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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

six months pass...

...and finally, "Caulk-Rock".

― Late Entrant, Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

experimental horse!!
dark meatl!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Promo.

In an attempt to "beat the bootleggers at their own game," large record labels begin to release promotional copies (sometimes in the form of MP3s) of upcoming releases. These "promos" contain only fragments of the anticipated release, mixed together, a la bootlegs, with snippets of other recordings the labels have the rights to. Bootleggers compete to see who can most quickly incorporate "promos" into their bootlegs.

Popular artists' promos debut as advertisements for other products during major TV events.

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Slilch.

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Klit-Tek

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a night in North London called 'Yeti' that plays... avant-core. And Plug and Play's choice of music is still best described as 'eclectronica' (a wire-ism)

― nick.K (nick.K), Saturday, 14 September 2002 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Asiatic Rumba.

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Music.

(The Music Movement, in reaction to the proliferation of genre distinctions, refuses to label its music as anything other than music.)

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

*momus to thread

― Van Tasma, Saturday, 14 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

When Andrew (the wh3rd guy) & Meyrick & my electronic band Cacophonix played at a club, we advertised our music as wakstep/retardcore.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 15 September 2002 08:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

Krauthop

Ambient metal.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Pram-rock.
Spleen-core
Gut'n'Blues
Space Gospel

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

Pete, Spacemen 3 (and later, Spiritualized) already invented that last one!

Gut n Blues = George Thorogood surely

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

idiotica - "stupid music for stupid people"

― zappi (joni), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Me and Jarl have a minor obsession with a non-existant genre called "rumopomp". Although I've gone one step further and got into "hipster rumopomp", which is exactly like rumopomp, only for hipsters. Ah, the joys of fridge magnets.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

"corruptica" for bands that have nice sweet album covers of teenagers wearing polo shirts but the inside is, say, an Anal Cunt best-of

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Hard Skanking
Nu easy-core
Ambient Dixieland
Skate'n'western
Fried Baroque
Pre-Raphaelite House

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

Dreamcore

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

nice sweet album covers of teenagers wearing polo shirts

This already seems a bit skeezy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ahh!! someone beat me to dreamcore!

Bargain Rock, then.

barbershop gangsta

cell-core. Composed entirely with samples of cellphone ringtones.

hardcore operatic twee-skronk

apocalyptic chamberdrone

Tuvan bubblegum (throat-singing meets the Archies)

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

Tuvan Bubblegum is genius

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

Soon we'ill have to have Grandad rock

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Soon we'ill have to have Grandad rock.
'The New Zither Revolution'.
I wanna see that NME headline.

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

Fuckin electronic abacuses...................$*&**£$@@##

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

Symphonic hip-hop

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Fopcore

― F. Anthony O'Reilly (Ferg), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

Skathic
Gabbacapella
Care Metal
Flub Tunes

― jazz odysseus, Monday, 17 November 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

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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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