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Lack of Genres

chancemotta	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:20 PM well, i just joined this site yesturday, and have already noticed a very limited ammount of genres. there is no accoustic genre and seems to be no genres like goth and industrial. i think the genres could be expanded on what does everyone else think?
hate9wicket	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:27 PM http://www.dmusic.com/forum/Announcements/22916[hl\|genres] Well I say there should be no genres, since I don't want to pigeonhole my taste or my own stuff, but I can see how a singer songwriter wouldn't want to be lumped in w/Americana, if there isn't a kind of twange to the songs.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:29 PM This has been widely discussed before. Some genres have extensive sub-genres such as Rock (Acoustic Rock is one such sub genre), Punk, Metal, electronic, latin, world etc all have sub genres. Most Goths post under Alternative. Perhaps some more genres such as Goth and Industrial could be added but I don't think it's a priority right now...
chancemotta	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:31 PM well, as much as genres bother me, it doesn't so much for the music as much as people, because it makes it easier to find things. its hard when you don't know where to look. though i think nothing that's good fits into one genre and it would probably be best if we didn't need them.
hate9wicket	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:39 PM You have a good point there, in fact I just went and reclassified half the stuff I have up, because generally, I have no idea how to describe most of the stuff I do, and 'other' is way too general.
chancemotta	Date: June 4, 2006 @ 11:52 PM genres and classifying is always a pain. especially when people all classify things differently, and then people are so worried that if they classify something in a certain genre no one will listen to it. too bad we can't just be natuarally drawn to music we like regardless of genre and magically know what songs to listen to lol.
TameasDust	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 1:12 AM I still want two genres MUSIC NotMuSIC
Cryxan	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 1:49 AM ^ I'm with TD
zedsalt	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 10:24 AM I'd have a hard time deciding between the two of those; "Other" seems like a better fit for my material.
kingo	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 10:37 AM To me the problem is that most independent artists don't create songs/music that can be fit neatly into a single category. On the other hand, the idea of having some way to describe a song verbally/textually is very useful when it comes to people trying to decide what to listen to, or trying to find things to listen to. So if any given song could have any number of genre-type tags, a lot of problems would be solved. While it's hard for me to call any halaka songs "folk," that label makes a lot more sense if it's accompanied by some other label, like "experimental," and "noise." It'd be ridiculous to ask for an "experimental noise folk" genre. But it's not so ridiculous to ask that songs not be given a single genre at all, but instead that any song can have any number of genre tags associated with it. So for a song I could just pick "folk," and "noise", and "experimental." Or "acoustic," and "noise," and "pop." end soapbox.
JamesThomson	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 10:45 AM I think it may be an idea for the site to let you put your song up up as a couple of genres because otherwise we have to stick to the guidelines already given (I was also annoyed to find the lack of an acoustic genre). We could also have a thing next to each song so once people have listened to your stuff they can vote on what they think it is. just a thought tho
thesoloer	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 10:45 AM I think that thinking that this site does not have enough songs would be completely ridiculous. Topics like these come up every once in a while and the person usually gets owned... You dont need that many genres... you need a few... and if you want different music you should go to another site I mean the artists here are smart and they are very intelligent so when somebody puts up a song they put it up in the right genre... If you want more genres you should go to another site because they catagorize them correctly. This has been brought up before, but having a sub sub sub catagory of a genre would be completely ridiculous as to what I think.
chancemotta	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 5:18 PM i don't see why having more genres is bad. you say an artist will put it in the right genre but you can't if it isn't there. and most sites do allow you to use several genres which is a nice feature. and i do use other sites, i just joined this one, but don't plan to leave because of small problem like not very many genres. i just think that the admin would want the site to be as good as possible, and it's hard for me sometimes to find what i'm looking for. granted once one gets to know more of the artists itll probably be easier but still makes it harder to find them in the first place.
JamesThomson	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 6:26 PM that made no sense thesoloer. I reli dont get what you mean by this site has enough genres; and if it doesn't you should go to another site. the problem is that more and more genres are appearing all the time so to update the field of genres would be helpful and also if your music is completely unique what is that music then called. does it have a genre
chancemotta	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 7:30 PM great point james.
K3VIN	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 7:38 PM oo who has not music up here... wait aj got deleted.. so pr obably nobody
Distilled1	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 8:14 PM goth, gotic needs to be there! industrial is in electronic, as it should be. I feel we would rather have rock/goth/pop or something for some of our tunes. The problome with the genra selections here at DMusic is that Alternitive (witch I describe alot of odd Rock stuff, from folk to goth to synth pop stuff) is now its own genra in the main streem. If we want listens/fans from the main streem(steel them away from the RIAA) we need a much better genra selection system, a way to mix many together. As main is Goth then Rock then pop or Electronic, Alternitive, goth this needs to happen, to have music fans listen to the music they would like. out
chancemotta	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 8:37 PM ok wasnt sure if industrial was under electronic or not does seem it belongs there. glad to know where to look for it now if im looking for tunes. i like the being able to put more then one genre, but ive also noticed ppl will put there song in a genre it doesn't fit in just to get people to find it. it can be a bit irritating. i guess this issue is mostly for band classifying tho, and not so much for songs, but i mean some bands yeah they have widely diff stuff so can be in diff categories but when they play one style but try to say they're like goth and folk or something when it's simply folk can get grrness
imemine	Date: June 5, 2006 @ 8:41 PM Lack of? Gee's---I believe that's what we call an "artist page".

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