Acid rock is a fierce and loud variant of illusion rock. It absorbed cream and the essence of improvisation after jimi hendrix's heyday. Acid bands rely on varied guitars, soft singing and long improvisations. Acid rock didn't exist for a long time-it developed and formed a center during the life of hallucinogens-and finally the insoluble band evolved into a heavy metal band.
Alternative pop/rock (alternative pop/rock)
Alternative pop/rock originated from the post-punk band from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Although there are many music forms in alternative rock, they are put together because they are different from the mainstream music forms. On the other hand, the success of Nirvana in 199 1 can be divided into two categories: alternative pop/rock. In the 1980s, many alternative bands were independent, because their music forms prevented them from getting more support from the mainstream, including pop dance, post-hardcore punk, crazy metal, pop punk and all forms of experimental rock in the 1980s. On the other hand, since1Nirvana became popular in the 1990s, the alternative generally refers to all non-mainstream sub-styles, but the distinction is not necessarily obvious, because some of them have become part of the mainstream music commercial market. Hard-core and punk revival music is more successful in the commercial market than the pop music that led to alternative pop/rock in the late 1980s, so the alternative music in the 1990s has lost some essential features of the original alternative music. Many experimental bands have transformed their style into indie rock.
Ambient sound (ambient sound)
Environmental pop music combines two different musical styles: quiet and cheerful. Environmental pop music has a style different from ordinary traditional pop music. It is the structure and background atmosphere of electronic music that reflects the silence of the outside world and a quiet atmosphere. Environmental pop is a typical representative music without harsh notes, which makes the intoxicating rhythm of German rock greatly influenced by environmental pop and even has hypnotic effect. Essentially, it is a musical extension of dream pop after awakening in the shoegazer movement. Although most of them still use primitive musical instruments, they interpret music by absorbing electronic music, including sample works.
american punk
American punk originated from garage rock in 1960s, which has the characteristics of minimalist art style in soft sound quality and modern love. Several of its bands-Puppet, mc5 and New York Doll-have developed into real punk rock types on the basis of American punk. But for American punk, it really started in ramones around 1975-76. In new york, American punk prevailed and appeared, and similar music also prevailed in Lewis, USA, and actively developed towards hardcore punk. In Cleveland, it has developed incredibly in practicality. Part of the reason is the lack of media attention; In Boston, it is closer to garage music than real punk. New york is still the center of American punk, however, it is characterized by a large number of famous and influential artists, such as TV, Richard Hell, patty smith, Blandy, and so on. In 1980s, American punk began to wither and developed into a new form: hardcore rock, new wave and alternative rock. American punk did not meet the needs of the later pop music revolution like British punk, but it continued to nourish American underground rock for nearly 65,438+00 years. In the 1990s, the center of California relied on ramones, which will make it a pop music.
Big beat (heavy percussion)
Electronic music was rescued from the declining experimental edge, and the next wave of heavy pure music appeared in the mid-1990 s under heavy percussion. 1994 regional money all over the world turned their attention to dance music with less connotation, in order to fight back against the chin-caressing intellectuals who are obsessed with drums, bass and experimental forms at the same time. Through its clear movement, percussion finally combined with two British symbols around 1995-96-Brightons Skint and londons wall of sound. Slim, Bentley rhythm ace and lo-fidelity allstars, the released homeland once gained more and more fame for their innovation and music quality, although wallof sound was discovered earlier, and a large number of singles were released through propellerheads, wiseguys and les rythmes digitales. Percussion music soon proved to be equally popular in the United States, and musicians gained a higher reputation by relying on city of angels records and British style. In addition to Slim, the other superstars of percussion are the Chemical Brothers and the prodigy. These two bands created this style and helped it form. The two bands, Chemical Brothers and prodigy, never rigidly adapt to each other, and their works often reflect the wisdom of more advantages of trip-pop, and rarely use the stupid stage style of real percussion.
