Most Annoyingly Named Musical Genre?

"Prog"? "Fusion"? "Madchester"? "Grindcore"? "No Wave"?

I'm going with "Yacht Rock"....

"Yacht Rock" is the name of an underground series made years after the genre had its heyday, so I am not sure if it can even be considered the name of a musical genre. In the series itself, it is constantly being referred to as "smooth music", which is actually quite descriptive.

I sort of agree regarding prog, because the most well-known progressive bands were more regressive in that they took at lot of influence from classical music. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but I prefer to use the term Symphonic Rock, which to me describes much better what the genre is all about.

Glam Rock was also pretty much stupid considering it didn't come close to describing the actual music at all.

I'll be the first to say "IDM".

Not because it assumes that other dance music is "stupid", or that you can't actually dance to most of it. But mostly because it sounds like a manufacturer of computer chips.

"Hip hop" is really pretty retarded if you think about it.

"Symphonic Rock"

I'd really like to retire "post-punk" in favor of art-punk.

Voted for Twat-thread

hip hop as a name is cute when you think about a dj's hips hopping back and forth

I'd really like to retire "hip hop" in favor of "hippety hoppety"

Latin

correct answer is "anything ending in -core that postdated hardcore"

emo and twee are pretty annoying.

also, when i come to think of it: freak-folk, chillwave,industrial.

Emo was originally called "emocore" if I recall correctly

rock'n'roll

jazz

Yeah freak-folk is pretty bad.

twee or idm most def

anti-folk
hyphy

sadcore

country

Americana

Hate to open this can of worms but I am pretty sure nothing can beat "rape gaze."

It's so bad it comes out of a worm can, for Christ's sake.

Skweee

Alt-Country

possibly just my personal bitterness speaking from spending time in a band that often got labeled alt-country

emo and twee are pretty annoying.

I can agree with those.

Emo because it is more of a lifestyle than a musical genre (I mean, My Chemical Romance are basically pop punk aren't they?)
In the case of twee because it is being used to describe a musical genre that isn't actually particularly twee. Might have worked with psych pop or chamber pop, but not with a sort of rather low-fi oriented indie.

personally I love it but I can see how some people wouldn't be down with "shitgaze"

Illbient

Screamo

Ye-ye

Baggy

Handbag

UK Funky

I was just coming here to say shitgaze, JD, lol.

It just makes me think of smelly hobos doing "Alison" by Slowdive and that's all kinds of wrong.

"shitgaze" is better than "shoegaze" imo because it recognizes that shoegaze is a terrible genre name to begin with

nothing's worse than "rape gaze" though. although it's not really "annoying" just creepy & wrong.

y'allternative

acid jazz - soooo misleading

pigfucker otoh otm

I always really hated "nü-metal." Especially the umlaut (which would've worked with Rammstein, maybe, but nobody else that got classified that way.)

y'allternative

You just made this one up, right?

"rape gaze" from salem oregon

EAI
New Weird America
Psych-folk
Improv (including, but not limited to, Free Improv, Free Improvisation)
Free Jazz
Lowercase
Noise

jazz

― Zeno

Are you out of your mind!? Jazz is one of the best named.

I love seeing "acoustic" as a genre.

And by "love" I mean "am moved to rage by".

....especially when the "acoustic" music has electric instruments in it, but since it's folky and laid-back sounding it must be "acoustic"

Grebo

Drum'n'Bass

INDIE

EAI
Lowercase

???? -- First time I've ever even heard of these.

dubstep

"jazz

― Zeno

Are you out of your mind!? Jazz is one of the best named."

j/k

crabcore.
arsequake.

i mean seriously.

what about goth?

Oreganocore

Wonky

Jungle

tbh I don't really have an idea what does "gabber" stand for or sound like, but the name just pisses the hell out of me

grebo

Filk

CUDDLECORE

obviously "Rape Gaze," if people are still agreeing on that being a thing, is the worst genre name I've ever heard.

isn't "rape gaze" just some kind of stupid blogger inside joke?

kindercore for some reason irks me more than any other

sorry that was way more thought out but i got distracted with geir renaming country "racist" and it all just left my head

I would love if everything made with machines was called Techno and described by bpm.

