Originally Posted by
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Well, yeah, flat-out genres like Blues, Rock, Jazz, Hip-hop, etc, are fine, but, for example, ultravegetarian progressive experimental post-jazz-fusion ska is a bit exaggerated. Like you, overclassifying is what I'm against.
Overall I don't agree with you, but I understand your frustration. But you have to understand that as a music genre evolves, it becomes very characteristic and so thats when you need all these sub-genres to classify it.
You can call them whatever you want though, nobody forces you to use the more specific sub-genres that they fit in... Its meant for hierarchical classification... Its for identification purposes only.
Of course that "ultravegetarian progressive experimental post-jazz-fusion ska" will never be the case. That happens only when a band is eclectic and therefore it doesn't belong to a single fusion genre. When that happens you don't have to develop a phrase like that, you just name the associated genres independently, otherwise it might be misleading for people who are looking for something specific.
For example, how do you define the band
Dark Lunacy? You have to name the genres. So its Melodic/Symphonic Death Metal.
If you just name it "death metal" which is already a subgenre of metal music, then you might have a fucked up surprise when you hear this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEq6HZTHu4g
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Apr 2, 2010 at 06:14 PM.