What Underground/Indie Band Are You Currently Listening To?

[quote name='"MrBadExample"']I'm not going to quibble with "indie" definitions. Here's what I'm listening to that I can't get on radio around here (please note I live in radio hell):[/quote]

Agreed.

And I have to agree with everything that Brak has written in this thread. His perspective on the whole "indie" - "not indie" - "not top 40" matter is exactly how I feel on the matter in a nutshell. I find the entire argument of how to designate something as whether it being indie or not very very pretentious and almost elitist of those individuals who even bring it up.

[quote name='capitalist_mao']It's just a stupid naming convention. It's not original since it was already used (quite possibly twice, since I'm not sure if they used it in 1922). This whole soviet/red/hammernsicle/communist fetish that a bunch of INdie bands have is just plain stupid. Not very frequently, but if a band has such a stupid name, like "the decemberists", I won't give them a chance.[/QUOTE]

You're idiot. I could care less what a band names themselves as long as the music is something I like and will enjoy. And really, I have never really seen any soviet/red/etc. fetish with The Decemberists. It's just their fucking name for G-d sakes. They sound more like Neutral Milk Hotel than anything and I absolutely love their lyrics and Colin Meloy.

Eletric Six - Really like this. Really fun, kind of upbeat music. Got some crazy lyrics too like Fire at the disco, fire at the disco, fire at the Taco Bell
Wolf Parade
Architecture in Helsinki
The Decemeberists - I fucking love this band. One of my favorites to come out in a very very very long time. I don't care to the fact that they recently signed onto a major label. From what I hear they are supposed to be in some dual relationship with KRS and Capitol, but only time will tell to see how much Capitol will give Colin Meloy and the band creative independence and freedom to do whatever they feel like...but I'm sure that they will persever and come out with more great music.
Atmosphere - Some of the best rap I have heard
Lightning Bolt
DJ Shadow
Dr. Octagon
Dan the Automator
Handsome Boy Modelling School
Le Tigre
The Eels
Dandy Warhols
Raveonettes - Just love their sounds
New Pornagraphers
dimmu borgir
Rhapsody - I fucking love Rhapsody
Dir en grey - Read above
Malice Mizer
Vidoll
The Pillows
The Seatbelts
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies
Explosions in the Sky
Bear vs Shark

If I think of any more I'll post them.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']They sound more like Neutral Milk Hotel than anything [/QUOTE]
Dear god. Neutral Milk Hotel is terrible. Now, I know I will NEVER listen to them.

Beyond the actual music (which seems like it will sound terrible), bands tend to chooes their names based on certain aspects of their "art" on which tha they want to pontificate. If someone names their band "revolutionary artifacts" or some such name, chances are it means something, and their band will most likely have overtones within their music or lyrics to try and forward that point. I don't like listening to RATM mostly because I hate being bombarded by Rocha's nonsense, and I sure as hell don't want to listen to a band named after a Russian revolution.
 
[quote name='AshesofWake']does The Black Dahlia Murder count?[/QUOTE]

Good one, but I'd have to say so-so. They have that recognition and were out there, but most people unless they into this type of music, probably don't know about them. Kind of a toss up I guess.
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']Dear god. Neutral Milk Hotel is terrible. Now, I know I will NEVER listen to them.[/QUOTE]

O.K. fine you don't like their type of music. Whatever, but my interest has been perked, what do you listen to then.

And forgot to mention Of Montreal. I love Satanic Panic in the Attic.:D
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']O.K. fine you don't like their type of music. Whatever, but my interest has been perked, what do you listen to then. [/QUOTE]
I already posted my underground music on the first page.

If you want to hear more, I also like Pitchshifter, omni trio, infected mushroom (the earlier, louder and noisier songs), tandu, psysex, 1200 micrograms, xerox (and illumination) and whoever made the original Devil May Cry soundtrack (sick breaks, and mad distortion)
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']I already posted my underground music on the first page.

