• timb
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Topic: For music nerds

Here is a cool website with a breakdown of music genres. You can click through a genre to see artists in that category.

I looked for Joe in blues rock, but found him in modern blues. http://everynoise.com/engenremap-modernblues.html

Hint: you can use control-f/command-f for "find" to search for words.

Here is their description:

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.

Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

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Re: For music nerds

Pretty cool timb.
I see a lot of artists I am a fan of in that group with Joe

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Re: For music nerds

Yeah, I thought it was cool. Of course I know lots of the names on the page with Joe, but a lot more I don't. So there will be new finds for me.

Tim

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Re: For music nerds

Interesting for sure. I had no idea there were so many different shades of basic styles. Who made up those names? What is the difference between them? Who knew Outlaw Country was closely related to Progressive Folk, or that such music existed.  I see probably 40 or 50 shades of Rock. Holy Moley!
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Re: For music nerds

I found Joe listed under Electric Blues

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Re: For music nerds

Kind of a neat site to poke through, but honestly I find this over-categorization of music a little silly.  A lot of artists cross genres and sub-genres in the course of an album, sometimes even a single song.  I suppose people have an innate need to put things in boxes.  If you're trying to market a band it's nice to find a unique catch phrase to make them stand out.  Other than that I don't think this information is particularly useful, but I suppose if people have fun with it then more power to 'em.

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Re: For music nerds

ZeyerGTR wrote:

Kind of a neat site to poke through, but honestly I find this over-categorization of music a little silly.

Oh, it is definitely silly. These categories are defined by spotify, and here is an interesting article that talks about them having over 1300 genres:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter … 36971.html

Online music enables data analysis, and I think it is that which drives finer categorization. Spotify themselves answers the question of where those categories come from at the end of this post: https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/09 … nre-names/

One of my favorite sites for data analysis is http://www.flowingdata.com, and you can view their music posts here https://flowingdata.com/tag/music/, like this analysis of chord progressions: https://flowingdata.com/2012/06/20/anal … lar-songs/ where we learn that of the music analyzed, 93% of the time an Em chord is followed by Am or F. smile (for songs in western music in key of C)

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