List of bands with genres

[Monkismo]

I will start, heres a list of electronic music genres

right we just need a list of every other genre, and someone to decide which genres each artist belongs to.....

....just looking through the list, WTF is Martial industrial, drumfunk, IDM, 4x4 etc etc, who makes this stuff up ?

[fatyeti24]

I will start, heres a list of electronic music genres

right we just need a list of every other genre, and someone to decide which genres each artist belongs to.....

....just looking through the list, WTF is Martial industrial, drumfunk, IDM, 4x4 etc etc, who makes this stuff up ?

[eFestivals]

....just looking through the list, WTF is Martial industrial, drumfunk, IDM, 4x4 etc etc, who makes this stuff up ?

exactly. It's made-up bollox.

[eFestivals]

Well if putting Desmond Dekker in the Reggae section and Big Daddy Kane in the Rap/Hip Hop section is marketing then it's the type of marketing that is ok by me.

Do you have the same opinion of classifications in a library? Would books just be either fiction or non-fiction.

the problem with any classifications is that very often things fit into more than one classification (tho that doesn't happen with fiction/non-fiction). Which is why it's a hiding to nothing.

[eFestivals]

trouble with genres is that it limits people's taste and makes people have preconceptions about the music they like and dislike.

exactly - and when you translate that onto festivals, it has people ruling out festivals they'd otherwise enjoy.

eFestivals is run on the basis that any festival could be to your interest, so check out what's there.

[pie_and_a_pint]

genres (particularly the 'sub' kind) are for those without interest in music. There are really only two genres of music - good music and bad music.

[sifi]

It's impossible to say which genre some bands and artists are - they change over time. How would people classify David Bowie? Glam? Soul? Folk? New Wave? Industrial?

[grumpyhack]

Not a classification but some bands produce great studio albums, others do great live shows, some do both.

[crashnburn]

don't know if this may be slightly useful i've started listening through the my space pages and writing down a bit on genre i did it mainly as an extra guide for myself for the festival although there a bit on genre sorry about all the opinionates and obscure references also i'm only half way through friday

Thursday

Queens head

We have band so so electro

Stornoway- ok not sure ian likes chilled aqcoustic may be good live

Charlene Soraia laid back slightly carrabien not too good

The Gentle Good trtaditional welsh folk lovely finger picked beautifull voice

Liz green – off kilter folk genius dark n disturbing with a voice reminiscent of a famous 50’s jazz singer

Alessi's Ark – the new laura marling? Breathy folkie intriguing

Ebony bones not my sort of thing

Kap bambino – like the vocals but beepy bad eltro trashjy dance music

Metronomy 80’s sounding electro

Club dada

Alejandro and Magic Tombolinos energetic gypsey music not quite good enougfh

Brothers Bab – folk ska in a gypsie way

The Destroyers- gypsi folk slightly better than the others darker more epic

Pronghorn – cow punk comedy song called smells like white spirit

Deathray Trebuchay ska with a bit of gypsi sound ok

Friday

Club dada

Katy Carr- mad folkie piano 40’s vibe quite good

The Long Notes-rural instrumental folk not enough going on

Lazy Habits rap with jazz funky poppy

The Delegators –soul band ok

The Dynamics French dub soul ok

Blackberry Wood country rock that funky you can dance madly too slight gypsy vibe masy be worth a look

Warlords Of Pez – comedy punk metal

Avalon

The Mandibles – swing funky fun bit ofcool cover of ghostriders

Baskery – Swedish up beat countrety edvery so slightly insane

3 Daft Monkeys – good orchestual hippie folkie fast paced dash of crusty

The Puppini Sisters 50’s accapella jazz

British Sea Power – epic rolck ok

Queens head

Sub Universe – rap not too great

The slips shitty dance

Maura Kincaid epic pop

The Mojo Fins – epic rock not particularly special

City Stereo shite

Yr Ods great harmonies twee in welsh great sfaish

Dead Like Harry plinky guitar pop bit of a weird 80’ brat pack film vibe

Hope And Social bit too 80’s rock

Team water polo – ok indie not sure amazing

The Virgins- 80’s new wave doesn’t g=jump out ast me

Rumble Strips ok maximo indie not as good

Scrobilous pip – spoken word rap with beeps behind it

The rakes angular new wavw a bhit punky good not great new stuff a bit franz

The Big Pink- abit like weirdo by charlatens pretty good electo dark

Jason Mraz – like a yank Newton Faulkner bit dull nothing too it

The park

Lay Low- Icelandic female fronted country I quite like this nice n’ crisp

Bishi – epic weird goes from classic sounding 50/60s stuff to little sections that wouldn’t be out of place in a lady gaga etc song

