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Originally Posted by CAPTAIN CAVEMAN
to me genre isnt so much about concrete, specific boundaries as a compact description on which to base expectations.
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You basically summed it up right here. I mean, once you've listened to an album and know the songs and know you enjoy it, do you really give a fu
ck what genre it is? Probably not. But it does help you discuss/describe the music to other people, and even more so genres give you an idea of what to expect with new music. Of course not everything in a genre sounds the same, it's just a rough idea as a way of classifying music. I mean, it would be hard to discern different types of music if you didn't have, for example, the genres "punk" and "grindcore". But I think anyone on here could quickly tell the difference between the two.