07-27-2014, 04:37 PM | #1 | ||
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Your Music/Movie Categories
My fever began with DVD Aficionado. I was logging in DVDs and I remember how stupid it was to see Blade as "Superhero" Certainly the character is a Marvel Comics character, but the film;s genre was vampire/horror/action or something other than superhero. It was a lot more like other vampire flicks than XMen, Spider Man or Captain America.
So I changed it in my list. You had the ability to properly place its genre. And I have held that passion through today. It's really important in my iTunes music. Lots of music is either in the wrong category, or just in a generic one. So I'll move Hooverphonic to Trip-hop. But come on - Depeche Mode is not rock! Oldies is not a genre, it's an era. The songs within that era are Doo-Wop, or Soul, or Southern Rock, or Psychedelic, not merely "old." Etc. Does anyone else have this morbid obsession of getting the right genre for your music or movies?
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07-27-2014, 06:30 PM | #2 |
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Not to that extent, no. And I'm pretty anal about my music.
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07-28-2014, 01:22 PM | #3 |
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I am long past putting that kind of energy into anything non-mandatory, but in the past I would have gotten great satisfaction out of fixing stuff like that. However, genre in particular isn't something I think about much.
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07-28-2014, 03:51 PM | #4 |
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No, but I laugh at Netflix' categorization of movies all the time...
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07-28-2014, 04:17 PM | #5 |
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I used to do stuff like this waaaaay back in the day.
Now, on Saturday I was in bed doing absolutely nothing with my wife out of town. I wanted to watch all of Rounders after stumbling on it on HBO about a half hour in just a few days prior. So first I looked for it on HBO On Demand. Not there. I fired up the Netflix app on my Blu Ray player. Not there. Finally, I opened Amazon Instant Video to see if it was available there. It was...but not free with Prime. I could have had it for $2.99. I did all of this to avoid the worst possible situation, when I would finally get up and walk into the other room where I had a nice copy of Rounders on DVD. |
07-28-2014, 07:21 PM | #6 | |
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You should have emailed me. Its one of my DVDs that I actually got around to ripping to my server. I was anal about my music until I got Spotify. I used to scour Allmusic and use their genres, moods and styles to sort my music. |
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07-29-2014, 12:12 AM | #7 |
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Sometimes I have trouble deciding whether a movie should be labeled by Actress, Superheroin or BDSM. White people problems.
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07-29-2014, 12:27 AM | #8 |
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I want to know what movies you're watching.
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07-29-2014, 02:38 AM | #9 |
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Wundergirl Vs Cat Lady is a masterpiece for the ages.
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07-29-2014, 06:27 AM | #10 |
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+1. If I listened to iTunes based on genre, I probably would be anal about it. I've seen some real wacky genres for music in iTunes.
If I went down the rabbit hole, I'd get sucked in because many artists are not pigeonholed to one genre for a career or sometimes even an album. I might classify U2 as alternative though just in case Bono ever sees my iTunes list and I want to piss him off. |
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