The sound effect of heavy percussion is to try to relax more freely at the old school party. It is a nostalgic music form of the late 1980s like the old-school rap, which tends to be stupid and can't be suppressed. Although the design and mass production surpassed their predecessors, in the late 1990s, heavy percussion was still accused of destroying pure electronic music.
Even when the records of The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Fat Slim were hit hard in the United States and won positive recognition all over the world-recognized by rock critics-many dance fans resolutely resisted the style that relied too much on clever playing skills. Percussion has lasted for an amazing long time. It is defined as a style, which is based on the patience of listeners who listen to the same crackle many times, just like the patience shown by a DJ when searching for old classic records of interest in a simple local store.
British pop music
The Beatles has established the traditional British harmony music-Guitar Pop Band for a long time, which is a traditional form that is constantly updated through the music movement. However, British pop music adopted many bands that used traditional music more than ever before in the 1990s. Although this form of music originated in the period of British music independence, britpop has great commercial value-different types of bands can get economic returns, they are sparkling and addictive, just like mainstream pop singers, they have created a new spiritual environment for the lives of a new generation of British young people. It is aimed at the younger generation in Britain: because britpop rarely cares whether its route will be unacceptable to American audiences, it makes the younger generation in Britain fully feel that it sings their lives, their culture and their musical pursuit. Britpop's youthful vigor and desire for recognition not only influenced the older generation of musicians in the low-key shoegazer-style band in the early 1990s, but also influenced the musicians who were creating behind the gloomy American garage and the emerging underground electronic dance music. Musically, britpop followed the Beatles. Of course, he also blended the pastoral sounds of kinks (the who, the small faces) in the late 1960s and the psychedelic sounds (david bowie, t.rax, roxy music) in the 1970s.
Punk and New Wave (The Jam, The Buzzcocks, Wire, Madness, XTC, Squeeze, Elvis Costello), and the popularity of alternative guitars in The Smiths. These musicians are the essence of British music-they use obvious British thinking to exert their imagination, write lyrics and compose music, which is also a major factor that makes them difficult to compare with American cult and causes the single form of britpop. After the split of influence, britpop has their fastest roots in Manchester, which is a place that emphasizes good timing and focuses on shoegazer's aesthetics and unforgettable tunes. The decadent pop style of Stone Roses and the attitude of rock stars are the main parts of britpop's creation, but the real father of britpop should belong to it.
Suede. 1993, when they released the album of the same name for the first time, they combined the authoritative style of glam-rock and the improved style of smiths, which made them receive unexpected and excellent results. Suede in 1994 opened the door for blur(parklife) and oasis (definitely possible) to break through more violently, making them quickly become the two most popular superstars in britpop. Inspired by the success of the first two and the dazzling explosion of the music world, bands with similar styles: Elasticity, Pulp, Super Grass and Boo Radleys are also among the superstars. By 1996, only Oasis has really become the mainstream music star in American music. From 65438 to 0997, britpop's popularity gradually disappeared, that is, Oasis did not perform well when reviewing the third album, and blurs turned to American indie rock. However, even if the superstar gradually faded out in this movement, there are still some individuals who continue to maintain a strong snobbery, and the early unconventional rock and roll continues to survive in a classical style.
grunge rock
Based on the vague and dark sounds of the stooges and Black Sabbath, the garage is a mixture of heavy metals and punk. Although guitars have been made of metal directly since the early 1970s, the style of the garage is completely different from that of metal. Both the lyrics and the garage attack on music were adopted by punk, especially the free-thinking American hardcore in the early 1980s. The first wave of garage band-Green River, Mud Honey and Music Garden-was more profound than the second wave and began in nirvana. Nirvana is more beautiful than their predecessors in melody, and they are also famous for their stop-and-go characteristics. Its twisted guitar has almost become a symbol of this style. After Nirvana crossed the mainstream, the garage lost a lot of essential freedom and connection with punk, and became the most popular heavy metal rock style in the 1990s.
