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There is one person headbanging!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1yKUswdqkA

Yea Brother. Although I am no longer so sure where the line is between many of the Genres. Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Acid Rock, Heavy Metal.
Case in point the sound track of the animated movie Heavy Metal.
Even the song Heavy Metal by Hagar to me is Heavy Metal but it would compare more to Hard or Classic Rock in my mind. With the fast tempo music preferred by the screaming artist being a "modern" form of Metal.
So what is metal? What element differentiates it from other forms of Rock music.?

Yeah, sans, good point...the distinctions seem to blur after awhile, don't they?

Hence my prob's in determining what Industrial is, on that other thread. By the def I got, Pink Floyd or The Alan Parsons Project could be called industrial. The Beatles & The Who could be "progressive" in spots. Sawyer Brown & Dwight Yokum are "classic rock."

And what the heck IS "acid rock?" Is it even a true form anymore, or has it been sucked into another category? "Hard rock," "psychadelic," "country rock," do any of these exist anymore?

Help me ppl! All the lines are blurry! I haven't any definition for what I like or even what I DO.

Far out Philby,

like, Oh WOW, It's like ACID is like that groovy trippin' groove like, you know, the vibe that "The Strawberry Alarm Clock" was jammin' when they did , like, "The Worlds On Fire Tonight"!...DIG?

PEACE BROTHER! and keep those Farfisas screaming'!

Howlin'

The Acid Rock thing I think is like Howlin is alluding too. Psychadel is another term for the same distortion style like Hendrix at Woodstock.
If you ignore the corn pone lyric a lot of country sounds like classic rock of ten years or so ago. And the Concert clips Ive seen would indicate that is where the light shows and effects of the older rock shows landed.
Lots o cash in the C&W genre these days. As long as you got big boobs and a computer to make your voice sound good youve got it made!
No offense intended to the real C&W artists intended, just seems to me the big sales mogules of pop have branched out.

the distinctions in categories of modern metal are mind bending its almost like you've got a group of teenagers who just throw names at bands...thats grindcore, thats deathmetal, an that is hamsterthrash....yet it could be the same band with a different singer.....and its true metal didn't die its like a zombie or maybe that jesus guy

What are they doing with that hamster

Metal is not dead as long as your mom keeps wearing spandex!

I would flavor acid rock as something like the Grateful Dead, whereas psychadellic would be more like Pink Floyd.

Heavy Metal? Hell, in the late 80's, they called Firehouse, Extreme, and Damn Yankees heavy metal, to which I strongly disagreed.

I think the urge everyone has to constantly re-invent everything has caused this confusion, but mainly a style comes out, then gets manipulated (industry injects 'pop' into it, yet still usually retains the name, which is why ultimately genres like Metal, Grunge, Industrial, etc eventually get a bad name.

Good point Kramer, Kinda like how Areosmith went from being a powerfull rock band to doing puppylove pop songs.