Summer is usually a time of change. What has changed in your song list? Do you have a song stuck in your head for "reasons"? What is the song you always go to when life throws you some curves? Is there a song you hate and want burnt in the summer sun? Or has your summer been completely chilled, like your drink. Tell us. Genre is entirely open.
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Electronic music has been taking up my listening time in the past few months, with some stand-outs...
She's awesome. ._.
Ignore all the animu visuals if ya don't care for it. Just listen.
I do a lot of driving for my job, so music (the thumping variety mostly) and podcasts (Rooster Teeth, StarTalk, and BlizzardWatch stuff) are a constant companion.
What has changed in August? Let's see, sorting by Recently Added in Spotify... Here's the top ten bands I added stuff from, not all of it new:
So as you can see, August so far has been a month of prog-rock, post-rock, complextro, 80's stuff and some random crap. There's technically others as well; some Yes albums, the earlier/mid Genesis albums and the Dutch glory that is Focus. But we could only pick 10 so there ya go. And we're only just halfway through this month so it's bound to increase.
But yeah, as you can see, I cross genre borders a lot. My music taste, eclectic? Nahhh, don't be silly!
!!BONUS TRACK!! Because haha I ain't stickin' to 10.
Ahh, good to see some more electronic stuff in this thread. Those DJ's could use a bit more variation in their songs, but I like the tracks without vocals well enough (vocals in electronic music usually make me go meh so hard), haven't heard them before.
I could never drive with such active music though, simply because I subconsciously start driving too fast...
On a 90's kick. Loved the music of my teenage years, still do.
Soundgarden - Outshined, Fell on Black Days, Rusty Cage
Nine inch Nails - Perfect Drug, Head Like a Hole
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Local H - Bound for the Floor
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
I'm trying to play a little less metal, not because I no longer like it, but because having your favorite meal every day gets old after a while. I went in more electronic and post-punk directions lately
Well, ever since <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.880920.22186117>this thread, I have been listening to my own suggestions... on top of re-listening to some Minamina Goodsong...
...and Deltron 3030...
<color=white>Really should have suggested these groups in that thread, though...
Other than that, re-listening to Fluid Mind's Vaporizer album...
I've fallen in love with Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell, an unbelievably introspective album seeing Sufjan open up to us more than ever, and creating some of the most beautiful and haunting "art as therapy" music since Elliott Smith was alive. This will probably be my best album of 2015:
I've been getting back into hip-hop, and Ghostface Killah's album with the jazz group badbadnotgood, Sour Soul has been in regular rotation. It has tinges of the Wu-Tang's best, but the jazz instrumentals are a fantastic departure from traditional hip-hop beats and offer some incredible and relaxed..."real" musical value?
I'm told that Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is supposed to be some transcendent amazing hip-hop album of the decade, but I'm not feeling it so far, I'm going to try some more listens but hip-hop fans might want to check it out.
I love Between the Buried and Me, but their latest, Coma Ecliptic, feels like the band is reaching too far in too many directions and has a distinct lack of focus. It's another album I'm repeating a bit to see if it grows on me.
I've fallen in love with the band GAZA. For years now, a lot of hardcore/punk/metalcore bands have come out with cleanly produced albums with too-perfect dissonant breakdowns and growls, without feeling like the proposed anger and energy is in all aspects of the music. GAZA has been an amazing antidote to this that reminds me why I fell in love with heavy music in the first place:
While not exactly new, I've re-introduced Pig Destroyer and Agorapobic Nosebleed into my music playing, after the joy of seeing ANB finally play a real live set. Realizing now that Book Burner from Pig Destroyer was an amazing album and an excellent return to form from the work on Phantom Limb:
I'm also really enjoying the "01 and 10" playlist from Radiohead, hidden but purposefully crafted by Thom Yorke and it's fucking awesome. Start with track 1 on OK Computer, then track 1 on In Rainbows, and continue in that way until you stop at "Karma Police" on OK Computer.
At any given week, no matter what, you will always find Elliott Smith, Dying Fetus, Nick Drake, The Locust and Aphex Twin on any playlist I'm listening to, those 5 always need to be available.
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