What's the Most Useless Genre Term There Is?

[Mystlyfe77]

Classic rock. It will inevitably change more than any other genre

Because it's not a genre. It's a radio and marketing format, not a genre. Same applies to indie.


While I voted indie, there are a number of useless options in that poll. Also any term that simply implies a difference from the traditional format (avant-garde, experimental, post-) tend to be pretty useless. And war metal.

[Hungryfreak]

I always find powerviolence to be particularly worthless as a genre label.

Also, at least half of the things that Wikipedia thinks are genres.

[ShadowEclipse]

Classic Rock, because it's a station format and not an actual genre.

Classic rock. It will inevitably change more than any other genre

darkwinterbeast - 1
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[Mystlyfe77]

I always find powerviolence to be particularly worthless as a genre label.

I fail to see how it is any worse than other punk genres (crust, hardcore, thrashcore, grindcore, youth crew, oi!, etc.).

[Oscar-Rio]

classic rock, as it's not truly a genre.

[afterstasis]

IDM has nothing to do with ambient music.

[Mystlyfe77]

IDM has nothing to do with ambient music.

You mean you don't dance to ambient music?

[afterstasis]

are you saying i'm intelligent, myst?

mouse on mars is a good example of an active IDM group, and easily my favorite of the more popular names.

[Rocket2Russia]

dumb name =/= useless descriptor, to those of you voting for IDM

[exploder]

crabcore

what's that?

hardcore punk done by.....crabs?