Bands suggestions too, curious what folks are into!
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When I was a pre-teen and teenager, pop-punk and emo were popular.
Turns out I haven’t outgrown this genre. I now listen to more music from a variety of different genres and time periods, but ultimately, 80% of my library is still early 2000’s pop punk.
Yeah I though I was gonna outgrow metal.
Boy was I wrong.
Genres are for normies
Progressive metal
- Sleep Token
- Long Distance Calling
- Audrey Fall
- Brutus
- Countless Skies
- Before the Dawn
- Dawn of Solace
- Exquirla
- Merrow
- Primordial
- Psychonaut
- Rishloo
- Soen
- Somali Yacht Club
- Tides from Nebula
- Villagers of Ioanninan City
- Wheel
- Greta Van Fleet
- Persefone
Dang I only really recognize Sleep Token, Soen, and Persefone from this list. All S-tier bands, I’ll have to check out the rest.
Pardon my ignorance. What is S-tier bands?
I meant S-tier as in ranking. If you look at tier lists on the internet, they will often rank things using letters. I was basically just saying that I consider them to be bands of the highest tier, I’ve attached a link to show you what I mean.
+1 for Sleep Token. Amazing band, love their latest album TMBtE.
I just discovered them recently on a spotify suggestion. So glad. Sometimes things just work out. It’s a numbers game. I’ve probably turned away 95% of what spotify recommends. I’ve had premium for a decade and the discover weekly playlist is still hit or miss. Sometimes I see a pattern, like every other week there may be a good song.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The PetroDragronic Apocalypse is one of the best records I’ve heard in some time, from any band, in any genre.
I can’t stop listening to it. To add, I’m not really a fan of any of their other records. They’re clearly good, just doesn’t resonate with me as much as this one does.
Moooottorr…
…Spiiiriiiit……
a few recommendations:
Djent/Core:
- Architects
- Spiritbox
- Jinjer
- Polaris
- Periphery
- Dayseeker
- Holding Abscence
Prog:
- Leprous
- Wheel
- Vola
- Animals as Leaders
- Haken
- TesseracT
My first love is Hip Hop but I love lots of genres Funk, Soul, Jazz, Electronic, House, Techno, Dreampop, Ambient, Balearic, Indie/Alternative - I’m probably missing something 😊. I’ve even setup some communities here on Lemmy for my music genres that I love.
Some of my favourite artists:
- Mount Kimbie
- The xx
- J Dilla
- Flying Lotus
- Larry Heard/Mr Fingers
- The Avalanches
- Khruangbin
- Beach House
- Toro Y Moi
- Erykah Badu
- Miles Davis
- Four Tet
- Leon Vynehall
- Jonny Nash
EDIT: Adding City Pop genre as well since I saw another user comment that
2nd EDIT: Oh and Reggae, Dub too!
3rd EDIT: Okay I keep adding artists thinking I can’t believe I left such and such off haha I’ll stop now!
Here lately I mostly listen to the kind of music that your most insufferable hipster friend would try to recommend you.
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Radical Face
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Shins
Pat the Bunny
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Mal Blum
Daisy the Great
Delicate Steve
Professor Caveman
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
Deep House. It’s basically distraction free version of House.
anything you recommend? looking for more artists like those on Naked Music Recordings (Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw, Aya, etc.)
Sorry this might disappoint you but I usually just listen on The Good Life Radio https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36YnV9STBqc
I’d say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.
At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.
During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.
To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):
- Jakub Zytecki
- Chon
- Plini
- Periphery
- Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back 😔)
- Dirty Loops
- Up Dharma Down
- Joji
- Tycho
- Sleep Token
- Lorna Shore
- Tom Misch
Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.
I just learned about the circles people run in at metal shows.
Ever listen to the ocean?
Woah, I’ve actually been to a Chon show. Totally didn’t expect to see that band pop up in this thread
Lucky! How were they upfront? I’ve only seen their live shows on YouTube.
They were great. I think it was around 2015-2016, and I still have a Chon pin from the show too!
I think I’m the only one here who likes mainstream J-pop.
