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Class 1:  SugaryCheerfulHappyInnocent

ABBA = Petula Clark = The Four Seasons = Gerry & the Pacemakers = The Go-Go's = Cliff Richard = The Rivieras = Neil Sedaka = The Turtles = Wham! = The Angels = Backstreet Boys = The Bangles = The Chiffons = Fabian = Lesley Gore = Take That = Al Hirt = Helen Humes = Jonah Jones = Russ Morgan = The Jackson 5 = The Marvelettes = The Crystals = The Jive Five = The Marcels = New Edition = The Penguins = Mary Wells = Shania Twain = Jeannie C. Riley = Johnny Bond = Roaring Lion
 
Class 10:  RamshackleCynical/ SarcasticAcerbicSardonicMessy

Devo = The Mekons = Randy Newman = The Raincoats = Terry Allen
 
Class 11:  SpookySparse

Son House = Robert Johnson = Charley Patton = Skip James = Blind Willie Johnson = Tommy Johnson = Tommy McClennan
 
Class 12:  VolatileVisceral

The Clash = Jimi Hendrix = Led Zeppelin = The Who = The Animals = Fugazi = PJ Harvey = Mission of Burma = Sinead O'Connor = Iggy Pop = The Pretty Things = Patti Smith = 13th Floor Elevators = X-Ray Spex = X = Bad Religion = The Last Poets = The Music Machine = Operation Ivy = The Saints = Peter Brotzmann = Last Exit = Sonny Sharrock = Boogie Down Productions = Underground Resistance
 
Class 13: NO MOOD DESCRIPTION

The Sir Douglas Quintet = Gary "U.S." Bonds = Illinois Jacquet = Red Nichols = Kid Ory = Cozy Cole = Eddie Condon = Wild Bill Davison = Art Hodes = Meade "Lux" Lewis = Jimmy McPartland = Mezz Mezzrow = Jimmie Noone = Hot Lips Page = Maceo Parker = Eubie Blake = Milt Buckner = Candido = Jo Jones = J.R. Monterose = Slam Stewart = The Meters = Hank Ballard = Cameo = King Curtis = Lloyd Price = Huey "Piano" Smith = Junior Walker = Dave Bartholomew = Con Funk Shun = Smiley Lewis = The Robins = The Wild Tchoupitoulas = Charles Wright = Bob Wills = Asleep at the Wheel = Spade Cooley = The Delmore Brothers = Hank Thompson = Lester Flatt = Ron Levy = Big Joe Turner = Lonnie Brooks = Wynonie Harris = Jimmy Liggins = Joe Liggins = Roy Milton = Jimmy Yancey = Nappy Brown = Eddy Clearwater = Big Jay McNeely = Sammy Price = Abana Ba Nasery = Papa Wemba = David Rudder = Masters at Work = Frankie Knuckles
 
Class 14: NO MOOD DESCRIPTION

Buzzcocks = Elvis Costello = Blondie = The Fall = The Feelies = Meat Loaf = Minutemen = Oasis = Graham Parker = Liz Phair = The Replacements = Weezer = Warren Zevon = Country Joe & the Fish = Serge Gainsbourg = The Only Ones = Laura Lee = Kool Moe Dee = Alison Brown
 
Class 15: NO MOOD DESCRIPTION

Spandau Ballet = Cannonball Adderley = Clifford Brown = Red Garland = Dizzy Gillespie = James P. Johnson = Bix Beiderbecke = Louie Bellson = Stanley Clarke = Sonny Criss = Pete Escovedo = Benny Golson = Bennie Green = Johnny Griffin = Tiny Grimes = Erskine Hawkins = Fletcher Henderson = Woody Herman = Earl Hines = Harold Land = Jimmie Lunceford = Joe Maneri = Shelly Manne = David "Fathead" Newman = Lennie Niehaus = Horace Parlan = Duke Pearson = Buddy Rich = Freddie Roach = Charlie Rouse = Arturo Sandoval = Keely Smith = George Wallington = Weather Report = Ben Webster = Nat Adderley = Benny Bailey = Bob Belden = Chu Berry = Serge Chaloff = Walter Davis, Jr. = Tubby Hayes = Roy Haynes = Pete La Roca = Leo Parker = Red Rodney = Pee Wee Crayton = Roomful of Blues = Floyd Dixon = Joe Louis Walker = Paco de Lucia = Manu Dibango = Miriam Makeba
 
