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cassingle

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sports metal"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Nerd rock/riot nrrrd

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"superword"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"No Name"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

crotch talk

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"New Miserablism"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

devolution

― s woods, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Speed garage"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Electronica" obviously .
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.(sorry if that wasn't funny)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"blipment" (sorry sterl)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

hippy-hop

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

hip-bop

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Honor the fire!" (excepting ILM of course).

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hip-pop"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Brit-Hop"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"New Wave of New Wave of British Heavy Metal"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah blipment didn't catch but it should. screengazer too.

bouncement can go die.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

(Which ones of these are good? I love 'cassingle'). And is 'superword' a music term so much as a general all-world-use 'idea'?

Folkpanictronica.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bouncement" is apparently a contraction of "bouncy cement", though, the stuff that surrounds kids climbing frames in case they fall off, though, and such is a great name for a genre.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

tweelectronica.

and i really tried. :(

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Bell-Biv-Devoe-esque

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah "Ameritronica" too was one that I coined and didn't catch.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Queercore

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ambientcore

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

rebop

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Attaching "-core" to the end of already existing music term = C or D?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

dudcore

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Hardcorecore

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

ask Charles Aaron about SCRUNGE!!!!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

fritzcore is OTMcore. Oopscore is even morecore OTMcore. Yes this is out of control..............core.

― nickaliciouscore (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"New Acoustic Movement", except it did, cos HMV Oxford Street had a whole stand devoted to it. Prominently displaying... Looper, obviously.

Never been so happy to see a 'scene' die...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

We had a band in my hometown in the early 90s that called themselves "FUNGE"...funk/grunge. I always liked that one.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

emotronica

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

ask Andrew Beaujon about NWEMO! Man, Spin really thought up some doozies.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Queercore is used.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

'Skunk Rock' - ugh.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ask Charles Aaron about SCRUNGE!!!!

Is that music about things teenage girls put in their hair?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Scrunge was Charles Aaron's/SPIN's word for, you know, FAKE grunge like Silverchair and Bush. I think Christgau even used it once, sort of like how I spent an afternoon with my clothes on backwards following my initial exposure to Kris Kross.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"cassingle" still has pockets of use

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I say cassingle plenty.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

shemo

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Corecore.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Time said that Babes In Toyland were "grungette".

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

kinderwhore

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"minger"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Nu Crap

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Transbopulate

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

does minger rhyme with singer or ginger?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

nu-mo

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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Leftpop was one I invented in 1997 for, uh, Tiger of all people. Ah well.

minger rhymes with singer, but only in the southern (UK) sense.

Kraut-hop is Gonzales isn't it? (not just cos he lives in Germany, racist-hunters, cos he incorporates much droning into his choons).

I like "The Emperor's New Bollocks" for Autechre and other totally pointless uber-serious abstract glitchers.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Avant-funk
Ambient Jungle
Tribal Trance
Africa (Brian Eno: "If it hasn't Africa in it, it's bad.")
Bleep 'n' bass
Neurofunk

By the way, I use the word "techstep" quite often.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

''harmolodics''

um, its there in free jazz writing.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Coalition of the willing-esque

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

screamco'

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

No mention of "Romo" yet ?

The all time classic failed (British) journalistic attempt to whip up a scene...

― Mark Of Esteem, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

romulan
vulcan
(early synonyms for screamo)

...
sp0ckm0rgue?
...

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeh, no shit. Because you have to pronounce it "cunt rock."
And this is bad...how...exactly?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

funktry

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Beard-hop.

Please, help make this the universally recognised genre for El-P and the like. Their credibility will be destroyed forever. It can happen if we only try.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Beard-hop" and "hippie-hop" = both things one of my demos was called in reviews...as well as "prog-hop", "stoner avant-rap", and "psychedelic hip-pop".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Scene That Celebrates Itself' (MM-speak for shoe-gazers)
Grebo
Hip-House

― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Scene That Dare Not Speak its Name"
"The Scene Who Name Must Never Be Spoken"
"The Scene Man Was Never Meant to Know"
"The Scene From Before Time"
"The Scene From Uncle"
"The Scene That Plays Together, Stays Together"
"The Scene For The Rest of the World"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Feel free to replace "The Scene" in all the above with "Core"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

y'allternative never really caught on for alt.country. no matter how much fun it was to say.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

byterock is the worst

― artiste, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like "y'allternative". I'll do my best to resurrect it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

blip hop is my all-time least fave genre... Yardcore my favourite... 2step gets used a lot... techstep also... neurofunkl was just plain daft and as such i quite like it... bucolica never caught on (my own lil thing for folksy electronica) mainly cos it sounds, in retrospect, like a yeast infection... i love scrunge though!

