Hey, Sounds good. I just want to get a sense of how we intend to do genres, though. Most bands don't fit neatly into a single genre, and many genre tags are applied to eras rather than sounds. The reason I bring this up is because of what I'd like to contribute - post-punk and post-punk revival. Both these terms are often applied to a certain time in music, not always to a certain sound. Besides, the lines between post-punk revival and other genres - indie rock in the case of The National and Interpol, garage rock in the case of The White Stripes - has always been blurred. It's the same when we talk about The Clash or Wire, say, both of whom covered ground from punk to other genres. I don't know; I could be wrong. Count me in, though. Would love to know what others think.
what if we every week voted on an album/artist/whatever and discussed that instead of dividing by genre
We could, but I think @eightballsamurai's intention was to have a genre-wise separation so that people with different interests have different threads to follow. Forgive me if I got the wrong idea.
im aware of that, but as you said so in your own post, most bands blur genres.
Yeah, one option would be to go easy on the avoidable 'but these guys aren't punk at all' comments. We could also look at having playlists sorted by other criteria - just riffing here - night-time music, general psychedelia, etc. This works best with playlists and not albums, though. I concede that. Anyway, I realise that option 2 is not mutually exclusive to what has already been suggested, there's no reason why we can't have both.
what do you propose?Anyway, I realise that option 2 is not mutually exclusive to what has already been suggested, there's no reason why we can't have both.
I suggest we have broader classifications. Again, just an idea. As an example, in the beginning, instead of restricting ourselves to post-punk, we could have punk and related sub-genres. These could include, say, post-punk, goth rock, and noise rock. It is up to us how wide we want to cast the net. If there is a clamour for further segregation, we could do it later. As for the playlists suggestion, another idea for another hasthtag, I suppose.
Great! I'd love to host. Just putting it out there.