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The genre thread
Have you ever wondered what 'Grime' is? Or 'Ambient House'? Here's the thread with all the answers...
1. Name the genre. Where did the name come from? 2. Describe it - what are its special features? What is it related to? What makes it different enough to deserve a name of its own? 3. Give a couple of examples of the genre. Who does this style of music? Add some links, so we can hear it. It's all up to you. I'm looking forward to hearing some Grime. I have no idea what it is! |
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Pronk
A cross between Prog (Progressive Rock) and Punk. Kind of Genesis meets the Sex Pistols. It's got all the frilly bits of prog - awkward keys, strange and shifting time signatures, guitar, drums, keyboard and maybe some other instruments plus the stroppy, slightly bad tempered attitude of Punk. It's a genre championed by 'The Cardiacs'. Is This the Life? (early) As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea (late) Aw, go on, then - one more... Tarred And Feathered The Cardiacs are the greatest band no-one has heard of... |
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Folk Metal
What it says on the tin ![]() An early example from Thin Lizzy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRH_DKDuz8 Here's a contemporary example 'Almora' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1yk...eature=related |
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Heavy Metal
phrased coined by journalist to describe loud bands like MC5 (Motor City Five), Grand Funk Railroad - industrial sounding bands Led (to avoid it being pronounced 'leed' - following the Who's "Live In Leeds" (the Who live in yorkshire, do they?)) Zeppelin. came to be particualrly used of English heavy rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly. following on from that - NWOBM new wave of british metal - post-punk HM bands - Motorhead were probably in the vanguard, as Lemmy had been with Hawkwind, who were a difficult band to categorise and whilst part of the HM scene, were not strictly HM the likes of Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Praying Mantis and the others - generally-speaking, they played a lot more fast and thrashy and less bluesy that Led Zep. Acid Jazz modern style of progressive jazz epitomised by The James Taylor Quartet on that label, but can be applied to various funky and frentic bands primarily focused on the music, not vocals - more modern version of jazz-funk with the vocals usually taking second place to the instrumentation - particularly complex bass-playing and swirly keyboards. |
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Doom Metal
Black Sabbath were one of the forerunners of it. Used the harmonic Minor key a lot, as well as the notorious jazz/blues derived tritone. (The devils note!). An example of a song of theirs using the harmonic minor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiShf...eature=related And a thrashy one with the tritone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFj2IwLgTV4 Pentagram, another pioneer of the genre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cshu2nDJGZ4 A modern example from Luz Incerta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPavJ1NymGA |
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Good stuff so far...
Skiffle A type of British folk music which fuses elements of jazz, country and blues. Instruments were often improvised out of whatever came to hand, including washboards and tea chests, and this led to it enjoying huge popularity in the 1950s, when the money to buy instruments was often not available. Some of the people who started off in Skiffle bands carried on to become key players in the British music scene. Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line Jimmy Page The Quarrymen |
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Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient<snip> In the late 1980s and early 1990s, an ethereal wave trend emerged within the dark wave movement, that tended toward moody atmospheric pieces rather than jangly minor-key rock. Ethereal wave was mainly associated with the Projekt record label, with bands like Black Tape for a Blue Girl composing moody ambient soundscapes. These are ethereal and moody examples... Arcana - Outside Your World Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Unquiet Thoughts Qntal - Unter Der Linden |
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Viking Metal
Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by its galloping pace, keyboard-rich anthemic sound, bleakness and dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Usually sounding quite epic. Amon Amarth Stormwarrior Tyr Also similar in sound is folk metal, typically a fusion of metal music with folk instruments. Trollfest Finntroll Korplikaani Skyclad* *cheesy video alert! |
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Shoegaze
'Shoegaze' is the slightly insulting name given by the music press to a style of music which was popular from the end of the 1980s until the mid 1990s, and was an offshoot of the alternative scene of the late 1980s. Instrumentation tends to be the usual line up of guitars, drums and keyboards, with the guitar sound being heavily processed through effects pedals to create a generalised, dreamy, wall of sound. Vocals are often low down in the mix, becoming part of the overall soundscape. Despite this, the sound tends to be pretty 'poppy' and commercial sounding. Early influences on Shoegaze include The Cure, My Bloody Valentine and The Cocteau Twins. Slowdive - Alison Lush - For Love NuGaze The return of Shoegaze. Nu-Gaze has a wider set of influences, and the sound is considerably more diverse, and often more electronic. Amusement Parks On Fire - Venus In Cancer Ladytron - Seventeen |
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