― Dave Stelfox, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

y'allcore?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

White Rap

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

camden scene. hard-hop (aka big beat).

― ronaldo, Saturday, 28 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oldcore and hardschool.

― C W (C W), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's only recently been coined, but I'm curious if more people follow Eamon's lead and make some Ho Wop.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

crotch rot

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mope Rock

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"No Name"

What was the deal with that? I was always faintly suspicious that it was an advertorial for Chain With No Name record shops or something, but that's so rubbish it can't be true.

Further elaboration/gossip much appreciated.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Grime (ducking & running)

At least it's better than 'UK Garage'

BTW, does anyone else hate the way genre names get reused for completely different styles?

Are the Stooges & Roll Deep Crew that similar?
What about Dr. Feelgood & Beyonce?

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sasha if you're gonna be a dick at least be an original dick.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Beyonce pub rock now?? Good on her.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anti-Folk

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Forcebeat
Pigfuck

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Scene That Celebrates Itself

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the most bomb term that never caught on;

WOMB-A-DELIA!!

shoegaze por vida

― sydmuthafuckinodcatastrophe, Monday, 1 March 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

At some point in the 80s Robert Hilburn (L.A. Times) coined a very lame term to describe Einsturzende Neubauten and Test Dept, who he apparently thought he was discovering. I believe it was:
"The New Machinists"
(plop)
At some point he decided Depeche Mode fit it as well...

― no opinion, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

christcore.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anti-Folk

i think after like 10 or more years of trying, this one actually has caught on, hasn't it? at least in new york. sort of. schwervon! are pretty damn great and wave the anti-folk flag. i'm not a big moldy peaches fan, but they're waving the flag too and somebody seems to like them. there's a few other really good bands in that scene at the moment.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Eurobeat: as a replacement term for hi-energy, invented by Ian Levine circa late 85/early 86. There was even an attempt at an Evelyn Thomas-style genre-defining single: Eastbound Expressway's "You're A Beat" *cough*

"Nu-energy" didn't travel much further than Trax Records on Greek Street, either...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Arsequake

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

**"No Name"

What was the deal with that? I was always faintly suspicious that it was an advertorial for Chain With No Name record shops or something, but that's so rubbish it can't be true.

Further elaboration/gossip much appreciated. **

"No name" was the original term for noisy guitar bands of 2001-2 like Ikara Colt, Parkinsons, Eighties Matchbox. Later to be subsumed into the all-encompassing (and now defunct) New Rock Revolution.

― Mog, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Babes In Toyland, Lunachicks, L7 et al were called 'Foxcore' for a few weeks in the papers until one of the bands hit back, calling the term sexist.

― mzui, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Mind you a rave band that which was against fox hunting might find the term perfectly acceptable!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Roll.

(There's "rock and roll" and there's "rock" so why not?)

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

mallternative

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Mog - I know, but I remember reading that article (by Swells I think) and it just sticking out like a sore thumb. It was even set out differently to most NME articles at the time, IIRC. It just seemed so odd and certainly very deliberate. Was wondering if anyone knew what the hell the NME were thinking...

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

organica. (we can blame this one on California)

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

No name" was the original term for noisy guitar bands of 2001-2 like Ikara Colt, Parkinsons, Eighties Matchbox. Later to be subsumed into the all-encompassing (and now defunct) New Rock Revolution.

Is that Cooper Temple Clause and Hundred Reasons? 'Cause they suck. No wonder that revolution is de-funkt

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Swingbeat lost out in history to New Jack Swing, for shame

― marine, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Skin Graft records tried to call their artists at time (US Maple, Flying Luttenbachers, Mount Shasta, ete) Now Wave, but I don't think it caught on.

Lately I see alot about "screamo" but I hope that word doesn't catch on.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that Cooper Temple Clause and Hundred Reasons?

They were definitely No Name and I think you could say they were New Rock Revolution as well - but that's the Strokier end of things I think.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

cow punk. cartoon funk. math rock? what about those wierd techno subcults like happy handbag or hostile ambient?

― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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