Bad Genre Names
 

Just heard a few today on pitchfork, and inspired me to post some of the ones I've heard in the past:

Avante-pop
Beard-Core
Post Metalcore
Undercore

Sadcore
Symphonic Metal

Most posts and cores are dumb.

Disco!

Disco may be a mostly shitty genre, but I think it's a perfectly great name to describe what it was.

"Death Disco" on the other hand...that's reaching a bit too far to attempt to legitimize a stylistic trend circa 2002.

Dub Step
Breakcore
Post Rock
Happy Hardcore

Noise because there's too much confusion in that.

What the fuck is beard-core?

Post-disco
Disco-punk
Proto-disco
Disco-core

Seriously, I've seen/heard all of these used--in some fairly pretentious reviews, needless to say.

>> maybe??

If I had to wager a guess at "beard-core," is it at the intersection of krauty psych, prog, and freaky folky type music....e.g. USA Is a Monster, Oneida, Jackie-O Motherfucker, etc.

beard core is hardcore bands that have beards

I do not like this genre, but I think the genre name suits is perfectly and is an apt descriptiopn of the bands, the sounds, the songs, and the fans

TWEE

Cowpunk

What? I think that's a really cool name.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think the worst genre name is "grunge".

I have not even heard of most of these genres. Why do people feel the need to classify music down to the most insignificant little detail? It sounds pretentious as fuck.
Like you ask what kind of music does ______ play?
Then the annoying hipster fuck replies: "Oh, theyre like a mixture of nerd-core and post-beard punk, with just a hint of avant-grunge-gaze."

Cowpunk refers to bands like Uncle Tupelo, aka The Trend That Minneapolis Will Never Allow To Just Fucking Die Already.

crust punk

That's becuz that's all they've got, since the Replacements and Husker Du are history.

most subgenre names suck; chief among them "melodic death metal"

one of my favorites is grindcore though, it's perfect.

The Replacements' music has aged terribly.

cowpunk is sort of like the plugz and tex and the horseheads and the screaming sirens. uncle tupelo was "alt. country"; remember, it was the 90's and everything with "alt." on the name sold.

deathcountry
taqwacore

hehe...PSYCHOBILLY

gothabilly

Horror Rock

I like Psychobilly as a name. It fits that kind of band quite well, especially as those kinds of bands usually have no problem with pigeonholing under that umbrella term and are not too hung up on "originality."

Hey hey, less dissing of the happy hardcore thanks. What do you want from a genre name? Should it not describe the music perfectly?

I think glitchcore, lo-fi and the oft forgotten no-fi were pretty awful names. There was a period when journos would break their asses trying to find another word to put -fi after.

Crunk is a stupid name. Grime is a great one. Funny how these things work out.

Psychobilly makes perfect sense to me also.

Glitchcore is a terrible name indeed.

Perhaps it is my laothing of Happy Hardcore that does it in for me. It seems like the two words should be mutually exclusive. It's unnatural.

oh, excuse me... how could i have forgotten?

riot grrrl

grime is a far better name than most people associated with it.

i like 'glitch' as a description of the music (glitchcore is too much though)

quoted for posterity.

You don't like Happy Hardcore? I don't believe someone with a record collection as absurdly presented as yours does not have at least one slightly worn out semi-bootleg Happy Hardcore tape somewhere. What's not to like? It's silly, it makes you bounce.

Kids these days, I don't know...

Riot Grrrl isn't a mere music genre, maan. It's a fucking MOVEMENT!



ahem.

My interest in all things techno 12" in nature waned severely by 1994.

it's a bunch of cunts with the money for instruments is what it is.

Happy Hardcore was the second-last great tape-governed genre. Bhangra was the last, and that seems to have made the transition onto CD now.

gaba > happy hardcore