What does it all mean?

[bastardface]

People who think that genre labeling is stupid are usually countless times more stupid.

Person A: <BandName> are really good!
Person B: Oh cool, what type of music are they?
Person A: I can't say! I'M NOT A CLOSED MINDED FOOL!!!1

Imbeciles.

Hah hah hah, that's the best. It's like being afraid to identify someone as "the black guy" out of fear of labeling people.

I think "-core" just means you do breakdowns instead of solos. Breakdowns = Let's all play our guitars like drums!

 

[ChrisEmerson]

god emo is the biggest pile of shite ever to have surfaced from... anything.

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

wow

Great genre definitions there, Landof! Two thumbs up!

You really know your shit!

why thank you sir...i try to look out for the people.

 

[etotheipiequalsminus1]

Labels are important to music, especially in discussing music and recommending bands. However, some of my friends who are into bands like spineshank, linkin park, new metallica, etc etc. are simply sick and tired of people calling them morons and saying the bands they like are shite. And yes they've heard bands like Opeth and can't stand them

 

[JoeVice]

people use labels to pre-judge.

 

[etotheipiequalsminus1]

someone's been brainwashed by the liberals ^^^

 

[coolsnow7]

Labels are important to music, especially in discussing music and recommending bands. However, some of my friends who are into bands like spineshank, linkin park, new metallica, etc etc. are simply sick and tired of people calling them morons and saying the bands they like are shite. And yes they've heard bands like Opeth and can't stand them

they're morons. fuck 'em

 

[synergy]

I saw agalloch labeled as forest metal somewhere...thats just gay

 

[bastardface]

people use labels to pre-judge.

and people wear shoes on their feet.

 

[dorian gray]

grey and pink: thanks for being one of about two people who actually answered my question. good definitions. what is emo? you made it darkly appealing by telling me to avoid it.

everyone else: you all rule.

 

[Demilich]

Maybe I've been brainwashed by the liberals too, but I'd just like to offer a different opinion on this "i'm a metal elitist and everything but death/black/thrash/prog/whatever-i-like sucks" idea. In my experience of talking to a wide variety of people about music, there are intelligent, good people who listen to every genre of music. People listen to music for different reasons, and none of them are any less valid than YOURS. Not everyone listens to music as "art", some value it as entertainment, as a political or social statement, etc. This might draw them to other kinds of music, maybe even metalcore or whatever. Personally, I've never really listened to any of those bands labelled as metalcore so I can't say. I just don't like how closedminded and moronic a lot of the people in here seem to be. Relax, grow up, and let people listen to what they want.

As for labels, no one's ever gonna agree on which bands fall into exactly which categories, they're useful as loose categorizing tools when discusing and describing music, that's probably about all.

 

[dorian gray]

IAmEternal: who are you talking to exactly? not me, i hope. i was merely inquiring what these labels mean as I am a bit older than most of the people on here, don't have the typical influences, don't read the typical magazines, don't listen to much metal so I am not exposed to such terms as "metalcore" until i get on this board. actually the first time i heard "nu-metal" was at an opeth concert when my friend commented on devil driver's vocalist.
anyway, you may not be talking to me but i just wanted to clear it up so i dont get some reputation as close-minded.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

grey and pink: thanks for being one of about two people who actually answered my question. good definitions.

Actually his definitions were beyond shitty. Those were the definitions a person who doesn't know much about the said genres.

Black metal:
bad production and lyrics about satan

death metal:
just fast drumming and growling

 

[dorian gray]

^i hate that cheap bastard grey and pink then. what a liar.

 

[CanuckTuck]

I like music but there is allways some idiot telling you what is ponrcore and what is dickcore. It just makes me sick.

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

Actually his definitions were beyond shitty. Those were the definitions a person who doesn't know much about the said genres.

Black metal:
bad production and lyrics about satan

death metal:
just fast drumming and growling

Umm, can you give better defenitions of the genres i spoke of? rather than putting words in my mouth about black and death metal, which i never said a word about? thanks...dick.

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

^i hate that cheap bastard grey and pink then. what a liar.

What i said was truth...if youre listening to what abcdefg says over me, then you havent been paying much attention in this forum.

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

abcdefg, quit trying to stir up shit and getting people to dislike me for reasons i had nothing to do with. unappreciated. :Smug:

 

[dorian gray]

i was being sarcastic of course. see some of my earlier posts.

 

[Land Of Grey And Pink]

oh. i thought you had just turned on me, because of abcdefg changing his tune about my defenitions.