Well I recently got an Ipod Photo and I want to organise all of my artists into accurate genres. I shall list all the artists I wish to put on my Ipod and the genres they are currently under. Please tell me if you disagree with the genre I have put them under. AC/DC - Rock Adema - Hard Rock Alien Ant Farm - Pop/Soft Rock Alter Bridge – Rock Blink 182 – Punk Rock Creed – Soft Rock Demons & Wizards – Progressive Metal Electric Six – Power Pop Eminem – Rap Evanescence – Alternative Hard Rock Fozzy – Metal Green Day - Punk Rock Grey Daze – Soft Rock Grinspoon - Rock Hoobastank – Rock Iron Maiden - Progressive Metal Killing Heidi – Soft Rock Led Zeppelin - Rock Limp Bizkit - Alternative Hard Rock/Rap Linkin Park – Alternative Hard Rock/Rap Live – Soft Rock Maroon 5 - Soft Rock Mest – Punk Rock Missy Higgins - Pop Muse – Alternative Rock Nickelback – Rock Nirvana – Grunge Pearl Jam – Grunge Powder Finger - Soft Rock R.E.M. - Pop/Soft Rock Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pop/Soft Rock Seether – Hard Rock Stone Sour – Hard Rock Story Of The Year - Grunge System Of A Down - Alternative Metal The Butterfly Effect - Rock The Darkness - Soft Rock The Killers – Alternative Power Pop The Living End - Alternative Rock The Offspring - Punk Rock The Used – Grunge Dire Straits – Rock U2 - Pop/Soft Rock Yellowcard - Punk Rock I want to avoid labeling artists as just 'Rock'. It seems too vague and common for me. Please help me out, I know that most are probably wrong
Classifying bands through genre is a dumb thing to do. What artist wants to be restricted by genre? So I guess I would disagree with all of them, but that's just my opinion I guess. No one can really disagree since it's all about your opinion, really.
Yellowcard-Alternative/Folk Rock Green Day-Pop Punk Story Of The Year-Hard Rock/Screamo(?) Blink 182-Pop Punk The Darkness-Classic Rock? Not entirely sure, but that's just my opinion.
It's based on opinion. Just classify the music as you please. I can see a point to classifying music by genre...if you're in the mood to listen to classic rock you want all the songs available with the push of a button. I, myself, hate subgenres so I usually classify things very generally. Just to show that people classify things very differently.
Ya well I heard they were Post-Emo-Pre-Core-Pop-Rock-Hip. On my iPod, I don't use genres. Just select all your tracks go up to file then get info and erase all of the genres.
Now you're just making up genres. [/b][/quote] I have a correction. The Killlers - Crap Alternative. For those who are sick and tired of mainstream crap.
How I would label them: AC/DC - Hard Rock Adema - Alternative Metal Alien Ant Farm - Alternative Rock Alter Bridge – Alternative Rock Blink 182 – Punk Rock Creed – Alternative Rock Demons & Wizards – Progressive Metal Electric Six – Power Pop Eminem – Rap Evanescence – Alternative Metal Fozzy – Metal Green Day - Punk Rock Grey Daze – Alternative Rock Grinspoon - Rock Hoobastank – Alternative Rock Iron Maiden - Progressive Metal Killing Heidi – Soft Rock Led Zeppelin - Hard Rock Limp Bizkit - Alternative Metal Linkin Park – Alternative Metal Live – Alternative Rock Maroon 5 - Soft Rock Mest – Punk Rock Missy Higgins - Pop Muse – Alternative Rock Nickelback – Alternative Rock Nirvana – Grunge Pearl Jam – Grunge Powder Finger - Soft Rock R.E.M. - Soft Rock Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funk Rock Seether – Alternative Metal Stone Sour – Hard Rock Story Of The Year - Alternative Metal System Of A Down - Alternative Metal The Butterfly Effect - Rock The Darkness - Hard Rock The Killers – Indie Rock The Living End - Alternative Rock The Offspring - Punk Rock The Used – Emo Dire Straits – Hard Rock U2 - Alternative Rock Yellowcard - Punk Rock
Demons & Wizards are more "Power Metal" than progressive, and Iron Maiden is much more 80s Thrash/Classic Metal than prog either. Old Metallica is much more prog than Iron Maiden ever has been, and its still classified as Thrash. Although I have a certain personal liking for classifications, I find that many of my favourite bands are hard to classify. In a sense, "progressive" rock/metal isn't a genre that forces bands to stick to one style or sound...it could be pretty much anything, from Pink Floyd to Opeth to The Mars Volta to Dream Theater. I feel things like Pop/punk and alternative metal force the bands to stick to a certain formula which leaves no room for creativity and growth.
i had always assumed linkin park should be alt-metal/rap..but that's my opinion.. for the bands like blink 182 should be classifyed as pop punk.
I can understand that a lot of you disagree with putting certain artists/bands under genres but this is for my Ipod . I want things to be very organised. I would prefer to have the artists on my ipod under the genre that the majority of people would put it under rather than my own opinion. I shall change the Blink 182, Demons & Wizards, Iron Maiden and probably The Killers. Thank you all very much