Yeah, I don't really understand genre very well. In the context where I was growing up, genre was kind of *mentioned*, but the main categorisation system for music was *decade*. But there's lots of stuff that doesn't fit into a decade paradigm, and not just exceptions-that-prove-the-rule stuff like "this song made in the 10's is trying to sound circa-1980 (and it's working)": there were lots of groups doing lots of things in the 80's, and they don't necessarily have the sound that my culture associates with the time period (or with any other time period).
I use the "genre" metadata on my music files to rank them by how much I like them, including categories for songs I only listen to at particular times and songs I haven't formed an opinion on yet.
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Am I correct in parsing this as Poets of the Fall?
(I came across "Dreaming Wide Awake" in a Red vs Blue fanmix a few years ago and loved it, but the couple of other songs I poked at on Youtube didn't grab me, so I shrugged and put it in the one-hit-wonder mental category. I may have had bad luck with which songs to poke at, though.)
((My musical tastes tend to operate at the level of *bands* more than songs: a song has to be pretty good to break through my assumption/prior that songs from unfamiliar bands are meh, but once I hear two or three such songs from the same band my brain puts them in the Good Band category and thereafter feels more positively disposed towards their work, liking songs that I would have thought were meh if they were by somebody else. I feel kind of bad about the double standard, but intellectually I suppose there's not anything *actually* wrong with being capricious about one's music preferences, and anyway I'm not sure how to do otherwise.))
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Date: 5/10/19 17:08 (UTC)Yeah, I don't really understand genre very well. In the context where I was growing up, genre was kind of *mentioned*, but the main categorisation system for music was *decade*. But there's lots of stuff that doesn't fit into a decade paradigm, and not just exceptions-that-prove-the-rule stuff like "this song made in the 10's is trying to sound circa-1980 (and it's working)": there were lots of groups doing lots of things in the 80's, and they don't necessarily have the sound that my culture associates with the time period (or with any other time period).
(Meanwhile, in the Caribbean...)
I use the "genre" metadata on my music files to rank them by how much I like them, including categories for songs I only listen to at particular times and songs I haven't formed an opinion on yet.
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>>POTF<<
Am I correct in parsing this as Poets of the Fall?
(I came across "Dreaming Wide Awake" in a Red vs Blue fanmix a few years ago and loved it, but the couple of other songs I poked at on Youtube didn't grab me, so I shrugged and put it in the one-hit-wonder mental category. I may have had bad luck with which songs to poke at, though.)
((My musical tastes tend to operate at the level of *bands* more than songs: a song has to be pretty good to break through my assumption/prior that songs from unfamiliar bands are meh, but once I hear two or three such songs from the same band my brain puts them in the Good Band category and thereafter feels more positively disposed towards their work, liking songs that I would have thought were meh if they were by somebody else. I feel kind of bad about the double standard, but intellectually I suppose there's not anything *actually* wrong with being capricious about one's music preferences, and anyway I'm not sure how to do otherwise.))