New wave (new wave)
In the late 1970s and early 1990s, New Wave was a broad musical term after punk rock. Sometimes, the word includes punk itself. Looking back now, it is clear that the music forms after punk can be divided into two categories: post-punk and new wave. Post-punk is very artistic, complex and challenging. The new wave belongs to pop music, pure and simple. The new wave retains the rebellious and fresh vitality of punk music, and at the same time is obsessed with electronics, fashion and art, so the styles of the new wave show great differences. It refers to intense and powerful pop music, such as XTC and Nick Lowe, electronic synthetic rock bands, such as Gary Numan, and revival rock bands, such as graham parker and Rockpier. It includes some marginal new wave songwriters (such as Elvis Costello), some pop bands (such as Squeeze), hard rock bands (such as Bidding), pop reggae bands (such as police), mainstream rock bands (such as cars), and ska (Jamaican Pop Music) revival athletes (such as Special). As important as these major artists, many pop musicians emerged at the beginning of the new wave. Like the main artists, these short-lived bands also show great differences in style, but they all prefer popular and catchy themes, use modern synthetic recording methods and are obsessed with a slightly radical behavior. Until the early 1980s, the new wave was still used to describe all new pop/rock artists, especially those bands that used electronic synthesizers, such as Human League and Duran Duran. In the early 1980s, the appearance of MTV further promoted the new wave, and the video of the new wave was broadcast endlessly on TV to make it spread continuously, so the new wave that should have died out was reborn in 1982. In fact, 1982 and 1983 were extremely prosperous years for excellent bands such as Cultural Club, adam ant, Spandauballet, Hairdresser 100 and a group of seagulls. However, the new wave finally died out in 1984, because its founders began to make more professional music videos, and at the same time, the emergence of a number of new guitar-oriented bands such as The Smiths and R.E.M also caught the attention of underground rock fans spread by the college. In any case, the results show that the influence of the new wave is far greater than its critics' expectations, and those bands that dominated in the mid-1990s-from Blur to Weezer-are based on this music form.
Minimum guarantee
At the beginning of 1980s and the end of 1990s, the minimum living guarantee was no longer just a description of the recording quality of a specific album, but became a genre in itself. Throughout the history of rock music, records are usually recorded cheaply and quickly on substandard equipment. In this sense, the earliest rock records, most garage rocks in the 1960s and many punk rocks in the late 1970s can be labeled as "low fidelity". Later, however, Min Bao really talked about a kind of musicians who engaged in underground indie rock. They recorded their own music materials with four-channel instruments at home. Most of this music originated in the underground of the United States in the 1980 s, including bands like R.E.M; In addition, there are some British prototype punk bands and New Zealand bands, such as children's bands and cleaning bands. Usually, these low-income bands range from simple pop rock songs to free-form song structures or pure noise and artistic experimental music fluctuations. Although these bands keep their music relatively simple, relaxed and direct, poor recording quality, distorted tape coating and hissing sound, and abstract and boring lyrics still make their music sound unusual and radical. At the beginning, the real records of the subsistence allowances were all traded on homemade tapes, but there were also some independent brands that released official albums, the most famous of which was KRecords, which was operated by Calvin Johnson and led the Beating band. In the late 1980s, some bands such as Pussy Galore, Beating and Royal Trux had a small number of fanatical followers in American underground organizations. By 1992, bands like Sebadoh and Pavement have become pop idols in Britain and America through their deliberately noisy and chaotic records. A few years later, with the help of Liz Phair and Baker, this low fidelity aesthetics invaded the mainstream market with an improved and updated style.
