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Originally Posted by Glice
Genres make it easier to talk about music without actually hearing it. For instance: I am having a conversation with a Cellist. I tell him I like medieval music. He then says, 'Ok, that is not heavy metal, perhaps I might like this'.
Endless sub-genres can get annoying, but I think it's a means of separating musical ideas applied in music without in depth theory - 'It's punk rock' rather than 'An Am arpeggio over a 4/4 beat for the first four bars, followed by a bass playing the root while the guitar, a-melodically, follows the fifths from Am, while the singer opines on on the state of democracy, changing to a staccato chorus; the song lasts 64 bars'.
(Which is something like describing Pretty Vacant in musical terms).
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Exactly. They're a helpful way to explain music to someone who hasn't heard it, or better understand music you yourself haven't heard. And it's an easy way to find similar music.
I don't think that genres really have any negative aspects. If people turn down a whole genre because they don't like one band that is part of it, it's solely based on the fact that some people are just close minded twats.