I was thinking eight to ten recommendations for "must-haves" and then you can have an opportunity to divide it into MAJOR subgenres, with about three to five recommendations for each, all at personal discrepancy. Compilations are at your choice, too.

The key is to try NOT to overload the thread with recommendations or information, otherwise first-time users will shy away from utilizing these threads. That, and I don't want these to become carbon copies of the education threads.

Soul, maybe? You always seemed pretty knowledgable there and you can thread some of your experience with Van Morrison into it.

Sure. Classic Rock is another I could help with the majority of my albums fall under that heading and I feel like a have a grasp on the sub genres of that category more so then any other.

Awesome. Only a few genres left, but they're the ones that are gonna be most difficult to fill.

I don't think we're ever going to find anyone to do Classical or Country/Folk because of the lack of interest. But I was hoping someone could take Electronica, what with all the interest in Krautrock across the board. I would take Jazz, but I don't listen to anything before 1940 or later than 1980.

Ethans the man for folk, isn't he?

well you don't need to do hardcore or emo (can say "see hardcore/emo thread" or something)

i can handle grindcore as well unless whoevers doing rock/metal wants to do grindcore under metal

I have 12 years of classical training, so I suppose I could do classical, but if I do classical and cohort with proggyman with rap, I need to not do pop. Is that ok?

I can handle the American Folk aspect of Country & Folk while Ethan knows a decent lot of British stuff and he'd probably love to do pop.

It's your choice.

Some other tool's gonna have to take over pop then, which should be interesting/very difficult.

I'm doing metal but Grindcore can go to you. If you don't mention the precusrors though there is trouble. ;)

that's the thing, i'm not so good with the early stuff

I don't particularly like your attitude. Do pop and classical yourself if your going to be an ass about it.

Um...okay. I think you misunderstood me, but I'll take your name off if that's what you'd like.

I know it's a small category, and I'm not sure where it would fit, but I could write a good introductory thread for film scores and soundtracks. I could cover everything from early silent film scores, musicals/show tunes, modern day soundtracks, and even videogame music. All the categories here are actual categories in the music forums, so I guess if I did one it could go in the Soundtrack sub-section of the Media section in the forums. If anyone else thinks it would be worth it for me to do one, I'd be glad to.

I can do jazz and help out with prog/classical if need be. But I'm very very busy at the moment... and even when I do get onto forum stuff, I've got another forum project plus my King Crimson thread.

Classical wouldn't be that difficult to do lucifer_sam,,,it has made a remarkable comeback in recent years due to the downloading phenomenon, people that only wanted certain sections of their favorite pieces can now just take them instead of a complete work. And the CD versions are so much better than the albums simply because of the recording quality, no more pops, clicks etc. to interfere with the quiet passages. I still have some priceless vinyl copies, but have replaced my whole library with CD versions now.

The sheer scale of the classical period is daunting at first, but you could simply start with Bach as the giant of the Baroque period, then move into the prime time interval with the giants of the field, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky etc. and finish with Shostakovich/Stravinsky/Rachmaninoff. Then UberFilmBuff could add the modern composers whose music was predominantly used in films and that brings us right up to date. Just a thought, this introduction thread is a very good idea.:thumb:

Of course having Seltzer involved in this would add the gravitas necessary to get more people to actually check it out.

I'll be flat out busy from monday so i'll not be getting involved but if anyone wants any pointers or some gaps filled feel free to PM me.
I think most people have some idea of where my knowledge is.

Will do.

I'd like it if someone could possibly help with hardcore punk, unless it would be fine if I just included the big ones:

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Black Flag - Damaged
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Minor Threat - First Two 7"s on a 12"
Circle Jerks - Group Sex

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Ok, I have a basic knowledge of modern composers beyond the film scores (Steve Reich, most of Philip Glass's work, etc.)

You forgot the English ones numbnuts ;)

G.B.H-CITY BABY ATTACKED BY RATS
DISCHARGE-SEE NOTHING, HEAR NOTHING, SAY NOTHING
BROKEN BONES-BONECRUSHER
CONFLICT-THE UNGOVERNABLE FORCE

Which of these is the most important, in your opinion?

And which album should I remove to make room for it? I'm thinking Circle Jerks.

If you'd like to lend your voice, just say the word. ;)

Don't forget Suicidal Tendencies' debut album. Probably the best-selling hardcore punk album to date.

What is the timetable involved Lucifer,,,when would we have to have our part completed? I'm only asking because I'm really busy with work and before I commit to your intro threads I want to be sure I could get everything done. Oh and I'm not sure if Seltzer or Kevorkian Logic both declined to do classical or not, let me know, I don't want to step on anybodies toes.;)

Hello UberFilmBuff, sounds like a good idea to me, I know the older composers very well, but the new guys other than John Williams etc., are a mystery to me, any help with them would be appreciated.:)

^ You're also the type who doesn't read threads before they post in them.

Eek, Whoever is doing the Indie/Alternative one, I could throw in some things if it's needed.

All of them ;) Go for Discharge. I prefer G.B.H but Discharge is more relavent. I would remove Circle Jerks.

Kevorkian Logic requested I remove her name. You can collaborate with Seltzer if you'd like - that would be awesome, as classical is a VERY large genre with many different movements. I'm sure there's plenty of work. ;)

Lucy, I think someone else should do the funk portion of my second intro. I have a few things put together for Classic Rock, but what should my final template look like?

I haven't gotten to making the template yet. It will be on full display August 21.

And that's completely fine, I'll just amend that right now.

JayJamJah Wants any help with the Soul and Funk Introductory thread, I noticed he was just doing soul. And not that I'm the most knowledgable about any genre really if I was going to stab at any genre there It would be funk.

The do it please, the more the merrier and I for sure need help. I think Urban could give some help with Funk too.

He's quite possibly a better candidate, Have we got a template to work with for these things?

By the weekend Lucifer Sam will get us the template. I'd say do some webbing or brain storming now, of albums, artists and tid-bits of info.

So I'm still open to help with Hip Hop/Rap if anyone's interested.

Thanks for the help Lucifer and Jackhammer. :)

But you hardly know anything.

Alright, the moment some of you've been waiting for...
 

This will be the official template for any introductory thread. We need them as clean and orderly as possible to attract visitors. Please note that the thread title should be "The [Genre] Introductory Thread". You can quote my post and fill in where necessary to make it easier. Please understand that if you are covering more than one MAJOR genre (i.e. Rock & Metal), you can make an introductory thread for each, but leave the sub-genres within the thread. Everything within brackets should be deleted or deleted and substituted using the instructions shown.

The deadline for submission is October 1, 2008 (giving you a month and some change to create, edit, and change the thread as desired).

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The [Genre] Introductory Thread

[Brief introduction: this is a small section where you can introduce the genre and explained how it came into being, but you should be concise and succinct. One to two paragraphs should be sufficient to introduce a genre and explain what the music sounds like. We don't want to saturate the introductory threads with words so that newbies don't shy away from using them.]

The Must-Haves: [Here follows a list of eight to ten albums which you feel best represent the genre as a whole.]
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[Sub-Genre] [An opportunity to provide some notable sub-genres (but please, don't take it further than a sub-genre; we don't want to hear about blackened forest pixie metal). Use common sense! Three to five albums should suffice.]
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Good work man! Do we have anyone for rock yet, because i could probably help out there.