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Um, genre confusion

ncmando	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 3:52 PM Hi all, new here so here goes the newbie in his Nomex suit.... I play bluegrass/acoustic stuff, just set my band up on here and what the heck is up with all the stuff listed in bluegrass? 90% of it is in the wrong category. Like not even close. I am not a purist, we play all kinds of stuff, but most of the stuff listed under bluegrass here isnt. Remotely. Tryin to get more listens? Stupidity? Whats up with that? LMAO.
shadeofblue	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 3:55 PM if i listened to bluegrass i would have an opinion on the matter. maybe i should go listen to some bluegrass.
TameasDust	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 3:59 PM well tell one of the admins and they will try to correct it ... maybe these people think it is bluegrass ...
sepidman	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 4:23 PM hmmmmmmm, i will have to go listen to some and get back to ya. sometimes people get carried away with genre titles and such. is Shania really country?? is Faith Hill?? hmmmmmmm...
torndownunit	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 5:37 PM Good example...there is a huge different between traditional country music, and whatever the modern pop oriented stuff is.
milladrive	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 9:56 PM ncmando, I've cleaned up the category a bit. Sorry about that. ..And btw, your stuff is quite good.
ncmando	Date: January 28, 2004 @ 10:21 PM thanks! I wouldnt have said anything if it was country or similar acoustic stuff, but the stuf that was in there wasnt even close. shade, give a listen, let me know what ya think. band is county farm. milla thanks again, appreciate the thumbs up
teledyn	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 8:25 PM I agree with ncmando; the stuff on the bluegrass list isn't close by any stretch; maybe there's some sense that Shania ain't the Carter Family (but she's no more a hot bad-girl than Patsy Cline and I dislike genre labels as much as anyone, but these are no where near, and they aren't just limited to one artist making a mistake, it occurs all over and in all the low-traffic genres (jazz, world ...) Not realizing this thread was already here, I posted some ideas about it under a thread called "Genre Spamming" where I propose a solution; more thoughts in the mix are certainly welcome. I think it's an important issue because, as ncmando hints, it is discouraging to want to post to dmusic only to find your own genre is overwhelmed by off-topic posts; you're not going to listen to the channel stream or recommend to your fans to check it out, and seems to me that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the networking aspects of this site.
teledyn	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 8:37 PM btw, for a good intro to ncmando's County Farm: Coal Tattoo ... this is the real hard-rock music (ie a rock and a hard place) and definately belongs in Bluegrass
teledyn	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 8:43 PM besides, Patsy really was a hot bad-girl, not just playin' one on TV, but now I'm gettin' way off topic
ncmando	Date: March 14, 2004 @ 4:24 AM Thanks Teledyn
leerees	Date: March 14, 2004 @ 12:51 PM i personally dont like violins so wouldn't listen to bluegrass but genre confusion happens all the time in all music styles. trance is probably the biggest genre mishap of all time (thanks to the media)!! i.e. trance is dark / psychadelic but ask any kid now what trance is and he'll say, happy uplifting with a female vocal over the top.
ncmando	Date: March 16, 2004 @ 6:53 AM There is very little room for confusion with bluegrass. Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Stanley Brothers are bluegrass, electric guitars, synthesisers and drum loops are not. Thats where the problem lies for me here. Heck, my band pushes the edges of bluegrass if ya ask the folks at the festivals, we are wierd to them because we draw on older influences as well as some of the more modern "newgrass" sounds.