What annoys you in OMI?

For example I am annoyed by metal-heads (no offence :D) which have omi like 130, just because they listen to death metal, brutal death metal, black metal, blackened death metal, brutal black metal, blackened heavy metal, gothic metal, blackened gothic metal, trash metal, heavy metal, power metal and speed metal. :D:D

Or because of that people which have high OMI are also some guys which just listen to all shit they can find - like Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy, DJ Tiesto etc. etc.

So...

What annoys you, huh?

Well, I am annoyed kinda at myself, because the majority of what I listen to is black metal, but I am also a big fan of classical, and classic rock, along with some of my guilty pleasures like Tool, and Deftones. Unfortunately I am so much more into the foremost genre of music, that it doesn't really show me to be open minded at all. The only two genres I listen to none of are country, and rap/hip-hop/r&b, whatever you want to call it.

@tankianfan: I agree with you completely...even in black metal there are major differences between stuff like depressive, and folk/black and sub-genres like that...symphonic and avant-garde (like Dornenreich, and Solefald) definitely fit both in the black, and avant-garde genres at the same time...Hell, even Behemoth now compared to the Grom days are as night is to day (but I like them both (: )

Something i dont like about tagging in general is that if the music is not in english, then you end up with a silly clasification like "russian"... i listen to a lot of music not in english, specially russian cause im learning that language, but also in italian, greek, hindi, etc... and , accordinh to omi, 11% of what i listen to, is tagged "russian".. no matter if its pop, rock, black metal, electronic or folk.. being "russian" is the main classification, so my OMI is not as high as it should be...

Uhh... it DOES have an ignored tags system. :\

Anyway. The people with really high OMIs just because they listen to forty two different types of metal really piss me off too. Listening to one subgenre does not qualify you as open minded in the LEAST.
And all of the annoying tags that should be combined; Drum'n'bass and D&B are the same thing!

May be that proves that 'fan' comes from fanatic. ;-)

There are many fanatics out there, in any kind of genre.

I listen to metal from melodic to death to black to speed to thrash,
progressive, even some grindcore.

On the other hand I hear E.B.M., minimal electro, blues, swing
and good old 70s and 80s rock with heartblood.

After the last 5 years on black metal festivals it's real getting
strange with the subgenres, even in the other genres of metal.

Everybody wants to be different, there once ought to be something
like a scene, but that's getting equally scattered as the gothic scene.

Yeah, what do I know. The counter culture is dead. :-P

Nah, but who really cares. ;-)

Every genre of music has "vast differences between sub-genres" even pop and hip-hop.

The Axis of Perdition

Dimmu Borgir

Blut Aus Nord

Summoning

Nokturnal Mortum
for example this is just within the metal subgenre known as Black Metal... each of these amongst metal fans is part of a sub-sub genre for easier recommendation and classification... I'd say the main metal subgenres (Black, Death, Power, Thrash, Progressive, Doom, Classic) are large enough and distinct enough that they should be counted as separate genres entirely(it was pointed out in another post that the Metal part of the genre name is part of a naming tradition carried over from rock and punk).
examples from other genres


Orphaned Land

Necrophagist

Symphony X

Sunn 0)))

Opeth

Virgin Black

Jesu

Halford

@ Tumpseli: Nice idea, but how close are female vocalists to german?

mine neither.
but I think the number of artists is restricted by last.fm, isn't it?

perhaps that would be a reasonable solution... but looking at your tags you have Pop, Female Vocalists, Pop Punk, British, Singer-Songwriter tags... British could be eliminated and the rest could arguably be put under the same genre if Metal were to be. Going back to my example up above... Pop R&B etc should all be placed under the same Vocal umbrella if you do that with Metal genres... so all of the former havehave different vocal stylings... Black Metal and Power Metal are worlds apart vocally as well as musically as well but you're advocating tying them together... The same exact argument could be made by Metal fans that most other listeners OMI is artificially high when they're listening to different flavors of top 40 music that is primarily dance oriented

well if they're listening to very similar bands they would... do you think my OMI is too high for the proportion of Metal i listen to compared to everything else? it breaks down to roughly about 80% metal, 20% other genres with some stuff like classical, dark ambient and industrial being listened to more than some metal subgenres. As I said some would argue that Pop, R&B etc all sound mostly the same as do the electronic genres... Metal just gets attacked because its less popular and is more vocal about things like classifications. So to clarify i'd agree with anyone who wanted to put all of the metal subgenres together as one Tag for OMI, however you can't just single metal out for that to work... the same would have to be done for house trance ebm gabber techno etc... as well as other stuff like vocal based pop genres, the various hip hop genres...

ahh yeah sorry, I should've made that clearer by separating those things... I meant that I didn't think Female Vocalists and British are genres that should count because they're of about as much use as if someone did a Norwegian or Norwegian Black Metal tag