ITT: genre labels that have become pretty much meaningless, to

Prog Rock

I'd say indie

>>70951731
Why are these no longer useful?

>>70952047
they've been used so often and in relation to so many albums that there is no longer a concrete meaning for it, making them no longer useful.

>>70952047
generally, just in that they no longer describe a coherent style of music, so you don't get much information about the music itself
>Dark Ambient
where is the line between "dark ambient"and "not-dark ambient"? like, I'll see genuinely dark and unsettling stuff on there like Coil's Time Machines, but also just any otherwise uplifting ambient album that happens to have a tiny bit of dissonance
>Post-punk
referred more to a movement in response to punk, than one specific style - Joy Division, This Heat, and Television all fit under the umbrella. and with the modern post-punk revival it's hard to tell the difference between MOR indie rock and MOR modern post-punk
>Post-industrial
again, way too broad, I see this being used for anything from early Current 93 (which doesn't even make sense chronologically) to modern neofolk to 90s-00s Coil to Scott Walker's recent work. and there's a lot of overlap with "dark ambient" too

Post-rock

alternative

>>70952143
>where is the line between "dark ambient"and "not-dark ambient"?
Listen to like 100 ambient and dark ambient albums then report back.

>>70952143
>where is the line between "dark ambient"and "not-dark ambient"? like, I'll see genuinely dark and unsettling stuff on there like Coil's Time Machines, but also just any otherwise uplifting ambient album that happens to have a tiny bit of dissonance
Is that really the case though? What are some examples of this? Because I can't think of any.

industrial, rock, progressive, indie, alternative, post-punk, post-rock, grunge, noise, noise rock, jazz, folk, metal, experimental, classical

vapourwave

>>70952012
This x10431

>>70951731
if we were back in the 2000s
>electronica

>>70952385
This is especially bad on youtube
On any chill, down-tempo instrumental song you'll have someone ask "what genre is this?" and some dingus will always reply "vaporware"