The Sound Board #28: It Takes a Nation of Three To Hold Us Back

By Widge - posted 03.25.12 @ 7:19 am

How to Make Up a Genre of Music by Endless Origami

This podcast generally covers music and other transgressions. This month's episode stars Prof. Tuffley and Dr. Rob Levy with Widge driving recklessly as much as possible.

This episode's central topic is...musical genres and our slide towards musical singularity. Also we remember Ronnie Montrose, Whitney Houston and Davy Jones. We discuss problems between Rush and Rush, Paul McCartney and everybody who streams, your obligatory litigation update and we discuss our own musical genre: coffeecore.

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Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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A Mob Numbering 2

I have so much to say about this subject, I will be forced to make a youtube video which I will be posting to your collective facebooks. But for now, I'll just say this...

I would argue that this runaway train of genres came about in the late 70s / early 80s with Punk Rock. When the initial Punk Rock movement died, "Hardcore Punk" rose from it's ashes. Probably where 'core' comes from. In 1985, Thrasher Magazine used the term "Emocore", or Emotive Hardcore, to describe what DC bands like Embrace and Rites of Spring were doing. That's right folks, "Emo" was born in 1985 and has been bastardized since. We in the current DIY Punk scene are infuriated with the current trend of unnecessary genre creation

Comment by Joey G — March 26, 2012 @ 4:33 am

Joey: We await your vid with great eagerness. Thanks for the comment, chief.

Comment by Widge — March 26, 2012 @ 11:20 am

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