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Μουσικά νέα και συζητήσεις / Απ: Stone rock
« στις: 07/11/11, 19:36 »
The short version...
Yes,
Yes,
Go through 1-9 (again),
Depends,
Depends (also) / Sometimes.
The not so short version.
Labels my friends is a means to make our lives easier (and at the same time a way for all them marketing wh@res to capitalize our good money). Imagine how frustrating would be to enter a 5 storey building with no distinguished sections per genre (and then per genre within genre)... Foul...
On the other hand labels, genres and segmentation et al create niche markets with certain demographic data only to be exploited by marketeers thus creating trends and norms within a genre. Simply put, the next "stoner" band you might like is "forced" by the record company to accept and emulate certain gimmicks as to guarantee"commercial" success. How long the music pieces ought to be, what outfits to wear, what type of fonts must be used on the cover and so on and so forth...
Funnier thing still is, certain bands totally abolish the genre given by media and records company (for a variety of reasons). The Ramones claimed to be a pop band and the Sisters of Mercy just a rock act... (go figure).
Lastly labels were meant to be a little help. Nowdays we have metal, trash metal, speed metal, power metal, power symphonic metal, hollywood metal (which is the same as power symphonic metal) ... do we really need all those genres...? I mean why Rage should be speed metal and Stratovarious power metal
And to conclude this pondering, most labels are assigned in retrospect. As with grunge. Most bands never accepted the term. AiC, Soundgarden, Nirvana fell under the "grunge" aegis much later, if ever at all. Worse genres are self contradicting or confusing. Take into accound indy and post rock. Sure if you google it a definition will be given but reeeeeally when a band stops being indy and turns post... (and/or vice versa).
So, that pretty much covers everything...
Yes,
Yes,
Go through 1-9 (again),
Depends,
Depends (also) / Sometimes.
The not so short version.
Labels my friends is a means to make our lives easier (and at the same time a way for all them marketing wh@res to capitalize our good money). Imagine how frustrating would be to enter a 5 storey building with no distinguished sections per genre (and then per genre within genre)... Foul...
On the other hand labels, genres and segmentation et al create niche markets with certain demographic data only to be exploited by marketeers thus creating trends and norms within a genre. Simply put, the next "stoner" band you might like is "forced" by the record company to accept and emulate certain gimmicks as to guarantee"commercial" success. How long the music pieces ought to be, what outfits to wear, what type of fonts must be used on the cover and so on and so forth...
Funnier thing still is, certain bands totally abolish the genre given by media and records company (for a variety of reasons). The Ramones claimed to be a pop band and the Sisters of Mercy just a rock act... (go figure).
Lastly labels were meant to be a little help. Nowdays we have metal, trash metal, speed metal, power metal, power symphonic metal, hollywood metal (which is the same as power symphonic metal) ... do we really need all those genres...? I mean why Rage should be speed metal and Stratovarious power metal
And to conclude this pondering, most labels are assigned in retrospect. As with grunge. Most bands never accepted the term. AiC, Soundgarden, Nirvana fell under the "grunge" aegis much later, if ever at all. Worse genres are self contradicting or confusing. Take into accound indy and post rock. Sure if you google it a definition will be given but reeeeeally when a band stops being indy and turns post... (and/or vice versa).
So, that pretty much covers everything...
