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Prank.

― Douglas, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Psy-fi Jazz. Psychedelic jazz with a space-rock, science fiction bent.

Anyone?

― powertonevolume, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stagewetter: So called because of the bands' tendency towards incontinence while playing. Also known as Puddle Pop.

― Curt, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Snuggle-fi.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My friend Jay and I have always wanted to start a genre called "Free Tejano." Which is free jazz, played solely with tejano instruments.

And yes, you have to dress like Tejano musicians, too.

― Gage-o, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

....And there will be.... Cock Rawk for all!!!

― burt ward's law, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CorpsCore (which may have already been invented: Corporate Hardcore)

CorpseCore - which is not the same as death metal; it's the sound of rotting flesh & flies.

― Dave225, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

bitch-hop
Adult-oriented Dance Music (AODM)
waltzcore
hard gavotte
cantata-hop
symphonic dixie
bluegrass jungle
free trance

I would say gothcore, but I think that exists already (see Cradle Of Filth).

― Dan Perry, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fecalcore (G.G. Allin)

― Gage-o, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would like to created Ironicore.

self explanitory.

― Jeff, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glam IDM would be GREAT. I think I'll do this.

― Keiko, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

B&B Bed & Breakfast...

― Andy, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Elmo.

― Marcel Post, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The problem with all of these answers is that as soon as someone tries to use one of them for a band, a bunch of fans will come back and say that the tag is useless, and doesn't really mean anything.

And by the way, why do fans hate genres so much? They hate it when critics generalize by placing their band in a tiny crate by which to get out of typing three paragraphs of group history. Fans hate three paragraphs of group history too. I've come to the conclusion that fans love seeing their band in print, but hate everything written about them.

As for imaginary genres: Fickle Pop, Holy Blooze, Bandage Rock, and E- Freak

― dleone, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Branson Rock

― A Nairn, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Um, "hard handbag" *does* exist. It's that style of house that is played in a lot of the gay clubs, where everything is superfast and almost brutally efficient a la hard house but the vocals and melodies are still over-the-top divathons.

― Tim, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Grunt rock.

Fluffy dub.

Skygazing.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ha Billy I misread that as "Skylarking" for a moment :).

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm still waiting for glitchhall, dammit. But snuggle-fi sounds cool, book me a place on that bandwagon.

― Rebecca, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

has progressive punk been done?

― di, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Math-pop! I always wanted to hear math-pop records.

― Douglas, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glitchhall - like dance hall? Or like music hall? Vaudevillian Glitch would be ace.

― Keiko, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hardcore bands in my home town of Oxnard were referred to as "Nardcore."

― nickn, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

An off-shoot of cock rock?

― Prude, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skykicking. Why not?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Frosted Hair Bands: Incorporates rap-metal, skate-punk, whiteboy rap, Lenny Kravitz.

― Curt, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

forced groupchant: taking ten or twenty old men from a nursing home (the crazier the better) and forcing them to stand and recite the lyrics to popular songs in unison. can be a cappella or not. accompaniment if used should be a salvation army band and/or a casio keyboard.

― condiments, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Prog-power-cock-rock. Equal (and coexisting) parts '70s prog, Sunset Strip glam-metal, and circa-1980 power-pop looking back to the mid- '60s.

Oh, and for di: Yes, there is progressive punk, from an English band called the Cardiacs. Check 'em out.

― Jeff Blanks, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pairs-figure-skating-judge-rock.....it'll be beautiful.....nothing but double albums of gritty recordings of joints being slowly hyperextended and finally snapped, dicks and tits being belt-sanded off, garbled yelling in Polish and Chinese.....torture mothafuckasssSSSS5555555sssssss

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Olympic Games of torture...a new sport for the kids.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I actually meant as in dancehall, but music hall would be far more mindboggling, so whichever, really.

And I pondered replying to di's prog-punk query but I thought if I mentioned the Cardiacs and the Monsoon Bassoon yet again I'd manage to piss everyone off even further than I already have. Pronk, yes. Like springboks. Much loved by zines Organ and Misfit City, although the Organ describes everything it likes as "bendy bendy pronkoid fuzz", so the Organ calling it pronk isn't the most reliable sign of pronkdom.

Once long ago I was going to tack together some bad javascript to churn out random fake genre names, but then I found Motion, which had already done the same thing, and has a neat database of record shops to boot. The specialist music currently generated is "beard-jumpup-green- electric music"...

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Intelligent Trance Metal. Core, even.

― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bed rock.

― Sean, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Electro-Dickensian

― Adam, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pre post rock. It'll only be some college graduates trying to sound like Gang of Four of course.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...Slow-Hard? No Core? Rotten Core? Clean Glitch? I suck at this. (Suck Core?) (Magma? Somewhere between Soft Rock & Hard Rock, you see ... oh, OK, I'll stop.)