If you want to hear more, I also like Pitchshifter, omni trio, infected mushroom (the earlier, louder and noisier songs), tandu, psysex, 1200 micrograms, xerox (and illumination) and whoever made the original Devil May Cry soundtrack (sick breaks, and mad distortion)[/QUOTE]

Umm..yaeh have heard any of it, but I was thinking more rock bands than trance/techno/electronica. Not really too much into that stuff myself, but I do like VG soundtracks. One my favorites is the one to Einhander which I have. Anyhow, I still don't agree with your take on The Decemberists, but I will take back my comment on you being an idiot. Might have been a bit harsh, and I should have just taken your opinion into consideration.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Umm..yaeh have heard any of it, but I was thinking more rock bands than trance/techno/electronica.[/QUOTE]
Ok, but keep in mind that since the 80s, electronic music has perpetually been underground with no real breaks, except for some pretty terrible acts (chemical brothers, for instance). The few good ones that broke mainstream, like Prodigy and Aphex twin had some of their lesser songs foisted on to the public, while their better stuff (in prodigy's case, Jilted Generation and Experience) was kept way back. You'll be hard pressed to find something, like Jungle or Ragga (close to being one and the same) in anything mainstream. Trance seems to mainly be shrugged off as pussy, cheese music, or gay music (as in, music for homosexuals) and breakbeat is usually only foisted upon people in the barest sense in hip hop. Even then, the breakbeats they choose are simple, boring and repetitive.

I would call new wave a hybrid of electronic and rock music. Even then, new wave was only semi-embraced, and seemed to fall from grace rather quickly.

Also, electronica is terrible name. Always call it electronic music! :lol:

Yes, I am quite pompous about my electronic music, BUT, at least I try to spread the word. I don't go with the usual Emo "you wouldn't understand" schtick that many indie kids try to push. Of course, in the end, despite my efforst people just don't understand (or refuse to give it a chance) and don't listen to the music I give them (which, tends to be a lot, in fact).

However, in terms of VG music, the Guilty Gear Soundtracks are great rock OSTs. Isuka being one of my favorites.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I used to be that asshole in high school that thought you, and everybody else on the planet, was a poseur. Now I'm just an old bastard with a lot of punk/crust records. I think what I'm trying to say is "shaddup." Let people discuss what they enjoy without worrying which inevitable brat will decide to inform them that because they don't like mainstream pap, they're necessarily stuck in a rut of becoming more and more underground than everyone around them.

Besides, you're the jackass with the big beaked creature from Golden Axe tattooed on your shoulder blade; you have bad taste in life.
[/QUOTE]

Golden Axe? If you say so. We'll pretend it's not Tenniel art for your sake. But hey, I can't make you appreciate century and a half year old art any more than you can make me appreciate people liking obscure music for the sake of liking obscure music.

I don't like mainstream pop. That doesn't mean I get off on listening to shit other people don't know off. Alot of the crap in this thread people will listen to for the sake of being different and listening to a band that noone else has hard of. It's like "let me find the most obscure piece of trash available so I can tell everyone I listen to it and they'll be like wtf is that?" and this thread is now trading said bands so everyone can go on other forums and say they like the same shitty bands they were exposed to in here. I like some indie. I like some underground. (lord knows that's where most of the quality hip-hop is) I don't like indie or underground for the sake of it being obscure. Because lets face it, most of shit in here is trash in every sense of music.

am i the only who thinks the whole "calling people who talk about lesser known bands 'pretentious' " shtick is played out? once you hear a word so much, it just loses it's meaning.
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The only thing that has lost its meaning is the term indie. It no longer just means not supported by a major record label, but now it is its own genre of music. I don't mind it, but it is, as a whole, much more crappy than music from major labels since they don't have the same equipment available to them and/or they just aren't good enough to land a major deal.
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']Dear god. Neutral Milk Hotel is terrible. Now, I know I will NEVER listen to them.
[/QUOTE]

?!

