Should Music, Just Be Listened to...OR...Should We Try to Categorize it as Much as Possible?

It’s interesting! As humans & music lovers, we feel the need to try & categorize so much of what we hear.

"Oh, ::pshhhhhh:: that's straight-up Post-Grunge dude"...or "Flight of the Concords are doing what Adam Sandler has done for years!!! It's Comedy Rock! I can't believe you called it ad-lib humoristic musings from the minds of stand-up artistry!!!!"

It's like we want a place for our favorite songs & artists to belong. I wonder sometimes if in our hearts & memory are not enough?


It’s been said that the thing people fear aside from public speaking, is silence itself. I agree with that. Sometimes even us musicians have a tough time not filling every possible measure with a note; the rests or pauses in music are necessary and I think that they build positive tension and have climactic elements that are the building blocks of theoretically perfect songs like the Fibonacci Sequence eludes to.

Our constant struggle with "good enough", "having it better", "constant improvement" - we say that if you have something great, soon... something else will come and take its place. I think this causation is all the best reason to write songs that last more than a decade, era, or period in the fad. It's all the more vital today to write songs from the heart. Songs that are pure; people will unmistakable recognize.

All in all, I understand the need for classification but some songs and melodies can't be held by that process. Some bands & artists transcend all of the labeling and become their own genre, a sound in and of itself. People begin to describe a band by another well known band.