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Disco Pope posted:I like them, but find their discography intimidating! More accurately, the latest record is good. Scum and Apex Predator are where I'd start
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I love how questions about metal get the fastest and most responses in this thread goons are dorks and music dorks love metal Disco Pope posted:I posted in this thread before about how I want to like metal outside of Reign in Blood more, but find a lot of it too "soft and clicky". One poster really astutely and correctly noted that I might be more interested in noise, which was absolutely correct. I also got recommended Morbid Saint who I dig. i think you might like sabbat; not quite as heavy as bolt thrower but definitely no thrills, there's also this band my friend used to adore which is maybe not coincidentally named after a bolt thrower song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymoUGxa5_aI
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Disco Pope posted:I like them, but find their discography intimidating! More accurately, the latest record is good. Scum is a classic, but Fear Emptiness Despair is probably the best of their early output. I haven't paid too much attention to what they did after that.
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I am late to the Snarky Puppy hype train but I am totally on board and looking for something similar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo1NFwMhBA). I've enjoyed some of the other fusion stuff I've found - Weather Report (RIP), Lydian Collective, Animals as Leaders, Chick Corea (RIP) - but I love the sound Snarky Puppy gets with these huge big-band style arrangements and stupidly talented rhythm sections, and I haven't found anything else like it. And they're so drat clean.
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you might like plini: he lands somewhere between snarky puppy and AAL for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSMeBrNp4A
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Squinty posted:I am late to the Snarky Puppy hype train but I am totally on board and looking for something similar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo1NFwMhBA). It’s not fusion, but if you like the impressive sound of a whole lot of very technically proficient musicians playing very tight, some of Kamasi Washington’s stuff is like that. There’s a video of him doing a bunch of stuff from The Epic for NPR concerts.
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louis cole/knower. especially their norrbotten/wdr big band sets. but the rest of their stuff is excellent regardless. louis is such an incredible percussionist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stigV__QNzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEmD17kYsE e- tigran hamasyan has been doing some interesting fusion-y metal-adjacent stuff. he's been working with tosin abasi recently. not in this video but still (please stick around for the konnakol section) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j7bdEPSd0 Hooplah fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Squinty posted:I am late to the Snarky Puppy hype train but I am totally on board and looking for something similar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo1NFwMhBA). naniwa express https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XzNlUclEslo
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Working through all of these, lots of great stuff, but thisHooplah posted:e- tigran hamasyan has been doing some interesting fusion-y metal-adjacent stuff. he's been working with tosin abasi recently. not in this video but still (please stick around for the konnakol section) is seriously amazing. ty!
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Anyone know of some stuff that's like the new Avalanches record, funky dance pop that sounds like its got one foot in the past and one in the future. Besides Daft Punk and Justice, themes about love and loss are a plus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6i681VcRpA
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LionYeti posted:Anyone know of some stuff that's like the new Avalanches record, funky dance pop that sounds like its got one foot in the past and one in the future. Besides Daft Punk and Justice, themes about love and loss are a plus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6i681VcRpA Maybe Röyksopp
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Any recommendations for top quality "feel good" metal? Something hard but upbeat, maybe imaginitive. Maybe sort of like classic Rainbow but more modern?
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A lot of power metal bands fit that description. I don't know who's big now, but check out Stratovarious, Helloween, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Avantasia and Kamelot.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Any recommendations for top quality "feel good" metal? Something hard but upbeat, maybe imaginitive. Maybe sort of like classic Rainbow but more modern? If you can deal with folk metal, a lot of Korpiklaani is happy songs about partying and drinking.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Any recommendations for top quality "feel good" metal? Something hard but upbeat, maybe imaginitive. Maybe sort of like classic Rainbow but more modern? Ultrafilter mentioned Avantasia, and I'm gonna second that especially. The latest album, Moonglow, is just especially vibrant and bursting with joy. Very Jim Steinman-esque. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYvZOe6cmeM That said, they're also right in that power metal in general is probably your best bet. You mentioned classic Rainbow, and their song "Kill the King" is basically proto power metal, kind of. I'm throwing out Unleash the Archers as another particular band rec. They're some of the hottest poo poo in the genre at the moment, and for good reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFH-O05uS0 EDIT: A very quintessential "feel good" metal/hard rock album for me is Electrified by Pink Cream 69. I have this group of friends I have a summer cabin BBQ party with every summer, and this album has been a mainstay at this event for over 15 years now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfcrmEXStts Quite possibly the most outrageously catchy rock chorus ever. Nordick fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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An autumn for crippled children is really good, anything like them?