Country would be better fit changing its name to "Southern", "White Southern" or maybe simply just "Racist"

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:40 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

this fucking guy

too easy

why am I laughing uncontrollably

because that comment was ridiculously funny

resisting... urge.. to rant.. about history of... country music...

haha yeah you and me both

"shitgaze" is better than "shoegaze" imo because it recognizes that shoegaze is a terrible genre name to begin with

otm - always hated "shoegaze" as a descriptor tbh

nothing's worse than "rape gaze" though. although it's not really "annoying" just creepy & wrong.

rapegaze? wtf this is a joek rite?

noise-rock

"rhythm and blues" is a great name in the way it rolls off the tongue and kinda sort vaguely sounds like what it is it's describing. but if you look at it closely, the words don't really make sense together. rhythm ... and ... blues? that's kind of like saying "melody and pop" or something.

i have no idea of the etymology besides the fact that jerry wexler came up with it, and the first couple pages of google results don't have much to offer by way of explanation. but i assume it initially was an umbrella phrase to encompass two or more things: blues music and whatever "rhythm" music might have meant at the time. but over time i imagine it fused itself into a single thing that now, strangely, doesn't cover all "blues" music.

i'm probably missing something here, but it's always been just a little bit funny to me.

so therefore, since i don't understand it, it's annoying!

it started out as basically blues with a stronger backbeat?

charlie pride would blow geir's mind

http://www.geocities.jp/sam1985/RayCharles-Modern.jpg

(later pressings changed the title to 'Racist and Western Music')

"rhythm and blues" is a great name in the way it rolls off the tongue and kinda sort vaguely sounds like what it is it's describing. but if you look at it closely, the words don't really make sense together. rhythm ... and ... blues?

Wasn't R&B, in its original 40s/50s form, the blues with more empasis on the rhythm section? In which case it makes complete sense as a description of the genre it was originally meant to describe back then.

I have a horse in the race but let me assure everybody that genre or just descriptive, few terms are more irritating than "lo fi"

kinda hate threads like this tbh.

that's not really a musical genre though

Lo Fi is both an approach and a musical genre.

Lisa Lo-Fi Lopes

They copuld have come up with a better term for "urban" or "r'n'b" (the contemporary kind) TBF.

Nick you just binned a sterling display name there :(

Sterling can keep it imo

ha

ive had real beef with neurofunk

i think a better thread would be coming up with the best genre names. i might vote for pornogrind.

"Racist & Western" is killing me.

>> y'allternative

> You just made this one up, right?

I Googled it. Thousands of hits like this one....

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/aug/22/shrinefest-keeping-it-yalternative/

i have a really annoying genre name for the project i'm starting (hopefully) next year but i want to save it cuz i think it will really annoy the fuck out of whiney

blog house

hate IDM too

will rep for crust punk

Alternative Rock was the first one I actively hated.

"world" has to be the most condescending

and least descriptive

Alternative rock was an OK term to begin with, but it started to show weaknesses as a genre term when the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden started having huge hits, and became completely pointless once acts like Dave Matthews Band, Hootie & The Blowfish, Counting Crows, Live, Creed and Nickelback were classified as alternative rock.

i still prefer college rock to alternative rock.

what the fuck is wrong with noise rock? a band in that category will be noisy and rock, does what it says on the tin, i dont get what's annoying about that.

"the scene that celebrates itself"

"world" has to be the most condescending

OTM. Does anyone buy those Putuamayo comps besides smug yuppie shitheads?

It seems like there has been a switch to using the term "Heritage" for the wide world of folk and indigenous non-western pop. At least thats how the section is now labelled at the local music shop (but that might just be a Southwestern thing because it seems weird to call mariachi band stuff 'world' music here).