tin-pot
Punk rock is the most primitive rock music-it consists of a simple melody and three chords. What has changed is that punk rock will perform old rock faster and more passionately. Because some bands have a one-sided understanding of punk music style-including garage rock bands and underground velvet, The Stooges and New York dolls in the 1960s-it was not until the mid-1970s that punk music genre was formally formed. Many new bands in the west no longer emphasize the super music form that is different from mainstream hardcore rock, but point to the essence of music. New york's first punk band was The Ramones; In London, it is represented by sex pistols. Although their musical performances are different-The Ramones is light and casual, in contrast, the pistol band emphasizes the expression of repeated paragraphs-these unique attempts have completely changed the styles of American music and British music. Punk music has always been low-key in the United States, and finally the concepts of hardcore rock and indie rock were born in the 1980s. In Britain, punk rock has become the darling of the public. Sex pistols are considered to be a serious subversion of the government and the monarchy. More importantly, more and more bands have joined punk rock. Some bands almost copied the original style of pistols, while others created their own new elements, such as Sharp Rock by buzzcocks, Reggae Rock like clash's hymn, and artistic experiments by wire and joy division. Soon, punk split into post-punk (more artistic and experimental than before), new wave (more popular in the East) and hardcore rock (a more intense, faster and more radical punk music in form). Throughout the 1980s, both Britain and the United States associated the definition of punk with hard rock. In the early 1990s, a group of punk revivalists-represented by green day and rancid-emerged from the American underground music industry. These new forces brought punk music back to its original style and tried to add heavy metal elements to the music.
Post-punk era
Since 1977 punk revolution, inspired by punk's independent spirit and straightforward expression, many bands have appeared. They did not have the style of repetitive pistols, but continued the path of roxy music, david bowie and t.rex except punk rock, entered a more experimental field and formed a post-punk style. Some bands unite because of their anti-cultural spirit and resistance to established rock customs. Many such organizations, such as joy division and The Cure, use synthesizers and guitars to create a dark and gloomy musical expression. Other bands tried to make light music, but the melody and lyrics were not harmonious, subverting the traditional rock/punk song structure. In 1980s, post-punk finally evolved into a selective rock/punk music.
Jump, jump, jump.
Trip-Hop is a new term coined by British critics, who want to use it to describe a new musical style, which is characterized by lonely, jazz, crazy and experimental broken dance music influenced by soul music. The fugue dance and the British post-sour room dance are in the same strain. The post-sour room dance soon became experimental underground music, but it first appeared in 1993, and there are also some brands, such as MoWax, Ninja Tune and Cup of Tea. And the wall of sound. Many places are very similar to American hip-hop (although vocals are often excluded). It also likes to use the sampling drum mutation, which is also typical and experimental, and likes to combine the high tendency of atmospheric music with the obvious psychedelic atmosphere (so it will "wander"). So the word was quickly used to describe all the music from Portihead and Tricky, DJ Shadow and U.N.K.L.E, Cold Cut, Wagon Christ and Depth Charge-which made these musicians very angry because they found that people only regarded their music as a continuation of the inherent hip-hop rather than a clever creative branch. As one of the commercially important mixed products-it successfully interweaves the music listened to while dancing with the more mainstream audience-a series of fugue music records naturally occupy the first place in the British independent list; Artists like Shadow, Tricky, Morcheeba, The Sneaker Pipps and Massive Attack became the backbone of the first wave of electronic music that won American audiences.
Techno (digital)
The roots of digital music can be traced back to Detroit electronic room music in the mid-1980s. The music room there is still clearly connected to Dickos, although this connection is too mechanized. Digital creators and DJs are Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, artists who are keen on electronic synthetic music (such as Afika Bambaataa) and synthetic rock artists (such as power plant orchestra). In the United States, digital music is a direct underground music form, but in Britain, it suddenly broke out into mainstream music in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, digital music began to permeate many musical styles, including hardcore, atmosphere and jungle music. In hard-core digital music, it is becoming more and more unreasonable to record every minute creatively. It's impossible to dance with it ― it's designed to be accepted overseas. Environmental music, on the other hand, is a kind of music handed down from time to time, when those free people and the people who passed by the community took a short break in the acid music room and the hard-core digital music room.