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loopsheloop posted:An autumn for crippled children is really good, anything like them? look for blackgaze. stuff like amesoeurs, altar of plagues, deafheaven, wolves in the throne room. alcest if you want something even further from metal
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Hooplah posted:look for blackgaze. stuff like amesoeurs, altar of plagues, deafheaven, wolves in the throne room. alcest if you want something even further from metal Also Oathbreaker and So Hideous. While I'm here does anyone have any suggestions of Prog that's heavy on the electronic/synth side of things? All I can think of off the top of my head is Zombi/Majeure, Tangerine Dream, Pinkish Black, Goblin maybe? Thanks!
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Dungeon Ecology posted:Subdivisions by Rush lol Unironically this. The whole Signals album is pretty synthy, and that song is good.
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A LOVELY LAD posted:Also Oathbreaker and So Hideous. apart from some of the obvious krautrock and adjacent bands like Kluster, Ash Ra Temple, Sand, Popul Vuh etc etc, there were a few odd European bands from other places that did that sort of thing, e.g. Heldon or Franco Battiato. If you just want prog with lots of keyboards then there's hundreds of Italian prog albums like that, they really loved their flamboyant keyboards.
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A human heart posted:apart from some of the obvious krautrock and adjacent bands like Kluster, Ash Ra Temple, Sand, Popul Vuh etc etc, there were a few odd European bands from other places that did that sort of thing, e.g. Heldon or Franco Battiato. If you just want prog with lots of keyboards then there's hundreds of Italian prog albums like that, they really loved their flamboyant keyboards. I’m always surprised at how much prog there is out there, old and new. Every now and then I start down a rabbit hole of new stuff and there is an intimidating amount. I’m mostly into fuzzier psych organ stuff though, which seems to narrow the scope a little. More synth heavy prog-ish stuff: Umphrey’s McGee. They’re really a jam band, but they have a lot of really complex arrangements, long songs with multiple sections, less of a verse-chorus structure, and a lot of technical proficiency. But they also just noodle and shred incessantly, so it’s not prog for a purist.
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A LOVELY LAD posted:Also Oathbreaker and So Hideous. i dunno if yellow magic orchestra counts strictly as prog, but i’m gonna recommend them anyways
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I’m always surprised at how much prog there is out there, old and new. Every now and then I start down a rabbit hole of new stuff and there is an intimidating amount. I’m mostly into fuzzier psych organ stuff though, which seems to narrow the scope a little. honestly you could probably just go through the NWW list and follow up anything that sounds interesting, plenty of oddball prog stuff on there
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Thanks for that guys, not technically prog is fine and I've got plenty of avenues to explore !
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I feel like a turd, because I have no idea what I like about music, and have never really thought critically about music other than making a few tracks (like less than a minute long,) for tiny animations and what not... I just want music that I'll like, for whatever reason I can't get Spotify or Pandora to show me things I like anymore, and it's either because of gummed up the system with too many conflicting Genres, or my taste is just really bad. I don’t even know how to get started with the stuff on the OP So I guess genres, in order of liking them, with the songs in a rough order of favorite, and 3 or four things from my playlist that I like that’s like that: What I like falls into a few categories though, I love musicals, or songs with a story like: My favorite in this category: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexqYQcprr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrZolM3uCds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PSP2Adz5j8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zi4N1DJDW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgGYhMGxj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBro_H346dI I guess I also what i can only describe as thirst trap music: My favorite? It’s hard to pick one in this category: [color=#1155cc]https://open.spotify.com/track/170SwAtJ2U9jgBRfAEOlwb?si=mrmEySLRQ3mQ4HkVjhydzA[/color] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-2CP21ugY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcOSYV-xio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwG34egwI8 Then there’s “Girl with acoustic guitar”: Favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKAslVnhq2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqR3dNr-2FU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsYE5MoE3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl_4azIsF1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGT-VxBegag And finally just like random pop poo poo I like Favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMfDBjWFAzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg So yeah I only have like 60 songs on my spotify, and I have no idea why I like these songs, or what they do for me, but I have been listening onto these and a few others on repeat for a year or two and want to branch out and find new music that makes me happy, tickles that same part of the brain!