Class 16:  Laid-Back/ MellowRelaxedSoothingCalm/Peaceful

Jackie DeShannon = Barry Manilow = Sarah McLachlan = Chet Baker = Stan Getz = The Modern Jazz Quartet = Mildred Bailey = Paquito d'Rivera = Egberto Gismonti = Susannah McCorkle = Lee Ritenour = Billy Strayhorn = Nancy Wilson = Kai Winding = Blossom Dearie = Al Green = The Impressions = Gladys Knight = The Dramatics = Ben E. King = Aaron Neville = The Orioles = The Spinners = Dionne Warwick = The Manhattans = Desert Rose Band = Bill Anderson = Roy Clark = Gatlin Brothers = Don Gibson = Hank Locklin = Anne Murray = K.T. Oslin = Charley Pride = Jim Reeves = Kenny Rogers = The Statler Brothers = Charles Brown = Lata Mangeshkar = Songhai = Hamza el Din = Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi = Najma = Abdel Gadir Salim = U. Srinivas = Shobha Gurtu = Glen Velez
 
Class 17:  RollickingLazy

Dr. John = The Marshall Tucker Band = Doug Sahm = Lonnie Donegan = Warren Smith = Fats Navarro = Stanley Turrentine = Henry "Red" Allen = Sidney Bechet = Curtis Counce = Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis = Johnny Dodds = Paul Gonsalves = Edmond Hall = Richard "Groove" Holmes = Bunk Johnson = Pete Johnson = King Oliver = George Lewis = Hugh Masekela = Les McCann = Jimmy McGriff = Chico O'Farrill = Big John Patton = Jabbo Smith = Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson = Paul Barbarin = Rusty Bryant = Baby Dodds = T.S. Monk = Flip Phillips = Sam & Dave = LaVern Baker = Don Covay = Ike Turner = Byron Berline = Boxcar Willie = Marty Stuart = Grandpa Jones = Earl Scruggs = Big Walter Horton = Albert King = Freddie King = Mamie Smith = Junior Wells = Billy Boy Arnold = Kokomo Arnold = Big Maybelle = Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown = Albert Collins = Snooks Eaglin = Lowell Fulson = Wilbert Harrison = Earl Hooker = Lightnin' Slim = Lonnie Mack = Big Maceo Merriweather = Piano Red = Professor Longhair = Roosevelt Sykes = Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee = Jimmy Witherspoon = Carey Bell = Anson Funderburgh = Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson = Little Charlie & the Nightcats = Eddie Taylor = Luther Tucker = Robert Ward = Baaba Maal = Vujicsics = The Klezmatics = Mahotella Queens = Youssou N'Dour = Camaron de la Isla
 
Class 18: NO MOOD DESCRIPTION

Duran Duran = The Stone Roses = Wayne Horvitz = Sly & the Family Stone = Missy Elliott = Ebenezer Obey = Babatunde Olatunji = Bally Sagoo = Les Tetes Brulees = The Chemical Brothers = Daft Punk = Cajmere = Coldcut = Carl Cox = Roger Sanchez = Kevin Saunderson = Slam = Farley Jackmaster Funk
 
Class 19: LiterateDramaticSelf-Conscious

      |- Subclass 1: Bob Dylan = Queen = Kate Bush = Electric Light Orchestra = Indigo Girls = Lou Reed = Split Enz = Tori Amos = Garbage = Peter Murphy = The Posies = Spirit = Wilco = Mose Allison = Dave Douglas = Charlie Parker = Don Cherry = Jan Garbarek = Pat Metheny = Larry Willis = World Saxophone Quartet = Von Freeman = Jeff "Tain" Watts = Mos Def = The Fugees = Tony Rice
      |- Subclass 2: Grateful Dead
 
Class 20:  AutumnalWistfulMelancholyPastoral

Jackson Browne = Eagles = Simon & Garfunkel = Leonard Cohen = Cowboy Junkies = Nick Drake = Tim Hardin = George Harrison = Carole King = The Left Banke = The Mamas & the Papas = Cat Stevens = The Sundays = The Zombies = David Crosby = The Jayhawks = Rickie Lee Jones = Suzanne Vega = Jesse Winchester = Billie Holiday = Jeri Southern = Patsy Cline = Reba McEntire
 
