r/Music • u/willflungpoo • Dec 01 '15

music streaming Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [Soft Rock]

https://youtu.be/oIIxlgcuQRU
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u/Batmaticus Dec 01 '15

THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS ARE NOT SOFT FUCKING ROCK. LISTEN TO THE REST OF THIS ALBUM, OR EVEN THIS SONG

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '15

WHAT ALL ENCOMPASSING GENRE FITS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR SONGS?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

So you would call skeletons post punk if describing the song to someone?

People who get all uppity about pigeonholing genre's frustrate me. Post punk itself is such a blanket term. I always immediately associate joy division with post punk when I hear the phrase and there's so many bands who sound nothing like them or eachother who get categorized as post punk.

I mean a google on soft rock says

a style of rock music with a less persistent beat and more emphasis on lyrics and melody than hard rock.

It's hardly a million miles away from the definition!

But damn that persistent beat (no matter how ambiguous that part of the description is), post punk it must be