80s/early 90s shoegaze and post punk get covered decently well for a broad list, but it could use some newer recs. Leaving off Jawbreaker is a huge miss as well, even though they aren't shoegaze/post punk
This list is also clearly made by someone in their late 20s or 30s who takes it for granted that someone is already familiar with a lot of 2000s/2010s music as well. Where's the "pop punk"/"scene" representation? Thursday's Full Collapse, Title Fight's Floral Green, something by Turnover and something by Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy should be on there somewhere. That shit was everywhere, and is just as defining/important as all of these 80s bands were.
I think you're right on most of this. Frankly I think punk deserves it's own category, but you're lucky to get a decent punk thread going at /mu/. Punk's dead to a lot of people unfortunately, despite the impact it had and continues to have. Bad Brains' S/T titled is seminal though. Everytime I hear hardcore outside of Punk circles I hear Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Zen Arcade is also included in the list.
Metal
I think it's good, Although I wish they had less Black Metal. I would also change out the Death, Deftones, and Mastodon albums for their more popular counterparts. I'd chuck in Cynic's debut in there too.
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80s/early 90s shoegaze and post punk get covered decently well for a broad list, but it could use some newer recs. Leaving off Jawbreaker is a huge miss as well, even though they aren't shoegaze/post punk
This list is also clearly made by someone in their late 20s or 30s who takes it for granted that someone is already familiar with a lot of 2000s/2010s music as well. Where's the "pop punk"/"scene" representation? Thursday's Full Collapse, Title Fight's Floral Green, something by Turnover and something by Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy should be on there somewhere. That shit was everywhere, and is just as defining/important as all of these 80s bands were.
I think you're right on most of this. Frankly I think punk deserves it's own category, but you're lucky to get a decent punk thread going at /mu/. Punk's dead to a lot of people unfortunately, despite the impact it had and continues to have. Bad Brains' S/T titled is seminal though. Everytime I hear hardcore outside of Punk circles I hear Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Zen Arcade is also included in the list.
I think it's good, Although I wish they had less Black Metal. I would also change out the Death, Deftones, and Mastodon albums for their more popular counterparts. I'd chuck in Cynic's debut in there too.