Spazzjack comes to mind, but that's the name of a LOCAL BAND. (Ungh.)

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Buttclick - 'Back in Black' meets the Mille Plateux roster.

emo concrete - assembled entirely from field recordings of scenesters.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

- normal dance music is stupid, therefore non-stupid dance music needed a new genre name: IDM.
- normal indie music is clever, but some is not, therefore there should be DIM, i.e. dumb indie music.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Low-Core, Slow-Fi.

Click-tock: glitch made from old machine sounds, like a musical equiv. of steampunk.

slick-click: smooth glitch r&b.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Am I the only one on earth who thinks IDM is way stupider than normal dance music?

Or at least that IDM is stupid far more often than house or whatever else (normal).

― Ronan, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Um, "hard handbag" *does* exist.
Shows you how much I hang out in gay clubs...oops! Carry on!

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Riot Prog Death Gospel

― Ben Squircle, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Prog-pogs...those little cardboard discs with prog-rock stars faces on them.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Click-tock: glitch made from old machine sounds, like a musical equiv. of steampunk.

Like 'Dancer in the Dark'?

― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That one track, yes.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Do you lot realize you have supplied Simon Reynolds with sub genre names to last the next 10 years !

On related note, I would like avant-garde post-black metal bands such as Arcturus and Red Harvest to incorporate glitch music (of the type made by M.Stavostrand) into their sonic palette to come up with:

Glitch-Dark Metal

― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Death Reggae Gangsta country Acoustic drum n' bass Micro MOR Gothic Hardbag Jiggy mininalism Berlin Booty Music [ ie Peaches electro ]

― gr crew, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

in my dream this morning, i had put on the robert rutman album 1939 and went and sat in the tree at my childhood home listening to it but my sister yelled at me to turn off the horrible noise, so i yelled even more offensively at her saying she was ignorant and naming the instruments used (like steel cellos and stuff). ANYWAY in the dream hamish said i should've explained to her that the type of music it was, was "chime-ology".

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't believe no-one's yet mentioned the buttrock-dreampop hybrid: poogazer.

― Tim, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pure-sine
Hurlpop
Anaesthetica
Gloop
Stat-rock (a stochastic variety of math-rock)
Air-cushioned soul
Porngazing
Swaggermuffin

-- and, in the "core" genre-subgenre:
Middlecore
Steadycore
Off-core

As a final note, I was staggered at how many of my attempts had already been coined by someone (according to web searches)...grip- hop, right.

― OleM, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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Acid Tweemo

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link

Cock Hop

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link

Nu-Stepcore

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link

Post-Ho Wop

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link

Smooth Thrash

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link

McTechno(tm)

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link

Soft cock hop

― octobeard, Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link

flag post punk

― Har-@-Iago (wins), Saturday, 15 October 2016 08:07 (seven years ago) link

Chunk

― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 17 October 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link

Prehistoric garage

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link

Cocka-Nova

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link

Minimal Nu-metal

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link

Buttwave

― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link

Funky Folk

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Cuckstep

― how's life, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Fuckstep

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Dubstepbilly

― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link

Highcore

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link

Serialism-slam death

― punksishippies, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link

oldschool OSDM

― punksishippies, Friday, 21 October 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link

Funkgaze

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link

Bagpipe House

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXnWlooxUIg

Sorry, that was already invented over 20 years ago.

― Tuomas, Monday, 24 October 2016 09:09 (seven years ago) link

I was googling for something else yesterday when I stumbled on this link: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(genre)

Very disappointed there is no music genre known as 'Sphinx'

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 24 October 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Shitstream.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

Bröömdisco: a subgenre of the subgenre Witch House.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link

Leatherpop

― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 23 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to hear SpaceCountry, like old style country with electronic instruments

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link

^ ELO's "Another Heart Breaks" come close to that.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 23 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link

Never heard it, I'll check it out

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to hear SpaceCountry, like old style country with electronic instruments

― Iago Galdston

the spotnicks?

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 23 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LchUdLLgQ8&list=PLFwc7BRamAICaclpdkkTOJyzrdx1Vp30R

― naus, Sunday, 25 December 2016 07:37 (seven years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFwc7BRamAIBt1l3_CCJrNcySbdH-lTyc

― naus, Sunday, 25 December 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link

Grizzly Steppe

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link

Bubblegum glitch

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link

Norteño Trance

Pioneered by the proto norteño trance song 'el sonidito'

https://youtu.be/x47NYUbtYb0

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link

Also influenced by technobanda and techno cumbia.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link

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