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Old 08-15-2007, 03:02 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by boo boo View Post
Categories and genres are important. When you have a solid classification system, you can get a clear understanding of what kind of music you like and what kind of bands to look for. But nowadays its gotten a little out of hand, with a bunch of kids thinking that it's necessary to come up with a new genre for every band in existence. Hence the 12 billion metal sub-genres there are now.
I'm pretty much in agreement with you here. A certain number of genres and key sub-genres are important, but they've definitely gone overboard with it the last several years.
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