let's list bands with a trademark name for the style of music they play

For example:

The Minutemen "jam econo"
CCR "choogles'"
The Waterboys play "The Big Music."

etc.

The KLF="Stadium House"

The Who="Power Pop" (Townsend coined the term, no?)

Flipper - "Pet Rock"

Always thought the Who was "Maximum R&B."

the embarrassment - blister pop

dre, gfunk

Magma, "Zeuhl"

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

turbonegro - deathpunk

mono - mogwai

Brick – Dusic! or Dazz?

Deadsy = "undercore" -_-

Faust - "Krautrock"

coctails- garage jazz

Parliament, Funkadelic, EPMD and all Def Squad related acts - P Funk.

Joe Jackson - spiv rock
Jefferson Airplane - morning maniac music
Trio - Neue Deutsche Fröhlichkeit ("New German Cheerfulness")

MC5 - "high energy rock & roll"

The Minutemen "jam econo"

they never really sold this as a descriptor of their sound or coinage of a genre or anything imo

Neu! - Motorik

the minutemen - "scientist rock"

plus they did jam econo

btw this thread pretty much describes 90% of all indie, dance or metal acts who've had professional PR in the past 5 years doesn't it

the soft boys - crabcore

Re the discussion upthread, Pete Townshend invented the power pop term, but The Who were more known as maximum R&B. They were probably proto-powerpop though.

Turbonegro's music is often described as "deathpunk".

(Oops. Already mentioned, I see)

Gary Holton ("Auf Wiedersehen Pet") and Norwegian rocker Casino Steel (ex- The Boys) briefly formed sort of a countryrock duo in the early 80s. As the duo was half-Norwegian and Norway-based, they decided to describe their music as rig rock, also to prevent writers from coming up with genre descriptions for their music.

The Wurzels - Scrumpy and Western

Hard to think of the Who as power pop, really, maybe two or three songs.

AR Kane - dream-pop

Flying Burrito Brothers - Cosmic American Music (at least according to Gram Parsons)

Darkthrone Plays Unholy Black Metal Exclusively

Grateful Dead=drums/space (sometimes)

Hard to think of the Who as power pop, really, maybe two or three songs.

"I Can See For Miles" is the proto powerpop tune. But I agree they have done a lot of stuff before and, not least, after that one that was not. I guess "I Can't Explain" is also kinda powerpop like though (at least it was a major influence on "Open My Eyes" by Nazz, which no doubt was very much a powerpop song.

also pretty much any contemporary band that considers itself power pop is probably highly influenced by The Who, which I think validates Townshend's coinage pretty well

I always heard "Substitute" as the #1 powerpop template myself.

The Townshend quote, IIRC, was that The Who played "Pop songs/music with the power and intensity of Rock and Roll" and called their hybrid "Power Pop". The term would lay dormant though until the 70s.

I Can See For Miles seems like the missing link between Eight Miles High & Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower

if I were looking for power-pop prototypes I'd probably first hit up Can't Explain, then the Byrds' I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better and/or Beatles' Drive My Car

speaking of which

Byrds = folk-rock

Kudgel/Fat Day/Swirlies - chimp rock.

times new viking: fontcore

Acid Mothers Temple: extreme trip music

Age of Chance : Crush Collision.

The Beach Boys - surf pop

Throbbing Gristle - Industrial

Air - French band

The Make-Up - Gospel Yeh Yeh

Aphex Twin - Braindance

Or maybe that is more Rephlex records overall descriptor

Sunn 0))) - Maximum Volume Yields Maximum Results <- more of a motto though I guess

mono - mogwai

― contenderizer, Sunday, May 22, 2011 1:19 PM (Yesterday)

actual lol @ this

Anthony Braxton - Ghost Trance Music

Bell Biv Devoe - Mentally Hip-Hop Smoothed Out On the R&B Tip With a Pop Feel Appeal To It

rheostatics = whale music

Captain Beefheart - non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state

Oh. Brian Eno=ambient music.

frodus - spazcore

Who would get the tag "Serial Music"--Terry Riley?

Robert Fripp - frippertronics

Daphne Oram - Oramics

Who would get the tag "Serial Music"--Terry Riley?

Arnold Schoenberg

John Oswald - Plunderphonics

Countess - Orthodox Black Metal

Pere Ubu - Avant Garage
Momus - Analogue Baroque

Adam & the Ants - antmusic (or more specifically, antmusic for sex people)

Oh sorry, EZ already said that...

