Music Banter's Essential Collections Discussion

I would'nt want to go down the Jazz sub genre route. There simply isn't enough fans on here to warrant it. Electronica SHOULD be split up but again, are there enough fans on to create a top 10 Drum and Bass list for example?
 
I was thinking that if metal was split into subgenres then if theres a two week deadline for submitting reviews they could be a similar period to register interest for each subgenre but with a limit that has to be reached in terms of merabers willing to contribute toward it for it to be included.

You do make a good point though, that could result in one hell of a lot of threaRAB for metal alone. I dont know, the more I think of it I would prefer it my way but by decade might be best.
 
I disagree on that, I don't think once you let people post their lists and then realize that it would be better to divide the genre, it will be easy. You can't just split the lists, so you have to let everyone post new lists again.

Isn't it possible to do the thinking before it starts? I mean, thats what this topic here is about, everyone should say which categories are good and which they believe aren't neccessary, and when a group of maybe 15 people on here have done that, we know which categories to keep and which to drop.

Your idea could be more accurate, as we see what happens and then decide what to do, but I would prefer this idea, as the proccess of submitting albums in the topics will probably be more fluent.

Plus, I asked Jackhammer to set a Minimum of 5 recorRAB, but would now ask to set the minimum lower again - because with the point system that you posted, the people that would only post 1 album aren't a problem anymore (as I thought they were...). theirs just doesn't count as much. If you want your top album to have some more points you just have to name more.

And that would also solve your problem, toretorden, if you only know 3 great world music albums, that's ok. if anyone else knows 7, his just have more weight.

And, with which genre would you merge world music with anyway?
 
ps: the only problem I also see is that some (including me) won't even know, which subgenre some record fits into..

I don't know, someone else decide what to do!
 
But then you have to decide what falls into an extreme metal category. I may do what was stated earlier and follow the genre classifications in the education threaRAB, even if we only get top 5's in some instances.
 
First off, I really like this idea but I don't really understand that whole point system you were talking about. Why are there points?

As for genres, I wish more people listened to classical music on rab so I would be happy to help in classical. But rather than albums I think just a type of work by a composer could be used as an album and then maybe a recommened recording. (Example: Beethoven's Sonatas, recommended recording: Claudio Arrau). Then, within the list of 10, there could be like 2 per period (baroque, romantic, etc...). Something along the lines of this I think would work well.
 
I don't think metal should be divided by time. I think it should simply be "extreme" and "traditional." Extreme metal meaning grindcore, black metal, death metal, thrash metal, and death/funeral/drone doom and any other ridiculous metal subgnres that are extreme that i missed. Traditional metal would just consist of the classic metal banRAB i.e Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, and then the traditional doom metal banRAB like Trouble. Dividing metal by time would cause the 80s to have Maiden competing with Death which really just doesn't sound right.
 
Tried to do this earlier myself, people volunteered, but when it came to actually writing something nobody gave two shits about it.

Best of luck to you jackhammer.
 
Haha yes I know, I'm well aware but also a bit biased because I somewhat recently discovered electronica but don't like normal techno like, for example, tiesto... But I really like this idea and think it should be done. Hopefully there will be enough participation this time around (I wasn't here last time) to actually get some essential collections. Let's do it!
 
Why is hip-hop divided into pre-1995 and post-1995? Is there some significance to that year that I'm unaware of? It seems like it would be easier to just do hip-hop by decade like some of the other genres.

Don't mind me, I'm jumping into this conversation pretty late.
 
I think a blues section would be lovely! But as has been said before, alot of these genres are made up of many sub genres. I'm not sure all what you would have blues encompass...
 
Too much arguing about the inevitable dreaded Metal genres so it died. Myself and Bulldog are working on a complete Reggae and Dub thread.
 
so, what now?

:brings the defibrillator:

-Heavy Metal 70's
-Heavy Metal 80's
-Heavy Metal 90's
-Heavy Metal 00's

-Garage / Proto-Punk

-Pre 1990 Punk
-Post 1990 Punk

-Alternative 80's
-Alternative 90's
-Alternative 00's

-Post Punk
-New Wave (?)

-Shoe Gaze

-Brit Pop

-Progressive Rock / Art Rock

-Psychedelic / Krautrock

-Rock n Roll / Rockabilly

-Hard Rock

-Classic Rock

-Modern Rock / Nu Metal / Rap Rock

-Noise Rock

-Grunge / Post-Grunge

-Blues

-Funk

-Soul / Rhythm'n'Blues

-Pop (including contemporary R'n'B) Pre1995
-Pop (including contemporary R'n'B, Neo Soul) Post1995

-Classical (Composers instead of Albums)

-Jazz

-Electronica pre2000
-Electronica post2000

-Hip Hop pre1995
-Hip Hop post1995

-Reggae

-Ska

-Folk / Folk Rock

-World Music (?)

what do you think?
 
I assume metal would be a part of it, but does that mean we have one for every subgenre of metal? Or at least every subgenre anyone gives a toss about? It would have to be done that way but thats gonna be ALOT of categories!
 
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