[AppA]

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Originally Posted by Aman /img/forum/go_quote.gif Only two: Good Bad

Hehe, that wouldn't do it for me, I only dislike music which has commercial/misleading purposes only. So it will be a hell of a Good music on my computer/shelves now

 

[louilouinovo]

You can browse music by Genre at Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73

May be they have a thousand of genre (including sub genre)

 

[Gatticus]

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Originally Posted by Spareribs /img/forum/go_quote.gif There's lots of labels for music but to me the worst label was "Alternative music" in the early 90's. Puleese!! It should have been called pseudo intelligence hard rock.

When the term "alternative" was first being used in the '80's it just meant anything alternative to the dreck being played on the radio and was not any certain style of music. Anything alternative to the crap on the radio was "intelligent".

Industrial is actually an art movement about post WWII Britain and not a style of music.

I don't use genre's myself.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

i classify music by millennium. so far 1000-1999 has all the others beat imo.

 

[duchamp]

This should get you started. There is a link on the page for a PDF download of the file as well. In fact, just download it and skip the description...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturev...derground.html

 

[Aman]

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Originally Posted by AppA /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hehe, that wouldn't do it for me, I only dislike music which has commercial/misleading purposes only. So it will be a hell of a Good music on my computer/shelves now

Same here, but I've been doing fine.

 

[Error]

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Originally Posted by Enverxis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Seventh Subgenre of a Seventh Subgenre.

I lol'd. Honestly, I think there are as many or as few genres as you personally feel like establishing. In my case I group my music into a few broad categories i.e. classical, jazz, metal, rock, etc... However, a particularly industrious individual may see fit to assign a much larger number of genres to their music collection as long as they feel like explaining what the hell industrial progressive math metal is.

 

[Wmcmanus]

42. No other answer to this kind of question makes any sense.

 

[ken36]

My guess is 43. There has to be at least one more somewhere?

 

[Denver Max]

I have 42 in my iTunes, but I would imagine some like deathcore, noisecore, experimental are not "real" genres.

 

[basic-chanel]

Honestly, I could probably give you a better list of what isn't a genre than what is.

 

[bigshot]

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Originally Posted by Spareribs /img/forum/go_quote.gif There's lots of labels for music but to me the worst label was "Alternative music" in the early 90's. Puleese!!

What about "progressive rock"? The irony was that it was neither.

See ya
Steve

 

[bigshot]

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Originally Posted by Azure /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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.).

The thing that I've noticed is that musical genres in the past were just as numerous, but they were all totally different: jazz, pop vocals, country and western, folk, latin, blues, big band swing, bluegrass, easy listening,, r&b, soul, classical, rock n' roll... Today it's a million names for basically the same kind of music. What's the difference between Electronica and Techno? Every genre you mention there is just electronic rock.

See ya
Steve

 

[basic-chanel]

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Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif What about "progressive rock"? The irony was that it was neither.

True for the most part, but what about groups like King Crimson?

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Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif What's the difference between Electronica and Techno?

Techno is very-well defined section of electronic dance music, actually. It'd be incredibly easy to tell Jeff Mills from a house producer such as Frankie Knuckles, or a trance producer like Sasha.

 

[CLock3]

Genres are pretty much endless. You can always just come up with a new genre if you want. Like someone mentioned earlier about deleting the genre on all their music, mine's the same. I have one genre that I tag to all my files, and that's "Music". I thought about going through one time and tagging them with genres, but I just couldn't do it. There's too many things that I can't really pinpoint a genre too, and I hate classifying anyways.