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Classification Music and Musicians: What kind?
Bands come and go, but the classification and reclassification of their music is an exercise that never gets old. There are no rigid rules, no universally accepted methodology or definitions to fall back on. Music geeks are facing groups changing sounds and / or appearance of a version and a classification system that is completely open to interpretation.
As a starting point, how about nailing some basic definitions and examples of musical genres? It sounds simple, but even this can be a challenge. There no agreed number of genera, the names of the genre (or what is still regarded as an autonomous genre) and the definitions themselves are often the subject of discussions. But with the help of uber-geek music Canadian Cross-Allan, with far too many hours of trolling through industry publications music as Rolling Stone and Spin, here is an attempt of some basic definitions. By the way, we stick to the rock world for general exercise, then for the purposes of this article, the country and / or Western, jazz, adult contemporary and all sorts of other music do not exist, they are off limits.
Emo: A style of music is punk part in his voice, but leaning heavily toward the end of emotional, melodramatic and anguish of this spectrum. In other words, melodic punk and Moody. Jimmy Eat World is often grouped under the banner Emo and many people consider Panic At The Disco and AFI to current occupants as well. The Smiths are another possible candidate Emo.
Goth: An offshoot of punk, gothic appeal to the darkest music fan. Proper attire was built almost entirely around black and often extended to black hair, dyed red black lipstick, heavy use of mascara and black nail polish. In general, the look was scary, the music ranges from Moody disaster. Examples Classic: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy.
New Romantics: Appearing in the post-punk music scene in the early 1980s New Romantics favored frilly shirts, skinny ties and makeup. classic bands in this vein include Duran Duran, Visage, Japan and Roxy Music.
Synthpop: A sound that became popular in the late 1970s and early 80s, Synthpop was, as its name suggests, the music pop-oriented, which relied heavily on the use of keyboards, drum machines and synthesizers, and tends to avoid or guitars less relegated to supporting instruments. Classic examples: Depeche Mode, Human League and OMD.
Heavy Metal: Gaining prominence in late 60's and 70's, Heavy Metal is a "heavy" mix of rock and blues with an emphasis on guitar and drums. The bands tended to adopt a look that included long hair, T-shirts, tight jeans and leather – you would never be confused with the New Romantics. Classic Heavy Metal particular Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Metallica. Spinal Tap is the definitive group Heavy Metal fraudulent.
Heavy Metal spawned all sorts of genres offspring some of which have been or are popular enough to merit their own definition.
Hair Metal: Heavy Metal with more of a Pop Rock or disregarded, nothing too deep, but try to appeal to a broad audience. Hair Metal is apparently about a change in the 70's glam look containing lipstick, tight leather, frills, bandanas, and long-term, cleats, teased, or colored hair. The look tends to undermine their credibility with their peers in metal more serious. Poison, Ratt and Cinderella all was this niche. Hair metal bands tend to suffer on Meeting of the circuit because, although they can perhaps play their hair too often has failed over the years and without whom …
Nu Metal: An attempt to update for Heavy Metal 90s. The elements of other genres have been mixed, sometimes with rap, sometimes Grunge, perhaps a little industrial or even Goth. It is still heavily on guitar and drums, but the band turned classic look Heavy Metal and fancied himself a bit. Classic examples: Korn, Orgy and Linkin Park.
Speed Metal: Heavy Metal Do, but faster. Because Heavy Metal became too heavy and cumbersome for some, Speed Metal developed. The guitar solo heavy metal became more dominant in the songs and rhythms have considerably increased. In the early practitioners of the style included Judas Priest and several bands such as Primal Fear contemporaries have kept the tradition alive.
Progressive Rock (Also known as Prog-Rock): This is what happens when a rock band decides to explore concepts and intellectual and musical virtuosity, rather than aiming for the classic three pop single minute. Synthesizers and string instruments are often used to fill the sound and make it more elaborate. Drums abandoned their drum kits for pit percussion complex. Rush, Pink Floyd and Genesis (At least in the early Genesis) are among the groups Prog-Rock better known.
Industrial: Just as its name indicates, industrial music sounds great, and mechanical noise. Not known for being particularly radio-friendly because it sounds unusual, aggressive and frequent use of equipment under uncomfortable or socially risky. Classic examples are: Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy and Ministry.
Hip Hop: Employing elements of a strong beat, sampling, rap and often use a turntable, Hip Hop has moved from the inner cities across the commercial success of the 80s. Run DMC, Beastie Boys and OutKast are just some examples of the wide catalog of successful hip hop groups.
Punk: A style of music that became prominent in the mid to late 70s, punk was built around the principle that anyone could and should make music, whatever their musical ability. Punk became a survey consultant for a generation of angry youths whose songs have been statements about social with musical accompaniment tending upwards, simple fast. Classic examples: Sex Pistols, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers and The Ramones.
