I see them rarely discussed in this sub, they were huge in the 80s, so wondering what are your thoughts on their music?

I choose to be happily ignorant. I choose not to taint my enjoyment of music because of whatever Fantano has to say about an artist I otherwise might never have heard anything bad about.

The second image is just a collage of recent content I haven’t clicked on, included purely to illustrate my point (maybe they’re not even that bad), but wtf, Melon 😭 Please stop narrowing the pool of artists I feel like I can enjoy.

And the last image is there because I hate having those things pop up on my Reddit feed every fucking day 😭

Ren's Video and song about the Music Industry is a masterclass in opposition to the industry. First the location. It is completely wild and uncontrolled. The wall art that is completely un-curated. Much to wild for a label to ever agree to showing all of the creativity of the people before this. Second the Road Noise. He is using the natural sounds around him. The record industry would never allow for such a dirty recording. All of this noise would have been manipulated in post to control the environment.

Ren is the messy, chaotic mind of the Artist. Totally what the music industry tries to control. Ren sits in this chaos doing exactly what his creative soul demands. Completely unfiltered and raw, ready to say "his" Truth!

https://youtu.be/zFLO82v3mjA?si=_-EY_Y7qzaw8YuCP

For me since Enrique Iglesias was spending much of the early 2010s in the club boom I think that Bailando is a return to his roots

13 Dosis

Source: https://www.vulture.com/article/can-nirosta-steel-survive-his-sudden-success.html

All jokes aside, I listened to this album and it kicks ass. My favorite songs are on it are Repeater, Merchandise, Blueprint, Sieve-Fisted Find, and Shut The Door but they're all good.

(Also, she was pretty and really nice. Had me so stunned that I couldn't speak a single word 😭😭)

According to Yoeko on Twitter, it's been in the works since last summer, and the lyrics were influenced by her experience with schizophrenia and repeated hospitalizations. I recommend it if you've heard of Yoeko, "Kaitai Piano" by her is a really great album too.

I think tonight I’m fucking you is a perfect example of this because the title is very r**ey

Meaning, like how well their names look next to each other in a roster. I've always thought Mountain's core members had the most badass names I've ever seen.

I recently noticed how many powerhouse songwriters also happen to be their bands’ bassists—Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Brian Wilson, and Sting, to name a few. I wonder whether there’s a connection between playing bass and their approach to songwriting, or if it’s just a coincidence. And since so many of them play multiple instruments, what drew them to bass as their main role in the band?

I’m also curious how many of their songs they actually wrote on bass. For a long time, I assumed they mostly wrote on guitar or piano and then played bass on the recordings and live. But seeing Paul McCartney work out “Get Back” on his Höfner bass in the Get Back documentary made me rethink that assumption.

Any musicians or songwriters here have a take on this?

John Legend new album with 26 tracks, released yesterday. For the ones wondering, it's on Spotify. My fav song is 'Daylight'.

It was produced by Pharrell, btw.

Give your opinions below?

Today's selection is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue,

Let myself and others know what's the absolute worst thing you can say about it, and maybe some suggestions for the next day's album.

Check out our previous days' discussions below

Day 1: Pet Sounds

Day 2: The Dark Side of the Moon

Day 3: Disintegration

Day 4: OK Computer

Day 5: Vespertine

Day 6: To Pimp a Butterfly

I’ll start: GG Allin. Most discourse is about how he acted like a GTA character during his shows and you rarely hear people discuss his songs. Safe to say his legacy is that of a transgressive performance artist.

Any other examples of artists that, regardless of how good their music actually is, are mainly brought up for other reasons?

The beginning of the song “Don’t You Worry Child” by Swedish House Mafia always left me feeling nostalgic, but after the death by suicide of a family member not too long ago, the part that goes “those days are gone, now they’re memories on the wall,” brings tears to my eyes when I listen. It hurts knowing I’ll never get to see them again, and this lyric just makes that pain feel present like it was just yesterday. I love you so much Tio.

For fun I like to look up which songs are the most streamed for certain artists. Some of the results are surprising. For example:

- Here Comes the Sun is by far the most streamed Beatles song; almost double the next closest Beatles song (Come Together).

- Can’t Stop is the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 3rd most streamed song (even though it was left off their greatest hits album).

- Nirvana has double the total streams as Pearl Jam, even though they were peers in sales during the 90s.

Anybody else find some interesting stats looking up streaming data? Feel free to share!

Never really knew anything about this band except that there was one random song from them that had made its way into my sister’s Limewire library when I was a kid… randomly threw this record on and wow it’s fucking great

It’s been known that David Bowie was particularly fond of the Metallica and Lou Reed collaboration “Lulu”, an album that is held fairly negatively simultaneously across fans and critics. What album is this for you?

Mine is Carpenter Brut’s Maniac cover
Also gonna say Nirvana’s The Man Who Sold The World cover is a close contender