[some young guy]

here's my list:

Acid House
Acid Jazz
Acoustic Blues
Adult Album Alternative
Adult Contemporary
African
Alt-Country
Alternative
Alternative Folk
Alternative Rap
Ambient
Americana
Anime
Anniversary
Arabic
Asian
Avant Garde
Bachata
Banda
Barbershop
Baroque
Big Band
Big Beat
Birthday
Bluegrass
Blues
Bop
Bossa Nova
Brazilian
Breakbeat
British Invasion
Britpop
Bubblegum Pop
Cajun/Zydeco
Caribbean
Celtic
Chamber
Chicago Blues
Children's/Family
Chill
Choral
Christian
Christian Metal
Christian Rap
Christian Rock
Christmas
Classic Alternative
Classic Christian
Classic Country
Classic Jazz
Classic R&B
Classic Rock
Classical
Classical Period
College
Comedy
Community
Contemporary Bluegrass
Contemporary Blues
Contemporary Country
Contemporary Folk
Contemporary Gospel
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary Reggae
Cool Jazz
Country
Country Blues
Cumbia
Dance Pop
Dancehall
Dancepunk
Delta Blues
Dirty South
Disco
Doo Wop
Downtempo
Dream Pop
Drum 'n' Bass
Dub
Early Classical
East Coast Rap
Easy Listening
Educational
Electric Blues
Electro
Electronic/Dance
Emo
Environmental
Ethnic Fusion
European
Exotica
Experimental
Extreme Metal
Filipino
Folk
Folk Rock
Freeform
Freestyle
Funk
Fusion
Gangsta Rap
Garage
Garage Rock
Glam
Gospel
Goth
Government
Greek
Grunge
Halloween
Hanukkah
Hard Bop
Hard House
Hard Rock
Hawaiian/Pacific
Healing
Heartache
Heavy Metal
Hindi
Hip-Hop/Rap
Honeymoon
Honky Tonk
Hot Country Hits
House
IDM
Impressionist
Indian
Indie Pop
Indie Rock
Industrial
Industrial Metal
Inspirational
International
JPOP
Jam Bands
Japanese
Jazz
Jewish
Jungle
Latin
Latin Dance
Latin Jazz
Latin Pop
Latin Rap/Hip-Hop
Latin Rock
Lo-Fi
Lounge
Love/Romance
Mariachi
Meditation
Mediterranean
Merengue
Metal
Middle Eastern
Modern
Modern Rock
Motown
Music To ... To
Neo-Soul
New Acoustic
New Age
New Wave
News
Noise Pop
North American
Old School
Old Time Radio
Oldies
Opera
Orchestral Pop
Original Score
Other Talk
Party Mix
Patriotic
Piano
Political
Polka
Pop
Pop Metal/Hair
Pop-Reggae
Post-Punk
Power Pop
Praise/Worship
Prog/Art Rock
Progressive
Psychedelic
Punk
Quiet Storm
R&B/Urban
Ragga
Rainy Day Mix
Ranchera
Rap Metal
Reality
Reggae
Reggaeton
Rock
Rock & Roll
Rock Steady
Rockabilly
Romantic
Roots Reggae
Salsa
Scanner
Seasonal/Holiday
Sermons/Services
Showtunes
Shuffle/Random
Singer/Songwriter
Ska
Smooth Jazz
Soca
Soft Rock
Soul
Soundtracks
South American
Southern Gospel
Space Age Pop
Spiritual
Spoken Word
Sports
Surf
Swing
Symphony
Talk
Tamil
Tango
Techno
Teen Pop
Tejano
Top 40
Traditional Folk
Traditional Gospel
Trance
Travel Mix
Tribal
Trip Hop
Trippy
Tropicalia
Turntablism
Underground Hip-Hop
Urban Contemporary
Valentine
Various
Vocal Jazz
Wedding
West Coast Rap
Western
Women
Work Mix
World Folk
World Fusion
World Pop
Worldbeat
Zouk

 

[Enverxis]

Seventh Subgenre of a Seventh Subgenre.

 

[virometal]

^ Nice Maiden reference.

I've never heard of the Women genre. Need to check that out!

 

[stuckie27]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Azure Are you asking which genres of music we listen to or how many genres of music are out there? I listen to Electronica, Trance, House, Techno, and J-Pop. There are a lot of sub-genres that confuse things a bit (Psychedelic trance, forktronica, etc.).

forktronica huh? that sounds interesting.

 

[Enverxis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by virometal ^ Nice Maiden reference. I've never heard of the Women genre. Need to check that out!

Well it is true

For instance, Funeral Doom is a subgenre of Doom Metal, which is a Subgenre of Metal

Doom Metal also has

Sludge (Doom Metal+Crust Punk or -core)
Stoner Doom
Death Doom
Gothic Doom
Atmospheric Doom
Traditional Doom
Drone Doom
Avantgarde Doom

 

[Fitz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by stuckie27 forktronica huh? that sounds interesting.

It's a little more focused than the better known splinter genre sporktronica.

 

[technobarbie]

For me I think only a few genres exist, and everything else is sub-genres. I think most of us have this weird need to sub-categorize everything.

 

[Fitz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by technobarbie For me I think only a few genres exist, and everything else is sub-genres. I think most of us have this weird need to sub-categorize everything.

And I'm sure there's a sub-category of OCD specifically for that

 

[sebascrub]

I love coming up with subgenres to classify artists. Having 49 artists under "rock" doesn't make much sense; it's like saying that they all sound alike. For me, rock is more the attitude than anything else. Then, comes the specifics of each artist, such as Acoustic Rock, Hard Rock, Soul Rock, World Rock, Post-Rock, Argentine Rock, etc. This way, I differentiate between different movements across time.

On a separate note, my most sub'ed genre (yeah, what a wierd way to put it) would have to be Indie Post-Punk Britpop

sebascrub

 

[NiceCans]

I use 15 main Genre's, broken down into sub-genre's or styles.
Avant-Garde
Bluegrass
Blues
Classical
Country
Electronic
Folk
Jazz
New Age
R&B
Reggae
Rock
Soundtrack
Vocal
World

As there appears to be no standard (and seems some folks make them up as they go along) I used AMG as a guide since I was getting most of my info & cover art there anyway.

 

[TheMarsVolta]

Categories suck. I remove mine in foobar tag editor.

Out of curiousity do you tie the genre to the artist, or the specific album, or the specific track? This can cause trouble, good luck categorizing between all of Beck's albums, or within the newest Yo La Tengo album.

 

[NiceCans]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMarsVolta Out of curiousity do you tie the genre to the artist, or the specific album, or the specific track?

Since I use such broad genre's, I simply assign a main genre to each artist, the 'styles' can take care of the rest as they can cross genre's.

Of course you encounter some crossover, like between blues & rock or between rock & electronic for instance. In these cases I default to the AMG assigned genre for that artist (mostly as a simple way to prevent me from obsessing over it as well as for consistancy).

 

[Enverxis]

Two.

Metal and Other

 

[AppA]

Sorry to bump this topic, but I find it very convenient what discogs.com did, you have genres and you have styles.
And sometimes you have sub-styles

 

[Aman]

Only two:

Good
Bad