1111 Essential Recordings of Music

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2	Make hyperlinks to each category from the chart, both on this sheet and in the current entries sheet Feel free to leave comments in the cells of this sheet or the Current Entries sheet for suggestions!
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4	GENERAL	Recheck that all popular recordings follow requirements Recheck that all traditional recordings are on Spotify Check statistics of folk/classical/popular along the various "big categories", categories and subcategories (ideally 1-2 popular releases each 5 releases) Check the primaries and secondaries of every selected recording (make a spreadsheet column about it?) Add at least one Mongolian popular music recording Add five South Asian popular music recording Add at least one East Slavic / Baltic popular music recording Add at least one Uralic popular music recording Add at least one Celtic popular music recording Add at least one Italian popular music recording Add at least one Nordic popular music recording			PREHISTORIC, ANCIENT
5	WESTERN CLASSICAL	In the years that have followed, Le Marteau sans maître has become Pierre Boulez's most famous and influential work (not integral serialism though)			SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN
6	JAZZ	Jazz Fusion: The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! is a good candidate			GREATER MIDDLE EASTERN
7	R&B				SOUTH ASIAN	Carnatic Classical: reconsider/diversify picks It's missing Popular Music
8	HIP HOP				CENTRAL ASIAN
9	ROCK	war metal instead of symphonic/melodic black? Add mathcore? Slowcore (and therefore also post-rock?) should be next to dream pop? Add Arcade Fire (chamber pop vs ork-pop)? replace skate punk with melodic hardcore?			EAST ASIAN
10	ELECTRONIC DANCE				SOUTHEAST ASIAN, OCEANIAN
11	EXPERIMENTAL, OTHER	Reductionism could be split into western classical and free improvisation to save five spots Easy Listening might belong under jazz, classical or north american depending on the genre Animal Sounds: should feature Insects, Fish, Frogs, Repitiles, Mammals and Birds Sound and Effects: something more popular?			INDIGENOUS AMERICAN
12					EUROPEAN	European Romani category is pretty tempting (would it include Flamenco?) Good label for Spanish recordings: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pguMisrneBY9qhNPS4FQ8/discography/album Catalan Folk and Basque Folk are tempting, also useful in case Flamenco gets taken out of Spanish Bolero Español is missing
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14					NORTH AMERICAN	Take Indie Folk out of it and under rock?
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18		Prehistoric	1
19		Ancient	10
20		Sub-Saharan African	60
21		Greater Middle East	50
22		South Asian	25	30
23		Central Asian	20
24		East Asian	45
25		Southeast Asian, Oceanian	50
26		Indigenous American	10
27		European	80
28		Latin American	90	85
29		North American	50
30		Caribbean	20
31		Western Classical	135	140
32		Jazz	75	40
33		R&B	50
34		Hip Hop	30	40
35		Rock	120	130
36		Electronic Dance	115	130
37		Experimental, Other	75	70
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39		genres with multiple waves: post-hardcore detroit techno power pop blue-eyed soul post-rock? indie pop neo-psychedelia hypnagogic pop metalcore pop rap? post-grunge nu-disco metalcore is questionable but deathcore definitely could (and possibly should) be split up"" industrial rock -> first wave (killing joke, foetus, swans) vs electro-industrial/ebm branch (nin, ministry, KMFDM) europop tech house Bitpop, synthpop, electropop, maybe teen pop. And hard trance too.
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