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BozoTyrannus

Gender: Male

Age: 32

Perhaps it's obvious from my profile pic, but classical music makes up about 50% of my collection. You don't see it reflected too much in the chart as classical isn't really an "albums" kind of music.

Runners-up are ambient (like Yoshio Ojima or Federico Durand), jazz (like Charlie Parker), Soca (like Bunji Garlin), anything with a dose of psychedelia (Flaming Lips), or a juxtaposition of dark and light moods (like dark cabaret - Amanda Palmer and/or Dresden Dolls for instance)
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RoundTheBend

I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

baystateoftheart wrote:

Broadly speaking, my three favorites are hip-hop, indie pop/rock, and r&b.

Here are the top 25 genres represented in my library according to RYM:

1. Singer/Songwriter
2. Indie Pop
3. East Coast Hip Hop
4. Indie Rock
5T. Southern Hip Hop
5T. Art Pop
7. Pop Rock
8. Soul
9. Conscious Hip Hop
10. Dream Pop
11. Electropop
12. Synthpop
13. Contemporary R&B
14. Trap
15. Boom Bap
16. Twee Pop
17. Post-Punk
18T. Pop Rap
18T. West Coast Hip Hop
18T. Psychedelic Pop
18T. Contemporary Folk
22T. Hardcore Hip Hop
22T. Alternative Rock
22T. Alternative R&B
25. Bubblegum Bass

That's cool!

Did you tag that all out or how did you make that list? (PM if weird to reply).

I guess this might be lesson for me on the "Know Thyself" concept.

I have no bleeping clue.

Like seriously.

I want to say good music is what excites me, not the genre/descriptor. I attempted to write up descriptors on my overall chart to see if there were correlations I could make.

I guess if I want to be boring, I could say rock music... which doesn't even mean anything really to me other than a giant umbrella and kinda might as well say rock music. And that actually aggravates me because I find 80% of rock music pretty terrible actually.

I guess I don't like genre descriptors/saying I like a certain genre because I feel like every genre has fantastic and shit music. It's almost like asking which Red is your favorite Red. Idk - Red? Like I could probably go look up all the different Red descriptors and narrow it down to the 20 different reds I like the most. But even those shades can change/not be an accurate representation in print vs digital media vs nature. Ok, I'll just stop my insane ramblings now.

For some reason time periods are more important to me.

Like 1955 to 1959, 1965 to like 1972, or 1985 to like 1994.

I'm learning like 1938 to 1945 is a key period too, for me at least.

Well that's for popular music at least.

Speaking of popular music, I suppose one thing that I could latch on to... kinda... is mainstream music. That's not a genre. But I find that my favorite aesthetic is pop-music that is revolting upon itself using pop music as the wolf in sheeps clothing if you will... haha.

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baystateoftheart

Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29

Location: Massachusetts

RoundTheBend wrote:

baystateoftheart wrote:

Broadly speaking, my three favorites are hip-hop, indie pop/rock, and r&b.

Here are the top 25 genres represented in my library according to RYM:

1. Singer/Songwriter
2. Indie Pop
3. East Coast Hip Hop
4. Indie Rock
5T. Southern Hip Hop
5T. Art Pop
7. Pop Rock
8. Soul
9. Conscious Hip Hop
10. Dream Pop
11. Electropop
12. Synthpop
13. Contemporary R&B
14. Trap
15. Boom Bap
16. Twee Pop
17. Post-Punk
18T. Pop Rap
18T. West Coast Hip Hop
18T. Psychedelic Pop
18T. Contemporary Folk
22T. Hardcore Hip Hop
22T. Alternative Rock
22T. Alternative R&B
25. Bubblegum Bass

That's cool!

Did you tag that all out or how did you make that list? (PM if weird to reply).

The "User Stats" linked on every profile. Yours would be here: https://rateyourmusic.com/stats/usersta...ethmadsen.
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RoundTheBend

I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

oh got it - thanks!

I haven't done much in the ownership (was expecting it to go off rating too) realm and so maybe now I'm motivated to do that whereas before it was more a discogs thing and thought it silly to maintain both (insert another person smarter than me who shows me those have reports/tags I didn't notice before... hehe).

mickilennial

The Most Trusted Name in News

Gender: Female

Age: 35

Location: Detroit

the good kind

RoundTheBend

I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

Gowi wrote:

the good kind

You said it better.

mickilennial

The Most Trusted Name in News

Gender: Female

Age: 35

Location: Detroit

RoundTheBend wrote:

You said it better.

i am in fact the best so this should come to no surprise

Spyglass

Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male

Location: The red dot on the map

Gowi wrote:

RoundTheBend wrote:

You said it better.

i am in fact the best so this should come to no surprise

I have so many things I could say right now, but instead I'm just going to decide on the best Dwight Schrute picture to post.
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