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Ah, genres. In the 90's, I was into Breakbeat Hardcore and then later Jungle, which transformed into Drum & Bass, which was subdivided over time into Ragga, Neurofunk, Tech Step, Hard Step, Jump-Up, Clown Step, Liquid Funk, Ambient Drum & Bass, Drumstep and so on. Of course, what I understand under "Drum & Bass" is very different from a 18 year-old teenager who thinks late-period Pendulum is the greatest thing on ear…
It seems like tags might be a better solution to classifying music than over-broad categories like "rock". Making genres more specific and granular just makes categorization more confusing and contentious. But use of multiple tags to categorize a song could allow different people to simultaneously apply the labels they prefer. Or perhaps a better solution would be "x sounds like y, z, etc."
Very much so; I've lost count of the number of times I've wished that players would recognize more than one genre tag; heck, even allmusic.com had multiple "styles" for their listings.
Of course, the real problem is human language, it's subtleties, and how people (ab)use it.
discogs.com is a much better resource for the music taxonomist.
Ah, genres. In the 90's, I was into Breakbeat Hardcore and then later Jungle, which transformed into Drum & Bass, which was subdivided over time into Ragga, Neurofunk, Tech Step, Hard Step, Jump-Up, Clown Step, Liquid Funk, Ambient Drum & Bass, Drumstep and so on. Of course, what I understand under "Drum & Bass" is very different from a 18 year-old teenager who thinks late-period Pendulum is the greatest thing on ear…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital T'was ever thus. Don't forget that acid/tekno/jungle was itself stepping on other peoples' shoes, namely the UKs established dancehall/ragga soundsystems: http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2004/06/4/17/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-o_N9rCujM EDIT: jungle was also briefly referred to as "future ragga"! imagine how many people that must have pissed off, even in '92: http:/…
It seems like tags might be a better solution to classifying music than over-broad categories like "rock". Making genres more specific and granular just makes categorization more confusing and contentious. But use of multiple tags to categorize a song could allow different people to simultaneously apply the labels they prefer. Or perhaps a better solution would be "x sounds like y, z, etc."
This visualisation is way cooler than my side menu though :).
I see tags are mentioned in the discussion here. Tags/keywords are great for power users, but most people just don't think "I want to listen to X and Y without Z". They just think "I want to listen to Electrohouse" etc.
It's funny to see how different things are today. The gray areas are much grayer.