Anyway currently listening to:
The Wrens
Broken Social Scene
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke
Six Organs of Admittance
 
[quote name='Rich']Golden Axe? If you say so. We'll pretend it's not Tenniel art for your sake. But hey, I can't make you appreciate century and a half year old art any more than you can make me appreciate people liking obscure music for the sake of liking obscure music.

I don't like mainstream pop. That doesn't mean I get off on listening to shit other people don't know off. Alot of the crap in this thread people will listen to for the sake of being different and listening to a band that noone else has hard of. It's like "let me find the most obscure piece of trash available so I can tell everyone I listen to it and they'll be like wtf is that?" and this thread is now trading said bands so everyone can go on other forums and say they like the same shitty bands they were exposed to in here. I like some indie. I like some underground. (lord knows that's where most of the quality hip-hop is) I don't like indie or underground for the sake of it being obscure. Because lets face it, most of shit in here is trash in every sense of music.



The only thing that has lost its meaning is the term indie. It no longer just means not supported by a major record label, but now it is its own genre of music. I don't mind it, but it is, as a whole, much more crappy than music from major labels since they don't have the same equipment available to them and/or they just aren't good enough to land a major deal.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I see. Your opinion is right and you know exactly why all of us listen to the music that we do. Apparently, you've also heard the full catalogue of all the bands listed in the thread and have a right to pass a blanket judgement on all of them. and they all suck, right? Who's the pretentious one here rich? not sure how old you are, but one day you might realize your opinion isn't fact.

btw, everyone has listed bands and artists from a huge variety of genres... "Underground/Indie" in the thread title was just a signifier to post lesser known stuff because, let's face it, there are tons of talented groups who are pushing music into new directions that just won't get mainstream press.

"you just wouldn't understand" :lol:
 
Isn't it odd with tv shows, no one is worried about it becoming popular, or discovered, or otherwise upset that anyone else might like what they like. Rather, because of cancellation, people often wish their likes were more popular. But with music (and to a much lesser extent movies and books), people get all kinds of crazy/protective not only about their likes and dislikes, but about sheltering those likes/dislikes from others, or attacking people for similar reasons.
This behavior is especially apparent when you have a national phenom like american idol in which people relish a collective experience of mocking and celebrating the abilities of others, in part feeling they have helped discover talent.
A thread like this explores the opposite end where many people like music that is less well known, and can feel they have lost something if there band appears in an issue of newsweek, or "too many" people find out about them.
 
[quote name='vherub']TV shows[/QUOTE]
I'd be willing to bet that there were plenty of people who cursed the day that family guy became as popular as it was.
 
[quote name='vherub']Isn't it odd with tv shows, no one is worried about it becoming popular, or discovered, or otherwise upset that anyone else might like what they like. Rather, because of cancellation, people often wish their likes were more popular. But with music (and to a much lesser extent movies and books), people get all kinds of crazy/protective not only about their likes and dislikes, but about sheltering those likes/dislikes from others, or attacking people for similar reasons.
This behavior is especially apparent when you have a national phenom like american idol in which people relish a collective experience of mocking and celebrating the abilities of others, in part feeling they have helped discover talent.
A thread like this explores the opposite end where many people like music that is less well known, and can feel they have lost something if there band appears in an issue of newsweek, or "too many" people find out about them.[/QUOTE]
That's because, as you said, cancellation, and also, the world of bands is for the most part fairly independent, therefore there's about 100 times more bands currently than TV shows, so when you find one you like, it's kind of like your discovery, while on TV, everyone knows about it.
 
  • Arrogant sons of bitches
  • streetlight manifesto
  • bandits of the acoustic revolution
  • the aquabats
  • whole wheat bread
  • pretty girls make graves
  • bedouin soundclash
I would consider most of them underground since when I mention any of them to my buddies or people around me they always ask who they are.
 