Electronics: a distinctive sound that has developed in the mid to late 70s that the synthesis technology has become more widely available. Unlike Synthpop, electronic artists seemed more interested to explore soundscapes and a string of interesting sounds that produce singles. Kraftwerk was a pioneer of electronic motion.
Grunge: A sound that is born, and became synonymous with the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a heavy punk responding type of metal case. The uniform was typical grunge jeans and a short sleeved T-shirt worn over a long T-shirt, sometimes with a beard on the chin ubiquitous male practitioners. Bonus points were awarded to wear a red jacket and black wood check. Examples: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains.
Psychedelic Rock: For those who loved Rock and Heavy Metal, but found them too restrictive, Psychedelic Rock added all kinds of fuzz guitar, distortion and sometimes incoherent words to create a distinct sound. Classic examples of Jesus and Mary Chain The Brian Jonestown Massacre, with its roots dating back to 1960 with the Strawberry Alarm Clock and even the Beatles.
Rockabilly: when the rock was just too damned complicated, apparently some bands had a penchant for old school 50's roots rock style launched by Elvis Presley and others. They donned jeans rolled up, white t-shirts and black leather motorcycle jackets, slicked back their hair, and pumped rockabilly. You will not find a better example than the Stray Cats.
Ska: A combination of Jamaican music and rock that has reached the height of its popularity in the 70s and early 80s with British bands like Madness, English Beat and The Specials. Ska was dancing, and bands tend to be larger than typical rock required, using the standard guitar / drum / bass combo, but generally increase this figure with horns, organ and keyboards, and sometimes stage dancer named.
Next up in the classification of music is a series of more broadly used to encompass a larger share music, often to describe the format of music radio station.
Alt-Rock: Starting simply enough as an alternative rock music that plays on public radio, this used to be a classification rare, dominated by bands which could be heard on other or college radio stations: REM, for example. But the 1990s, "rock" as he was known was to be left radio and what was known as Alt-Rock actually started to dominate the game lists.
Rock: Once upon a time this used to be simple. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other groups like them, were regarded as rock bands. Over time, however, these bands tend to be grouped under Classic Rock. Today, there are Rock Band – Foo Fighters is a good example – but they are often called Alt-Rock. In other words, Alt-Rock, to a large extent usurped Rock as "rock" today. Confused? You and me both …
Indie: bands that are not directly affiliated with one of the majors labels, generally giving artists more creative control over their music, at the cost of personal assume a greater percentage of the production, promotion and distribution of their music. radio stations of the Order are the promoters of large groups of Indie, but some, like Arcade Fire, made the jump to the general public.
Pop: The less frightening (at least on the surface), more melodic and radio-friendly of all the Pop artists to sell large quantities of records and to using the widest possible audience. Pop itself changes over time, but stations are pop, where you hear people like Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Spice Girls and Girls Aloud.
Classic Rock: Now that Alt-Rock is known that Rock, rock and signals are ex-funny little to many listeners, where does that leave the 60s, 70s and 80s rock bands? They are now conveniently packaged under the term classic rock, a mass category that can range from The Beatles to Van Halen.
New Wave: A derivative the marketing term originally used by record companies to describe many of synthpop and New Romantic groups post-punk band from the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is a very broad label and was eventually used to describe something from Depeche Mode to A-Ha.
If it turns out that the types and classifications are constantly changing, the bands moving between genres and even the definitions themselves are subject to interpretation.
An artist like Neil Young is a good example of how musicians Vex music geeks. Early in his career, Young played with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Still, Nash and Young. He was generally regarded as a rock musician, with a leaning towards folk.
Then Neil went through a phase where he went to a his country, always with a touch of folk. Harvesting is quite representative of this period, but then Rock has come back with songs such as Like A Hurricane. From nowhere, he turned in electronics with an album that was so unexpected, it ended up in a fight with his label whether the release meets its contractual obligations – they essentially argued that Re-ac-tor was so there, he "does not count as a record of Neil Young. "
Young went through a phase a little rockabilly, and then finally sashayed Grunge, with his Rockin 'In The Free World one be adopted by converts like a grunge anthem. From there, Harvest Moon hovered dangerously close to Adult Contemporary, and now it seems to be back to its roots folk.
So how on earth do you classify Neil Young? Well, you can choose to break his career in phases and classify each of these individually or do things safely and file under Classic Rock. There is a good weekend of dollars to argue about it, and do not think this will not happen.
And of course you can combine categories and classifications in an attempt to define a group. The police, for example, defy a simple definition and if become a compound categorization: reggae-influenced new wave, post-punk power-pop trio.
Simple, is not it?
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