POLL: Deciding the genre tournament

[ordinaryperson]

Since we are nearing the end of the 1992 tournament the question of what should we do next has entered my mind. On the semifinals I asked the forum what they wanted to do next. They overwhelmingly chose to do a tournament on genres. For this thread I created a poll featuring genres that are eligible for a tournament or have subgenre eligible. I also want to ask if you want to do a tournament on a subgenre or a main genre? I want to start this early in order for people to prepare for the tournament.

[babydoll]

Well, damn it, I wanted to do disco, but that's not featured here. Such an underrated genre.

And what is descriptor?

[ordinaryperson]

Well, damn it, I wanted to do disco, but that's not featured here. Such an underrated genre.

And what is descriptor?

I intended do subgenres for the tournament and I created this poll in order to narrow it down. Disco is a subgenre under dance, so if dance wins this poll disco is a possibility but it will have compete with other dance subgenres such as EDM and Alternative Dance in a different poll.

Descriptor is genre that contains subgenres that don't fit in any other music category.

[Dexter]

Allmusic considers Disco as contemporary R&B:

http://www.allmusic.com/style/disco-ma0000002552

Actually, many of the above genres overlap with each other so expect confusion.

[StevieFan13]

Just gonna be a lonely theater buff for now...

[Bruno]

Yep, disco is r&b, in my opinion.

[spiritualized]

I don't mind which we go for, the aim being discovery. Definitely should go for sub genres, the scope within a genre is far too wide to get a meaningful result.

[Smithers-Jones]

Are we considering soul and funk music to be under the R&B genre as well?

[Nassim]

I made a shortlist a while ago of sub genres with at least 16 albums in AM I think. I vote rock because I want to tackle post rock, post punk or post hardcore

Edit: here it was
Genres with between 8 and 32 albums ranked (not counting bubbling albums):

Ambient
Electric Blues (subgenre : British blues)
Classical music (subgenre : modern classical)
Progressive country
Alternative dance
Dance pop
Disco
Breakbeat (subgenre : big beat)
Techno
Soundtrack (subgenre : film soundtrack, subsubgenre : film score)
Downtempo (subgenre : triphop)
Microhouse
Electropop
IDM
Indietronica
Progressive electronic
Tape Music (subgenre : sound collage, subsubgenre with exactly the same albums : plunderphonics)
Chamber folk
Folk Pop
Psychedelic folk
Traditional folk (subgenre : american folk music)
European folk music
Abstract hip hop
Boom Bap
Conscious hip hop
Experimental hip hop
Gangsta Rap
Jazz Rap
Political hip hop
Pop rap
Industrial Music (subgenre : industrial (half the albums of the genre, not too sure what the difference is))
Free Jazz
Post-bop
Big Band
Cool Jazz (what is uncool jazz ?)
Jazz Fusion
Modal Jazz
Swing
Ambient Pop
Blue eyed soul
Jazz Pop
Beat Music
Britpop
Piano Rock
Pop soul
Progressive Pop
Sophisti-pop
Traditional Pop (subgenre : Standards)
Alternative R&B
Synth Funk
New Orleans R&B
Rhythm & Blues
Neo Soul (could be paired with alternative R&B imo)
Psychedelic soul
Smooth Soul
Southern Soul (subgenre : deep soul)
African Music
Brazilian Music (subgenre : bossa nova)
Roots Reggae
Hispanic Music (subgenre : latin american music)
Dream pop (not appearing within the Pop genre for some reason)
Grunge
Lo-Fi Indie
Post-punk revival
Slowcore
Noise Pop
Krautrock
Funk rock
Garage rock revival
Glam rock
Gothic Rock
Heartland rock
Jazz-rock
Alternative metal
Heavy metal
Thrash Metal
Mod
New Romantic
Noise Rock
Dance-punk
Post-punk revival
Post-rock
Canterbury Scene
Symphonic Prog
Proto-punk
Acid rock
Pub rock
Art punk
Hardcore punk
Post-hardcore
Punk blues
Rockabilly
Rock Opera
Roots Rock
Southern Rock
Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Ska

[Bruno]

Are we considering soul and funk music to be under the R&B genre as well?

I think so.

[spiritualized]

I think Nassim's list is far more interesting... I wouldn't know where to start with rock alone... far too many sub-genres and voting in the same game Low (slowcore) vs Megadeth (Thrash Metal) would render the idea of "genre voting" useless me thinks.

On that subject, here are the sub sub genres for Thrash Metal : Crossover thrash. Groove metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, metalcore. It says a lot...

[slick]

I agree... Rock is way to vague and would need a secondary vote. But so many great categories.

In a way I am hoping that r&b wins, could be a fun tourney (though I voted for industrial rock). I do think we could have a secondary vote to really narrow things down. Something like this.

Alternative R&B / neo-soul
Synth Funk / funk
Rhythm & Blues
southern soul / northern soul
new-jack swing
Motown

[Nassim]

I agree... Rock is way to vague and would need a secondary vote. But so many great categories.

In a way I am hoping that r&b wins, could be a fun tourney (though I voted for industrial rock). I do think we could have a secondary vote to really narrow things down. Something like this.

Yes, ordinaryperson said he would do a 2nd poll after that one to narrow down the genre.

[Dexter]

Voted Electronic, the one genre my music library lacks. Narrowing down the genre piqued my curiosity: House, Techno, Trance, Downtempo, Electronica, Jungle/Drum n' Bass, Experimental.