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

[Azaran]

Impeccable wordplay

[demagogue]

They're maybe too good for this world.

[Tocky]

I recall RBJ once saying the best songs came out of the 80's and thinking "no they damn well don't". They come out of the 70's. I wish I had argued with him at the time but I let it slide. Hotel California will always be a favorite. There was a magic to my teen years that I wonder if everyone has. But everyone didn't have those songs. I hear so much now and think "how did we get here from where we came?" No heart. No soul. I can't tell one from another with the warbling songs so similar. They aren't posted here thank God. Songs used to mean something. Maybe I'm just longing for times past. Or maybe there was magic. All I know is looking down from Griffith Observatory I could feel myself in this song and goddamn it feels good to have long hair again-




Or if you want something new here is a good Cam Cole-

[Gray]

I was sorting through some old stuff, and came across a magazine from 1993, Music Technology, with an interview with Aphex Twin. When he had done some very interesting things, but had not yet become properly amazing. The above track was made four years later, but it was the first that sprung to mind when reading the article. Holy shit, it's been 30 years. Where's the next interesting thing in music? I know I'm old and over the hill, but I can't remember anything interesting happening for over 25 years, it's just become more bland and samey to my old whiny grumpy ears. Is there a new Big Thing I'm not aware of? Would I even bother, or just dismiss it on the very basis of me being old and grumpy and have heard everything but done better before? Ugh, bleh, just like the old people of my day, that I swore to never become. Until I did. And it will happen to YOU!

[Edit]

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was, and what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to YOU..." - Abraham J Simpson II

[Anarchic Fox]

Is there a new Big Thing I'm not aware of?

Twenty One Pilots is a Big Thing that I quite like. Their album Blurryface was the first album ever to have every single song on it certified gold by the RIAA, and their album Vessel was the second ever.

[Cipheron]

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]

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]

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-

[demagogue]

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.



And my pick for best album of last year came out of a more exhaustive version of that:
Nilufer Yanya's Painless

[Tocky]

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

[Starker]

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.

[demagogue]

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.

[Gray]

The Sisters of Mercy, Temple of Love



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.



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]

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



Love that Sisters of Mercy BTW.

[PigLick]

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.

[haiduk]

Haiduk - Sea of Fire