Class 21:  RomanticSmoothSoft

Little River Band = Loggins & Messina = Michael McDonald = Boz Scaggs = Olivia Newton-John = UB40 = Dave Brubeck = Nat King Cole = Cal Tjader = Sarah Vaughan = Norman Connors = Paul Desmond = Ramsey Lewis = Jeff Lorber = Joe Sample = Grover Washington, Jr. = Dee Dee Bridgewater = Red Callender = Shirley Horn = Pete Jolly = Roger Kellaway = Earl Klugh = Ronnie Laws = Mundell Lowe = Najee = Bill Perkins = Shorty Rogers = Howard Rumsey = Babyface = Whitney Houston = Lou Rawls = Anita Baker = Jerry Butler = Natalie Cole = The Delfonics = The Dells = Roberta Flack = Teddy Pendergrass = Sade = The Stylistics = Luther Vandross = The Whispers = Toni Braxton = Evelyn "Champagne" King = Billy Paul = Tony Rich = The Skyliners = Carla Thomas = Chuck Willis = Floyd Cramer = Mac Davis = Jimmy Dean = Crystal Gayle = Sonny James = Boots Randolph = B.J. Thomas = Don Williams = Jim Ed Brown = The Forester Sisters = Restless Heart = T.G. Sheppard = Carlos Montoya
 
Class 22:  BoisterousGreasy

Chuck Berry = Creedence Clearwater Revival = Bo Diddley = Faces = Jerry Lee Lewis = Carl Perkins = Dick Dale = The Fabulous Thunderbirds = Free = J. Geils Band = Geils = Humble Pie = The Kingsmen = Paul Revere & the Raiders = Rockpile = Mitch Ryder = Steppenwolf = Gene Vincent = Bachman-Turner Overdrive = The Black Crowes = Fishbone = David Johansen = Stray Cats = Norman Granz = The J.B.'s = The Time = The Maddox Brothers & Rose = The Kentucky Headhunters = Roy Brown = Guitar Slim = Hound Dog Taylor = Big Mama Thornton = Mighty Joe Young = Bo Carter = Brewer Phillips = Hubert Sumlin = Rufus Thomas = Femi Kuti
 
Class 23:  EarnestOrganic

Joe Cocker = Tony Joe White = Johnny Coles = Arthur Alexander = Johnny Ace = Flatt & Scruggs = Alan Jackson = Bill Monroe = Old & In the Way = Dwight Yoakam = Rex Allen = Clint Black = Bill Clifton = Wilma Lee Cooper = Jimmie Driftwood = Freddy Fender = Mickey Gilley = Peter Rowan = The Seldom Scene = Ricky Skaggs = Red Sovine = Travis Tritt = Tanya Tucker = Jerry Jeff Walker = Slim Whitman = T. Graham Brown = Highway 101 = J.E. Mainer = Leon Payne = Jack Scott = Joe Stampley = Floyd Tillman = Jimmy Wakely = Otis Spann = Leroy Carr = Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup = Blind Boy Fuller = Slim Harpo = Earl King = Lazy Lester = Ma Rainey = Buddy Moss = Joseph Spence
 
Class 24:  CircularEerieClinicalTrippyDetachedHypnoticWintryEthereal

The Flying Burrito Brothers = My Bloody Valentine = Gary Numan = Spacemen 3 = Sheila Chandra = Lakshmi Shankar = Aphex Twin = Autechre = Kraftwerk = Massive Attack = David Parsons = Plastikman = Tangerine Dream = Underworld = As One = Juan Atkins = Basic Channel = Joey Beltram = The Black Dog = Wendy Carlos = Cluster = Depth Charge = DJ Hype = DJ Krush = Tod Dockstader = Drexciya = 808 State = The Future Sound of London = Global Communication = Tony Humphries = LFO = Lil' Louis = Derrick May = Model 500 = U-Ziq = Neu! = Nightmares on Wax = Pan Sonic = Photek = The Sabres of Paradise = Klaus Schulze = Seefeel = Luke Slater = Vangelis = Josh Wink = Dynamix II
 
Class 25:  SearchingSprawlingWryWittyElaborateStatelyUpliftingThoughtful

Donald Fagen = Gentle Giant = Chick Corea = Gil Evans = Herbie Hancock = Freddie Hubbard = Bobby Hutcherson = Thelonious Monk = Art Pepper = Bud Powell = Wayne Shorter = Kenny Barron = Carla Bley = Bob Brookmeyer = Kenny Dorham = Bill Frisell = Jimmy Giuffre = Barry Harris = Joe Henderson = Steve Lacy = Branford Marsalis = Cecil McBee = Hank Mobley = Lee Morgan = Don Patterson = Ike Quebec = Joshua Redman = Max Roach = John Scofield = Bud Shank = Woody Shaw = Art Taylor = Toots Thielemans = McCoy Tyner = Mal Waldron = Randy Weston = Buster Williams = Phil Woods = Geri Allen = Richard Davis = Kenny Drew = Don Ellis = Sonny Fortune = Chico Freeman = Jimmy Heath = Sam Jones = Mulgrew Miller = Ken Nordine = Ernie Watts = Kenny Werner = Frank Wess
 
