I hope there is! I truly hope the kids are not saying "I like a bit of everything" and speak about things I understand when asked what they're into. :lolol:
You say you “hate categorisation”, then use a category to describe where The Stooges came from :lolol: This is a good example of a point I made earlier.
And when growing up I think it is a good thing that people only ' liked certain bands due to fashion and lifestyle.' Finding a tribe, finding...
Robert Wyatt? He did a Monkees cover, wasn’t he in a wheelchair as well? Shipbuilding is the track by Elvis and who Suede have also covered. Strangely I was talking about this cover only recently.
I think it’s definitely useful in a broad sense e.g. you kind of know where you are if, for example, a club is described as a rock club, an indie club or a techno club. It’s certainly useful for describing a band/artist to others. I will say the key is to not get too hung up about it, which in...
I kind of understand where you’re coming from but, and it’s a big but, genres play a huge part in music. I recently pondered the difference between shoegaze and post-rock....the level of detail and nerdism I discovered from a few Google searches on this subject was both astonishing and...
He’s got a great set of lungs on him, a real holler. The Electric album came up in conversation in another thread and the vocal on Love Removal Machine is a prime example....even with his new found US accent.