Merzbow
Whitehouse
Coil
Current 93
Halo Manash (good luck finding anything by him)
Lacrimosa
Soilwork
Liv Kristine
Scar Symmetry
Godgory
Ofra Haza (RIP)
Spocks Beard
Suicide Commando
In Extremo
Nothignface
Mnemic
Shinjuku Thief
Dark Moor

Thats about all I can think of right now...
 
Yow. That's some serious fruitbat noise, Snatch. Makes me pale by comparison (no pun) since I haven't been able to stop listening to Sisters of Mercy's 'Dominion/Mother Russia.'

As for being OT, nothing's fucking underground anymore. At the very least, nothing I own. I have the aforementioned SoM in my car, along with "Screaming" Jay Hawkins, Bikini Kill, Icepick, and Desmond Dekker. Today my iPod played some Enemy Soil, Hatebreed, Charles Bronson, Type O Negative, Ice-T, Opeth, Hellnation, and some others. I'll let you decide if it's 'underground' or not.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Yow. That's some serious fruitbat noise, Snatch. Makes me pale by comparison (no pun) since I haven't been able to stop listening to Sisters of Mercy's 'Dominion/Mother Russia.'

As for being OT, nothing's fucking underground anymore. At the very least, nothing I own. I have the aforementioned SoM in my car, along with "Screaming" Jay Hawkins, Bikini Kill, Icepick, and Desmond Dekker. Today my iPod played some Enemy Soil, Hatebreed, Charles Bronson, Type O Negative, Ice-T, Opeth, Hellnation, and some others. I'll let you decide if it's 'underground' or not.[/quote]
LOL! Personally, I don't care if its underground/indie or not, as long as it sounds good. Just keep that emo shit away from me. My best friend a while back told me of an article he read somewhere online where the writer basicly said that all punk now should be considered emo. I'd like to kick that guys ass for saying that.

Ironicly, he told me earlier today that his little sister was told by her emo friends in high school that she couldn't hang with them anymore because she wasn't "emo" enough. In that she didn't want to make out with girls, participate in "cutting", dye her hair black, that she wears pink (I guess its a no no), and hate the entire world, and they call her a "marker emo". Something about the "posers" take a marker and make it look like they cut themselves, I dunno. If I were still in high school, I'd probably kick some emo ass. That and start a war between the emos and goths (after all emos are too afraid to go all the way goth)

Of course, for the hell of it, during "mandatory" reading times once a week, I'd whip out my copy of the Satanic Bible for the hell of it, just to make sure no one bothered me.
 
been listening to Satanicpornocultshop and Why? lately.

[quote name='mykevermin']
As for being OT, nothing's fucking underground anymore. [/QUOTE]

I might have to agree-- I just heard Deerhoof being played at Best Buy for jeebus' sake. I think it was a mistake though. It was on for a second, then a bunch of employees ran over and all were like "what is this??!!! OMG turn it off this is bad for business!!!" and shut it down :lol:
(the band sounds like the Who, but all cut up and a-rhythmic, almost freejazzy, with a singer whose voice is impossibly high pitched and Japanese.)
 
[quote name='HumanSnatcher']LOL! Personally, I don't care if its underground/indie or not, as long as it sounds good. Just keep that emo shit away from me. My best friend a while back told me of an article he read somewhere online where the writer basicly said that all punk now should be considered emo. I'd like to kick that guys ass for saying that.

Ironicly, he told me earlier today that his little sister was told by her emo friends in high school that she couldn't hang with them anymore because she wasn't "emo" enough. In that she didn't want to make out with girls, participate in "cutting", dye her hair black, that she wears pink (I guess its a no no), and hate the entire world, and they call her a "marker emo". Something about the "posers" take a marker and make it look like they cut themselves, I dunno. If I were still in high school, I'd probably kick some emo ass. That and start a war between the emos and goths (after all emos are too afraid to go all the way goth)

Of course, for the hell of it, during "mandatory" reading times once a week, I'd whip out my copy of the Satanic Bible for the hell of it, just to make sure no one bothered me.[/QUOTE]

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It's silly, but it got a laugh outta me.