Class 26:  NocturnalRestrained

Cocteau Twins = Stereolab = Jim O'Rourke = Miles Davis = Mark Isham = Lalo Schifrin = Mahmoud Ahmed = Ofra Haza = Ramnad Krishnan = Ravi Shankar = Hariprasad Chaurasia = Krishna Bhatt = Pandit V.G. Jog = LTJ Bukem = Paul Oakenfold = The Orb = Orbital = Sasha + John Digweed = Roni Size = Carl Craig = Deep Dish = 4hero = Larry Heard = Jean Michel Jarre = Kruder & Dorfmeister = Leftfield = Jeff Mills = Plaid = Pole = Tomita = Pete Tong = Paul van Dyk
 
Class 27:  Tense/AnxiousManic

The Doors = Adam Ant = Butthole Surfers = Alice Cooper = The Damned = Faith No More = Jane's Addiction = Pixies = Primal Scream = The Specials = Violent Femmes = Pylon = Busta Rhymes = The KLF
 
Class 28: NO MOOD DESCRIPTION

The Hollies = Billy Joel = Jim Croce = Sheryl Crow = The La's = Mott the Hoople = Leon Russell = Del Shannon = Superchunk = Teenage Fanclub = Roy Acuff = Tom T. Hall = Dolly Parton = Moe Bandy = Carlene Carter = Johnny Horton = Ferlin Husky = Stonewall Jackson = The Mavericks = The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band = Riders in the Sky = Mel Tillis = Shenandoah = Ali Farka Toure
 
Class 29:  LightSweetSpringlike

The Bee Gees = The Everly Brothers = Phil Spector = Chicago = Phil Collins = Bobby Darin = Neil Diamond = Peter Frampton = The Grass Roots = Tommy James & the Shondells = Saint Etienne = The Seekers = Bobby Vee = Ella Fitzgerald = Glenn Miller = Jan Garber = Will Bradley = Smokey Robinson = Diana Ross = The Supremes = The Cadillacs = Mariah Carey = Little Anthony & the Imperials = Maze = Lionel Richie = The Shirelles = Dee Clark = Guy = The Judds = Donna Fargo = Barbara Mandrell = Kathy Mattea = The Oak Ridge Boys = Tracy Byrd = Danny Davis = Tommy Ridgley = I.K. Dairo
 
Class 2: RecklessOutrageousSleazySnideTrashy

      |- Subclass 1: Johnny Thunders = Ahmed Adawia
      |- Subclass 2: The Count Five = Motley Crue = Mudhoney = The Offspring = White Zombie
 
Class 3:  BittersweetYearning

The Band = Gram Parsons = Buffalo Springfield = Laura Nyro = John Prine = 10,000 Maniacs = Uncle Tupelo = Paul Weller = Tracy Chapman = Jules Shear = P.F. Sloan = Chris Smither = Stephen Stills = Bobby Bare = Rosanne Cash = Jimmie Dale Gilmore = Kris Kristofferson = Mickey Newbury = Ralph Stanley = Mari Boine Persen
 
Class 30:  Angst-RiddenBleakUnsettling

Black Sabbath = Gang of Four = Ministry = Nine Inch Nails = Public Image Ltd. = Sugar = Suicide = Blue Cheer = Einsturzende Neubauten = Front Line Assembly = Front 242 = KMFDM = Kyuss = L7 = Nitzer Ebb = Queensryche = Throbbing Gristle = Cypress Hill = Mobb Deep = Wu-Tang Clan = Tricky
 
Class 31:  RebelliousAggressiveCrunchyConfrontationalHungry

Husker Du = The Jam = Anthrax = Hole = Iron Maiden = MC5 = Motorhead = Ozzy Osbourne = The Birthday Party = Diamond Head = Pantera = ? & the Mysterians = Henry Rollins = The Sonics = Eric B. & Rakim = Ice-T = Jay-Z = LL Cool J = Slick Rick = 2Pac = EPMD = Snoop Dogg = The Prodigy
 
