Explain musical genres to Odradek like he is a child

Odradek · 2013-01-29 19:55:29

Please.

Explain them to me.

Hexartes · 2013-01-29 19:57:07

When you're older.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-01-29 19:57:30

What do you mean "explain them" to you?

There's not much to explain. Different kinds of music sounds different, and songs and bands are grouped by similar sounds.

Odradek · 2013-01-29 19:58:20

*claps at new knowledge*

Tre · 2013-01-29 20:51:40

Drum n bass music uses DRUMS and BASS.

Imipolex G · 2013-01-29 21:42:59

"heavy metal" is aggressive and uses loud guitars and your mother doesn't like it

"rap" is when people talk over some background music

Obā-san · 2013-01-29 21:44:43

Imipölex G said:
"rap" is when people talk over some background music

one dude i knew who said it was what happened when some dude was listening to an old funk record and it started skipping and the dude started swearing at it

Salix Babylonika · 2013-01-29 21:45:50

Naney said:

Imipölex G said:
"rap" is when people talk over some background music
one dude i knew who said it was what happened when some dude was listening to an old funk record and it started skipping and the dude started swearing at it

I hate you both

Imipolex G · 2013-01-29 21:46:39

"psychedelic rock" is long weird boring shit that you have to be on drugs to like

There, I insulted myself too.

Obā-san · 2013-01-29 21:46:52

#things_calculated_to_drive_mojave_mad

Salix Babylonika · 2013-01-29 21:47:19

Naney said:
#things_calculated_to_drive_mojave_mad

I will eat you.

Obā-san · 2013-01-29 21:48:39

wrap music wrappers CANDY GET IT!

Salix Babylonika · 2013-01-29 21:50:18

music is like candy, you always have to lick the wrappers

Viani · 2013-01-29 21:53:09

lolicore is droning synthesizers and clips from lolicon animes in Japan.

Obā-san · 2013-01-29 21:55:08

lolicore is a /mu/ injoke breakcore with lolis

Viani · 2013-01-29 21:58:15

cybergrind is clips from Lethal Weapon mixed with synthesizers and pig noises.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-02-01 02:23:06

Power violence is what happens when two hardcore bassists get into a gang fight on stage while a death metal drummer and a performance artist watch in vague bemusement.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-02-01 03:27:04

rock is music for old white people who hate change.

Justice4243 · 2013-02-01 03:29:30

It's going to be oddly hilarious in hindsight in about 50 years when people say the same thing about techno and dubstep. Ahhhh...gotta love the weirdness that comes with the constant march of time.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-02-01 03:30:30

honestly I'm thinking Dubstep will probably be forgotten, or it'll mutate into a billion different forms and only old men who hate change will care about old Dubstep.

Electronica in general is a different story.

Viani · 2013-02-01 03:33:23

I KNOW A PRETTY RAVE GIRL

ALWAYS THINK ABOUT HER

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-02-01 04:10:34

Dubstep is basically three different things now. It's kind of crazy.

Obā-san · 2013-02-01 13:09:16

Electronica in general is a different story.

yeah.

and really techno is flexible enough that i can never see it becoming stale

Obā-san · 2013-02-01 13:20:05

even really early Detroit techno and the electro stuff it came from still sounds fresh, and the founders of the genre are still innovating.

i mean hell you could drop this in a club right now and it'd be warmly received, and it's 25 years old now.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-02-01 13:35:17

The more adventurous end of electronic dance music tends to have a pretty long shelf; the combination of functionality and intellect keeps it relevant even when more ephemeral recordings have lost their lustre. For instance:

This sounds pretty damn good for something two college kids cooked up in their attic in the '70s.

Section42L · 2013-02-01 16:48:26

Here's another example of what Srendi Vashtar is talking about:

It's 1980s British acid house, but you can easily enjoy it outside of that context because it's so smoothly melodic and highly structured.

KJI · 2013-02-01 18:14:13

Music sounds like sounds, that make sounds.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-02-02 00:23:26

^^ Precisely.

millercross · 2013-02-02 21:42:43

guys

i see none of you have mentioned

neurofunk

Obā-san · 2013-02-02 21:51:25

guys
i see none of you have mentioned
neurofunk

harsher drum and bass derived from techstep with stripped down drum programming and complicated bass sounds with all sorts of weird modulation going on, also usually featuring stark futuristic soundscapes

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