I agree for the most part; some of the genre voters are ****ing ridiculous. For about a month, Demon Days had NO primary tag whatsoever, as they had voted off both Art Pop and Trip Hop.

Dude, Nea is straight up crossover, yo.

I don't think that genre names are "legit" or not anyway, and I don't really care what exactly anyone calls anything. For me, it's purely about one thing: being able to find more of the music that I like the most. I hear something and I love it, so I think, "I want more music with some of these features," and then whatever genre name(s) people are using for that music enables me to find more stuff like it. rym, discogs, Wikipedia and allmusic are the best overall discography sources online, and rym, though far from perfect, is the most useful for searching by genres (with some exceptions, such as those I noted in the earlier post), although it's a bit less useful for that ever since they disabled being able to see a list of every release tagged as a particular genre.

I haven't read all the pages yet but I want to ask you and duga and everyone else that does it.

Why not?

Why not just pick two genres and say those are your faves but you listen to so much more and very intricate genres?

Saying you like everything even though it's accurate just kills the conversation unless you just don't want to have a music conversation/discussion then that's fine.

I have this weird thing where if I don't answer something "completely," I feel uncomfortable--I feel like I'm being dishonest, that I'm giving misleading information that's going to make future behavior and comments from me inconsistent and untrustworthy, etc.

I know that doesn't make a heck of a lot of rational sense, because typically what happens is that the more that you say, and the more nuanced that it is, the more it gets misunderstood. People deal better with simple, black & white answers. But it still makes me uncomfortable, because I want to make everything I'm thinking bare and I feel like I'm being dishonest when I don't.

Of course, in various social situations I'll give shorter, more black & white, inaccurate answers, but it makes me uncomfortable and I usually do that when I don't really want to get into a conversation or have any sort of significant relationship with the person--so that I'm uncomfortable interacting with that person anyway.

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Later edit: See, and even the answer above I kind of feel like going back and adding to, making it way more nuanced, because it's not quite right, there are a bunch of exceptions, conditions that change things, etc. . . . but sometimes it's just to tiring to go through all of that, too. And who the hell is going to want to read it. So sometimes it's easier just to say "everything."

Okay, understood.

I just normally say two genres and feed off of that. If the person wants to continue the music conversation I will end up mentioning more genres. I say two to start and just make a side note that I listen to a shit ton of genres but those are the main ones.

See people? It's not that hard, just do what this guy does. Give a little disclaimer, then just mention some genres you frequently listen to.

I think post punk is a pretty well known term.

They do know what rock and punk are, so you list those. You don't have to list sub genres, you can list the broad ones too and just say you're into specific types later.

Maybe people could just realize that some people listen to/like everything (at least in terms of artists from every genre).