Pop music genres - help?

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I have my record collection on a spreadsheet. Just for fun, I added genre tags to each album. I had some decisions to make, such as what to make of Hendrix, whose music is equal parts blues, hard rock, and psychedelic rock... I went with "psychedelic rock" as the least bad option. For the Rolling Stones, I went with "blues rock", although they're really the closest thing to unhyphenated rock.

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My CD collection is just sorted alphabetically by artist name, and chronologically within the same artist. No heed of genre; I do not even distinguish between "classical" and "popular" when I sort my CDs. (This even though I have some fondness of genre classifications - but I know that the boundaries are blurry to the point that genres are unhelpful in sorting music.)
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WeepingElf wrote:My CD collection is just sorted alphabetically by artist name, and chronologically within the same artist.
Oh, this is how I do it too. I said I added tags to the spreadsheet; I haven't changed the physical layout. I'm considering trying to make a database instead of a spreadsheet, incidentally, but I'd have to learn how to make a database.
WeepingElf wrote:No heed of genre; I do not even distinguish between "classical" and "popular" when I sort my CDs.
I do keep "classical" CDs separate, though; mostly because they're sorted by composer, while popular music is sorted by performer. I also keep "soundtracks" separate, because they're sorted by title.

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