy Join Date: May 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 2,692	http://rateyourmusic.com/rgenre/ __________________ last.fm ‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

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Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,766	Pretty comprehensive list here: List of popular music genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ See location...

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Jack in green Groupie Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: world Posts: 24	The reality is that the metal gender by now is very much complicated to define, ahahah it's war between metalheads, but they don't know for what war fighting.

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doronla Groupie Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 17	Never realy liked this genre issue... Why to categorize bands in genres? I understand it's easier for people to relate to new bands based on their genre, but what happen if a band comes up with an album that has different genres inside this one album? the best artists I know are ones that invented them selves again and again not related to a specific expected genre