816:. Even a single compilation CD of the genre, something like "Best Synth Rock of the 80s", would help. After researching the term consistently the best I can say about it is that music critics throw the term around occasionally in the same way that a wine critic might describe a bottle of red as "bright and juicy, green herbal notes, blackberry and white pepper flavors" - sure, all these terms are in use by critics but this doesn't mean that each requires a separate article, or that each critic means the same thing when he or she uses them. There are thousands of music magazines published each year, and the fact that no one arguing to
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As I've been looking for sources, the main problem I've encountered is wading through the tens of thousands of pages of junk ("check out our synth-rock band on myspace", "band X is incorporates elements of synth rock in their work", "see mp3s tagged with 'synth rock'", "singles interested in 'synth
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If strict adherence to the guidelines would cause us to exclude entire well-known music genres, then the application of those rules is detrimental to the encyclopedia. Thus IAR commands us to ignore such guidelines in this instance. (Hopefully we can just find some sources and it won't come down to
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Both sides of the argument have legitimate issues. Usage of a synthesizer by a band cannot be a genre definition. Whether a band uses a synthesizer or an acoustic instrument is totally arbitrary. If synth rock is a genre name that can be defined in specific musical terms such as other genres are
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This genre is an apparent neologism, defined only by the fact that they're rock bands with synthesizers. Thus you get bands of unrelated rock subgenres like progressive rock and New Wave thrown together. A Google search didn't turn up any reliable sources for this as a genre term.
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That link provided is pretty much the sort of thing I was referring to above. Sure, they say "synth rock", but what, in an encyclopedic sense, those that actually mean? Nothing, really. It's the same problem that exists with pages like
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