Genre Classification Issues

How about creating genres per album, like it happens on "metalmusicarchives.com"?
It's really obvious that almost every band, especially with long history, played in different genres. For example, Pink Floyd: first four albums are definitely Psychedelic/Space Rock, but take "Division Bell" - where the hell is Psychedelic/Space Rock? It's more Crossover Prog.
Take discography of Porcupine Tree. Firstly - Psychedelic/Space Rock, then - some mix of Progressive Metal and Heavy Prog, but still with Wilson dark/depression atmosphere. After "Fear of the Blank Planet" it's music again more some kind of depressive/atmosphere prog.
Haken and Rush also counts for Heavy Prog. So if I make a Heavy Prog to listen list, I found in top there "The Sky Moves Sideways" - and did this how exactly  happened? This album is so Psychedelic/Space Rock, it has almost nothing to do with Heavy Prog genre.
Another word fo "dark depressive/atmosphere prog". There are plenty of bands, that play such a music. I suppose this "dark atmosphere" (sometimes just boring atmosphere, like late Marillion) has nothing to do with genre? Because I found such band in different genres: Porcupine Tree in Heavy Prog, Gazpacho - Crossover (and Mike Oldfield is Crossover, and Gungfly is Crossover? Gungfly is so joyful, that putting bands like Gazpacho to Crossover make me ask questions), Marillion - Neo-Prog (I absolutely love IQ version of Neo-Prog, but Marillion plays "atmosphere prog" - dark, light, space atmosphere, don't know, it's just not Neo-prog), etc, etc.
I suggest to list subgenres per album, not per artist. It will be more clearly on what music to expect from the albums.
Well, I don't wait creation of "dark depressive atmosphere prog" genre, it will be to much :). But this type of music is obviously exists and I think that for more clearly description of music it should be somehow written. I don't know, maybe just Space Rock? Or maybe some kind of post music. I don't know.
And in Symphonic Prog band there is a lot of sh*ty AOR albums. Well, why not create AOR genre? Or some kind of sub-note in genre, just to know, and to see, that some albums are not Symphonic Prog albums, but AOR, New Age or other genres albums. These subgenres are not even needed to be put on top of the sites, in the "genre listing". May they exits in a way of sub-notes on albums pages.

Did anyone made it trough this post? )))



Edited by Rendref - March 29 2012 at 06:24

Bosh66 wrote: If this thread is still going,

A full, detailed policy on this issue has been published since the thread was active last time:

Band Moves Policy

Hope that helps.

Squarepusher has been added to JR/F because he has some proper jazz-rock albums, his electronica output was irrelevant to the process.

Yea, like Colin said, not PE in the PA form of PE.

Andy Webb wrote: Isn't Squarepusher a dubstep artist?

Isn't Squarepusher a dubstep artist?

Edited by Andy Webb - March 06 2012 at 19:48

Squarepusher should be in electronic. I never once have listened to him and thought about the nice jazz I was listening to.

If this thread is still going, why are Guapo under RIO/Avant and not Zeuhl?

 Now you can vote in polls 

Here's another band where the genre allocation throws me a little (and contrary to how this might look, I don't generally get that hung up on labels, but anyhooo...)

Edited by Bosh66 - August 25 2011 at 13:58

aginor wrote: interesting  this might be of something that might help improve the site also the guys who wrote it seems very knowledgeable about prog, so maybe contact him and let him join the squad. (or maybe he already are :O )