It's amazing how sick I am of all labels in general. Whether it's 'creative', 'pop-punk', 'indie-pop', 'post-rock', 'alt-rock', 'post-punk', 'avant-garde', 'sadcore', 'emo', 'grindcore', 'britpop', 'hard-pop', 'nu metal' , 'post-lounge', 'ambient', 'hardcore', 'black metal', 'doom metal', 'death metal', 'dark metal' (yes, apparently there's a difference between all these), 'jam band', 'stoner rock', 'garage', 'easy listening', 'noise', 'jazz', 'classical', 'folk', 'rock', 'pop' and so on. My attitude is that a musician should just make the best music they can. Leave the labeling to the critics, or better still, get rid of them all together. There are better ways to describe music then to sort it into a genre. One of the reasons I like John Zorn so much is that he doesn't fit into any one label, ever (even though his music is commonly in the "jazz" section, for lack of a better place to put it). The instant you put yourself into a genre is the instant you limit your creativity. And as a moderately topical aside, I was in a bar the other day talking to a self-proclaimed guitarist. I asked him some basic questions about scales or something (since I aspire to play guitar myself), and his response was "Oh, I don't know anything about music. But it's okay, since we're a 'noise' band." _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail