It's common. The same can be said for Punk,
Indie, Garage, Hardcore and dare I say, Rock and Roll.
As far as beig too lazy to come up with names of
their own, trust me, they're quite busy: Postpunk,
prepunk, dirge, doom-metal, postcore, slag, protopunk,
grindcore, postwave, preprog, postprog, progpunk,
reggaeton, IDM as well as the aformentioned R&B and
more. The techno catagories will make your head spin.
There are more categories because there's more
music. There are as many names for God/s as well,
with the same unfortunate result. Once you create a
sect, you create division. Back in the 70's and 80's,
when you met somebody who was into "Punk" or "Prog,"
and you liked that style, you pretty much had a new
friend. Very general. If you had a show, you could
advertise "punk rock" and all the area punks would
show. The same could be said for a marquee saying
"R&B review" in the 60's. Now it's far more complex,
and as a result, harder to fill a room, much less sell
records.
Trust me, folks, I make my living trying to sort
out this mess and I'm still suprised daily by a new
moniker. The key to good music is integrity and
belief in what you create. Whether Americana means
country or bluegrass, or Goa means techno or
industrial, it's about having a foundation for
creativity.
-Jack
--- jonesalley <
jonesalley@...> wrote:
> Has anybody else noticed that the younger set has
> appropriated the term "progressive rock" for
> something that has no relation to the original style
> that went by that name, and that the new style is
> not in the slightest bit "progressive?" Is this
> generation so lazy that they can't even come up with
> a name of their own?
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