Why is rock worse than EDM for subgenres, holy fuck >Shoegaze

who cares

>Garage rock is a term derives from the perception that groups were often made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, although many were professional.
A whole genre label because of recording location, which wasn't even true, this is pure autism

>>71014178
To be frank I find the fetishization of genre descriptors to be highly autistic and inherently unmusical after a point. It becomes a tool for the narcissist, to define entire musical statements with his "trenchant observations" of vague and pointless minutia.

It's for lonely fags to fight about, like whether Zelda is an "AKCHUAL RPG" or "STRICTLY AN ADVENTURE GAME WITH ROLE PLAYING ELEMENTS"

>>71014188
Music fans on /mu/ bored of 30 spammed threads about the same genre with different, often pointless microgenrw labels probably

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>>71014178

This is how I picture you

A better question is, why does EDM rip-off rock genre names?
>Acid
>Garage
>Hardcore

>>71014257
old people love rock

>>71014178
>I haven't heard any of this, but i'll comment on it based on one sentence I read in wikipedia
Yikes

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>>71014257
actually the people who make these threads look like this

>''classical''
>thats fine

>''jazz'
>thats fine

>''world music''
>thats fine

>call a 2nd wave post-rock band 3rd wave
>YOU FUCKING RETARDED CUNTING IDIOTIC REDDITOR KYS

Only on /mu/

>wow I love rock!
>me too! Do you like Swans, Godspeed You! Black emperor and Big Black?
>what are those? :P I listen to Nickelback and Foo Fighters, they're my favorite xD

>>71014178
>A genre defined by the artists staring at their fucking shoes?
No it's defined by the excessive use of effects pedals. That's what they were staring at, not their shoes.
>Wow, best give that a whole new genre name because they sing about >tfwngf, no other rock band does that, right
In the punk and hardcore scene, no they didn't. Because of this move for a more emotional theme, the music and fanbase and thus scene became quite different from hardcore.
>So thats rock by junkies
Most music is by drug addicts. Not an argument.
>Heavy rock with guitar wankery, really, a different genre why?
Because it sounds completely different than soft rock with no wankery, doesn't it?

>>71014178

>Looking up the "definitions" of all the different sub-genres on wikipedia to copy and paste for this post
>Accuses others of being autistic

Lol.

Btw, something that might shed some light on the situation is that names for styles usually originate from the followers of that scene when it originated or from some moniker that media started using or a bastardization of the two ect., it's often a geographical thing as well because sounds come out of one city at first often and are linked to a certain demographic of people there - remember all of these terms you gave as examples would have been coined before the internet, so it's not like all the rock fans in the world were communicating with one another alot of these started as regional terms.
I don't know why you would be so surprised to learn that avid music fans and followers come up with slang names and shit to differentiate different styles that end up being the name of a so called "sub genre"s. It's almost like you looked all these wanky rock definitions up on Wikipedia like a dickhead and thought like idk all the rock fans in the world just named all of these by committee one day.

>>71014178
Only plebs care about genres, it's all just guitar music.

>>71014306
If you think classicalfags don't sperg over eras and jazzfags don't sperg over subgenres you don't actually post in threads about those forms of music.

>>71014541
Link me to the /hard bop/ general or the /chamber music/ general

>>71014178

>OP walks into a massive record store
>For some reason they just have one fucking entire floor simply labelled "Rock" in alphabetical order because fuck sub genres,
>Everything from My Bloody Valentine to Fleetwood Mac to Cattle Decapitation to Fall Out Boy to The Antlers to Jerry Lee Lewis
>It's literally impossible to casually peruse the aisles because there are so many records not separated into different styles whatsoever

>>71014598
The 2000 years of classical must take up 3 floors then.

Good job there's one /classical/ thread on here and 10 generals for rock, huh

>>71014632
>Good job popular music is discussed by an overwhelming popular majority on a popular imageboard
WOW WHOD HAVE THOUGHT

>>71014701
Normies rule amirite

>>71014742
When did they not?

>>71014243
Seriously though zelda is not an RPG

>>71014243
>>71015781
Wow I didn't know this was an actual thing.

How is Zelda not an RPG?

>>71015861
Not gonna sperg out cuz I don't really care but Zelda doesn't have stats or character levels.

>>71015861
Are you retarded?

>>71015955
Not an argument
>>71015941
Of course it does. Heart containers, rupees, etc

>>71014632
>2000 years of classical must take 3 floors then

It really can though, what's your point?

>>71016029
There should be more than one "classical" thread for the plethora of difference on a music board if there's more than 10 for rock. (Shoegaze, emoe, metal, etc)

>>71015985
So Devil May Cry is an RPG because it has a health bar? GTA is an RPG because you have money and a health bar?

>>71016103
idk never played them.

Does the maximum health you can have increase as you advance in the game?

>>71015985
>Of course it does. Heart containers, rupees, etc
Eh, not really the same thing at all. That's just money and health upgrades. Things that most all games have, RPG or otherwise.

>>71016155
>health upgrades
See: Stats

>>71016102
>comparing threads to records sold at music store

Are you fucking stupid?

>>71016167
Picking up an item that gives you more health is not the same as using experience (or whatever) to level up your stats.

>>71016245
Why? You earn it after beating the bosses. It's essentially a visual representational of leveling up

Also you do literally level up and gain experience in Zelda II

>>71014178
His hair looks like it was done with the Spraycan in MSPaint

>using the term "EDM" unironically to describe anything that's not American corporate dance-pop bollocks