Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to)

Cipheron on 6/2/2023 at 08:40

Quote Posted by Gray

Where's the next interesting thing in music?

I listen to a lot of new stuff, but I'll tell you, none of it comes out of America. Pretty much every pre-existing "genre" sucks now because they got it all pigeonholed. No good new punk bands, very few good (American) metal bands. It's all rehash stuff.

The good and interesting metal bands are European and Japanese. I'd say similar for other genres.

(https://open.spotify.com/track/64RAcmxa7bY2qG0dHXhTOh)

(https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZyO5l7Lg7fAX9s0VOA4jf)

(https://open.spotify.com/track/5gW0U6PfSZxs3ZqcQvIf6L)

(https://open.spotify.com/track/7dbR922LJxUW3tXNw29VsS)

Sulphur on 6/2/2023 at 09:07

I was going to say that was mostly true with exceptions, and was gonna namedrop Zeal & Ardor, but they're Swiss, lol. Anyway, they're a good blend of blues and death/black metal, with a frontman who looks like he could be Eric Andre's brother, and their tracks have strong melodic cores -- if you can tolerate the unabashed satanism, anyway. Ghost's last album was pretty fun too! Really leaning into that ABBA + corny satanist metal band aspect.

No I'm not into satan I swear he just gets people to make good music sometimes

Tocky on 7/2/2023 at 20:27

Pretty much anything that gets a Grammy is utter crap. Also who in hell likes Beyonce and Taylor Swift and could you just stop please? It's embarrassing. I've discovered many new things from America that I like but I've posted them all here already.

Except for my new inter-species favorite-

[video=youtube_share;Fy29jBqckCo]https://youtu.be/Fy29jBqckCo[/video]

demagogue on 7/2/2023 at 23:20

I tend to find searching "best indie music album" from the last month or year to be the search criteria with the best inquiry-to-hit ratio for me, sometimes with a follow up like if 2+ sources mention it (and I've started to respect some sources over others), and if multiple are about equally raved about only then maybe YouTube views. (Well I'll listen to all of them; YT view count doesn't catch all of the great tunes, but there usually isn't a dud if it's high because it's already passed the previous filters.)

The only thing is that that can become kind of genre locked; but sometimes there's an equivalent you can try across most genres, and lists are getting better at being more representative in their conception of "indie".

The point is you need some kind of natural filter to at least crop out soulless music, and "indie" is the one that works for me. For other people with different sensibilities, they might substitute that with another filter, but the principle is about the same I think. One has to think about what line really defines their musical taste boundaries when you get right down to it, so to speak.

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Edit: Proof of concept. Going through my little method right now dredges up this, and I feel like I'm a better person for having found it already.

[video=youtube;iiV_W6uMX3Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiV_W6uMX3Q[/video]

And my pick for best album of last year came out of a more exhaustive version of that:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MHQmWfSYM&list=PLcAkUFC5wToZASTTx-lOgkdZ98vvG1PwA) Nilufer Yanya's Painless

Tocky on 12/2/2023 at 03:07

I like the same stuff. It may not be brand new always but it's new to me. Like this-

[video=youtube_share;OEt9Jx8pN1M]https://youtu.be/OEt9Jx8pN1M[/video]

Starker on 12/2/2023 at 06:09

I don't really mind sticking to the old stuff. Usually, when I discover band, they've already been making music for 10+ years already anyway.

[video=youtube;_bqpvOJnT5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqpvOJnT5s[/video]

demagogue on 14/2/2023 at 05:04

At this time, I'd like to let the people of TTLG hear, or at least be aware of, one of my favorite Renaissance folk songs. I love this kind of music. It transports us. I used to act in madrigal theatre where it was a centerpiece.

[video=youtube;gmSq08gMrF4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSq08gMrF4[/video]

Gray on 26/3/2023 at 02:37

The Sisters of Mercy, Temple of Love

[video=youtube;xK7QM5C7pBU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7QM5C7pBU[/video]

Here's why. Snuggled up on the sofa with my partner, nothing on the TV, the only thing we could settle on was a BBC documentary special on Dolly Parton and live shows. Now, I'm always a big fan of music documentaries, whether I like the genre or not. Always interesting. In the case of country music, not. But I do have a certain respect for Dolly, so I was biting my tongue, trying to find positive things to say, and not being my usual old miserable self. I could compliment her on her song writing. Then... I didn't say much. I can endure Dolly, but most other country music I detest with a fierce passion. I'm pretty much fine with all other genres of music, there's just something in country clichés that irks my bones. So eventually, the only nice thing left in me I could say was, "you know what cover really surprises me? The Sisters of Mercy doing Jolene."

This.

[video=youtube;pOlPDvuI8SU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlPDvuI8SU[/video]

So, in my head, I spent the rest of the evening, thinking about Sisters, not as much as Dolly. My partner is much less snobby and arrogant about music than I am, she likes what she likes, I just tend to like quite a lot of things... much less. But I was quite pleased she got how wildly strange it was for Sisters to do Dolly.

Tocky on 26/3/2023 at 04:03

With respect to Randy Rhodes you utter fucking genius and quite possibly distant kin.

[video=youtube_share;DLMinNP5WMM]https://youtu.be/DLMinNP5WMM[/video]

Love that Sisters of Mercy BTW.

PigLick on 26/3/2023 at 10:09

Crazy train pisses me off, starts with a great heavy dark riff, then suprise happy muppets!
Keep in mind I teach guitar for a living, I have played this more times than you have eaten a late night drunken kebab.