2007-01-27 20:27:21 · 9 answers · asked by witty5 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Well, bands tend to do it to themselves...if you record a CD full of rock songs...they're a rock band. If you record a CD full of country songs...you guessed it--country. Record labels and rock critics are largely responsible for the vast splintering of "rock" music (punk, alternative, new wave, post-punk, alt-country, metal, nu-metal, grunge, pop, funk). Just like Billy Joel, it's still rock and roll to me.
Fans of music can create new slang terms (which can become mainstream) for music that tends to break away from current styles and conventions.
This question seems simple, but in fact is a very complex "chicken vs. the egg" type trap if you think to hard. At one point there must have been only one type of music and that spawned all of the genres we have today.
Mostly, I think that categorizing music is pretty useless...unless you're speaking in a broad sense--most people can't agree on what say alternative music is (music from the early '90s that was similar to rock but different...how?).
Some bands fall into so many categories...so what's the point?
2007-01-27 20:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grunge = Nirvana, Pearl Jam, SoundGarden, Alice in Chains, Janes Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots
Punk = Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash, Blink 182, Green Day, Pennywise
2007-01-27 20:55:55 · answer #2 · answered by Paula 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you're precise. positioned up punk and positioned up grunge are all derivations of punk rock and grunge. all of them got here out somewhat after punk and grunge did. positioned up rock is in effortless words a seperate type, so imagine alongside the strains of Sigur Ros and The Velvet Underground; tremendous and delicate. i do not imagine that its very prevalent those days in any case. positioned up rock bands: Sigur Ros Explosions interior the sky positioned up punk: speaking Heads The treatment U2 positioned up grunge: Seether 3 doors Down concept of a Deadman BQ: South Park =) BQ2: no longer the stunning time I checked BQ3: Grunge - Nirvana Rock - The Who Punk - sex Pistols
2016-10-16 05:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Witty
We all do ...
how would you describe anything .. you have to put it in some sort of catagory for people to understand what sort of thing it is you are talking about
does that make any sense?.. No? ..ok nevermind
2007-01-30 14:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by healer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's usually journalists, promoters, and such trying to describe and define a movement, coining a prhase
2007-01-29 15:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by Matt Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paula has the answer
2007-01-27 20:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by mad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Industrialists and society.
2007-01-27 20:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Ta Dah! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
music snobs, critics
2007-01-27 22:55:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do u mean ??
2007-01-27 20:35:42 · answer #9 · answered by William m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