Least successful music genre?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

My nomination goes to 'Romo'. It existed for six weeks in London in early 1996, purely because two guys who wrote for the thankfully now-defunct Melody Maker were bored. And it sucked dogs eggs.

http://www.thisisromo.com/

What is Romo?
For 6 months in late '95/early '96 London had it's own Studio 54 scene which was actually spread over 2 clubs, Arcadia and Club Skinny. Think celebrity, excess and glamour. It took 16 years from the fall of Studio 54 to the birth of Romo. A lineage of successful London clubs have sprung from the heady days of summer 1995.


http://www.the-horse.net/orllive.htm

LOOKS LIKE WE FAILED, then. This was Orlando's last gig. That's a shame, but hardly a surprise, a depressingly inevitable end to a frustrating story.

Rewind to March 1996. In a few select London venues, something called Romo is happening - but more importantly, it's also happening in the pages of Melody Maker. Towards the end of the golden Allan Jones era, two journalists called Simon Price and Taylor Parkes are allowed to write about a different Romo group every week, with prose so colourful and full of conviction that it fairly leaps off the page. At a time when Britpop is booming - Weller, OCS and the absolutely baffling Cast are in the Top 20 - Simon and Taylor write about groups with names like Hollywood, Plastic Fantastic, Massive Ego, Viva!, Sexus… and Orlando. Sure, there's glitter and make-up and synths but, more importantly, there's verve and drama and daring and grand gestures. It's disposable pop music at its most thrilling, and right then, it's essential. The great Allan Jones allows Romo a cover feature and a free cover-mounted cassette - and there it is, Nature's Hated by a duo called Orlando, Tim Chipping and Dickon Edwards.

The first point to note is that Orlando immediately stuck out like a sore thumb. Nature's Hated was the only song on that tape not to rely at all on drama-pop icons like Soft Cell, Human League or Roxy Music (for inspiration, or for direct assistance - the other tracks were produced by Almond, Thurston, Ball, and Chris Hughes). It was a ballad built on pianos and violins - gorgeous, ingenuous, unabashed pop, a skinny white male take on The Carpenters and late-period Supremes - with words that immediately announced Dickon Edwards as an intelligent, high-stakes lyricist who could easily pick up the Moz/Richey baton.

[Intelsucks]

1. Rap/Hip Hop... I wish. God I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.

I thought it would have gone away completely by now. Oh well... I can dream, can't I?

[shekina]

2. but no hip hop

means no Outkast:(

[Jim Sagle]

4. Add heavy metal to that list, and I'm there.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Hillbilly-Techno-Chamber Music

Either that, or Gregorian Funk Fusion
:silly:

[teach1st]

6. Gregorian Funk Fusion?

The ScullaMooks? (They're a little light on the Gregorian stuff)

<on edit> Fixed link

[JVS]

5. Reggae-Polka-Techno-Oompah fusion

[bigwillq]

8. What's with all these Techno haters?

Drop and E pill and you'll love that music for the rest of your life. It happened to me, true story. Hated that shit then the mind bending drug know as ectasy entered my life many years ago (I don't do it anymore) and now I still listen to that music. It makes me feel good when I listen to it.

[JVS]

9. No thanks. Techno and Ravers suck ass.

Pills to make your feel good, what hogwash. I'd rather drink my whiskey and heave the empty bottles at assholes.

[bigwillq]

10. Hey I use to be a raver are U

telling me that I "suck ass"?

[bigwillq]

11. Yeah, drinking whiskey and heaving empty bottles

is real healthy.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. I for one love techno, and haven't taken anything in years.

[bigwillq]

19. Me too that's my whole point

Glad you feel me on this one, SLB

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. I feel ya, bud.

[VOX]

7. Afro-Celtic Fusion

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=afro+celts

Actually, these guys are pretty good...:toast:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

13. Polka thrash never really got off the ground

:D

[Padraig18]

14. Norwegian clog-dancing rap.

They were bought out by an insect-extermination company...:P

[Deja Q]

15. 80s metal/glam rock

Seems to have utterly disappeared from the causal nexus...

Even early 80s 'synth-pop' fared better, though rightly so...

Romo must be betting a lot about them being "the future pop explosion". Seems like a dud doused with water if you ask me...

[NightTrain]

16. Gregorian-polka-house-funk-old-ladies-exchanging-recipes.

n/t

[shawmut]

17. Lambada

I'm still waiting for that to catch on.

[NightTrain]

18. I don't give my money to "musicians" who look like that.

Sorry, but it's a long-standing bias of mine.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Does the term 'massively clueless tools' spring to mind?

[BlueJazz]

22. I've always been into "Polka Rap"

"Roll out the barrel, Mother Fucker, ....We'll have a whoring good time" :)

[Grizzled _Adams]

23. Amish rap

No one understands Pennsylvania Dutch.

Griz

[Ricdude]

30. check out Amish Paradise by Weird Al

very funny stuff.

[-..__...]

24. New age/World music.

Gregorian chants and "Throat Singers of Tuva" type of stuff.

[Grizzled _Adams]

26. I luv that shit!!!!!!

Griz

[Grizzled _Adams]

27. Throat singers fucking "ROCK"

Griz

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. LePetomane Christmas Caroling?

I heard that LePetomane's "God Save The Queen" and French National Anthem though were pretty good.

[Spirochete]

28. Disco yodeling

[uhhuh]

29. Satanic Gospel

It seems to be suffering lately.