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Words first, music later. Create the name of a genre of music and then we can shoehorn stuff in later. It may be that I'm missing the point and that this is what the music press has been doing for years :-)

Reason for thread: I have only just stopped giggling at synthcore. Any takers for "nu indie" or "indiecore"? OK, then what about Intelligent Grunge (IG for short -- a sort of competitor to "emo").

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Let's not and say we did" type new answers.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Softcore' - a kinder, gentler sort of gabba.

― stevo, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

MC Hammer = Hip-pop.
Air Supply = Hard Easy Listening. (Well *I* Find it HARD to listen to.)
Some band so obscure nobody, even the bands members have never heard of it = Nonternative Post-Indie.

― Lord Custos, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I only use one label: Musick is either Ikea Muzik or not.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anything that ends in "-core" makes me laugh.

― DG, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

how about corecore then

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

or corr-core. for hardcore Corr's fans

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Indie music

― N., Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

N = that one dog in Rex the Runt who does the one-word echo. "Spaghetti" or "Jam" to much comic effect.

(Quiet today, innit?)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Someone else made up a genre elsethread that I can't stop giggling over: hard handbag. Hands up, who was it?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Goth-hop
Micro-jungle
Neogabba
J-glitch
Noircore
Trainwrecktronica
Commercial IDM
Glam-Garage
Wrench & Bass
MC Riot Grrl
Prog-Step

― Honda, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hampster Dance. Intelligent minimal ambient progressive acid house. Wait, that's Plastikman...

― Lee, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Prank.

― Douglas, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Psy-fi Jazz. Psychedelic jazz with a space-rock, science fiction bent.

Anyone?

― powertonevolume, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stagewetter: So called because of the bands' tendency towards incontinence while playing. Also known as Puddle Pop.

― Curt, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Snuggle-fi.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My friend Jay and I have always wanted to start a genre called "Free Tejano." Which is free jazz, played solely with tejano instruments.

And yes, you have to dress like Tejano musicians, too.

― Gage-o, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

....And there will be.... Cock Rawk for all!!!

― burt ward's law, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CorpsCore (which may have already been invented: Corporate Hardcore)

CorpseCore - which is not the same as death metal; it's the sound of rotting flesh & flies.

― Dave225, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

bitch-hop
Adult-oriented Dance Music (AODM)
waltzcore
hard gavotte
cantata-hop
symphonic dixie
bluegrass jungle
free trance

I would say gothcore, but I think that exists already (see Cradle Of Filth).

― Dan Perry, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fecalcore (G.G. Allin)

― Gage-o, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would like to created Ironicore.

self explanitory.

― Jeff, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glam IDM would be GREAT. I think I'll do this.

― Keiko, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

B&B Bed & Breakfast...

― Andy, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Elmo.

― Marcel Post, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The problem with all of these answers is that as soon as someone tries to use one of them for a band, a bunch of fans will come back and say that the tag is useless, and doesn't really mean anything.

And by the way, why do fans hate genres so much? They hate it when critics generalize by placing their band in a tiny crate by which to get out of typing three paragraphs of group history. Fans hate three paragraphs of group history too. I've come to the conclusion that fans love seeing their band in print, but hate everything written about them.

As for imaginary genres: Fickle Pop, Holy Blooze, Bandage Rock, and E- Freak

― dleone, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Branson Rock

― A Nairn, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Um, "hard handbag" *does* exist. It's that style of house that is played in a lot of the gay clubs, where everything is superfast and almost brutally efficient a la hard house but the vocals and melodies are still over-the-top divathons.

― Tim, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Grunt rock.

Fluffy dub.

Skygazing.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ha Billy I misread that as "Skylarking" for a moment :).

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm still waiting for glitchhall, dammit. But snuggle-fi sounds cool, book me a place on that bandwagon.

― Rebecca, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

has progressive punk been done?

― di, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Math-pop! I always wanted to hear math-pop records.

― Douglas, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glitchhall - like dance hall? Or like music hall? Vaudevillian Glitch would be ace.

― Keiko, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hardcore bands in my home town of Oxnard were referred to as "Nardcore."

― nickn, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

An off-shoot of cock rock?

― Prude, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skykicking. Why not?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Frosted Hair Bands: Incorporates rap-metal, skate-punk, whiteboy rap, Lenny Kravitz.

― Curt, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

forced groupchant: taking ten or twenty old men from a nursing home (the crazier the better) and forcing them to stand and recite the lyrics to popular songs in unison. can be a cappella or not. accompaniment if used should be a salvation army band and/or a casio keyboard.

― condiments, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Prog-power-cock-rock. Equal (and coexisting) parts '70s prog, Sunset Strip glam-metal, and circa-1980 power-pop looking back to the mid- '60s.

Oh, and for di: Yes, there is progressive punk, from an English band called the Cardiacs. Check 'em out.

― Jeff Blanks, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pairs-figure-skating-judge-rock.....it'll be beautiful.....nothing but double albums of gritty recordings of joints being slowly hyperextended and finally snapped, dicks and tits being belt-sanded off, garbled yelling in Polish and Chinese.....torture mothafuckasssSSSS5555555sssssss

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Olympic Games of torture...a new sport for the kids.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I actually meant as in dancehall, but music hall would be far more mindboggling, so whichever, really.

