Originally Posted by Splishy Splashy

WTF? Do you want me to take a poll or ask the people to join here so they they express it themselves?

I already expressed the way I felt about it and if you think that no one in the world thinks they are not rock and just in a smaller genre of Grunge than you are not thinking straight.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

It's like rectangles and squares. All grunge is rock, but not all rock is grunge. And Blind Melon is not grunge.

Originally Posted by Splishy Splashy

What are Blind Melon?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Don't know, don't care. They just have the one or two songs I like anyway.

Originally Posted by Splishy Splashy

Because if some people would categorize them as just rock they are totally different then Metallica or Korn and then if others categorize them Alternative Rock they are different then Early R.E.M. or The Smith. All these categories are actually silly.

Originally Posted by ChelseaDagger

I used to think "all these categories are actually silly" as well, mostly because I suck at genres, but I've found that the more I can use specific terms to describe a given artist's genre, the better "luck" I have finding similar artists.

Originally Posted by Splishy Splashy

That may be true, but then again if you have Artists like the one I mentioned, Blind Melon that well doesn't seem to fit into grunge, or the the typical rock bands like Korn, or Alternative like early R.E.M. or The Smiths that would confuse me even more.

Originally Posted by 1blankmind

Blind Melon is alternative rock. Which is a catch all genre for any band that doesn't fit the mold but is still semi mainstream.

Originally Posted by Splishy Splashy

So they fit in the same mold as The Smiths and Depeche Mode? That just doesn't seem right.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music.

Originally Posted by 1blankmind

I always considered Depeche Mode to be more synthpop and electronic. The reality is that a number of genres are too loosely defined to fit only one type of music. Like here's wikipedia's definition.



And while wikipedia is a **** source, I'm just using it to show you how loosely defined alt rock is.