HiM - love metal

Psychic TV - Hyperdelic

Albert Ayler - Energy Music

Sonic Youth had a 'Bomb Pop' t-shirt, which I always thought was a great description of Goo/Dirty-era bubblegrunge

Parliament, Funkadelic, EPMD and all Def Squad related acts - P Funk.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Dr. Dre, Warren G and all Death Row related acts - G Funk

Impaled Nazarene - Nuclear Metal

BYZANTUM - CANADIAN WEREWOLF TRUE PITCH BLACK METAL

Burzum - hipster black metal

Iannis Xenakis - electro-acoustic music

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, May 23, 2011 2:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Hmm, really? Was he the first/Did he coin the term? I think perhaps not.

Speaking of which though:

Pierre Schaeffer - musique concrète

Fela Kuti - Afrobeat

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now People
Vaughan Mason - Roller Skating Music
Teena Marie - Sha Sha A La Fum

Bloodhag- Edu-core

Teena Marie-Powerviolence Death Thrash Grind

Hmm, really? Was he the first/Did he coin the term? I think perhaps not.

Like all true rock 'n' rollers, he took it and made it his forever.

Dick Dale invented surf music.

And the power-poppiest Who song is "The Kids Are Alright"...

Short-lived Norwegian popsters Analogue Orchestra named their music "spectropop". In reality, they were probably much more influenced by Air than by Phil Spector though
Tried searching for a Youtube example but couldn't find them there. But they are on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/0jldXaVSZmEXCPJtWzGxtL

Amon Duul - Cymbals In The End

Orange Juice - The Sound of Young Scotland

(see also Josef K/Aztec Camera)

Klaxons = nu rave

Ultimate Spinach (and apparently a couple other bands I've never heard) - The Boss-town Sound

Cardiacs - pronk (at least, they're the only band I've ever heard it applied to)

The Jesus Lizard - pigfuck

MX-80 - Roadblock of sound (or "Hard pop from the Hoosiers")

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People

(I the term "pure pop" as a genre tag or record review cliche, though. it makes me thing of white nationalism, and it doesn't help that it's usually applied to some of the whitest music ever made)

(I the term

"I don't like the term," should say

Wait, people don't really think the tag "pigfuck" was invented specifically for Jesus Lizard, do they? (Or that they were the first band it was applied to, or that they invented it themselves? Because they didn't.)

Also had never heard "P-Funk" applied to later hip-hop artists, but what do I know. (Are they just supposed to be rappers who sampled Parliament/Funkadelic, or what? I guess EPMD have a famous Zapp sample, if that counts, but their Bob Marley and Kool & the Gang seem just as important.)

Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

Wait, people don't really think the tag "pigfuck" was invented specifically for Jesus Lizard, do they? (Or that they were the first band it was applied to, or that they invented it themselves? Because they didn't.)

hah, realized after i posted that it's equally applied to big black, killdozer, butthole surfers, flipper etc. etc.—not really the best example. i think i just really wanted to say "pigfuck" in this thread

I *think* pigfuck came from Pussy Galore? Not sure.

Man Is The Bastard - Power Violence

Hmm, really? Was he the first/Did he coin the term? I think perhaps not.

Like all true rock 'n' rollers, he took it and made it his forever.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Going to respectfully disagree and say it should go to Bernard Parmegiani then!

Whitehouse - Power Electronics

Bo Diddley - the Bo Diddley beat

I *think* pigfuck came from Pussy Galore?

Nope, Robert Christgau (its use a musical genre, anyway), here:

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj86.php

I've heard "Meat Rock" applied to Ted Nugent's music many times over the years, but not by Ted himself. (I've also heard "Meathead" applied to Ted Nugent many times over the years.)

Tony Joe White - Swamp Rock (maybe; I think)

Orange Juice - The Sound of Young Scotland

(see also Josef K/Aztec Camera)

Actually, the term used by the Postcard Label to describe that Glaswegian indie pop sound was Perfect Pop.

The Sound of Young Scotland was a riff off of an old Motown slogan:

http://i51.tinypic.com/29n8eop.jpg

a lot of Postcard singles actually said The Sound of Young Scotland right on the label and sleeve, and it was later used as the title of a documentary and a bootleg collection of Postcard singles. I don't know where the term "Perfect Pop" comes from but doubt it was a Postcard thing.