The most pointless genre type ever is...

by **none** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:36 am

There's soundtracks and there's soundtracks.

I'd never use "soundtrack" for a movie score consisting of mostly classic rock, but if it's all one-note string tremoloes and what sounds like five-second snippets of 20th century classical music, "soundtrack" is a perfectly reasonable genre. I think the goal of "genre" is "select genre, hit play, have nothing break the mood".

The sad truth is that genre names are BEST defined by people who DON'T particularly care for a certain genre, not by fans.

For everyone who just doesn't like metal, period, there is no need for so many subtle gradations, especially if you have to actually know the band's intention and philosophy in order to sort it correctly.

Of course, MY library is full of genres like "bitter genius", "world plastic", "kill it!", "Cyrillic novelty", "selfparody", "freak", "difficult" ...

Richard Thompson, Las Ketchup, Bass Bumpers & Crazy Frog, Leningrad Cowboys, Connie Francis "Jive Connie Jive", Ronnie Ong, David Sylvian "Camphor" respectively, for those who care.

by **demosthenese** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:57 pm

pah68 wrote:That's not what R&B originaly was.

The Eagles, and America in the 70's were R&B

And I used to think that the Rolling Stones were R&B... but what do I know.

by **DaledeSilva** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:17 am

well.. you could just right what you think you know into wikipedia and then someone else will read it and say "what do I know"!

by **pah68** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:05 pm

pffft, what do I know.....not much apparently

by **Steegy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:31 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues

by **pah68** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:02 pm

demosthenese wrote:R&B

Any genre that defines itself not by the qualities of the music but the racial origin of the artist is completely useless to me.

That's not what R&B originaly was.

The Eagles, and America in the 70's were R&B

by **demosthenese** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:58 am

R&B

Any genre that defines itself not by the qualities of the music but the racial origin of the artist is completely useless to me.

by **Lowlander** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:08 am

There is also christian rap, not sure that they are very gangsta

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by **paulmt** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:51 pm

This is why I hate "genre's" and avoid them.

RAP is so general now anyway. I like all music and some rap.
I think there is a branch - gansta rap, that is what rovingcowboy is not to happy with, and the sub culture that surrounds it, but there are other rap and hip hop songs I really like, and I don't care what the music is, if there's is pretty girl moving around to it, I'm interested!

by **rovingcowboy** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:27 pm

i have seen shows on how they make them music videos for rap.

the girls are all made to stand around in the clothes that are too tight for them causing their blood to stop going to their legs and most the time the are told to do the dance moves and they cant feel their legs.

also the one girl in the show said they are treated like 4th class citizens by the singers. she said she would not do another video no matter how much they paid her to be in it. and most the time they are not paid but given the chance to be in a video instead since the songs don't always make money.

and there is too many real world gangsters and murder's and drug dealers in the rap music industry so there is no need for me to like the crap they try and say is music just to support their illegal activites.

and did you ever notice the dance moves on all rap videos are all the same by every artist? whats with that ? they cant even think of any origanl moves for their song? well of course not why should they their songs all have the same noise so why not use the same dance moves.

most the lyrics are about hate and killing and drugs and abusing women.
which is another reason to not listen to the crap.

by **vilbs** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:35 am

by **Steegy** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:13 am

Rap use to be crap for me too.
But now... have you ever seen the girls dancing on this music? And how they dance?
Rap is not crap anymore

by **Lowlander** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:02 am

rap != wrap != crap

The fact that you don't like the music doesn't mean it's not a genre. That's just personal taste, few people like all music.

by **rovingcowboy** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:28 pm

soundtrack is a real genera it is used by all moive industry studios to inducate the music and voices that go with the movie's video track.

there for sound track is real but if you don't like it don't use it.

but don't request it be removed from my use just because you don't like it.

i happen to use it when i put albums from movies in like the soundtrack from the prince of egypt movie or from the movie of the musical 1776.

or any christmas show like how the grinch stole christmas which i have in the computer complete with out commericals. as well as the charile brown christmas soundtrack.

so there is how it is used by me. and i think the useless one is Rap just what is that ? it sounds like your asking to rap up your presants or maybe rap up your self in good warm clothes before you go out in the snow.

so why is that listed in music ? to me rap = crap.

by **almo** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:04 am

yeah, i understand that soundtrack isn't born slippys genre but i'm not prepared nor do i have the time or patience to go through every track (22000) in my collection and give each track it's own genre (i also don't see any benefit in doing this). I use the genre to make it easy for me to find my music rather than browsing through huge lists. It also means depending on my mood I can browse through only what I feel like listening to eg. if i'm getting ready to go out or having a party i would look through electronic/dace.

Giving each track it's own genre would also mean when auto organising using the genre field my albums would get split up all over the place.

If you were to tag every track in your collection with an exact genre you would have so many genres and sub genres that finding things would be a nightmare (for me anyway). That's why i prefer to use a few broad genres and place everything in one of those.

But each to his own. Whatever works for you i suppose. I don't really care what the 'right' way to do things is. I just know what works for me.

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