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Music iceberg

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Music iceberg is an iceberg chart topic from r/IcebergCharts. The highest-scoring chart on it, "Bizarre music chart I had saved since 2015", was posted by u/paragondeath on 1 June 2021 and had about 1,397 upvotes when it was collected.[1] The subreddit has 58 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions.

A long-circulating music-genre chart that the poster had saved since 2015. Its levels run from mainstream genres to absurd joke "genres", with a column of faces going from "Normal Pleb" to "Outcast". It ends by looping back to the start. Entries reflect the chart author's choices and are not verified fact.

"Bizarre music chart I had saved since 2015" by u/paragondeath (1 June 2021)

Tiers[edit]

Level 1 (Normal Pleb)[edit]

  • Pop
  • Rock
  • Country
  • R&B
  • Rap
  • Jazz

Level 2 (Outsider)[edit]

  • Alternative
  • Metal
  • Dubstep
  • New School EDM
  • Classic Rock
  • Indie Rock
  • Post-Hardcore

Level 3 (Weird)[edit]

  • Post-Punk
  • Extreme Metal
  • Prog
  • Post-Rock
  • Screamo
  • Folk

Level 4 ("That Guy")[edit]

  • Math Rock
  • Old School EDM
  • Shoegaze
  • Industrial
  • IDM
  • Noise Pop
  • Art Pop
  • Ambient

Level 5 (Outcast)[edit]

  • Noise
  • Experimental
  • Kreatrock
  • Free Jazz

Level 6 ("Disattached from the social dogma")[edit]

  • Harsh Noise
  • Avant-garde
  • Drone
  • Dark Ambient

Level ∞ ("No longer in need of any contact with the material world")[edit]

  • Field recordings
  • Musique concrète
  • Lowercase
  • Wall noise
  • Tibetan throat singing

LEVELLLLLLL[edit]

  • Funeral Noise
  • Ghost drone
  • Minimal Psi
  • Dreamo
  • Tropical Goth
  • Tennis house
  • Dumpstep
  • Slimepunk

Below[edit]

  • Tonal reconstruction experiments
  • Overlapping-spacenoise
  • Cave-voice
  • Internal bio-reverb
  • Smokesound
  • Post-auditory vibrations

The Sound of God[edit]

  • Memory wave samples
  • Every song from a particular artist played at once
  • Colour music
  • Fractal chord mapping
  • Earthquake waveforms
  • Electric wine glasses
  • Post-eldritch horrorcore
  • Semen-operated keyboard (orgasmaclavier)
  • Treated static

Loop[edit]

  • "Oh great now we're back at the fucking start" ("oh well at least it loops")

Other versions[edit]

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

More versions:

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Source[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/paragondeath. Bizarre music chart I had saved since 2015. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 1 June 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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