almost everything from x genre sounds the same

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statements like this are unpopular, and probably ill-informed.

but, are there times when you feel this way? are there any musical styles that you dislike because of a perceived lack of variety? Are there styles which have more restrictive self-imposed constraints than most others?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Indie. *ducks*

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Power trash.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

hip-hop, grime

― zeus, Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

indie.

― martin (martin), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Gamelan

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Experimental Horse Music

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

"Rock & Pop"
"Urban"
"World Music"
"Soundtracks"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Drone

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

All screamo sounds the same to me, but I'm dimly aware of the probable ignorance of this opinion from past experience - I once thought all house sounded the same. Now I know better: it does all sound the same, and that's GOOD.

― moley, Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes. All great genres sound the same. Only mediocre ones sound heterogeneous. Surf music = great, Psychedelia = mediocre.

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Happy Hardcore
Gabba
Kashmiri Crunk

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm perpetually surprised by the persistence of drum and bass.

― JKex (JKex), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

See, I don't mind it when stuff within a genre sounds the same insofar as its strictures are narrow, e.g., the blues. But that isn't what you mean. is it? You mean, "could as well be one track or song as another,"
and to that my answer is

x=new age

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Belgian New Beat
Orange Tango
Nu-Doobie

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

the blues.

learn another friggin chord progression.

― WHEEEEEEEE, Sunday, 11 September 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Music is all noise in God's ears.

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 11 September 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

reggaeton!

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Sunday, 11 September 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Psychodelic Trance
Goa

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Whatever genre it is you don't like or are ignorant of.

Dig into any of them and you'll hear differences. For example, someone who doesn't like post-80's metal might not be able to tell the difference between the subgenres of death metal, black metal, grindcore, etc., let alone bands.

Original Jamaican ska is another one. Simon Reynolds made a contentious statement in his post-punk book about Two-Tone surpassing the original ska, but I don't think he ever really got into it very deep.

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

reggaeton and salsa!!!!!!!!!

― custos passantino, Monday, 12 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I came here to say "reggaeton," so consider it thirdeded. Also, yeah, whiteguy indie guitar-and-hushed-singing pop.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't get what people mean when they say all "indie" sounds the same.

Do you mean to tell me you don't hear any difference between, say, Pavement, Will Oldham, Tortoise, The Arcade Fire, The Make-Up and Nina Nastasia?

WTF?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

indie-tronic a la Morr Music crowd

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

I think 'X' genre is pretty much whatever genre someone doesn't like. Some people say all metal sounds the same. People who like metal disagree. Same goes for every genre.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 12 September 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

reggae (though I don't hate it or anything)

― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

be-bop

― hut, Monday, 12 September 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

That giant swirl of post-Radiohead pap (Muse, Coldplay, Travis, Starsailor, Athlete, etc.)
That's not really a genre though, is it?
Neither are "Danzig Misfits songs."
Most porn music sounds the same to me... As does the music used for local cable commercials.
There are more than a few noise artists who all sound the same to me, but I think that's because they're not very good. In general, the good artists of any genre stand out from the boring background of the genre.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

trance.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Canto-pop.
Ceilidh music.
Australian rock.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Is there a genre that people don't like but nonetheless think sounds quite diverse? A real genre, not something like "bullshit eclectic DJs" or etc.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

drum'n'bass

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Pop punk. But even though I think it doesn't have much room for diversity, I like quite a bit of the genre - a lot of pop-punk singles are usually ace so long as they're not cheesy ballads and/or by Simple Plan.

― Roz (Roz), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

tim asks a good question. i think what i was trying to ask in the title question, but not making clear, is: can people think "too much of this genre sounds the same" while still liking a fair bit of it, and being reasonably well-informed about it? or, the opposite, as suggested in tim's question? i know statements like these are usually down to ignorance, or a lack of knowledge of the genre, but are there exceptions? do you consider yourself to be an exception?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Early 80s British pop (New Pop!), contains possibly the only songs I genuinely hate, and still sounds fairly diverse to me.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

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