My wife called my shit out the other day. I was busted watching the video for the Smith's "Girlfriend in a Coma" (I TiVo VH1's "The Alternative," for fuck's sake!). She sez to me, "You know, all you bullshit old punk rockers want to hate emo this and that, yet somehow you love Morrissey and The Smiths, The Cure, and all that other might-as-well-be-emo bullshit!"

I was ashamed and astounded. I've since built my psychological defense (my defense of liking Morrissey but hating emo is that what they did, at the time, wasn't popular or contemporary - OTOH, emo bands are the modern hair rock. These cats would play whatever it is that gets chicks. While I *KNOW* most musicians are in that "i play music to get sex and booze" mindset, the difference with the emo fucks is that they're just following what's currently popular. If cock rock suddenly became popular again, they'd be playing Motley Crue covers faster than you can say "rokken like dokken.") Anyway, that's my justification. At least she's unaware enough of my musical tastes (she's an ex candy-raver, so we're on polar ends of the universe musically, save for Elvis Costello and perhaps 8 other artists), so she can't call me out for pre-emo bands who could genuinely be called emo (Fugazi and Dag Nasty, to name two).

That's an interesting anecdote about your friend's sister. I'm long out of any scene, but I'm certain that, as long as any scene exists, there will necessarily be the built-in hierarchy along with it. I heard a story second-hand the other day that this cat who was hanging out in the punk rock scene long before I was, and who still is, had his band told that they were a bunch of poseurs by a crew of seventeen year old kids! I'd be offended in the past, but y'know, that shit's just as adorable as can be to me anymore.

Deerhoof in Best Buy? Well, the funny thing is that I was considering making a lazy definition of "underground" music that was essentially this: if you can purchase it at Best Buy, it's not underground. As a matter of fact, I'm willing to bet I already made a post like that in this fucking thread. Ha!
 
Unless you're into obcure metal/grind, you probably will have never heard about a ton of my music, but I think the current favorite underground band will be Genghis Tron.

EDIT: Here's a ton of bands I listen to that are far from mainstream:

Punk/Hardcore/Oi
7 Seconds, The A.K.A.s, The Adicts, The Adolescents, Agnostic Front, Brain Failure, Carnage, Caustic Christ, Common Rider, Crass, The Damned, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Gang Of Four, GG Allin, Iggy Pop, Jello Biafra, Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies, New York Dolls, Propagandhi, Public Image Ltd., Reagan Youth, Sioxsie & The Banshees, Social Distortion, The Soviettes, The Stooges, T.S.O.L., Tsunami Bomb, The Vandals, Yuppicide, The BRiEFs, Blitzkid, A Global Threat, The Avengers, Schoolyard Heroes, Sub|hum|ans, Fear, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, Bad Brains, Battalion of Saints, Black Flag, Charles Bronson, Chicken Bowels, Circle Jerks, Crossed Out, D.O.A., Desperate Measures, Minor Threat, Modern Life Is War, Righteous Jams, Smoke Or Fire, The Stalin, Holy Molar, Spazz, F-Minus, Leftover Crack, INDK, Morning Glory, Choking Victim, Crack Rock Steady 7, HORSE The Band, Man is the Bastard

REAL Emo/Screamo
Kid Dynamite, Lifetime, Dag Nasty, Rites of Spring, Circle Takes The Square

CRUST PUNK (my current favorite genre)
Amebix, Anti-Product, Antischism, Aus Rotten, Axiom, Ballast, Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live, Behind Enemy Lines, Born/Dead, Caustic Christ, Contravene, Crude SS, Culture Shock, Detestation, Disaffect, Discharge, Disrupt, Distraught, Doom, Driller Killer, Garmonbozia, Genocide SS, GISM, Gouka, Hellbastard, His Hero Is Gone, Homomilitia, Human Greed, Jobbykrust, Kontrovers, Lost World, Molotov Cocktail, Monster X, Nausea, Rudimentary Peni, Skarp, Some Girls, Toxic Narcotic, Whorehouse of Representatives, Witch Hunt