Anybody for Aimer, ReoNa, LiSa, Yorushika, Minami, TK from Ling Tosite Sigure, nZk, Uru, Tielle, Yuuri?
No? I suppose I’m alone in my listening habits. I do like baroque music though
I’d like to be. Got any recommendations?
The artists I mentioned in my comment are whom I have listened to recently
Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.
But lately I’ve been on a classical music kick.
I recently started listening to classical and boy does it require a completely different listening approach! I’m listening almost exclusively to Mahler’s No.5 since my attention fades away after the first movement and I need lots of listening to know what’s actually going on
Mahlers 5th is good, but I think his 4th is better.
But my personal favorite is Beethoven’s 5th. I used to HATE that symphony when I was a kid, my grandmother loved it and it bored me to tears.
Turns out the version she had on CD that she always listened to was the worst recording you can find of it. It was WAY too slow, it made the whole thing drag on. That symphony works best when it’s damn near rushing. When I got back into classical a few months back I found the Berliner Philharmoniker playing it directed by Simon Rattle, and the sprint through that symphony, and it works SO MUCH BETTER. It was very clearly intended to be played fast, so many of the parts feel way more interesting and there’s sections where each part of the orchestra feels like it’s tripping over the others to be heard.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Since you look much more knowledgeable than me, could you help me understand how to navigate the overwhelming amount of different versions for every piece of music? For now I’m completely ignoring who’s playing and conducting and sometimes I timidly try to listen to another version, usually just to come back to the comfort of the first version I listened
Usually I try to listen to a few different versions until I land on one that really clicks with me. It takes a little bit to really understand what that means. To me the orchestra is less important than the director. The music is always the same, but the director decides which parts will pop out the most, how fast the tempo is, and how he wants the orchestra to play parts.
I’ll use the beethoven example again.
Here is the version that I don’t like. That was the “familiar” version I knew, and I didn’t like it so I never listened to this piece.
When I got into my current classical kick, I went to Spotify and stumbled on this version: https://open.spotify.com/track/4mw5oRBKNBfNV0dXAOIcne
I literally picked it because I thought the album cover was interesting because it had some color. A lot of classical albums are committed to black and white for some reason.
Googling a piece can help, especially if you search for like “beethoven 5th best recordings.” You’ll find a lot of opinions out there, and it can help you get a starting point for a given piece to go from.
If you find yourself wanting to go to a more “comfortable” version, it means something in the recording you’re listening to isn’t clicking with you. That’s OK! Try to identify what it is that makes you not like that recording, and what the one you prefer does differently that makes you prefer it. It helps to write it down; if you make posts here or on Mastodon that may help a lot with articulating what you do or don’t like (and boost engagement).
Seemingly “simple” things like “i think this section is too fast” or “the version I like has the horn section louder here, but this version focussed on the windpipes” really influence how you hear the music and make a big difference, and are completely valid reasons to prefer one recording over another.
If you don’t already know, Billy Joel has a deep love for classical music, and in interviews talks about how it influenced his pop/rock songs
This is a bit messy looking, but these are my top five fav “genres” and my fav “artists” from each (genres in quotes because half of these aren’t exactly genres. Artists in quotes because one is not the artist but a sound the real artists use).
Kawaii metal: Babymetal and Ladybaby
Anime music: guess I’ll say Aimer because that’s probably the one artist with the most anime songs in my playlist (shoutout to Nier games soundtracks because they don’t fit in any of my other fav “genres”)
Vocaloids and utauloids: Flower is my fav vocaloid - love how she sounds, love her designs, and it helps that she was made for j-rock/metal
Vtubers/Hololive performers: Bae is bae
Rock/metal: Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica
rock/metal and most derivatives. for example metallica, ac/dc, iris and others.
almost exclusively electronic music, just can’t seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I’d be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.
also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus
What are some of your ambient recommendations? I was just listening to Tim Hecker’s Konoyo, also dig stuff like Global Communication, Boards of Canada, Grouper, Human Mesh Dance, Stars of the Lid, Biosphere.
