Music Genres

[aimeeandbeatles]

Cleaning up my music collection (fixing tags, adding cover art, etc). Noticed "Rock" was an incredibly broad genre. Thought it'd be a good idea to define it further. It's confusing, though. An album I thought of as hard rock was actually listed as "alternative metal" on Discogs. I still have no idea what some genres are even after checking WIkipedia. Album rock I thought was a radio format.

Is there a better way to figure this stuff out, or should I just leave it?

 

[Cutlass]

Rock genres are, at best, really blurry designations. If you get fairly close, I think you're doing well enough. No matter what you do, someone will disagree with most of it. So don't worry about it too much.

 

[Serutan]

Cleaning up my music collection (fixing tags, adding cover art, etc). Noticed "Rock" was an incredibly broad genre. Thought it'd be a good idea to define it further. It's confusing, though. An album I thought of as hard rock was actually listed as "alternative metal" on Discogs. I still have no idea what some genres are even after checking WIkipedia. Album rock I thought was a radio format.

Is there a better way to figure this stuff out, or should I just leave it?

You're probably better off defining the subclasses in a way you like - as Cutlass implied it's arbitrary anyway.