Album Genres Project, Anyone?
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Topic: Album Genres Project, Anyone?
Posted By: npjnpj
Subject: Album Genres Project, Anyone?
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 04:59
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The topic 'on being a genre obsessive' here got me thinking: In the past a lot of genres that were being attributed to bands (and vice versa) was sitting very uncomfortably with me. As it's quite often not really possible to fit bands into any definite genre because of change of style from one recording to the next and generally over time, perhaps it would be interesting not to categorize bands but their individual albums instead. Of course this would be a hell of a lot of work, but the fun and debates might make it worthwhile. But then again, I'm quite mad. Some possible approaches might be: 1) Make a list of existing genres (step one) and attribute the albums to the appropriate one (step two). 2) Take albums and build a genre list while going along. I bet the second method would generate quite a lot of surprises, not just concerning the amount of possibly 'new' genres, but also in how much we might have to adjust our perspective about the genres we've been slotting certain bands into in the past. |
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 07:06
^ you can also use my website (ratingfreak.com) for this project ... there every user can assign multiple genres to albums. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 08:21
| Yay, I'll certainly do that. Thanks for the heads-up. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 09:03
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^ great, let me know if you have any questions. I'll also keep an eye on this thread ... I'm always open to add new features to my website.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 11:11
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I know this has been suggested several times in the past, does anyone know how M@x has taken the idea? Personnally, I think its a necessity on this site so that the genres can actually work properly.Take Anathema's last two albums, they're not really metal but both are in the top experimental/post metal genre list. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 24 2008 at 11:40
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^ but who should assign the genres? I think that with more than 15,000 albums only a collaborative approach could work ...
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