Im really not sure I understand some of todays terms and catagories for diffrent types of music. Here are some I would love for some one to explain, and/or curious on what you think the reason of that name.


Nu-metal or the "nu-" part

Emo

Progressive

Aleternative (then there being alt metal,punk, and rock)

Expiermental

Rock vs. Rock and Roll

Grunge

Pop (this genre is pointless to me)

So please explain.... and add any others you know of.

Emo stands for 'emotional', but then a lot of bands write emotional songs in their catalogue, but i also think 'Emo' has a 'sound' soto speak....I don't like that type of music personally.

What does someone who is emo do when the ligh bulb goes?

Sit and cry in the dark.

Sorry, lame, but always makes me laugh.

Grunge could have a few defenitions and roots, but one thing i always think when i think grunge is a 'husky' type voice, too hard to explain i think but maybe someone knows what i mean.

Rock and Roll was more upbeat type music???

Pop just stands for popular, simple as that.

Just my defenitions tho i could be wrong.

but popular....alot of music is popular? is miles davis pop?

Ye, most music is popular to someone as every music has a 'crowd', but i guess it means mainstream popular, like whats in the charts basically, people are going out and buying those singles to get into the top 40 so they are just more popular on a wider scale, if you see what i mean.

It's all bollox anyway tho really.

I see what you mean, thanks

Tho it doesn't always mean that i suppose, i am just throwing something in, maybe someone can explain it better.

Yep, but do you know any of the other ones?

Genres really are hard to define since lots or artists bleed over from one to another depending on the person defining them.

There's so many different ones I can't keep up! I've heard of jangle pop, noise pop and punk pop and recently I learned a new one - Baroque pop. My head is about to explode...

Experimental is a term that can be related to a lot of genres of music. To take something traditional and alter it in a way that it becomes completely and utterly unimaginable and/or related to what it had been beforehand, or to take a totally different approach. Experimental music has been around for years. Kraut rock was experimental, to a point. Godspeed you black emperor are experimental to a point. Autechre definitely are experimental. Ornette Coleman, Peter Brotzmann, and Albert Ayler were experimental in the jazz genre, but otherwise would be called "free jazz" (geoff or satch, please fix this statement if it is wrong). It is really hard to explain what experimental really is because, as I already said, it can span almost every genre. Experimental electronics, experimental jazz, experimental rock...it's all taking the general idea and "experimenting" with it to see what boundaries it can push, break and then eventually remake.