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Boba Pearl posted:So yeah I only have like 60 songs on my spotify, and I have no idea why I like these songs, or what they do for me, but I have been listening onto these and a few others on repeat for a year or two and want to branch out and find new music that makes me happy, tickles that same part of the brain! You might like Lana Del Rey?
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Squinty posted:I am late to the Snarky Puppy hype train but I am totally on board and looking for something similar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qo1NFwMhBA). If you're not done with earlier recs try these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cd-ROtZ3KI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVhrsRVeCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfkShyFLrxs The current London jazz scene is full of insanely talented musicians, there's so much going on there that could be in your lane.
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BigFactory posted:You might like Lana Del Rey? I tried listening to her top 10, and then a few other songs, and I didn't really like this, like the first 3 or 4 songs were very slow and cooing, and I like things more fast paced I guess? I dunno, maybe music is really hard to recommend to people, and I'm actually being a big goober for being like "Here are 20 of my favorite songs, do you know anything like this?"
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Boba Pearl posted:I dunno, maybe music is really hard to recommend to people, and I'm actually being a big goober for being like "Here are 20 of my favorite songs, do you know anything like this?"
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Aside but I play a game where people recommend songs to each other and there is a slice of people out there who are pretty hard to recommend songs too, even for players who have borderline encyclopedic knowledge of recent and current bands etc.. The only thing I can put my finger on is some people really love songs when they're tied to how they were feeling when they first heard it, or (similarly) they're tied to a time in their life or an event or a vacation or relationship, or they saw the band live etc. (They also are bad song recommenders for similar reasons).
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Boba Pearl posted:I tried listening to her top 10, and then a few other songs, and I didn't really like this, like the first 3 or 4 songs were very slow and cooing, and I like things more fast paced I guess? This might sound very weird/flippant and I promise it isn't: when I was 16-17 and getting into music I would go over critic lists of "best albums of all time" and find ones I liked. Some of the stuff I didn't like at first ended up being my all-time favorites!! So in your position I'd look for a big compilation of this and just pull up stuff on YouTube at random. Even if you don't end up liking it, hey, at least you can say you've heard [x classic song or album] if someone mentions it in conversation. More specific, you seem to like a lot of recent fun pop songs, so some older pop jams could scratch the same itch. I'm not sure how "obvious" to start with, but... do you like Prince? And Michael Jackson? The pop songs seem to have a somewhat-danceable rhythmic pulse to them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJhDltzYVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo and continuing the trio of "stuff my mom would play so loud when I was a kid that I could hear it from the street" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWurqD68u70 I can't be as much help on the "girl with acoustic guitar" part because most of that isn't my sort of music, but there's a chance this is a fun catchy song that you could enjoy too (total shot in the dark that other people will probably make fun of me for including though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onidGbvHSb4
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Another good way to find music: find out what artists you already like are listening to. I went down a really deep rabbit hole with people I liked when I first got serious about music. Anyway, recommendations, yes? Girl w/guitar: Neko Case, Emmylou Harris, Laura Stevenson.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:
I think Neko Case would happily beat you to death with her guitar for characterizing her this way, and also I think she transcends the girl with a guitar genre, but yeah absolutely don’t sleep on her if you are even a little into lady singer/songwriter/guitarists. She’s top tier alt country and Americana. Her stuff with New Pornographers is more poppy indie rock, but also worth a listen.
