#81

Yeah sorry I was just trying to push your buttons. I know you love to argue genres :wink:

#82

Oh I’m thinking of Reading, as I went there in 2008, Fucked Up did a secret extra set in a nearby sports hall and Alexisonfire joined them there. It was bananas :joy:

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#83

That’s the only album I’ve heard by them and I never listen to it now but it’s quite good from memory.

I had Work on a mix CD from a friend once and quite liked that song too

Don’t know much else

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#84

Oh I mean these are tags are all BOLLIX really :joy:

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#85

Ha ha, it’s good in these times of Network Rail making their website greyscale in mourning for a racist, that we remember people have always overreacted and someone renamed an album and a song title for fear of a backlash by performative nationalists 20 years ago.

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#86

Give Clarity a go!

#87

Yeah that’s fair, the darker strain was always there especially with the misfits influence over hardcore as a whole. Then there was Ink & Dagger and the vampire/gothy hardcore/emo that was coming through in the late 90s. Even the spockcore stuff. I suppose there was the overlap with how much the smiths and the cure were seemingly revered by american teens/punx in the 90s also so it was closer than i give it credit for. I think it just felt so far removed for me. Emo was always backpacks/glasses/spockcut/skinny jeans so when it went super goth i was like what the fuck!?!

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#88

see also The Strokes dropping the best song from Is This It in the US

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#89

maybe

thing is, they’re a band that when i hear them i think “oh yeah they’re still quite good” but otherwise have no real desire to listen to

#90

The context of what genre label a band are given? I don’t think that’s important or should influence how much you enjoy or rate their music.

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#91

Well it’s important in the sense of having some historical context as to where a band or album comes from, and yeah that can enhance or take away from the experience.

#92

Genre is nonsense. The only types of music are music you like and music you don’t. The HGATR management will not be accepting questions on this matter. Thank you.

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#93

Genre is nonsense but band’s origins in time and place is relevant

#94

But how will I know whether it’s Hardcore or Happy Hardcore?

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#95

I didn’t know we were talking about that and neither do I care to :wink:

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#96

Are they smiling?

#97

…yes

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#98

Happy.

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#99

Jimmy 3t World.

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#100

Thanks big man, you’ve saved me a lot of future embarrassment here.

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