Genre McWhenre

Andy @ Allerton · October 12, 2006

Getting to the stage where I'm thinking about adding genres to my 12,500 songs on my HD-3..

The Genres I'm kind of going with (And associated subgenres) so far are - though not doing them til I think I've about got everything in the right place - good excuse to listen to a lot of different music - which is kind of the point

BLUES

-- Blues Rock

-- British Blues

-- Chicago Blues

-- Classic Female Blues

-- Country Blues

-- Delta Blues

-- Detroit Blues

-- East Coast Blues

-- Electric Blues

-- Louisiana Blues

---- Swamp Blues

-- Mephis Blues

-- New Orleans Blues

-- New York Blues

-- Piano Blues

-- Piedmont Blues

CHURCH MUSIC

-- Gospel

-- Gregarian Chant

CLASSICAL MUSIC

-- Heavy Classical

-- Light Classical

-- Aaroubi

-- Chinese Classical

-- Films Scores

-- Indian Classical

-- Opera

---- Operetta

COUNTRY

-- Alternative Country

-- Bakersfield Sound

-- Bluegrass

-- Progressive Bluegrass

-- Nashville Sound / Countrypolitian

-- Outlaw Country

DISCO

-- Bright Disco

-- Dance Pop

-- Eurobeat

-- Hi-NRG

---- Nu-NRG

-- Italio Disco

ELECTRONIC

-- Ambiant

---- Acoustic Ambiant

---- Organic Ambiant

-- Broken Beat

-- Chip Music

-- Drone Music

-- Electro

---- Electro Funk

---- Electro Hop

-- Electronic Art Music

-- Electronic Body Music

-- Electronic Dance Music

---- Acid Jazz

------ Club Jazz

------ Groove Jazz

---- Asian Underground

---- Big Beat

------ Chemical Breaks

---- Breakbeat

------ Rave / Breakbeat Hardcore

---- Breakcore

---- Downtempo

---- Drum & Bass

------ Drill & Bass

---- Eurotrance

---- Futurepop

---- Gabber

---- Goa Trance

------ Psychedelic Trance

---- Happy Hardcore

---- House

------ Acid Croft

------ Acid House

------ Chicago House

------ Electro House

------ Microhouse

------ Organic House

---- Jungle

------ Hardcore Jungle

-------- F-Step

---- New Beat

---- Progressive Electronic Dance Music

---- Synthpop

---- Techno

------ Acid Techno

------ Detroit Techno

------ Dub Techno

------ Eurodance

------ Hardcore Techno

--------Digitial hardcore

---- Trance

------ Dutch Trance

------ Euro Trance

------ Uplifting Trance

-- Electronica

---- Folktronica

---- Illbient

---- Trip-hop

-- Latin Freestyle

-- Muzak/Elevator Music

-- New Age

FOLK

-- Abajeños

-- American

-- Australian

---- Aborigine Rock

-- British Folk

-- Brunei

---- Adai-adai

---- Aduk-aduk

-- Cuban

---- Abwe

-- Korean

---- Aak

-- Melodic

---- Barbershop

---- Musical Comedy

-- Mento

-- Psychedelic Folk

JAZZ

-- African Jazz

-- Beebop

---- Hard Bop

-- Big Band

-- Chicago Jazz

---- Dixieland Jazz

-- Cool Jazz

-- Creative Jazz

-- Dixieland / New Orleans jazz

-- Free Jazz

-- Jazz Fusion

-- Latin Jazz

---- Afro-cuban Jazz

-- Nu-Jazz/Electro-Jazz/Phusion

-- Smooth Jazz

-- Swing

LATIN

-- Flamenco

-- Latin-American

---- Cha-cha-cha

POP

-- Baroque Pop

-- Boy Band

-- Britfunk

-- Bubblegum Pop

-- Easy Listening

-- Electro-pop

-- Euro Pop

-- Girl Band

-- Indie

-- Indie Pop

-- Lo-pop

-- Pop Punk

-- Sunshine Pop

-- Synth Pop

RHYTHM & BLUES

-- Doo-wop

-- Hip-hop

---- American Hip Hop

------ Alternative Hip Hop

-------- Abstract Hip Hop

---------- Acid Rap

-------- Gangsta Rap

-------- Jazz Rap

------ Backpacker

------ Christian Hip-Hop

------ Crunk

------ Dirty South

------ East Coast Hip Hop

------ Horrorcore

------ Miami Bass

------ Old School Hip Hop

------ Southern Hip Hop

-------- Memphis Rap

------ Southern Rap

------ West Coast Hip Hop

-------- G Funk

------ Beatboxing

------ English Hip Hop

-------- Trip Hop

---------- Bristol Acid Rap

---------- Bristol Sound

------ Nerdcore Hip Hop

-- Neo Soul

-- New Jack Swing

-- Soul

---- Afro-soul

---- Chicago Soul

---- Funk

------ English Funk

------ Hardcore Funk

------ Naked Funk

------ P Funk

---- Memphis Soul

---- Northern Soul

---- Philadelphia Soul

---- Pyschedelic Soul

---- Southern Soul

ROCK

-- Acoustic Rock

-- Alternative Rock

---- Britpop

---- Dream Pop

---- Gothic Rock

---- Indie Rock

---- Noise Pop

---- Paisley Underground

---- Shoegazing

-- Arena Rock

-- Argentine Rock

-- Art Rock

-- Christian Rock

-- Country Rock

-- Folk Rock

-- Funk Rock

-- Garage Rock

-- Glam Rock

-- Hard Rock

-- Heavy Rock

-- Jam Rock

-- Math Rock

-- Metal

---- Alternative Metal

------ Funk Metal

------ Industrial Metal

------ Nu-metal

------ Punk Metal

---- American Hair Metal

---- Baroque Metal

---- Christian Metal

---- Classic Metal

---- Death metal

---- Extreme Metal

------ Black Metal

-------- Battle Metal

---- Folk Metal

---- Glam Metal

---- Goth metal

---- Grunge

------ Foxcore

---- Hardcore metal

---- Heavy Metal

------ Doom Metal

------ Epic Metal

------ Metalcore

-------- Mathcore

------ Nu-Metal

---- Power Metal

---- Progressive Metal

---- Rap Metal

---- Speed Metal

---- Stoner Metal

---- Thrash Metal

-- Piano Rock

-- Post Rock

-- Progressive Rock

-- Psychedelic Rock

---- Acid Rock

-- Punk Rock

---- Alternative Rock

---- Anarcho Punk

------ Crust Punk

---- Anti-Folk

---- Dance Punk

---- Dark Wave

---- Death Rock

---- Folk Punk

---- Hardcore Punk

---- New Wave

------ Elecroclash

------ New Romantic

---- Noise Rock

---- Oi!

---- Post Punk

-- Roots Rock

-- Soft Rock

-- Southern Rock

-- Surf Rock

ROCK N' ROLL

-- Rockabilly

SKA

-- Dub

---- Dancehall

---- Ragga

-- Reggae

---- Afro-Reggae

---- Celtic Reggae

---- Lovers Rock

---- Reggaeton

---- Rocksteady

------ Roots Reggae

This list isn't complete as I'm only a litttle way into compiling it and I've still got to sort some of the (suprising!) relationships out..

Anyone know of other genres that I'm obviously missing so far?

Nathan Explosion · October 12, 2006