Music ... Tuesday?

[extrapenguin]

The vidding discord has linked me a similar song finder and poking around the site has been a nice time-waster. The interesting bit for this post is that all the artists and songs are tagged with the Spotify genres for them. Most of them are completely explicable (dance pop, symphonic power metal), but some of them are more ... exotic.

Like Fallen Angel or Slayer (which are the exact same picture) or Pixie or Hel. WTF? Why those names? ("Hel" seems to be essentially just "female metal vocalists' solo careers".) I have no Spotify, so this is my first time encountering these labels. I guess I'll spend a few weeks absent-mindedly clicking on the artist names and seeing if I can discover anything cool. (I already did with Phoenix by Enemy Inside, even if I did discover it by clicking on an "example audio of genre" button that didn't so much as bring up the band's name so I had to google the lyrics to figure out who the fuck was singing...)

So! Do any of your favorite artists/songs have a weird and wacky genre name associated with them? What's the oddest such you found?

Comments

[fiachairecht]

...Oh I am gonna spend too much time here I already know it.

(Cries a little in 'their bandcamp integration looks kinda nonexistent' tho)

[extrapenguin]

Yeah it's very much A Spotify Scraper with zero integration with anything else. V useful for those of us who don't have Spotify, but yes, the need to search manually on Bandcamp.

[fiachairecht]

I wish they'd at least do Spotify playlist links that didn't require you to log in so I could dump them in MerchTable but T__T

It did introduce me to Strap On Halo so I think I've come out ahead overall at least!

[nnozomi]

okay, now I'm curious about whether the similar song finder thing can handle classical music, Brazilian bossa nova and related genres, jazz, and c-pop, my current range of listening. Will have to try it out sometime soon...

[extrapenguin]

A quick skim of the genres on the All Genres page definitely had Jazz and Classical as top-level headings (à la Metal or Pop). C-Pop and Bossa Nova seem to be subgenres of Something, based on the search. If the music is on Spotify the thing should be able to handle it.