The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Hardcore punk style · 1979–

Post-hardcore keeps hardcore’s volume, quartet, and independent hall and opens the song: space, dynamics, parts other than rant.

Influence
Post-punk genre · 1977–1984

Post-hardcore keeps hardcore’s hall and volume and takes post-punk’s bass space, treated guitar, and sectional stretch.

Influence

Post-hardcore

style · 1984–

Also called post hardcore

Kind of Hardcore punk

Mid-1980s opening of US hardcore: the volume and DIY hall stay, the song stretches, dynamics and space enter (Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Fugazi). It is a style of Hardcore punk. It hears Post-punk for bass space and treated guitar (Fugazi/Wire). Punk waits one step (hardcore). Emo is a sibling Revolution Summer recoding, not a child. Hüsker/Minutemen into indie-rock already sits on punk indie rock; this node does not double that hop. Funk and jazz leftover as Minutemen testimony. Noise-rock leftover. Screamo leftover. 2000s Warped-Tour “post-hardcore” leftover as continuation on this node.

Listen

  1. Waiting Room Fugazi (1988) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Repeater Fugazi (1990) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  3. New Day Rising Hüsker Dü (1985) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. History Lesson – Part II Minutemen (1984) YouTube · Amazon
  5. One Armed Scissor At the Drive-In (2000) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Hardcore punk → Post-hardcore

instrumentationperformance practiceform and structurestrength: highscholarly consensus1984–1990oralrecording

Mechanism

Post-hardcore keeps hardcore’s volume, quartet, and independent hall and opens the song: space, dynamics, parts other than rant. Strength high. It is a style of hardcore, not a metal style. Emo is a sibling DC recoding, not this hop.

Evidence

Hüsker Dü / Minutemen / Fugazi against Black Flag / Minor Threat (Azerrad).

Debate

Whether this is already indie rock. The hall and the volume are hardcore’s; the college-rock afterlife waits on the post-hardcore node.

Mediators

artist: Fugazi; artist: Hüsker Dü

Post-punk → Post-hardcore

timbre and productionmeter and grooveform and structurestrength: mediumscholarly consensus1984–1990recordingoral

Mechanism

Post-hardcore keeps hardcore’s hall and volume and takes post-punk’s bass space, treated guitar, and sectional stretch. Strength medium. hardcore punk post hardcore is the parent opening; this hop is the UK record collection inside that opening. Hüsker’s pop-song turn stays on punk indie rock, not this file.

Evidence

Fugazi against Wire / PiL (Azerrad, Grove).

Debate

Whether US post-hardcore is only slowed hardcore. The Dischord space-and-bass job is audible post-punk; the all-ages volume is still hardcore’s.

Mediators

artist: Fugazi