What's the Strangest Musical Genre You've Heard of?

[Tinneh]

There's a lot of weird names for genres, these days, but what's the weirdest you've heard?

I once heard That Handsome Devil (Go listen to them, NOW) described as "Electro-Punk-Folk."

How about you guys?

 

[Tinneh]

chiptune. basically making music with old game console noises. and it. is. AWESOME!

I've always heard it called Bitpop.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

chiptune. basically making music with old game console noises. and it. is. AWESOME!

Maybe you'll like this then: http://slayradio.com/home.php

For me, it's a bit in this genre but I can't really place MSI in any genre. It's a bit of punk jungle and 8 bit music mixed up. It's strange and funny as hell and don't take themselves too serious.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Some of the metal subgenres are ridiculous. Dragon metal for example, pretty much the same as power metal except they sing about dragons rather than wars. Zombie metal is pretty much the same as death metal, except they sing about zombies.
When you consider it a new genre every time someone sings about a different subject, you really need to take a step back and reevaluate your genre.

 

[Latinidiot]

Itunes describes Cynic as Progressive-Electronic-Jazz--Post-erc.....Death Metal. That's the dumbest I've heard yet. Prog metal will suffice.

 

[Tinneh]

I once heard That Handsome Devil (Go listen to them, NOW) described as "Electro-Punk-Folk."

You win. You win so much.

And yeah, I've heard That Handsome Devil described as pretty much everything. They're absolutely impossible to pin a genre upon.

I wished Enlightenment's For Suckers was a little longer.

 

[Latinidiot]

Some of the metal subgenres are ridiculous. Dragon metal for example, pretty much the same as power metal except they sing about dragons rather than wars. Zombie metal is pretty much the same as death metal, except they sing about zombies.
When you consider it a new genre every time someone sings about a different subject, you really need to take a step back and reevaluate your genre.

that's the idiot fans and bands that keep doing that. They tire me. Oh, they tire me so.

 

[heavy-metal-ink]

chiptune. basically making music with old game console noises. and it. is. AWESOME!

I remember being told that was called 'nintendocore'
Might be a subgenre though (?)

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Some of the metal subgenres are ridiculous. Dragon metal for example, pretty much the same as power metal except they sing about dragons rather than wars. Zombie metal is pretty much the same as death metal, except they sing about zombies.
When you consider it a new genre every time someone sings about a different subject, you really need to take a step back and reevaluate your genre.

Hm... See, now there IS no such thing as zombie or dragon metal... Those are not genres. They sing power and death metal, but their lyrcial themes are Dragons and Zombies. It doens't make a new genre on its own, which is why I think metal heads (being a metal head myself) can be utter fucking morons.

Now Alestorm is described as Power/Pirate metal, and Swashbuckle is Thrash/Pirate metal. The only reason I might CONSIDER these accurate is because they add a new sound to the classical Power and Thrash genres that make it SEEM like a genre on it's own. But ti's still a sub form of power and Thrash

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

TO respond to the Topic itself. Experimental trips me out. Stuff like Fantomas and Sun O)))

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Itunes describes Cynic as Progressive-Electronic-Jazz--Post-erc.....Death Metal. That's the dumbest I've heard yet. Prog metal will suffice.

Too true, too true. Though I must admit that for a progressive Metal band, they were awesome live last week

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

It's got to be a toss-up between post avant jazzcore and progressive dreamfunk.

 

[DSK-]

Pop music. It sounds awful.

 

[Hexadecimal]

I once heard of a genre labeled "Intelligent Dance Music". I have no idea what that sounds like, though.

 

[Marter]

I hadn't heard of "New Wave" before. That and "Synthpop". I dunno, both names sound weird to me.

I don't listen to much variety. It was weird okay?