whenever i tell people about trophy scars they ask me what they are. and its impossible for me to answer. i tell them theyre like screamo just not ****ty like screamo but theyre kinda indie just not soft and quiet indie and theyre kinda hardcore just not with the scream its just a hard thing to answer. how do you describe them?
but usually i dont use genres because i think that anything creative and original is going to transcend the genre borders. in conversation, i have been known to describe bands as a mixture of two or three other bands
trophy scars is a particularly tough one though, i think you could say ts sounds somewhere between glassjaw, maybe little yellow box, and maybe even a little incubus.
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lucas wrote: glassjaw, maybe little yellow box, and maybe even a little incubus.
not that i totally agree with that assessment (nor do i have one of my own) but that would explain my infatuation with trophy scars, seeing as how those are my all time 3 favorite bands.
Well for starters I hate categories. Placing things into a box and labelling it is just a way for people to understand what they trully can't understand. This applies expecially to music and the few good bands that are actually out there. Placing them as "Screamo" really doesn't do them any justice because that really is'nt so when it comes to their music. They mix FAR too many genres for you to simply label them as such. Everything from hardcore to classical piano conciertos and baroque jazz I've heard in TS's music. So calling them "Screamo" really wouln't work in retrospect.
Now comparing them to other bands is alright, because really its the only real conherent method of describing them to other people. When i decribe TS to people I catch myself saying they're an odd mix of Blood Brothers with a sound similiar to that of Glassjaw. No thats totally not a laudible discription, but hey it leaves the topic open for discussion. Its just no fun putting everything into the "Emo" "Screamo" box. If anything I'd just call TS experimental.
One day a student in a math class asked his teacher why two plus two equalled four. Immediately, the skeleton of Aristotle popped out of the ground and said to him, "because I said so."
The funny thing is, Drewhadou actually went to a four-year university with a focused study on nothing but genres and styles, so you've got to give it to him when he lays it down folks. Its official, my penis is just for show.
hahaha. Well thank you for the kudos Patrock. I don't devote my college practices on music genres and band styles (to my complete and utter dismay ): ). I just make it my forte to know about these things. Keep in mind its all totally open to interpritation. Thats the beauty part about good music, its always wide open for the observation on totally different spectrums.
trophy scars is definately more hip hop than what people assume... 'cause i mean jerry doesn't sing... he might yell and scream, but he mostly talks or "raps" ya know? and look at his style! it's way cooler than "indie" or "scene" or whatever... even cooler than "hxc" (his vocal and lyrical style i mean, we'll talk about fashion some other time)... it's like everything merged together... you might could call it hip hop/hxc (speaking of the band as a whole now) or almost post-hardcore in a sense, but then again, it's quite unlike that whole music scene in many ways, yet seems to have drawn a lot from it... and obviosuly, it's more diversly influenced than that...
