List Percentages of your music collection by genre

If I eliminate the non-prog artists from my collection (which amounts to about 15% of my total collection) and only consider the prog artists that are found here in PA, this is the breakdown of genres in my collection. I'm counting only artists, not total albums by those artists. I do have some artists in the genres shown as 0%, but I didn't want to split hairs by showing fractions of a percent.

I'd always suspected I was heavy into psychedelic/space...

Psychedelic/Space Rock	19	%
Symphonic Prog	14	%
Jazz Rock/Fusion	13	%
Eclectic	13	%
Prog Related	9	%
Progressive Electronic	6	%
Crossover	5	%
Neo-Prog	4	%
RIO/Avant-Prog	4	%
Heavy Prog	2	%
Prog Folk	2	%
Progressive Metal	2	%
Krautrock	1	%
Canterbury	1	%
Exp/Post Metal	1	%
RPI	1	%
Post Rock/Math Rock	0	%
Tech/Extreme Metal	0	%
Zeuhl	0	%
Various Genres/Artists	0	%
Proto-Prog	0	%
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock	0	%

Heck if I know ... I just listen to music, and it does not tell me what/where it belongs to ... thus some serious variety is in order! I might even play Turandot right after the Edgar Broughton Band, just to goof you guys up ... and we're not talking the guitar guy either!

In my Vortexbox most albums come with a genre classification, which was mostly given by the artist, the record company, or whoever put it in the files. There are loads and loads of genres and many of these are something of a joke, so the following list is maybe a fun exercise but not to be taken too seriously. I built some "clusters" of these genres that make at least a bit of sense (original genres include "Terror" "synthpop/folk", "World Metal", "Warp Records", and all kinds of spellings and permutations of words in things such as Electronic/Progressive) and looked at how many albums are in these - that's easier at least than classifying every single album manually, but the resulting list is quite weird and may not give an appropriate impression. In fact I believe about half of my stuff may be prog as in "listed on PA", but apart from the prog category these labels put them all over the place including "(classic) rock", "alternative", "ambient", "folk" and even "pop" (some Cardiacs!), apart from the more obvious ones. The "rock" category may have more prog than non-prog. Also note that almost a third is "smaller genres or unclassified" some of which is in fact also prog. OK here we are:

Rock & Classic Rock 13.5%

Prog, Psychedelic, Canterbury, Kraut etc.(genres of which *all* albums are listed on PA) 10.6%

Electronic 8%

Alternative & Indie Rock 6.7%

Jazz 6.6%

Classical 6.5%

Avantgarde & Experimental including experimental 20th/21st century composers 4.8%

Pop 4% 

Folk, Folk Rock & World 2.8%

Ambient, Meditative & New Age 2.3%

New Wave, Synth Pop & Post Punk 1.7%

Industrial & Noise 1.2%

Art Rock 1%

Post Rock & Instrumental 1%

Jazz Rock & Fusion 0.9%

Hip Hop 0.5%

Smaller genres, unclassified  or unclassifiable 28.8%

100% are 2039 albums; all my CDs are on the VB, and I organised or produced files of maybe 40% of the stuff I have on vinyl, tape etc., so some things are missing from this list, maybe another 1000.

Mortte wrote: Bowie has always been me bigger than Bolan, although even Bowie is not one of my biggest idols. Anyway some years ago I decided to listen all Bolan-albums through and there wasn´t any I didn´t like at all. I don´t think he ever made such a masterpieces as "the Man Who Sold the World", "Hunky Dory" or "Ziggy Stardust", but my faves from him are "Beard Of Stars" and "T-Rex". I believe I will listen his first album (My people were fair...) today again! What´s your Beatles-favorite? Mine is Revolver, then comes Sgt & Abbey Road.

I don't really put anyone ahead of Marc Bolan, except maybe Lennon and McCartney, and Zappa.. but that's pretty much it. And agree with you, I consider Revolver the Beatles best album. With Abbey Road right there (obviously a massively great and classic album. And I consider the Let It Be album very underrated in their catalogue, I like it a lot. From the early Beatlemania albums, I like A Hard Day's Night, it's a really good album. I'm such a Beatlemaniac, the only album I don't like from them (or consider weaker than the rest) is Beatles For Sale.. the first like 5 songs are good but after that it's a lot of filler. But the Beatles are the best, there isn't any doubt in my mind. I used to listen to them a lot and still do from time to time.

difficult to say. my guess is about this:

35% classical music

5% jazz music

5% ethnic music

50% rock music

5% miscellaneous

to further split up the 50% of rock music:

5% heavy rock (including heavy prog; for us heavy is foremost heavy, prog or not)

5% jazz-rock/fusion

5% symphonic prog

5% RIO/avant (I include Zeuhl in this because there simply are not that many Zeuhl albums to constitute a significant percentage in a collection of about 10000 CDs)

20% psychedelic/space rock (this includes Krautrock. and "Krautrock" does for me NOT mean German prog; many bands listed as Krautrock in the archives fall into some of the other categories)

5% eclectic prog

5% "normal" rock (bands that don't fall into any of these categories)

but this is a very rough estimation; I may be quite wrong about some of the numbers. no special listing of RPI or French prog; I don't differentiate by country, with the exception of Krautrock as a genre, which is not due to country but due to style.

oh, and about 90% of our rock music is 60s or 70s rock music. those were definitely the most creative decades for rock music