What's the Most Useless Genre Term There Is?

[voodoo618]

serisously why is it called crabcore?

OMG WATCH THE ****ING VIDEO AND TELL ME WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

[Mystlyfe77]

serisously why is it called crabcore?

Are you ******ed?

[macamatic]

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I see where you're coming from, but I don't agree. Evidently we just have fundamentally different ideas on what should be considered "progressive". I'm not saying those things are what makes music progressive, they're just general traits that apply and can readily identify it. I'm also not saying that a band is progressive if they have those. Meshuggah and DEP aren't progressive.

But I wouldn't call it a sound. It's an ideology, not entirely unlike punk in nature, although obviously that word doesn't mean what it once did. Feel I can concede because I agree that there is a unique quality to any progressive music - and maybe that's what you were referring to. But for a genre created to describe bands breaking out of the norm, I would never try to claim that it had a specific sound. Even the "classic" bands all sounded very different, and hell, shouldn't they?

What I do agree with is that it's becoming diluted. I just don't think it's because they sound different but rather because they're not progressive. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure Porcupine Tree is progressive, albeit I don't listen to them so I won't assert anything.

exploder: Clowncore.

[MrFruitLord]

Most core related genres (Sadcore is an exception) have ties to Hardcore (AKA Hardcore Punk. No you scene brats, Hardcore is not a form of metal, it is hardcore punk)

[cherokeesam]

in my opinion core is just a term that people put in a genre when they can't think of a name for genre

serisously why is it called crabcore?
what's next...elephantcore?
squidcore?
countrycore?

corecore

[Rocket2Russia]

Are you ******ed?

This.

It's not a real genre - it's just a derogatory name.

[WhiteManJohnson]

I voted 'alternative' because it is just nonsensical how both The Offspring and R.E.M. can be grouped together like this.

[Mystlyfe77]

The Offspring aren't alternative...

[HeyRiles]

I got a hilarious PM regarding this thread and the current state of classic rock and how it came to be. I'm sorry guy who PM'd me, but I have no idea how to reply to such a PM

[Soror_YZBL]

OMG WATCH THE ****ING VIDEO AND TELL ME WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

mentally ill cancer patients?

AH, GOT IT! Cancer = the crab! That's why it's crab core!