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It also feels like these things are making me more musically illiterate.
You see enough Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imaginal Discs and the twenty yearly Trhรค albums as super highly praised and something every music nerd should listen to, and forget what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop! And if you go by the radio, it's mostly the same stuff since 1995.
My method for finding new artists is basically to search YouTube for bands who do covers of Bella ciao, the internationale, and which side are you on.
what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop!
I don't want to go all Rick Beato-style grumpy old man, but yeah, it's really a crazy thing to open the spotify top charts and see that I don't know even a single one of the most popular artists right now. Especially in my country, it's all mass-produced slop. It's the kind of music that's not AI but might as well be, considering how it all seems to be composed by a market potential maximizing algorithm,
What is that service on the right, though? I'm not familiar and while I'm not a fan of ultra nerdy metal and post-rock, I'm way more interested in that than in the two hundredth song that sounds exactly the same as the previous one in the Spotify top charts.
It's Rateyourmusic, a website. It's known for "RYMcore", which is very popular among its users - if you sort by the top albums of the year, you will find new music, but skewed toward predictable genres.
Basically music curation through 30 year old white American nerds who LOVE Radiohead.
Basically music curation through 30 year old white American nerds who LOVE Radiohead.
Aside from that, I'll definitely check it out! Thanks
The top 10 of all time there are:
To Pimp A Butterfly
OK Computer
In Rainbows
Wish You Were Here
good kid, m.A.A.d City
In the Court of the Crimson King
Madvillainy
Kid A
The Dark Side of the Moon
Loveless
some true bangers in there, but actually that's a very reddit coded normie top 10 lol
TPAB and 'Good Kid m.A.A.d City' but no 'Damn'
because damn is worse than both and I will stand on that
Not arguing agaisnt that. DAMN is nowhere in their top 100.
A trick I read about is to find out who produced the music of artists you like and look at their catalogue. Iโve also had luck asking people with similar music tastes what they like (both online and off). Some artists have large discographies and Iโll go through their other albums before moving on to another artist.
True, but that also lets you stay within genre boundaries. I do something similar, and that is to see what bands the ones I like also play with.
i just ask the cool trans ladies on discord
In my experience that means getting a lot of metal recs.
This was easily the worst part of being in rehab. Everybody had horrible fucking taste in music. I got exposed to so many pop artists I had never heard of before, and they all sucked. Especially being in recovery, everybody fucking loved Jelly Roll, I had to listen to so much fucking Jelly Roll
other good (probably better) ways to find music is good radio stations (NTS is a good one) or by looking through label catalogues, like check what labels your favorite artists are on and find what else they released (only possible on smaller labels that actually have an ethos). reissue labels are great too (just search like "best new reissues 2024" to find some good ones)
You can also find rare legitimately interesting user curated lists with some kind of stated perspective.
Idk a better method than getting lucky with checking what lists your favourite albums are on, but I did find a gem titled something like "The First String" for stuff with interesting focus on guitar, which ranged from American Primitivism, noise improv, to Surf Rock from Egypt.
My current system is to allow myself to get influenced by my partner who is a long time member of a pop forum which is based on a common love of Kylie Minogue and Tori Amos, a retired English dude in a football forum that I visit whose special interest is East Asian but mostly Japanese pop/rock/metal/punk (kind of funny to find this, this or this sandwiched between Led Zeppelin and The Moments in the music thread), going through a phase of searching out stuff on my own every now and then and whatever I happen to passively hear driving around listening to the radio while working.
Kind of gave up on the algorithms. I have my very large playlist that I should probably try to organise a bit.
I fucking love Lexie Liu lol
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Yea i basically have stopped using any specific site/thing for discovery. I just kinda look around when I fancy, hear something somewhere and find it, check out the discography of that band, look into what people also like, etc. I don't rely on algorithms basically. Maybe the emails I get from bandcamp sometimes based on stuff i've already bought or groups/people I already follow.
The downside is that since I don't even listen to radio or follow specific influencers/recommendations, I feel like a weird hermit, I don't really know of an artist or their music unless i've randomly come across them, even extremely popular stuff everyone's heard about. But it's no big deal, I still find plenty of cool things.
Wikipedia can be a useful resource tbh. Not just for music, but film reccs too. Find something you like and start reading about who else they worked with, follow the rabbit hole as far as it goes
Found so much good music in the prog archives
Last.fm + music download blogs + soulseek
Soundcloud can still be good for this, but you need to dig or search by playlists. Youtube can be fun, if you want someone's backporch DJ sets or old filk cassettes.
I'm lucky to have a local community-funded radio station. They'll of course play the hits depending on who's DJ and the like, but if you pop the WMSE app on your phone you can have some fun.
What have you been personally craving. I'm sure me or others could point you to some genres or obscure artists. The other day I was jamming to everything from Highlife to Folkpunk.
idk about the spotify algo because i don't let it autoplay shit, but i have found new bands by scrolling down to "fans also like" when i'm not starting from something so mainstream that it's just a list of other mainstream acts.
Yeah, and if you like darkwave, it'll recommend you more darkwave, which means you listen to more darkwave, so it'll recommend you more darkwave
etc.