And I pondered replying to di's prog-punk query but I thought if I mentioned the Cardiacs and the Monsoon Bassoon yet again I'd manage to piss everyone off even further than I already have. Pronk, yes. Like springboks. Much loved by zines Organ and Misfit City, although the Organ describes everything it likes as "bendy bendy pronkoid fuzz", so the Organ calling it pronk isn't the most reliable sign of pronkdom.

Once long ago I was going to tack together some bad javascript to churn out random fake genre names, but then I found Motion, which had already done the same thing, and has a neat database of record shops to boot. The specialist music currently generated is "beard-jumpup-green- electric music"...

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Intelligent Trance Metal. Core, even.

― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bed rock.

― Sean, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Electro-Dickensian

― Adam, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pre post rock. It'll only be some college graduates trying to sound like Gang of Four of course.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...Slow-Hard? No Core? Rotten Core? Clean Glitch? I suck at this. (Suck Core?) (Magma? Somewhere between Soft Rock & Hard Rock, you see ... oh, OK, I'll stop.)

Spazzjack comes to mind, but that's the name of a LOCAL BAND. (Ungh.)

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Buttclick - 'Back in Black' meets the Mille Plateux roster.

emo concrete - assembled entirely from field recordings of scenesters.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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relational vaporwave

― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 6 March 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link

ok, i will be silly

barberslop (which in turn inspired barberslap, barbershop quartet accompanied solely by slap bass)
squonk (a genre consisting solely of note-for-note covers of the 1976 genesis song "squonk", widely considered to have been started by cleopatra's double cd collection "Squonk: a 40th Anniversary Tribute")
conscious oi
nosocomial beat
shooby scat
necroduet
baroquefort
ecocore
electronica praecox
queergrass
klusterpunk
post-popcorn
atmospheric black schlager
doxxpop
sweet qin music
8field
art crunk
edmonton
psychodisco
vegan ambient
aleatoric serialism
mean jazz
mixolydian crust
occult sunshine pop
tin pan soul

― diana krallice (rushomancy), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link

Wescore intensely hard rocking guitar based music with tendencies toward octaving and Mongomery like playing but more intense, like. I thought of early John Mclaughlin as this in my lat teens. When I picked up the Lifetime polydor compilation and stuff.

& is Tin Pan Soul pretty much an existing thing but not compiled as such. Probably enough songs covered by Otis etc that had origins in the NYC music writing factory of that era to stick at least a couple of decent cds out of

― Stevolende, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link

Smooth Jams

Kenny G but with bitchin light show and interminable soloing.

― how's life, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

Rap + Electro: Rapelectro

I see a potential issue with this one

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

doompop - pop musicians singing infectious melodies over slow, monotonous riffs

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link

stevolende: yeah, some of these genres already exist but haven't been named as such yet (which happens all the time with genres anyway- i don't think "space disco" was considered an actual genre until around the 2000s).

― diana krallice (rushomancy), Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

FRBRcore

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

Mutterpunk (or Stutterpunk)

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 19 September 2016 12:44 (seven years ago) link

https://www.beatport.com/release/ambient-grunge/1850720

― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Monday, 19 September 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link

lmao

― ciderpress, Monday, 19 September 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Bradrock

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link

Booty Skiffle

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link

Acid Tweemo

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link

Cock Hop

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link

Nu-Stepcore

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link

Post-Ho Wop

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link

Smooth Thrash

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link

McTechno(tm)

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link

Soft cock hop

― octobeard, Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link

flag post punk

― Har-@-Iago (wins), Saturday, 15 October 2016 08:07 (seven years ago) link

Chunk

― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 17 October 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link

Prehistoric garage

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link

Cocka-Nova

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link

Minimal Nu-metal

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link

Buttwave

― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link

Funky Folk

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Cuckstep

― how's life, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Fuckstep

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Dubstepbilly

― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link

Highcore

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link

Serialism-slam death

― punksishippies, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link

oldschool OSDM

― punksishippies, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link

Funkgaze

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link

Bagpipe House

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXnWlooxUIg

Sorry, that was already invented over 20 years ago.

― Tuomas, Monday, 24 October 2016 09:09 (seven years ago) link

I was googling for something else yesterday when I stumbled on this link: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(genre)

Very disappointed there is no music genre known as 'Sphinx'

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 24 October 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Shitstream.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

Bröömdisco: a subgenre of the subgenre Witch House.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link

Leatherpop

― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 23 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to hear SpaceCountry, like old style country with electronic instruments

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link

^ ELO's "Another Heart Breaks" come close to that.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 23 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link

Never heard it, I'll check it out

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to hear SpaceCountry, like old style country with electronic instruments

― Iago Galdston

the spotnicks?

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 23 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LchUdLLgQ8&list=PLFwc7BRamAICaclpdkkTOJyzrdx1Vp30R

― naus, Sunday, 25 December 2016 07:37 (seven years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFwc7BRamAIBt1l3_CCJrNcySbdH-lTyc

― naus, Sunday, 25 December 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link

Grizzly Steppe

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link

Bubblegum glitch

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link

Norteño Trance

Pioneered by the proto norteño trance song 'el sonidito'

https://youtu.be/x47NYUbtYb0

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link

Also influenced by technobanda and techno cumbia.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link

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