Noise
Arab On Radar, Boredoms, Boris, Daughters, KK Null, The Locust, Masonna, Melt Banana Merzbow, Sonic Youth, Lightning Bolt, OOIOO

Avant-Garde
The Beta Band, Big Dumb Face, Fantomas, Gnarkill, Mr. Bungle, Peeping Tom, Kadenzza

Power Metal
Battlelore, Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Iced Earth, Manowar, Nevermore, Nightwish, Rhapsody, 3 Inches Of Blood, Demons & Wizards, Symphony X, Masterplan

Black Metal
1349, Ancient Rites, Anorexia Nervosa, Blut Aus Nord, Burzum, Deathspell Omega, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Immortal, Marduk, Mayhem, Satanic Warmaster, Stormlord, Velvet Cacoon, ...And Oceans, Xasthur, Blasphemy, Mütiilation, Satyricon, Abazagorath, Abruptum, Axis Of Perdition, Blasphemy, Carpathian Forest, Dark Funeral, Darkthrone, Diabolical Masquerade, Gallhammer, Gorgoroth, Graveworm, Impaled Nazarene, Impaled Northern Moonforest, Infester, Judas Iscariot, Limbonic Art, Malleus Maleficarum, Nargaroth, Nattefrost, Necromantia, Old Mans Child, Summoning, WOLD, Wolven Howl

Cybergrind
Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Breakdancing Ronald Reagan, Electrocutionerdz, Gånglîå, Genghis Tron, Gigantic Brain, Jet Jaguar KR-3 Kill Spree, Kindergarten Hazing Ritual, Lightning War, Nunwhore Commando 666, Scissor Shock, Underage Cuties, Scex


Death Metal
Aborted, Akercocke, Arch Enemy, Atheist, Behemoth, Bloodbath, BlöödHag, Bolt Thrower, Death, Dying Fetus, Fear Factory, Fleshcrawl, God Dethroned, Hate Eternal, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, Mortician, Necrophagia, Necrophagist, Nile, Psycroptic, Sepultura, Slayer, Strapping Young Lad, Vehemence, Visceral Bleeding, Angel Corpse, Gore Rotted, I Want To Kill You, Prostitute Disfigurement, Nunslaughter, Decapitated, Suffocation, Disgorge (Mex), Disgorge (US), Fear Factory (and way more I'm too lazy to list)

Doom/Progressive/Folk/Gothic/Thrash
Black Sabbath, Agalloch, Finntroll, GWAR, Iron Maiden, Between The Buried And Me, Dream Theater, Opeth, Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, Cradle of Filth, Lacuna Coil, Type O Negative, Loudness, The Missing, Yngwie Malmsteen, Cynic, Megadeth, Pantera, Hate Sphere, Gordian Knot, My Dying Bride, Glittertind (and way more I'm too lazy to list)


Grindcore/Goregrind
Bathtub Shitter, Carcass, Cattle Decapitation, Cock And Ball Torture, Torsofuck, 324, Anal Blast, Anal Cunt, Assuck, The Berzerker, Brutal Truth, Cephalic Carnage, Circle of Dead Children, Discordance Axis, Drowning Retarded Children, Extreme Noise Terror, Fleshgrind, fuck…I’m Dead, Leng Tch’e, Napalm Death, Nasum, Pig Destroyer, Siege, Terrorizer, Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, XXX Maniak, Squash Bowels, Malignant Tumor, Blood Duster, Ed Gein, Mortuary Hacking Session (and way more I'm too lazy to list)

Ska(ish)
World Inferno Friendship Society

J-Rock/Visual Kei
Dir en grey, Malice Mizer, Moi dix mois, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Orange Range, MUCC, Miyavi, Guitar Wolf, The Pillows, Balzac, 403 –Forbiddena-, Gackt, High and Mighty Color, X-Japan

