I think everyone is missing a point or two. First of all, most of this site is devoted to train ridding people that are supposedly so independent and outside of societal norms that they supposedly don't give a fuck. So, why are people trying to pin labels on their chests? I'm this, I'm that, I like this music.
Everything everybody's mentioned is called performance art. It was started in the Rock n' Roll Genre in 1965 0r 66 with bands such as Earth Opera or H.P. Lovecraft. Then theirs the quintessential performance art band, The Tubes. You know the Tubes were the first ever band banned in Las Vegas? The Tubes was all parody. Then it went on from there. The supposed darker side was Alice Cooper, and Ozzy picked up on him. Then Kiss asked Alice Cooper where he bought his makeup. Then it went the direction of Genetortures, Marlyn Manson, but also in the hip hop direction with Insane Clown Posse, Lincon Park and Public Enemy. They are also performance art.
Now, being 46 this is what I've learned. Every band I've mentioned I listen to. If the genre is really solid it will hold on and be expanded upon. If not it will just wither away and die eventually.
SO, some people will be involved in some music scenes where they'll look at the pictures of themselves 20 years later and laugh. And some people will still be into it and some people twice a year will flip a CD in and say hey, I used to listen to these people.
What am I? I'm a fucking train rider and my own brand of fucking crazy. We don't need no stinking labels.
Logan