Bash this recording idea

[jcaverso]

I have one way which i think the "bash this recording" part of the forum could be improved.
The problem I have - I have downloaded several heavy metal or thrash or hardcore songs which i feel innclined NOT to comment on becuase i do not listen to these genres. I consider my musical taste to be very open and wide however i know that virtually no one actually passionately listens to ALL styles of music. It is a waste of time to dowload songs and delete them after listening to the first 5 seconds. not a HUGE waste of time but still...
Therefore i think it would be handy for there to be a dropdown menu with 20 - 30 choices of musical genres available when posting a song on the "bash this recording" forum. Then if the chosen genre would appear on the first post or even the thread, it would be easy to skip certain genres that you dislike or are not familiar with.

Just an idea that would make it much easier for me, I don't think im the only one either.

[sergio]

Good idea.

[Vulconizer]

This suggestion makes sense to me on one hand. Just putting a head's-up in the title might work well as a time saver for some folks.

The one problem I can see with it is that I rarely know what genre to classify my own music into. I call it all rock, but some of it may range from Southern Blues Rock to Grunge to Metal to Folk Rock, all in the same song. I might have one that sounds like The Cars wrote something with Jimi Hendrix while they were all drinking tequila and snorting coke. How do you classify that? heh

My views into what is called " Folk " can range from current pop/rock singer/songwriter type of stuff to Dylan to a little Bluegrass.

What is called " Metal " today is different to me than what I grew up on. Sabbath/ Ozzy, Deep Purple, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Accept, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, and all the bands associated with them at the various times are what I considered metal. Nowadays, I consider the heaviest of the heavy to be metal, but some people call Limp Bizkit metal and I have to laugh. Anything that has a limp to it just means it's ass was kicked by real metal.

How do you classify Pop? Punk? Aren't they the same today in a lot of cases?
Hanna Montana Pop it may not be, but the same general classification can be used.

Some Punk sounds to me like just plain old rock music. Some of what is called Punk today lacks anything even close to what I understood the roots of Punk to be. No revolution. No anarchy. No disdain for the Establishment. Hell, no real clue to what the Establishment even is or was.

Country? Is there really even such a thing today? Johnny Cash wouldn't be given a chance in this day and age. Hank Williams would be given less, I think. Shania Twain is hawt and all, but I listen and hear a pop singer, nothing even close to Country.

Of course, I am betting I'll get a few negative comments regarding my little oration here, but my point is that classification of music is a pretty subjective thing. I'd say it's almost as subjective as " What is good music? "

I have nothing against labeling songs as was suggested in order to maybe make it easier for some folks. But, I think that if some of the songs I have listened to on here happened to be labeled with some sort of classification beforehand, I may have skipped something pretty cool.

[jcaverso]

I agree with everything youve said Vulconizer. However, I just think that one genre tag on a song that someone posts will be better than none, becuase it will narrow it down heaps. It would just be so people could skip over something they probably would not like. For example, I would be listening to the folk, country, pop etc and be skipping the metal, rap, emo. There would be at least 50 raucous seven minute, double kick, cheezy guitar harmony metal songs for every led zeppelin type "metal" song that i would skip over, so even though i could miss SOME gems, it would make things much easier.

So: Genre tags are becoming inccreasingly ridiculous and unhelpful these days, but nonetheless narrowing it down would help people like me who want to save time when trolling through the bash this recording forum.

[Vulconizer]

Cool, jcaverso. I think you have a good idea. Just wanted to mark any potential downside to it ( and rant about my view of genres, I guess, lol. ).

[MetalDave]

I personnaly will bash anything. It doesn't have to be any certain Genre. I am pretty sure I can hear every part of the song be it Rap all the way to classical music. I guess if I wanted everyone to hear my song I could just post it under every Genre! There we go downloading songs then deleting them where did we get with that Idea? You can't kick me out for that! I wasn't sure where to post it so I posted it under everything I thought it would fit under.

[jcaverso]

well if you posted it under every genre id skip it.

[Vulconizer]

MetalDave gets the Vulconizer Beer Of The Day Award for cracking me up.

I personnaly will bash anything.

I'm picturing frying pans, soup cans, old cars, movie stars, brick walls, overalls, and a dented-to-hell aluminum bat.

Yep, I'm just that demented.

[akg414]

I think that part of being an engineer, mixer, etc is the ability to do all varieties. Granted, nobody specializes in all genres, but to listen to a metal song (if you're not a metal fan) and offer an opinion or scrutinize a mix (levels, balance, EQ) should be a fundamental thing that is "cross-genre"

Just my $0.02

[akg414]

Originally Posted by MetalDave

I personnaly will bash anything.

Ha!!! "Metal Dave"

I have a good friend that I nick-named Metal-Dave years ago. I guess there are a slew of Metal Dave's on the planet.

Kewl!