Genres hierarchy problems

[Niccolo_Terzi (Niccolò Terzi)]

I know that it’s impossible any agreement about genres (that’s why the hierarchy should be customizable…).
anyway, here i make a couple of observations:

1. “Alternative/Indie Rock” and “Alternative Pop/Rock” have exactly the same description:
   

   
   
   
   
   
   so, here it seems that rock subgenres are quite reduntant. As there are also a “Indie Rock” and “Indie Pop” subgenres, i would delete the “Alternative/Indie Rock”.

2. there are three genres for film music: Soundtracks
   

   
   
   Film music (a subgenre of soundtracks)
   
   
   
   Film score (a subgenre of Classical!!!)
   
   
   
   and Original Score
   
   

so… i think this is overdimensioned!. in any case, i would avoid an independent “Film score” under Classical, it makes no sense. One album can be tagged both as “Classical” album AND a as “Soundtrack” or whatever.

3. Avant-Garde is both a top level genre:
   

   
   
   and a Classical subgenre:
   
   
   
   this does not make much sense.

4. if i can understand the big parent genre “Rock/Pop”, i don’t understand “Psychedelic/Garage”:
   

   
   
   reading the description, it makes no sense. I would leave “Psychedelic Rock”, while “Garage Rock” already exists.

5. Goth rock is reported as a subgenre of Alternative/Indie". which is not the case.
   

   
   
   i would put it under the umbrella of Punk/New Wave.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_rock

6. Euro-Pop
   

   
   
   i can read and sort of understand the description. but then… the artists reported as europop are… all non-english, local, pop artists of europe. which is not really the case.

7. as an aside, i wouldn’t say that patty smith is a punk artist: