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*pretending the preceding few posts didn't happen...*
So, if we figure out what that old fifties rock had that the later stuff didn't, we can finally figure out what, exactly, "roll" music is?
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Although I believe that "pop" can also be used as an umbrella term for almost anything, as well as it's own unique smaller catagory. In the same way that "classical" can mean almost all music with an orchestra, and the more specific Mozart period from (I think) 1650-1750, so too can pop mean peppy upbeat simple stuff, and any form of "popular" music, including Rock, Garage, Indie, R&B, country, and so on.
Oh, and I see UM's "holy shit" and raise him an "Oh my god!"
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Heavy Metal refers to any kind of music that has a definite emphasis on the distorted guitar work. It was first used in Rolling Stone to describe Jimmi Hendrix: It was like a heavy metal falling from the sky.
Rock and Roll, meanwhile, is music governed by the beat of the drums more than anything else. To qualify as Rock and Roll the guitar can't be overly distorted, and the song structure only allows one lead part. Rock and Roll songs are almost always under four minutes long.
Heavy Rock is the combining of the two previous catagories in that the guitar is heavily distorted, but the song structure is still similar to Rock and Roll, with only one lead, and under four minutes in length. The drums are still the guide to the song, too.
Seriously, weird people have thought about this, and these are some of the criteria used by the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Van Halen is classified as Heavy Rock, Buddy Holly is Rock and Roll, Jimmi Hendrix is Heavy Metal.
Pop music is usually very transient, being massively popular for no more than three or four years. N'sync and Britney fall into this category. It's considered a modern truism that as soon as pop stars start appearing in commercials, their 15 minutes are almost up. See: MC Hammer for the best example of this.
These categories exist in order to market music, and for no other reason.
End boring explanations.
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and I just store my 40 or so CDs in an old milk crate... when I want to listen to some music I shuffle through them till I find something interesting....
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