Poll of the Day > what the fuck is with all the "punk" genres?

(+) Yeah! (+)

cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, biopunk, clockpunk, mythpunk, elfpunk, mannerpunk, etc etc...

what's with all the punk genres? what makes any of these things "punk" anyways?

i don't understand, ok?
---

What the fuck is with all these "metal" genres?

Powermetal, Thrashmetal, Deathmetal, Blackmetal, Numetal, Hairmetal, Piratemetal, Vikingmetal, etc et...

what's with all the metal genres? what makes any of these things "metal" anyways?

i don't understand, ok?
---

ok but at least it's clear what heavy metal is, despite all the ridiculous amounts of sub-genres, ok?

i still have no idea what "punk" has to do with these things, ok?
---

i'm adding "punk" to the end of random words now, ok?

i put my babypunk into her cribpunk yesterday and she WOULD NOT SLEEPPUNK, ok?
---

Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel Neuromancer would help solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture.
---

kind9 posted...

Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel Neuromancer would help solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968.

computers have been around since almost ww2 dude
---

A slew of sub-genres now have -punk tacked onto their names, most obviously Steampunk, but also a host of other Cyberpunk derivatives.
---

Equally annoying is "core" music genres or "gate" scandals, as those suffixes make no sense compared to the original context they're derived from.

punk is dead

Ive only heard of cyber punk and steam punk. Cyber seems to be future with 80s tech for some reason and steam seems to be future with 1800s tech for some reason.

They arent musical genres though. My favorite named punk subgenre is "powerviolence"

Chewster posted...

Equally annoying is "core" music genres or "gate" scandals, as those suffixes make no sense compared to the original context they're derived from.

this, big time, ok?
---

Each of the -core genres have their own differences besides just hardcore. It might be confusing and weird but they all describd a unique thing.

Gates are annoying though yeah

I think you made up half of these words

It's just a copycat fad.

DrCidd posted...

Powermetal, Thrashmetal, Deathmetal, Blackmetal, Numetal, Hairmetal, Piratemetal, Vikingmetal, etc et...

I can hear each one of those in my head.

Chewster posted...

Equally annoying is "core" music genres or "gate" scandals, as those suffixes make no sense compared to the original context they're derived from.

Considering Watergate is just a name, you can really tack anything on at the beginning and have it make sense.
---

80s are back and they are better than ever.

So weird that I know I'll probably be alive in 2044.
---

zebatov posted...

It's just a copycat fad.

DrCidd posted...

Powermetal, Thrashmetal, Deathmetal, Blackmetal, Numetal, Hairmetal, Piratemetal, Vikingmetal, etc et...

I can hear each one of those in my head.

Chewster posted...

Equally annoying is "core" music genres or "gate" scandals, as those suffixes make no sense compared to the original context they're derived from.

Considering Watergate is just a name, you can really tack anything on at the beginning and have it make sense.

its the name of the building where the stuff happened, that's why it was the watergate scandal.

pizzagate did not happen at Hillary's Pizzagate child slave factory

argonautweakend posted...

Each of the -core genres have their own differences besides just hardcore. It might be confusing and weird but they all describd a unique thing.

Is "core" even etymologically valid as a suffix in English though? That's what bugs me about it. There aren't really many "real" dictionary words like that besides hardcore and softcore.

zebatov posted...

Considering Watergate is just a name, you can really tack anything on at the beginning and have it make sense.

This post makes no sense. It being a name is why it makes no sense. The hotel wasn't called the "Water" hotel, it was the Watergate. If you really want to make it a scandal in the proper modern usage then it would be Watergategate

I dont know if its a real suffix but those subgenres all take elements from hardcore so down the line a lot of em just got name of genre and core. Like say, emotional hardcore or emocore.

But yeah idk if its dictionary legal. A lot of music terms and genre names come from musicians who coined the term or music journalists

Shouldn't they take the "hard" aspect instead? Okay, "hardemo" sounds dumber than "emocore", but "emocore" also sounds dumb. Like pretty much every single named "core" genre I've heard of sounds like something for depressed hipster loners

Not in my view because the first word describes the music, second word -core is the overall family. As far as i can tell.

Emotional hardcore or emocore exists because it isnt as hard as hardcore. Vocals are more passionate and the music slows itself down sometimes.