An A to Z of Music Genres

^ "underground music" is not a genre of music. 

^ The Velvet Underground might work better for V for Velvet Underground music, ;)

I was thinking about saying Underground Music myself, and even thought of VU partially due to word association, but also because it often is considered to be an underground band despite being mainstream. I so love that VU with Nico album.

here is wikipedia article and they mention VU The Stooges...

wikipedia wrote: Some underground rock bands never got non-mainstream roots. They are radical, aggressive 1960s bands such as The Velvet Underground,[1] The Stooges, MC5, 70s bands like Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, and 80s hardcore punk bands like Discharge.[2] Some underground styles eventually became mainstream, commercialized pop styles, as did for example, the underground hip hop style of the early 1980s. In the 2000s, the increasing availability of the Internet and digital music technologies has made underground music easier to distribute using streaming audio and podcasts. Some experts in cultural studies now argue that "there is no underground" because the Internet has made what was underground music accessible to everyone at the click of a mouse. One expert, Martin Raymond, of London-based company The Future Laboratory, commented in an article in The Independent, saying trends in music, art, and politics are: ... now transmitted laterally and collaboratively via the internet. You once had a series of gatekeepers in the adoption of a trend: the innovator, the early adopter, the late adopter, the early mainstream, the late mainstream, and finally the conservative. But now it goes straight from the innovator to the mainstream. In effect, this means a boy band (for instance) could be influenced by a (formerly) obscure 1960s garage rock, early 1980s post punk, noise rock acts like Pussy Galore or even composers of avant-garde classical music such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, while maintaining recognizability as a boy band....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_music

It is a descriptor rather than a genre proper, but is sometimes used as a loose category which incorporates various genres. There is no particular style to underground music as there isn't to mainstream music.

I think with these harder letters to keep things rolling it would work to allow a little more descriptive tags, some more flexibility and a little more creativity.

Quirkcore was a bit of an invention of mine before, and that was meant more of a humorous post, although I would expect others to have used the term. We already had a serious one for Q. Quirky is a common descriptive term.

With Underground Music and arts generally I often think of it in a cultural context.

Edited by Logan - September 12 2021 at 08:10

Rick Wakeman is anything BUT underground. Lol.

V is for Vibraphone Music.*

Bobby Hutcherson - Rosewood



* amazingly vibraphones predate phones with a vibrating feature.

Logan wrote: ^ The Velvet Underground might work better for V for Velvet Underground music, ;)

Lewian wrote: Logan wrote: ^ The Velvet Underground might work better for V for Velvet Underground music, ;) I can see lots of new labels popping up now.

Could well be, like for X (which was skipped)

X is for X-Ray Cover Albums

A for "alternative rock" or "art rock" which this one qualifies for both....

I prophesy disaster wrote: B is for Ballad   Peter Hammill - Stranger Still

F for Folk (of the progressive persuasion):