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I try to use the genre's that will most correctl;y describe what I am talking about.
sure, it is tough to talk about music, but language is all wa have to understand and communicate with, so it has to be used. genres are not so specific, and can be applied to general groups. sonic youth and the rolling stones can both be called ROCK. They are ROCK music.
Howveer, to better define what we speak of, you can say that the roling stones are heavily "blues-based rock", or to get even more specific "blues based British rock" because british bands do sound different from american bands, even when they are both trying to do "blues rock"
sonic youth has been around long enough to where thy ahve explored quite a lot of sub-genre's within the "rock" sound. from their early days as noise rockers, to their mid period which could be referred to as melodic noisy rock to their later stuff which is more of a song-based, straight ahead rock.
genres are necessary. however. genres are not limitations, just descriptions. if you choose to see a genre name as a limitation that is yr problem.
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