Genres

[ArenaBoy]

Do you get annoyed by sub-genres that are under one big genre? For example, I listen to a lot of indie music, which to me has always been alternative music. Then there's all this other genre crap like screamo, emo, emo-punk, and all sorts of stuff. I get confused by it and to me it's just alternative, rock, metal, country, that sort of thing. What do you think?

[rahmota]

I dunno growing up I listened to BOTH kinds of music country and western....

Still though there's hard rock, rock, metal, thrash, etc..... So I feel your pain.

And the way some of the genres are blending its getting kinda harad to tell the players from the playahs without a score card.

[squall]

Emo and emo-punk I can easily differentiate from "alternative", at least the alternative that I know. I don't think alternative is an accurate name to give to any of today's music. I grew up in the 90s, before emo. Personally, I hate emo and emo-punk, or even mainstream punk in general. They all generally sound very wussy and whiny to me.

Alternative(sometimes known as college rock) in the 90s was bands like this: Toad The Wet Sprocket, Blues Traveler, The Nixons, Matchbox 20, Live, REM, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, Toadies, and others. Alot of these were pretty mainstream. I listened to alot of hard rock and grunge in the 90s.

The alternative music that I know isn't really made anymore. Today's bands seem to be heavily influenced by the flashy parts of earlier punk and new wave origins....thus the invasion of mainstream emo and punk has begun.....ick. And kids these days have ridiculous hair, it's like the 80s are back. The only current bands I like these days fall under the nu-Metal sub-heading(Disturbed, Stone Sour, System of a Down, Cold). And apparently you are unique if you cry and play with razor blades while listening to Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance.....but there are many kids who think behaving this way is "kewl".

Gone are the days of mature music with a message, in with the whiny brats who cry all day long about how hard their upper middle class suburban life is. If you can't guess, I have a real disgust for today's music industry in general. Alternative is dead.

[counterjockey]

Gone are the days of mature music with a message, in with the whiny brats who cry all day long about how hard their upper middle class suburban life is. If you can't guess, I have a real disgust for today's music industry in general. Alternative is dead.

Just thinking about my little record collection, the only thing I have by anyone under the age of 40 at least is "Old Crow Medicine Show:" a bluegrass band of twentysomething guys about my age playing on vintage instruments. Most of my taste in music has come together in this last five years since I've been out of school, and it's a lot of blues, folk, alt-country (Jayhawks, Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo) and whatever else. (Warren Zevon.)

If you handed me this month's Rolling Stone, Billboard top 40 or whatnot, I wouldn't know 80-90% of the stuff on it. I have almost no tolerance for rap, hip hop, "dance music," or the latest indie-style group of white boys that'll supposedly change your life. (I liked Garden State well enough, I think Natalie Portman's hot as well as smart, but I'm sorry. No, scratch that, I'm not sorry, they ain't that great whoever they are, and Zach Braff is overrated at best.) Hell, I don't even get why I should pay $300 for ripped up, filthy-looking jeans that are too tight in the ass and baggy at the ankles.

Good lord, am I turning 24 or 42?

[AFPheonix]

. And kids these days have ridiculous hair, it's like the 80s are back.

Heh....the Myspace hair I don't mind so much, it's the super skinny leg tight jeans that the boys sag. Look ma, no ass!

I barely listen to music anymore. I hardly know what songs are on the radio, although I'll catch the occasional trance late night program on my way home from work.

[ArenaBoy]

The latest indie-style group of white boys that'll supposedly change your life. (I liked Garden State well enough, I think Natalie Portman's hot as well as smart, but I'm sorry. No, scratch that, I'm not sorry, they ain't that great whoever they are, and Zach Braff is overrated at best.) Hell, I don't even get why I should pay $300 for ripped up, filthy-looking jeans that are too tight in the ass and baggy at the ankles.

Good lord, am I turning 24 or 42?

The indie genre I'll happily listen to but I'm talking Flaming Lips, Beck, and StereoLab. I hate those guys who go running around telling me to listen to whatever. I also don't understand the jeans thing, if you want rips in your jeans get some scissors or let time wear them out. That's something I always did.

Garden State was BLOWN way out of proportion when I was in high school, I like Braff's work on Scrubs but good lord Garden State is a movie not some actual representation of one's high school life!!

[squall]

When I was in high school, it was all about the Austin Powers movie. All the preppy kids ran around in 60s inspired Old Navy junk, the ones they made shitty commercials for. They freaking promoted Austin Powers as a fashion guide at school, as a way of life. Anybody who was anybody didn't have long hair, like every teen seems to have now. I may be saying this since I grew up in a different time, but I don't understand kids these days. Growing up from the late days of grunge on...I think kids have gone soft.

[myswtghst]

I've noticed this as well, and really don't like it. My interests, especially in music, span pretty much any genre you can think of, in some way, shape or form. And honestly, half the time, I can't accurately categorize the stuff I love, or even like. I simply don't know where it falls, other than under "Things I want to listen to!" I think it's silly when people are sub-dividing their music. It's all music!