The jungle is almost as positive as hardcore, combining intermittent digital music and dance thunder? . At first, all digital music was designed for clubs, where DJ gave new life to mixed music. Most importantly, most of the music is done by 12-inch solo or several musicians, and the songs can reverberate for a longer time, so that the DJ can have more materials to integrate into their settings. In the mid-1990s, new digital musicians began to grow up ―― most of them are musicians with special atmosphere, such as Orb and Aphex Twin, but there are also many stubborn artists, such as Prodigy and Goldie, who began to record albums instead of rigidly combining percussion. Unsurprisingly, these musicians-artists with extraordinary achievements-became recognized founders in the digital field.
World (world music)
In the west, world music refers to pop music and folk songs from non-North America and Britain, and also refers to the combination of music from different places. Some styles of music elements, such as Jamaican reggae or Latin pop music, have penetrated into North American and British music, so they are regarded as their own music sources. Other music, from Chinese folk music to African folk songs, is regarded as world music. There are some differences between Worldbeat and world music, because it is usually a mixture of western music. Of course, Worldbeat still belongs to world music, because it absorbs the styles, instruments and rhythms of various local music.
Punk-pop (pop punk)
Pop punk is a branch of alternative rock's back garage style, which combines the melody and chord changes of pop energy with the rhythm of speed punk and uninterrupted guitar playing. 1994, green day and weezer first popularized this change in alternative rock, although some bands have played this style of music before. After their success, many musicians imitated their style to create music.
Noise sonic boom (Noise sonic boom)
Noise pop is a branch of alternative/indie rock. As the name implies, pop music is wrapped in sharp guitar blows full of feedback, disharmony and wear. It occupies a position between bubble gum rock dance music and avant-garde music, and is the product of the collision between traditional pop music creation methods and white noise sonic attacks. The melody of noise rock floats down along its revolving guitar structure, which often gives people a hazy and anesthetic feeling. But it can also be bright and active, or angular and challenging. The earliest source of noise popularity comes from the music experiment of velvet underground organization full of feedback, distortion and buzz. However, its most representative ancestors should also belong to the American alternative rock Band, such as Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, who combined the structure of rock songs with the thick and twisted guitar sound. The first real noise pop band was Jesus &; Mary Chain's first album, Psychotic Candy, which broke ground by them 1986, basically gave birth to this style. Yo La Tengo's debut album almost made them the most prolific and oldest noise pop band in this period. In the late 1980s, noise was the source of inspiration for the shoe-watching movement in London. Their lyrics became more introspective and the melody was more fragile. Throughout the 1990s, noise pop music played an important and influential role in the indie rock stage.
gothic rock
Gothic is a branch of pre-punk, which mainly existed in the early and middle 1980s. It deserves this honor largely because of its darkest and gloomy characteristics in underground rock, although today its honor comes more from the band's theatrical costumes and followers. In terms of sound quality, Goth adopted a bleak synthesizer effect, and processed the guitar sound of the former punk, creating an ominous and sad feeling, usually a spectacular sound background. In the early days, its lyrics were often introspective and strongly personalized, but its poetic sensitivity soon led to a shift in taste to romantic literature, morbid, religious thoughts and supernatural mysticism. Gothic is usually not a popular style in the strict sense, it is endowed with gorgeous poetic tendency, ruthless and sad elegy and endless drama. However, it produced a dedicated and still prosperous subculture, which made its aesthetic concept still exist long after the initial musical heyday. The godfather of Goth is Joy Division, a former British punk musician. His cold, distant, compulsive introspective music and lyrics laid the foundation of Gothic primitive structure. But whatever the intention and purpose, what really gave Goth life was Bela Lugosis Dead, a song from 1979 Bauhaus's first album. Like cure and Siouxsie &；; Banshee, a ruthless former punk band, has a perfect Gothic style at the same time. Their heavy music, daunting costumes and black costumes have become an important part of fan worship. When the popularity of Goth spread to a sensitive area alienated by teenagers (first in Britain, where most Goth bands originated, and then in the United States), its ideological fashion became more and more eccentric, and its initial timbre developed slightly. Healing, Siouxsie & Banshee Band and British Missionary Mission have become more popular and alternative elements in their music. When Sisters of Charity, nephilim's field and American band Christianity died, heavy metal-influenced technologies were used from time to time. At the end of 1980s, the original Gothic movement no longer existed, but this music mutated into a new form and continued to influence many dark metal schools. During the 1990s, Gothic music began to cross-pollinate through industrial music, producing a mixture that attracted both sides, just like the undercurrent school (they also combined the synthesizer of the 1980s with dream pop music). In the second half of 1990s, Gothic's influence suddenly appeared on heavy metals. A new type of reformed dark metal band imitates many Gothic timbres and styles, while some other metal bands also follow Gothic visual effects (including Marilyn Manson, who ignored many negative comments that he was not Gothic).
