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sticking with country, easily my least favorite out of all of these. while its mostly the pop and bro country that contributes to this, its bad enough that it outweighs the good country acts
1. Progressive (not an option) 2. Classical (it's the theory and composition, stupid) 3. Jazz (see above) 4. Classic Rock (AOR) 5. Jam 6. Alternative 7. Grunge 8. Soul 9. Hardcore 10. Indie Rock 11. Psych 12. Blues 13. Hip Hop 14. Funk 15. Folk 16. Trap 17. Dubstep 18. Punk 19. Bluegrass 20. Metal (hair metal dragging this down) 21. Ambient 22. Reggae 23. House 24. Reggaeton 25. R&B 26. Pop 27. Buttrock 28. Country 29. Disco 30. Hyperpop
Going bluegrass here aswell. It's corny at best, but never gets emotional nor does it hit that sweet spot that folk or even country for that matter could do. Jam makes you feel like you're going on a journey while bluegrass doesn't hit either mark.
this sounds really ignorant.
edit: billy strings. so fucking corny. no emotion, no jam.
Still more correct than people who think Dubstep = Skrillex.
If Billy Strings weren't so hot right now very few people would care about bluegrass here, I'm guessing.
^^ Skrillex was doing dubstep 10 years ago. He mixed in lots of other stuff, but his early 2010's shows leaned toward dub. Some of his Jack U work and even some Dog's Blood has elements. I don't equate him with the o.g. dub movement, but he carried the a bright torch for it for a while.
Going bluegrass here aswell. It's corny at best, but never gets emotional nor does it hit that sweet spot that folk or even country for that matter could do. Jam makes you feel like you're going on a journey while bluegrass doesn't hit either mark.
this sounds really ignorant.
edit: billy strings. so fucking corny. no emotion, no jam.
Bluegrass is full of emotion. My wife makes fun of me for only liking sad music and bluegrass is definitely that. Also every bluegrass band I’ve ever seen is flawless. They don’t miss a note. Incredible musicians.
classical needs to go idgaf how influential for music some of it has been
WTF?
yeah after seeing your rankings i figured you’d be upset with me
i probably shouldn’t die on the hill of voting for it, but it’s probably the genre on the list that i’m least likely to listen to and have probably never listened to on my own so that’s just where i’m at
god damn we’ve got 30 options and one of them already has 10 votes??
fuck is wrong with y’all
classical needs to go idgaf how influential for music some of it has been
Classical is the water of music genres. It may not excite everyone, but we all need it.
yeah i know lol
was just my knee jerk reaction to vote for what i like the least and that’s where my head went though i did acknowledge it’s influence in my original post
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 25, 2022 8:47:31 GMT -5
standard caveat of i understand the meaning of genre names changes over time and that's fine.
i voted dubstep and i figured it would have the most votes before i clicked it. but it still makes me a little sad because before dubstep became the dubstep as we know it...
...it was a spacious and lush sound, not hype or jump up at all. incredibly easy to listen to but still could inspire:
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 25, 2022 8:57:03 GMT -5
same caveat as above but "classical" music is maybe the broadest genre description in the whole list, covering literally over 1,000 years of music (the first "classical" music dates to 800AD) and therefore covering a medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical (yeah that's confusing classical is it's own sub-genre in what we call classical), romantic, modernist, post-modern.
the key classical sub-genre for contemporary music lovers is romantic, broadly embodied by one artist: Beethoven. Beethoven is responsible for injecting emotional and expressive elements into music via extended melodies, and thus whenever you are at a show shouting a chorus you love with tears in your eyes you have Ludwig Van to thank. he made it OK for music to make you feel something.
beethoven's 3rd symphony "Eroica" was composed in 1803AD, and anyone today can throw it on and immediately feel the connection with modern day pop music. it's big and bright and sad and fun and gorgeous.
same caveat as above but "classical" music is maybe the broadest genre description in the whole list, covering literally over 1,000 years of music (the first "classical" music dates to 800AD) and therefore covering a medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical (yeah that's confusing classical is it's own sub-genre in what we call classical), romantic, modernist, post-modern.
the key classical sub-genre for contemporary music lovers is romantic, broadly embodied by one artist: Beethoven. Beethoven is responsible for injecting emotional and expressive elements into music via extended melodies, and thus whenever you are at a show shouting a chorus you love with tears in your eyes you have Ludwig Van to thank. he made it OK for music to make you feel something.
beethoven's 3rd symphony "Eroica" was composed in 1803AD, and anyone today can throw it on and immediately feel the connection with modern day pop music. it's big and bright and sad and fun and gorgeous.
I'm more a Mozart stan overall, but I won't deny that Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is my favorite single composition. Basic AF, but the heart wants what it wants.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 25, 2022 9:12:50 GMT -5
and Bach has one of my favorite quotes about music:
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
kind of religious-y as one would expect, but i love that phrase "the refreshment of the soul". perfectly describes how i feel after a great show or even after just listening to a great song i really wanted to hear in that moment.
20th Century Classical was an interesting subgenre as well.
As a hard [tm] motherfucker, I'm going to a Dubstep show before I'm going to see anything on any of the Bottom 10 [tm] genres from my list (Ambient Reggae House Reggaeton R&B Pop Buttrock Country Disco Hyperpop). It's not offensive that it gets voted off, but it wasn't Dubstep that killed Bonnaroo. And it wasn't just LCD Soundsystem and J. Cole. It was too much House at The Other.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 25, 2022 9:14:52 GMT -5
regarding trap, i appreciate trap as a hip-hop genre, some bona fide classics there, but aside from a handful of talented producers it's pretty bad as an electronic genre. worse than brostep, at least brostep seems to have a sense of humor about itself.
Post by jorgeandthekraken on Jul 25, 2022 9:38:35 GMT -5
I very much look forward to when people start coming for disco and I can give my TED Talk about how the anti-disco movement of the late '70s was really rooted in racism and homophobia.
I very much look forward to when people start coming for disco and I can give my TED Talk about how the anti-disco movement of the late '70s was really rooted in racism and homophobia.
Maybe some of it. But disco sucked, and I can't think of a worse music scene I was ever exposed to. That didn't have anything to do with race or orientation.
Post by Ambassador Of Fun on Jul 25, 2022 9:42:51 GMT -5
Full disclosure: My first batch of votes will be for a genre I refer to as "stuff they play on the Other stage". The multiple genres are indistinguishable to me, so I don't really care what order they go in. Going dubstep here because it appears to be the obvious choice. For me, it could just as easily be house or techno or beepity-beepity-boop.
regarding trap, i appreciate trap as a hip-hop genre, some bona fide classics there, but aside from a handful of talented producers it's pretty bad as an electronic genre. worse than brostep, at least brostep seems to have a sense of humor about itself.
I don't know. There's humor there. What's the trappiest EDM song you can think of? I'd go with Grandtheft + Keys 'N Krates Keep it 100 which rules and is almost all humor.
I very much look forward to when people start coming for disco and I can give my TED Talk about how the anti-disco movement of the late '70s was really rooted in racism and homophobia.
Maybe some of it. But disco sucked, and I can't think of a worse music scene I was ever exposed to. That didn't have anything to do with race or orientation.
Disco didn't suck. The watered-down, made-safe-for-straight-white-people version of disco that was created by major labels looking to capitalize on an underground trend often sucked (although I'm not going to lie and say I don't have a soft spot for some of it). But the disco born in the (mostly gay, mostly Black) NYC club scene was very often total fire, and I will die on this hill.
