None taken.
It winds me up when anything electronic is referred to as 'techno' or 'dance music'. It's like referring to anything made by guitar, bass and drums as heavy metal.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:10, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

you could call most or it rock, is there a parallel term?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:11, Reply)

You would call Tortoise and Teenage Fanclub rock?
I wouldn't.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:13, Reply)

not a clue
but as a general term it's cover a lot of sub genres.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:13, Reply)

having googled, yes they both appear loosely to be rock bands.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:15, Reply)

QOTSA are rock. Teenage Fanclub are a pop band.
And the 'techno/ dance music' thing that pisses me off is that Techno is a very distinct genre, very different to House, Breaks, DnB, hip hop, trance etc. It's like referring to Black Sabbath as a punk band.

And surely dance music means stuff that gets played in clubs to dance to, which would therefore exclude Aphex, BoC, Plaid etc. I have seen these acts referred to as 'dance music'.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:21, Reply)

we're all a little too fond of those pigeon holes

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:24, Reply)

To some extent we need preconseptins and categories.
it's how the human mind works, helps us tell a chair from a table, danger is in over doing it. this'll be 4/4 but i loves the vidjo:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:30, Reply)

haha, the advert is in 6/8, though!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:33, Reply)

definitely 4/4
anothe rclassic vid:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imR_Sbkjq84
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:35, Reply)

but clinging to pigeon holes
and insisting that things live in them restricts creativity
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:38, Reply)

tis a fine ballance
and I don't dis agree with you. just saying you cannot hope to totally avoid it, as it's fundamental to how the mind workd IMNSHO
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:40, Reply)

Nah. Not at all.
A guy that I used to DJ with had very strange views on music.

He had a thepry that house and techno are the same, just that techno is faster.

So I pointed out that if house and techno were indistinguishable, there would be no such thing as tech-house. He made a biscuit-arsed face and never mentioned that 'theory' ever again.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:44, Reply)

Why do you have to over analyze everything.
Just enjoy what you enjoy and be done with it.
( girlinthehole, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:46, Reply)

That's me told.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:48, Reply)

*wags finger*

( girlinthehole, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)

*fingers wag*

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:50, Reply)

it's more like saying both sabbath and ramones are, lossely rock.
in the same was prodigy and (some other band) are both lossely dance, but Prodigy are not techno although the other one might be. anyway, thas my point, not going to argue it further, learned my lesson.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sat 8 Oct 2011, 22:28, Reply)