goth metal
Gothic metal is surrounded by dark and noisy Gothic rock and the invasion of heavy metals, and finds a middle position in the two styles of drama consciousness and lyric attraction of religious and terrorist decoration. Gothic metal, such as pre-punk, ambiguous antique, metal band, such as rainbow, Dior and Judas priest, are all described as the secondary voice of Gothic. If there are no more features, the ethereal synthesizer effect and ghostly feeling are as important as guitar improvisation except that the real Gothic metal is always directly influenced by Gothic rock. Therefore, Gothic Metal often asks the audience to stand at both ends of the scale. Gothic metal first appeared in the early 1980s, with Los Angeles as the center, so it is often called "death metal", where the death of Christianity occurred. Due to the rise of many Gothic metal bands in the United States and Europe, they broke out in a wider audience of alternative metals through half-joking type 0 passivity in the 1990s. During the post 10 years, Gothic Metal was also considered to have played an important role in the black metal band's search for new ways to make their voices deeper.
electronics
Using an appropriate vague term to describe electronic dance music quickly turned to listening, thus replacing dance in the strict sense. It is electronic. It was originally used to describe a series of people gathered in novel music materials such as Juan Atkins and Underground Resistance. They gained a lot of technical foresight from the future party of Motor Citys, and were next to European artists. The concept of this word was later adjusted under the pressure of the United States. In America, it is easy for any young musician to use electronic musical instruments or equipment. In addition, Electronics also describes technology-based music, which can be listened to at home and applied to the dance floor (because many electronic musicians also serve as DJ of clubs).
Folk rock (folk rock)
Folk rock absorbs the simple and direct composition method of folk music, and integrates it with the prominent rock tone and strong rhythm. One of the most prominent elements of folk rock is harmonious and lively guitar playing, coupled with a harmonious and clear voice. Bird started folk rock in the mid-1960s. They played Bob Dylan's songs as if they were British invaders. Many bands follow the style determined by the Byrd couple. When the trend of folk rock declined in 1960s, more folk rock bands emphasized the original sound effect of folk songs and retreated from the bright electronic style of the Byrd couple. For the next 30 years, acoustics and electronic folk rock are common things in rock and roll.
Substitute metal (substitute metal)
In the initial stage, the alternative metal formed its own style, which has unusual sensitivity to music and can be directly classified. Heavy metal is the core of this kind of music, but these bands are too informal and have too eclectic influence on underground thrash metal, so their main fans are people who like heavy metal guitar rock. However, in the garage, music helps to enrich alternative metals and gain a large audience. Especially when more radical bands gradually studied their timbre, alternative metals began to become the most popular style among heavy metals in the 1990s. When it shows almost the least classification of heavy metals, its form is very different from that of alternative metals in the early 1980s. At the same time, most of the surviving hardcore punk bands have turned to the trend of metal field.