Class 32:  TheatricalPrecious

The Beatles = ABC = Bjork = Marshall Crenshaw = Crowded House = Eurythmics = Kirsty MacColl = Men at Work = Steve Miller = Harry Nilsson = Pet Shop Boys = Pulp = Roxy Music = Supertramp = XTC = Belle & Sebastian = The dB's = Bryan Ferry = The Shangri-Las = Duke Ellington = Dave Frishberg = Ben Sidran = David Grisman
 
Class 33:  Amiable/ Good-Natured

Buddy Holly = Elton John = Rod Stewart = Badfinger = Eric Clapton = Culture Club = Hall & Oates = Bruce Hornsby = Jefferson Starship = Dave Matthews = Paul McCartney = Rick Nelson = The Pretenders = REO Speedwagon = Johnny Rivers = Matthew Sweet = Three Dog Night = The Amazing Rhythm Aces = Blues Traveler = Bronski Beat = Sandie Shaw = Soft Cell = The Drifters = Marvin Gaye = Janet Jackson = Clarence Carter = R. Kelly = Frankie Lymon = Terence Trent D'Arby = The Kentucky Colonels = Buck Owens = Roy Rogers = Hank Snow = Brooks & Dunn = Dixie Chicks = Wynonna Judd = K.D. Lang = Brenda Lee = Patty Loveless = Tracy Lawrence = Johnny Lee = Patsy Montana = Buddy Johnson = Memphis Jug Band = John Jackson
 
Class 34:  GiddyFreakishSillyCampy

The B-52's = Camper Van Beethoven = Gary Glitter = Joe Meek = They Might Be Giants = Ween = Beat Happening = The Bonzo Dog Band = The Rutles = Sparks = Angelo Moore = Bashful Brother Oswald = Homer & Jethro = Sheb Wooley = Dallas Frazier = Yello = Yellow Magic Orchestra
 
Class 35:  IntenseFiery

Midnight Oil = Charles Mingus = Sam Rivers = Ken Vandermark = Air = Albert Ayler = Andrew Cyrille = DKV Trio = Ronald Shannon Jackson = Oliver Lake = Jimmy Lyons = Joe McPhee = Evan Parker = Dewey Redman = James Blood Ulmer = Tony Williams = Rashied Ali = Marion Brown = Creative Construction Company = Ellery Eskelin = Julius Hemphill = Peter Kowald = Frank Lowe = Sunny Murray = Roswell Rudd = Malachi Thompson = Gianluigi Trovesi
 
Class 36:  GutsyStreet-Smart

Jeff Beck = Stevie Ray Vaughan = The Blasters = Jason & the Scorchers = Sonny Simmons = Ed Blackwell = John Gilmore = Scott Henderson = Famoudou Don Moye = Courtney Pine = James Brown = Wilson Pickett = Bobby "Blue" Bland = Howlin' Wolf = Elmore James = Little Walter = Sonny Boy Williamson [II] = Paul Butterfield = James Cotton = Memphis Minnie = Robert Nighthawk = Victoria Spivey = William Clarke = John Hammond, Jr. = Junior Kimbrough = Homesick James Williamson = Cheikha Remitti = Chaba Fadela
 
Class 37:  ExcitingRambunctious

Little Richard = The Ramones = Cheap Trick = The Pogues = The Slits = The Standells = Van Halen = ZZ Top = The Celibate Rifles = The Mighty Mighty Bosstones = Ted Nugent = Poison = Jon Spencer Blues Explosion = Swell Maps = Han Bennink = Lil' Kim = Run-D.M.C. = Whodini = Johnny "Guitar" Watson
 
Class 38:  EarthyReverentGritty

John Mayall = John Mellencamp = Freddie Redd = Vassar Clements = The Bluegrass Album Band = Pete Anderson = Moon Mullican = Blind Blake = Buddy Guy = Magic Sam = Jimmy Reed = Otis Rush = Muddy Waters = Sonny Boy Williamson [I] = Luther Allison = Juke Boy Bonner = Johnny Copeland = Champion Jack Dupree = J.B. Hutto = Blind Lemon Jefferson = Furry Lewis = Magic Slim = Brownie McGhee = Memphis Slim = Little Brother Montgomery = Charlie Musselwhite = Johnny Shines = George Harmonica Smith = Koko Taylor = Henry Thomas = Walter Vinson = Tuts Washington = Barbecue Bob = Jimmy Dawkins = Sleepy John Estes =