James Hunter – Richard Hawley like hard to believe its not 40 yeasrs old not as good though

Emiliana Torrini- beatifull folk did gollum’s song interesting worth checking out if nothing clashes does a few different songs from dark to sunny

Noah and the whale – twee folk band gone a bit more rock less twee still very good

The horrors –hard rocking indie with joy division bass lines ok but nowt special

AnimaL COLLECTIVE – PURE POPFOLK DONE ALMOST ENTIRELY electronically not sure it works to well live

[Tenner Huey]

That's a hell of an ambitious project mate, blimey!

[crashnburn]

That's a hell of an ambitious project mate, blimey!

[airds]

It's impossible to say which genre some bands and artists are - they change over time. How would people classify David Bowie? Glam? Soul? Folk? New Wave? Industrial?

[jsn]

That's a hell of an ambitious project mate, blimey!

[sifi]

I disagree, Bowie is easy to classify....he in the Good Music genre

[RodimusPrime]

Clearly it's not a straight choice between all talk of genres being marketing bollox, and every band being classifiable exactly down to one genre. The truth is somewhere in the middle. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Jay-Z makes hip hop music, but I couldn't tell you what genre Bat For Lashes are part of. (Whatever it is, it's occupied by a: Kate Bush and b: Bat for Lashes).

Bowie is a bit of a cheat as he changed his sound so much, but still some genre classifications are meaningful in his case. Ziggy Stardust, for example, is a glam rock album.

Genre talk can be useful when trying to describe someone's sound, but it won't get you anywhere with communicating how good something is. As far as I can see, every genre there's ever been contains some good and some bad music.

In fact, I'm tempted to say that if thinking in genre terms means you exclude yourself from music you might like, then it's mainly your fault for being narrow-minded.

Anyway, mandb, if you want to save time with your research, can I suggest the /index.php?showtopic=114616">Spotify playlist? That way you can easily listen and decide for yourself.

[FrayBentos]

The moderator of this forum is so far up his own arse

Yes some music is impossible to generalise but some artists/bands can be loosely linked to other artists/bands due to similar musical tones, progressions, rhythm, ethics etc

And yes there are some stupid genres (IDM being one of the worst) made up as marketing strategies but i think the poster was wanting the more general loose genres

If finding a list helps the poster to have a better festival then is nothing wrong with it

Simples

[josephg]

If finding a list helps the poster to have a better festival then is nothing wrong with it

[eFestivals]

The moderator of this forum is so far up his own arse

Yes some music is impossible to generalise but some artists/bands can be loosely linked to other artists/bands due to similar musical tones, progressions, rhythm, ethics etc

And yes there are some stupid genres (IDM being one of the worst) made up as marketing strategies but i think the poster was wanting the more general loose genres

If finding a list helps the poster to have a better festival then is nothing wrong with it

Simples

People are allowed to do what they like with making the best of their festival. That has f**k all to do with whether an genre names he might choose to follow have any real meaning tho.

[airds]

A lot of it is. Some of it is ... less good. Tin Machine for example!

[mandb]

Anyway, mandb, if you want to save time with your research, can I suggest the /index.php?showtopic=114616">Spotify playlist? That way you can easily listen and decide for yourself.

[sifi]

Simples

[pedmills]

Genres aren't helpful when it comes to big acts like David Bowie etc which don't easily fit into genres but in some cases genres are very easy to define and very useful

e.g.

Dubstep

Reggae

Heavy Metal

etc

the music within each of these types of genres will all sound very similar.

Thus for smaller lesser-known acts using words like dubstep will tell you exactly what your getting, because there is very little variation between those kind of acts. In other cases, a full description is necessary.

[Magma]

genres (particularly the 'sub' kind) are for those without interest in music. There are really only two genres of music - good music and bad music.

Edited June 12, 2009 by Magma

[RexKramer]

I will start, heres a list of electronic music genres

right we just need a list of every other genre, and someone to decide which genres each artist belongs to.....

....just looking through the list, WTF is Martial industrial, drumfunk, IDM, 4x4 etc etc, who makes this stuff up ?

[p.pete]

"we play both kinds of music, country and western"