Your collection's diversity...?

Classical music: all styles and periods starting with renaissance (2000 CDs).
Soundtracks
Jazz
New Age
Pop and rock, all decades from fifties onwards
Mandarin pop
Chansons

Acid Jazz (JTQ, Corduroy)
Ambient (Eno, Sylvian/Czukay)
Asian Underground (TJ Rehmi, Recycler)
Bhangra (Panjabi MC, Bombay Talkie)
Blues (Robert Johnson)
Bollywood (AR Rahman, RD Burman)
Breakbeat (Propellerheads, Crystal Method)
Classical (Stravinsky, Satie, Debussy)
Drum n Bass (Goldie, Dieselboy)
Electronica (Orbital, The Herbaliser)
Exotica (Martin Denny, Esquivel)
Funk (The Meters, Funkadelic)
Fusion (Return to Forever, Frank Gambale)
Hip Hop (Jean Grae, A Tribe Called Quest)
IDM (Squarepusher, To Rococo Rot)
Jazz (EST, Oddjob)
Lounge (Jean-Jacques Perrey, Nouvelle Vague)
Mashups (various one-shot mixes of two or more songs)
Musical (Stephen Sondheim, Danny Elfman)
Pop (Prefab Sprout, XTC)
Post Prog (Pure Reason Revolution, The Mars Volta)
Post Punk (Theatre of Hate, The Cure)
Post Rock (GY!BE, Mogwai)
Prog Metal (Sun Caged, Dream Theater)
Progressive Rock (Yes, etc.)
Punk (Black Flag, Flipper)
R n' B (Prince)
Reggae (Augustus Pablo, Lee "Scratch" Perry)
Rock (Alice in Chains, Led Zeppelin)
Ska (Desmond Dekker, The Skatalites)
Soul (Al Green, Isaac Hayes)
Soundtracks (Lalo Schifrin, Jerry Goldsmith)
Trip Hop (Portishead, Massive Attack)
Vocal (Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey)

Not including: Comedy, Humor, Spoken Word, Standup and Sound Effects.


Edited by Teaflax - June 21 2006 at 06:03

I think that the principle of this thread is quite unfair for people with small collections. I mean, if one only has 100 albums he can have a very broad taste and still not have nearly as many albums as 10 from all the genres he likes.

Classical, avant-garde, jazz, jazz fusion, classic rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, folk, hard rock, nwobhm, traditional metal, speed metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, progressive metal(biggest folder on my PC, I'm afraid), doom metal, folk metal, grindcore, metalcore, punk rock, indie rock, experimental, noise, industrial, hip hop, reggae, alternative country, alternative rock, techno, intelligent dance music, progressive electronic, krautrock, space rock, zeuhl, post-punk, post rock, post hardcore, post thrash, new wave, adult contemporary, shoegaze, drone, stoner rock, stoner metal, atmospheric metal, symphonic prog, Italian symphonic prog, ethnic prog, prog folk, power metal, viking metal, gothic metal, gothic rock, RIO, canterbury, dark ambient.

not a lot of diversity here

Flamenco (Paco De Lucia, Paco Pena, Juan Martin, Pepe Romero, Sabicas)

Edited by erik neuteboom - July 08 2006 at 04:45

    I may not have ten albums in each, but there is enough for adequate representation.

Jazz
Jazz Fusion
Vocal - (Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, etc.)
Hard Rock - (Zeppelin, Deep Puple, AC/DC, etc.)
Classic Rock - (Stones, CCR, etc.)
Folk Rock - (Neil Young, Donovan)
Psychedelic
Avant/Prog Related? - (Eno, Bowie, Roxy Music, Gabriel, etc.)
Post Punk/New Wave/Alternative (whatever you want to call it)
Ska
Punk
Goth - (Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy)
Classical - (many forms)
Opera
Big Band
Funk
The Beatles - (can't lump them in with others)
Prog

    

Edited by bhikkhu - July 08 2006 at 11:40

Hmm, besides all forms of progressive rock:

Edited by Arsillus - July 08 2006 at 15:13

What flamenco?

At the last count exactly 50% was prog. Most albums out of Symphonic prog, Space rock,Folk prog, Italian symph (growing fast lately),Krautrock, Canterbury, Progmetal , Art rock and Progrelated.

I haven't looked too closely at the rest of the collection lately, I guess it divides somewhat like this

Classic rock (Creedence and Kinks making up the bulk of the albums here)
Hard rock (Led Zeppelin)
Folk rock (Fairport Convention, Steeley span)
Mainstream trash (when i checked i saw some albums OMG.....)