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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

Accoustic technopop

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

psychadelic country

deep pop

unemo

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

The Byrdz dun psychedelic country.

― Pete S, Monday, 17 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

The best one is "Hard Easy Listening" by Lord Custos, but here are some of my own:

Euro-cumbia

glam-country

shoegaze-mambo

― daavid, Monday, 17 November 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

geirbeat

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

emo-gabber-core-adelic

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link

Outsider Muzak

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

Folk Core.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Dump-core (for all us nerds out there)

― TBA (TBA), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

coffee-table gabba
warmcore
speed oompah
celt-hop
political chill-out

― dog latin, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

I withdraw "geirbeat" in favor of "bhongro"

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

Post-Rockno/Bookcore. Trad Stinkle-folk.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

Nanohouse, like microhouse only smaller.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't there another thread exactly like this one?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:09 (twenty years ago) link

Probably. I've just googled and krauthop and ambient metal exist, why wasn't I told?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, I invented Krauthop in 1996, so if anyone is using it post then, they owe me money!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

All right then!!!!!!!!

Microskiffle!!!!!!!! (Skiffle done with granular synthesis!!!!!)
Gabberfolk!!!!!! (About 20 folky types jumping up and down in Doc Martens on a hard wood floor, in unision, pausing occasionally to shout "F@£% YOUR MOTHER!!!!"!!!!!!)
Heavy Acappela!!!!! (All those buffoons who go "deeoww, deooww, neeeaaoow, etc" and do air guitar to those lovely guitar solos on 80s hair metal- stuck in one room, doing heavy metal guitar solos- in harmony!!!!!!!)
Venga-Cohen!!!!! (A great new pop genre where you write a really heavy metaphysical song like Leonard Cohen, and play and sing it in the style of tha Vengaboys!!!!!)
Erm, I'm out of ideas!!!!!!!

Regarding some of the genres above: some of them already exist!!!!!

Celt-hop- if you listen to some of those funny shows on Radio Scotland in tha afternoon, virtually of the new "folk" tunes start sounding like some coffee table hip-hop before going into the fiddly-iddly-idely-oh bits without warning!!!!!
Symphonic hip-hop- wot about Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy"?!?!?
Bed rock- maybe that's wot we should call Belle & Sebastian!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

"virtually of the new" = "virtually all of the new"

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Old Fart, I've met you somewhere before.................

― Ronjeremy, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Gosh!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

goth funk!

It exists!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

i remember when I first read about Razed in Black, I almost pissed my pants because the idea of a goth band from hawaii just makes my day. I was hoping they'd mix dark industrial with surf rock. needless to say i was disappointed when i actually heard their music.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

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