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Boba Pearl posted:I dunno, maybe music is really hard to recommend to people, and I'm actually being a big goober for being like "Here are 20 of my favorite songs, do you know anything like this?" I've had success in the past by starting a Spotify radio station based on one specific song that has the sound I want and going from there. I don't think that gets affected by the other stuff you listen to, it's just "play more like this." You still get some wild misses, but I've discovered some good music that way, and it's sometimes surprising how good the algorithm is at matching styles.
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Boba Pearl posted:I tried listening to her top 10, and then a few other songs, and I didn't really like this, like the first 3 or 4 songs were very slow and cooing, and I like things more fast paced I guess? Maybe Julien Baker? She's a very good Singer/Songwriter.
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kingcobweb posted:This might sound very weird/flippant and I promise it isn't: when I was 16-17 and getting into music I would go over critic lists of "best albums of all time" and find ones I liked. Some of the stuff I didn't like at first ended up being my all-time favorites!! So in your position I'd look for a big compilation of this and just pull up stuff on YouTube at random. Even if you don't end up liking it, hey, at least you can say you've heard [x classic song or album] if someone mentions it in conversation. I did this and found some stuff that I had forgotten I liked, I was really into Ska as a kid, and loved Sublime, ok I was into sublime. Then I went back and revisited some of their stuff, and a lot of it is... Very problematic. Which sucks, I also have been getting tiktoks about Ska history, and how it's roots were not white punk dudes, so some stuff like would rule! Lana Del Rey was uh... Not good, I did not enjoy the sad stuff, and Marina/Marina did a lot of songs about break ups and what not, which really didn't do it for me either. Kvlt! posted:try Marina/Marina and the Diamonds Marina/Marina had some good stuff I really liked, specifically Purge the Poison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5u3kP85LYI I went to Neko Case's website, and the 4 songs she has on their are again slow crooning? (Maybe I don't know what this word means,) I really like faster paced stuff. Like, all of the girl with guitar songs I posted are definitely upbeat, and chipper without hitting super long notes? Like high tempo? Still this purge the poison is awesome. I also listened to the UK jazz band stuff here. I know this rec wasn't for me, but this song was really good for the first minute or so, and then I realized it was 7 minutes long with no lyrics and kind of checked out. I also like that persona song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FG85wVSV3o Epi Lepi posted:Maybe Julien Baker? She's a very good Singer/Songwriter. This had the same problem as the Lana Del Rey and other stuff, just way too much sad slow stuff, at least on their top search results. I also found out about Last.FM which is pretty good, though it doesn't work very well on my phone, which is sad.
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Boba Pearl posted:I did this and found some stuff that I had forgotten I liked, I was really into Ska as a kid, and loved Sublime, ok I was into sublime. Then I went back and revisited some of their stuff, and a lot of it is... Very problematic. Which sucks, I also have been getting tiktoks about Ska history, and how it's roots were not white punk dudes, so some stuff like would rule! I've never really given recs before, so bear with me, but hopefully at least one of these will spark an interest. Quick note, if you're not into slower Neko Case, maybe try out her stuff with the New Pornographers? Not sure if Challengers is too plodding for you, but they've got a lot of power pop sounding stuff too. I'm also wondering if you'd like some of the power 80s ladies - Taylor Dayne: https://youtu.be/7_Dyouvtb98 Or Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, hell, Patti Smith maybe. Not 80s, but a power lady - Pink. Other random suggestions: LP https://youtu.be/NFnIuBB9YAo Matthew Sweet https://youtu.be/ELwRW_2cdBE Robyn https://youtu.be/CcNo07Xp8aQ Save Ferris https://youtu.be/PU4PrWRlo_8 <Edit: Removed for being awful> And if you're looking for early ska and haven't already, get you some Toots! https://youtu.be/wNxNwvjzGM0 marjorie fucked around with this message at 21:02 on May 6, 2021 |
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