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On 2 Dec 1995, Sunil Mishra wrote:

> \\ 
> \\ Thank you!!  When did people get so damn touchy about what name is given 
> \\ to music?  Its just an adjective, people!
> 
> Actually, labelling does help me a little. When you take it too seriously,
> IMHO, is when you run into trouble. Imagine not having big or small around
> just because they are adjectives... Basically, it's a way of describing the
> general style of the music.
> 
> Sunil


I agree that there is some usefulness in using "music adjectives", but 
people seem to get *way* too involved in defining what sound or band, or 
even _song_ bests defines that genre.  Pu-lease!  I see that it is often 
useful to be able to say things like "Gee, I love a good punk bass 
thumpin'" or "That post-nuclear new wave is the sound for me", but some 
people seem to obsess, no?  I guess its a really big deal to people who 
use music to define their identity, and there's nothing wrong with that, 
but these are loose, non-Webster definitions, and I don't think people 
should get so hung up on "misuse" of them.  Besides, when you say "goth" 
I still think of the 19th century literary movement -- pale people who 
only wear black and love bass sounds with depressing lyrics (I was one 
of them) were called "death rockers" when I was growing up...