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Old 10-04-10, 09:16 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by JU_88 View Post
Then I really dont know what genre you would call them as 'Alternative Rock' is a bit too general in this day an age.
LP are infulenced by nu-metal (rap metal), which is influenced by metal and ...drum roll... Rap.

Its like the way a band like 'Greenday' are not really a punk to the ear, but it is still where they originated from.
imo bands like LP and Greenday etc are maybe sub-genres at best, they took there style from someplace and made a few alterations, they did not really create something band new.
First of all - you are not insinuating Metal is a subgenre of Alternative Rock, are you?

Secondly, Alternative Rock is not as general as you seem to think.


LP is (was) Alternative Rock. Some of their early songs were "nu-metal" (nu-metal is barely metal anyway) influenced, but they never reached Metal.
And they're not an own subgenre of Metal either, they're simply not Metal. For something to be a subgenre, it has to have some of the defining characteristics of the "main genre". LP doesn't have any of the characteristics of Metal.
They do have the characteristics of Alernative Rock though.

Green Day is Alternative Rock-influenced Pop Punk.
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