anything safe to use? Cause i was thinking of starting an epic-angular post-rock band that puts out funky bangers that are like kasabian if they had a clue. We have some chooooooons, you know.
and worse when used where *insert band name* are known to have been users of acid. I can't remember where I saw an example of this but it was most perplexing.
it's only meaningless when it's used ALL the time so that it really has no significance. Otherwise, it's a perfectly acceptable term that implies that the album is equal, if not better, than their debut.
Any given phrasing of how or why a band "CANNOT BE DEFINED BY A MERE GENRE LABEL"
All those band descriptions that are in the same vein as "like Band X on acid" except trying to be witty and imaginative, like "THIS BAND SOUNDS LIKE FUGAZI GIVING STEVIE WONDER A HANDJOB WHILE DRIVING OVER RAZORLIGHT IN A TRACTOR"
What the fuck is that supposed to mean in the context of music?
A row of houses?
A zebra crossing?
Built up areas and shopping precincts?
Milton Keynes?
post something
what?
what does that mean!
right now im post-sleep
just cos i did something after sleeping doesnt mean what i do next is influenced by that thing.
post-rock
suggests beyond rock, thats just arrogance when blatantly that music is rock.
used to describe themselves as 'Post-good' when an interviewer was being a prick. Still makes me laugh.
Anything preceded by 'Alt' ie Alt-country. Basically it's country music but you feel embarrassed by saying you like country music so you invented a genre to stick all the bits of country that you like in.
Call it country and just admit that there are some country artists who are really good and there are some who are unspeakably shit, just like every other genre.
I really REALLY hate it when a band is described by describing two or more other bands having sex with one another, e.g. "THEY SOUND LIKE HUSKER-DU FUCKING KYUSS" What kind of a desciption of music is that? Just all of the members of said bands, naked together in a line with their erect penises inserted into one another? Not good at all.
And if they bolt the dreaded "...ON ACID!!!" onto the end then I stop reading. Or I've picked up a copy of Q.
'Chooooooooooon'
'Anthem'
'Kasabian'
I thought you said musical?
'eclectic'
'glacial'
'angular'
'indie-dance'
actually, those aren't irrational at all.
glacial
is totally idiotic
angular makes sense but is overused
I like glacial.
It's evocative.
'funky'
this when used sincerely is the worst thing ever
unless it's used to talk about funk
but even then it's bad, unless you're Shaft.
*ahem*
George Motherfucking Clinton
95% of his songs contain the word 'funk' in some capacity. Many of them have lyrics where 'funk' fulfils more than 50% of the word count
G.M. Clinton is not bad (though he is BAD)
yeah but it makes sense in relation to Parliament
not when someone calls the new Jamie Cullum album "funky and dancey"
segue
also pronounced "seeeg"
mm
if you cant talk properly, yes
"Arty"
'Alternative'
To what?
"Grime"
^
indie
alternative
nu rave
lots
Angular
Art Rock
Nu Rave
Post Hardcore
Jo Wiley when she speaks
"Love It"
...
To the mainstream?
...
To the mainstream?
...
To the mainstream, this won;t reply where I want it, try again...
IDM
New Weird America
Freak or Free Folk
I guess these are genres but they really piss me off
Anything followed by
'esque'
remember 'shroomadelic'?
That really annoyed me.
...
Oh fuck it, when that dude said alternative to what
hmmm
'Visceral', 'fractured', 'math', 'in the vein of Don Caballero'.
in press releases
i keep reading stuff like "it's the sound of the truth unravelling" - NO IT BLOODY ISN'T.
Those first two are just adjectives.
So thats everything
anything safe to use? Cause i was thinking of starting an epic-angular post-rock band that puts out funky bangers that are like kasabian if they had a clue. We have some chooooooons, you know.
not interested unless you have barcodes
barcode-core.
'nu-barc'
"*insert band name* on acid"
Not so much a musical term, more an unspeakabley shit way to describe a band.
^ Is terrible
and worse when used where *insert band name* are known to have been users of acid. I can't remember where I saw an example of this but it was most perplexing.
Musical Theatre
That is all.
Nu-Rave
Nu-Gaze
slinky.
I used that word in a review the other day....I felt ashamed of myself afterwards.
hahaha
that's really bad!
"world music"
when I hear that term
I immediately think of samba drums. Is there a reason for that?
yes
in other news, I see I'm not alone:
http://www.luakabop.com/david_byrne/cmp/worldmusic.html
sophomore
as in sophomore album (second album)
stupid meaningless Amercanism
yes Amercanism!
which is a word i've invented and really like
naaah, its not
gets used all the time. 'Normalcy' is an Americanism.
I meant 'americanism'
not sophomore.
why is it meaningless?
it's only meaningless when it's used ALL the time so that it really has no significance. Otherwise, it's a perfectly acceptable term that implies that the album is equal, if not better, than their debut.
what's wrong with sophomore
it's a word, it's in the dictionary. You're not one of those people who hates it if people sing in an American accent, are you?
I hate ironic/post-ironic use
of the word 'disco'. Yeah, listen to us talking and singing about discos, let's all have a disco. NOBODY USES THIS WORD SERIOUSLY.
Looking up at my own subject, I also hate the prefix 'post'.
bf
garage...r and b...
both are sickeningly misused- as they are terms for proper sixties energetic shit that have been misappropriated for bad modern turdery
Yeah, eclectic
'Quirky'
Any given phrasing of how or why a band "CANNOT BE DEFINED BY A MERE GENRE LABEL"
All those band descriptions that are in the same vein as "like Band X on acid" except trying to be witty and imaginative, like "THIS BAND SOUNDS LIKE FUGAZI GIVING STEVIE WONDER A HANDJOB WHILE DRIVING OVER RAZORLIGHT IN A TRACTOR"
^
that band sound amazing
innit
I love them already.
Urban
What the fuck is that supposed to mean in the context of music?
A row of houses?
A zebra crossing?
Built up areas and shopping precincts?
Milton Keynes?
post-what
post something
what?
what does that mean!
right now im post-sleep
just cos i did something after sleeping doesnt mean what i do next is influenced by that thing.
post-rock
suggests beyond rock, thats just arrogance when blatantly that music is rock.
Post Rock
should come with a stamp on it.
Boom Boom!
ESP
used to describe themselves as 'Post-good' when an interviewer was being a prick. Still makes me laugh.
Anything preceded by 'Alt' ie Alt-country. Basically it's country music but you feel embarrassed by saying you like country music so you invented a genre to stick all the bits of country that you like in.
Call it country and just admit that there are some country artists who are really good and there are some who are unspeakably shit, just like every other genre.
.
I really REALLY hate it when a band is described by describing two or more other bands having sex with one another, e.g. "THEY SOUND LIKE HUSKER-DU FUCKING KYUSS" What kind of a desciption of music is that? Just all of the members of said bands, naked together in a line with their erect penises inserted into one another? Not good at all.
And if they bolt the dreaded "...ON ACID!!!" onto the end then I stop reading. Or I've picked up a copy of Q.
"sassy"
...when used to describe a female vocalist (and it's only ever used in that context). Makes me want to fucking puke.
Making it more 'organic'
"razor bubblegum"
epic
basically means too long