Just wondering - never really understood the difference between Rock, Alternative Rock, Metal... all that stuff. Looked it up, but it still didn't make much sense.
Wikipedia wrote:
Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or synthesizers. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around guitar, either electric or acoustic.
Wikipedia wrote:
Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. The term "alternative" was coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that did not fit into the mainstream genres of the time.[1] As a musical genre, alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s.[2]
Though the genre is considered to be rock, some of its subgenres are influenced by folk music, reggae, electronic music and jazz among other genres. At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk), and, ironically, for rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s.
Those two quotes are what I got when I looked up Rock and Alternative Rock. Seriously. Still don't know what the difference is. That's why I come to SRF for all my daily needs.
Anyways, if any of you have heard bands like Lifehouse, or Goo Goo Dolls, they sound WAY different from bands like FOB and Slipknot. But they're still Rock, right? Shouldn't they be classified differently? Or are they not rock?
On another note, how the hell does a song like Hey There Delilah get onto the Top 10 list, as number one? Can't say I'm surprised though, seeing as some dumbass song like Lip Gloss has been up there for a while.
The tastes of some people.
