If you could classify music into ten or fewer genres... Options

[thedodgymonkey]

I am trying to classify all my music into quite broad genres. If you could only have ten or less categories for your music what would they be?
Okay, I don't have any completely bazaar music like a Panda playing The Bamboo Flute or my own rendition of Mozart's 5th using bottles and spoons!!!

This post has been edited by thedodgymonkey: Jun 4 2009, 00:03

[db1989]

That list includes nursery rhymes, occasion-related songs, and a hymn. Rather than to barge in with an unsolicited survey, alanofoz might instead have attempted to be more constructive by asking what you would do with songs of this broad class, which I would label ‘traditional’ or something similar. But, as it is, we have very little to work with.

Back on topic, I suppose my ten genres would be something like this:
• rock
• soundtrack—possibly including (and, in that case, comprising mostly) games, although I might be tempted to reclaim one of the lower-priority slots with Game
• electronic (not including games, e.g. Mega Drive)
• classical
• pop (with much deliberation over artists such as The Beatles, as derty2 already mentioned!)
—and now five that wouldn’t get much use—
• jazz
• hip-hop (note: gangsta rap can take a running jump right off a cliff)
• R&B (assuming this can refer to worthwhile stuff, rather than the truckloads of crap that fills the chart nowadays), possibly incorporating soul (is that permissible?)
• folk, possibly incorporating country (if I ever had any of the latter!)
• and finally, the magical solver-of-all-problems: other