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just for kicks, here are all the tags I have in my music library:

alt-country
ambient
anti-folk

big beat
black metal
bossa nova
britpop
brit-rap

chamber pop
chipbreak
classic rock
classical
comedy
cybergrind

dance-punk
darkwave
death metal
deathcore
deathgrind
downtempo
dream pop
drone

electro
electroclash
electronic
elephant six collective
experimental

folk
folkpop
folk-punk
funeral doom
funk

goregrind
grindcore

hardcore
hip-hop
house

idm
indie (will eventually be sorted into indiepop or indie rock; have not listened to yet)
indie rock
indiepop
indietronic
industrial

jazz

lo-fi

melocore
metal
metalcore
moshcore

new wave
new weird america
nintendocore
no wave
noise
noisecore
noiserock
nu metal

oldies
other (haven't listened to yet; await tagging)

pop
pop punk
post-hardcore
post-metal
post-punk
post-rock
powerpop
prog-hardcore
prog-rock
psychedelic
psychobilly
punk

rap
reggae
riot grrrl
rock

screamo
shoegaze
showtunes
ska-punk
slowcore
sludge
soundtrack
southern hardcore
swing

tech grind
tech metal
tough guy
trance
tribute
trip-hop
twee pop
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subgenres are awesome

I've heard The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza described as "groove tech grindcore" and Dance Club Massacre described as "synth dance deathgrind."

Regardless of how accurate those genres are I found them funny.

Seems like a bit of a wank to me. What's the point?

i draw the line at two words. besides, 'groove', 'tech', 'synth', and 'dance' are being used as adjectives rather than hardline genres in those cases.
the point is that when I want to listen to Electro I don't want something like Ratatat coming up: they're not Electro. this would be impossible if I just tagged anything and everything that uses synths as 'Electronica', a genre which doesn't even exist. when I want to listen to tough guy I don't want to hear As I Lay Dying come on, but this would be impossible if I tagged it all as metalcore.

the truth is, subgenres are not things people pull out of their asses to sound pretentious. There is a distinct difference between brutal death metal and melodic death metal, between hardcore and punk, between electroclash and electro.

Thank you.

I agree that subgenres are important, but I only split my music up into these categories:

Punk
Hardcore
Emo
Ska
Metal
Indie

If I want to listen to something more specific than that I'll just choose a band.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. Now that is a good band name.

and a surprisingly good live band

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Aimed at me?

Aimed at basically everyone here who butchers their punctuation.