Industial
Combichrist, Deadstar Assembly, Einsturzende Neubauten, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Godflesh, Kompressor, MDFMK, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Wumpscut, Zeromancer, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Psyclon Nine, Swans, Terrorfakt, VNV Nation

Hip Hop/Rap
General Patton vs The X-Ecutioners, Sage Francis

Indie/Post Rock
Cat Power, Sigur Ros, Pulp, Samuel Jackson Five, Pelican (I'm seeing them saturday)

Electronic
Ratatat, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Neuroticfish, Totally Radd!!, Ladytron


As You can see I listen to WAY too much music.


FURTHER EDIT: People, stop calling Dimmu Borgir underground. They're about as mainstream as extreme metal can get, along with Cradle of Filth.

And now, a joke:
Why are indie kids so bad in bed?
Because they're always complaining about the 7 inches they don't have.
 
Jesus kid, we didn't want your underground resume! :lol:

This might be a good time to discuss how phony subgenres are. Let me start with this question: What is it about Amebix that is similar to the other artists in the "Crust Punk" genre? Moreover, what is sufficiently different about Man is the Bastard from those other genres that they're just a "punk" band?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say one belongs here and one belongs there. But I never understood how people consider Amebix crust, when their music is far slower in tempo than the other bands listed, the sound remarkably clearer/less distorted, and the Stig/Baron's vocals aren't crusty in the slightest.

I just want to point out how I hate subgenres based on these false premises of 'musical similarity.' Rather, I prefer to think of subgenres as socially created boundaries that ease the process of developing a personality around a certain subgenre. If you like 'hardcore punk,' for instance, then you wouldn't be paining "Boris the Sprinkler" on your leather jacket, or if you like 'sludge metal,' then perhaps you may be embarassed to have your friends find your DRI tapes. Now, that's not likely, but my point (poorly made, I know) is that genres of music capture the atmosphere and personality of bands as much as they do the music - the end result is that categories of subgenres get really messy.

The hypocrisy, of course, is that I do use subgenres, since I refer to 'emo,' for instance.
 
Currently my big three are The Minibosses, Futuristic Sex Robotz, and, of course, MC Frontalot. Let yo' geek flag fly!
 
Hmm...well, I'll just put some of the hip-hop stuff...

Sage Francis
Atmosphere
Felt(Murs and Slug)
Eyedea & Abilities

I know there are others but I just woke up.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Jesus kid, we didn't want your underground resume! :lol:

This might be a good time to discuss how phony subgenres are. Let me start with this question: What is it about Amebix that is similar to the other artists in the "Crust Punk" genre? Moreover, what is sufficiently different about Man is the Bastard from those other genres that they're just a "punk" band?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say one belongs here and one belongs there. But I never understood how people consider Amebix crust, when their music is far slower in tempo than the other bands listed, the sound remarkably clearer/less distorted, and the Stig/Baron's vocals aren't crusty in the slightest.

I just want to point out how I hate subgenres based on these false premises of 'musical similarity.' Rather, I prefer to think of subgenres as socially created boundaries that ease the process of developing a personality around a certain subgenre. If you like 'hardcore punk,' for instance, then you wouldn't be paining "Boris the Sprinkler" on your leather jacket, or if you like 'sludge metal,' then perhaps you may be embarassed to have your friends find your DRI tapes. Now, that's not likely, but my point (poorly made, I know) is that genres of music capture the atmosphere and personality of bands as much as they do the music - the end result is that categories of subgenres get really messy.

The hypocrisy, of course, is that I do use subgenres, since I refer to 'emo,' for instance.[/quote]

Amebix isn't typical crust, they just happened to start what would evolve into crust. Hellbastard is one of the first to play real crust.

And Man Is The Bastard is more sludgy/noisey, but I didn't want like 10 million sub genres, so I smashed a lot of stuff together.
 
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