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Originally Posted by DarkFish
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. |
LP definataly had a nu metal edge to their sound when they first hit the scene, now i dont know, I ve not heard ther latest stuff.
but google them and you will find that nu metal is still what alot people use to describe them.
(reputations stick i guess.)
Not insinuating anything about Metal though, to me 'Alternative rock' couldnt be more vague if it tried.
It is a kind of 'meh' catagory when no one knows what to lable it
Both Greenday and LP are good examples of this, they both fall under the 'alternative rock' catagory yet they sound worlds apart (when i last checked anyway)
'Alternative' means just that i guess, an alternative to <whatever>.
and Rock just means a guitar & drum outfit. if thats not general I dont know what is.
And Greenday were not influcenced by pop-punk since the term 'pop-punk' was pretty much invented to describe them (and the Offsping) in the 90's
Billie Joe Armstrong grew up listening to bands like the Clash, the Ramones and other 70s/80s era Punk bands. The term 'pop-punk' didnt really exist back then.
But its true that a bands influence and their actual sound can often be two different things.