Whats a good site to look up the exact genre

[Docpepper]

I'm trying to get my music collection in shape an dI need to be able to find out what genre a certain song is so I can determine how many genre folders I'll have in my directory.

[METALMAN]

www.last.fm

The tags are quite handy.

[Cactus Drags]

allmusic.com?

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

IMDB.c--OH SHIT I SCREWED IT UP

[Docpepper]

allmusic was the site I was trying to remember. Thanks for that

[Scott McFly]

Haha, awesome.

[New Damage]

www.last.fm

The tags are quite handy.

Seen Live? Album I Own? Emo? Paris Hilton is Brutal Death Metal?

I s'pose in a way, genre is of what people make it to be.

[apsham]

I usually check wikipedia, choose one genre that represents the band as a whole, and use that.

Genre isn't all that big of a thing to be miffed about when SO MANY PEOPLE CANNOT TAG THEIR MP3S RIGHT.

So many wasted nights, just to have my MP3 player not look like shit.

[Benji]

allmusic was the site I was trying to remember. Thanks for that

Wait... what just happened here?

[New Damage]

I usually check wikipedia, choose one genre that represents the band as a whole, and use that.

Genre isn't all that big of a thing to be miffed about when SO MANY PEOPLE CANNOT TAG THEIR MP3S RIGHT.

So many wasted nights, just to have my MP3 player not look like shit.

Ahhhh, a fellow overtly anal tag whore. Nice to meet you.

[METALMAN]

I'm not too bothered about genres. As long as song names, artists, albums and track listings are sorted I'm happy.

[Future-Shock]

I dunno if this will help but www.metal-observer.com us great for metal music, at least if you want specific genre like Power Metal, Thrash Metal, Porngrind, Neo Classical Metal, etc. Useless for anything else.

Also, Last.fm is TERRIBLE for genre tags, they are so inaccurate.

[alldaws1]

www.last.fm

The tags are quite handy.

Seen Live? Album I Own? Emo? Paris Hilton is Brutal Death Metal?

I s'pose in a way, genre is of what people make it to be.

What's wrong with 'Emo' as a genre?

Also, Last.fm is TERRIBLE for genre tags, they are so inaccurate.

Because it's the users who make the tags. You're going to get a wide range of tags and a bunch of innacurate ones when thousands of people are tagging the same artist. If you're looking there for an accurate genre then you're a bit silly in the first place. I usually just go with what allmusic.com says, they seem to be pretty accurate.

[Cactus Drags]

Pfft, you just tag all yours as contemporary metal/post-grunge and be done with it.

[Clawson]

I remember when I got Angel and Airwaves first album it was tagged as "Tom DeLonge is a whiny cunt". I shoulda kept it.

[METALMAN]

On my iTunes I have such gems as:

Bop

Doo-Wop Punk

Funk Metal

General

Indietronic

Nerdcore Hip-Hop

noodled, mathy electro

slow jam

swirly

unclassifiable

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

That's got nothing on...

Art Rock

Bowie

Classical (...except that it's used on the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, and Supertramp)

default

General Rock

genre

misc

New Age (Duran Duran?)

Richard Watson

Tango

Techno (...again, the Beach Boys)

WWE

17

My favourite is Richard Watson.

[METALMAN]

Is Richard Watson anybody in particular? Just a guy that likes naming genres after himself?

EDIT: Oh wait, no, he was Bishop of Llandaff.

Edited April 13, 2008 by metalman

[GoGo Yubari]

I have a song from Charles Manson's new record on my MP3 player. Its genre is "Unclassifiable." I laughed at that one for some reason.

Other good ones:

- Rocknrollnrollnroll (Built to Spill)

- INTERNATIONAL(POPS) ("Eyes on Me" by Faye Wong)

- General Unclassifiable (They Might Be Giants)

- HERO ("All of This" by Shaimus)

Edited April 13, 2008 by GoGo Yubari

[Benji]

Since when did he have a new album coming out? >_<