Really into a electronic psychedelic cumbia genre that goes by Psicodelica Selvática (and other names) : Dengue Dengue Dengue!, Chancha Via Circuito, Yeahman, Son Rompe Pera, El Remolón’s Selva really hits the spot too.
I prefer my ambient to have a psychedelic aspect to it instead of just pure drone, so probably my favorite ambient artist is Ishq, namely his albums Orchid, Sama, And Awake, Bloom, and Lotus. Sinepearl and Chandanam are also artists that have a similar sound to Ishq. also check out Woob’s Repurpose album
getting into more of the psybient/psychill genre than pure ambient, mostly everything on Ultimae Records is gold imo (Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Cell, H.U.V.A. Network, Sync24, etc.)
Spacebass over on my end : G Jones, EPROM, Alix Perez, Ivy Lab, Of The Trees, Chee, Tsuruda, ISOxo, Culprate, Lab Group
This song has been on solid repeat for me lately GATZB - Get Down
Here’s a smattering of stuff off the top of my head.
Drum & Bass, Breaks, Glitch-Hop, Ghetto Funk, Dubstep, Ambient
Artists: Danny Byrd, Sub Focus, Teebee, Noisia, Phace, Logistics, WBBL, Evol Intent, High Contrast, Tonic, Featurecast, Calibre, Slynk, John B, Calyx, Metrik, Commix, CMC & Silenta, Pimpsoul, Future Funk Squad, A.Skillz, Krafty Kuts, Deekline, Plump DJs, Klute, The Prodigy, Pressure, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Samples, Stanton Warriors, Concord Dawn, Bobby C Sound TV, The Breakfastaz, The Funk Hunters, Defunk, Freddy Todd, Gramatik, GRiZ, Sub Focus, ill-esha, Gladkill, JPOD, Kalya Scintilla, Spor, K+Lab, Netsky, Opiuo, Mochipet, Stephan Jacobs, Rusko, DJ Food, VibeSquad, Father Funk, Beats Antique, Dillinja, Spoonbill, Skream, Russ Liquid, Benga, Pastician, Digital Mystikz, N Type, Beat Fatigue, Minnesota, Pinch, Big Gigantic, Psymbionic, Caspa, Phaeleh, Orbital, Scuba, Loefah, Goth-Trad, Adam Freeland, Thriftworks, DJ Shadow, Stickybuds, Funkanomics, Coki, Starkey, Vaccine, Nero, Joker, Phutureprimitive, Amon Tobin, Black Sun Empire, Nu:Tone, Ed Rush, Optical, Shy FX
Trip-Hop
Artists: Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, UNKLE, Portishead, Morcheeba, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares on Wax
Hip-Hop
Artists: Blockhead, Wax Tailor, RJD2, Abilities, Mos Def, Gift of Gab, Sage Francis, Wu-Tang Clan, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Run the Jewels, Tonedeff, A Tribe Called Quest, Cunninlynguists, Nas, Substantial, The Roots, Dead Prez, Black Star, Digable Planets, PackFM, Talib Kweli, Smif-n-Wessun, The Notorious B.I.G., Warren G, Immortal Technique, Big Pun, Murs, Hieroglyphics
Post-Electronic Pop/Rock type shit? Dream Pop? Indie Pop? I have no idea.
Artists: Elder Island, Haelos, Alex Winston, London Grammar, Maribou State, MS MR, Warpaint, RY X, Rhye, Parra for Cuva, Bleachers, Zero 7, Aurora, Phox, Lucius, Alt-J
Folk, Folk Rock, Americana
Artists: James Taylor, Bon Iver, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Hozier, Shakey Graves, Nanci Griffith, Ray Lynch, Neil Young, Daughter, The Milk Carton Kids, I’m with Her, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers
Progressive Rock (Maybe kinda, sorta Metal?)
Artists: Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Gazpacho, The Flower Kings, Kolm, Steven Wilson, Airbag, Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen, Haken, Blackfield, King Crimson, Leprous, Pink Floyd, Rishloo, Katatonia, Dredg, Rush, Opeth, Rpwl, Jethro Tull, Chroma Key, Karnivool
Tool
Artist: Tool
