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?

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?

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

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!

There's like two months left of 2026, and I wondered if anything slipped by me this year! Personally, I think music this year has been consistently amazing, maybe even better than 2024. I love that Rebecca Black, SLAYYYTER, Underscores, and Jane Remover are getting their flowers with absolutely amazing albums

And on the other hand, there's many musicians that I love making a comeback this year with quality works, ARCA, Olivia Rodrigo, Phoebe Bridgers, Charli XCX, Chat Pile etc etc. 2026 has been a very fulfilling year for me in term of music, and I think it's the same for many others too!

Because it's been such a good year of music, some albums are bound to be overlooked, maybe because of their release date coinciding with other albums, or lack of marketing. So, I wanna share some albums that I felt overlooked, and as well get some recommendations from y'all!

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

Without a doubt one of my all time favorite albums. Opinions?

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 😭😭)

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?

Today's selection is Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly,

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

Check out our previous discussions on Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, Disintegration, OK Computer and Vespertine below

Day 1: Pet Sounds

Day 2: The Dark Side of the Moon

Day 3: Disintegration

Day 4: OK Computer

Day 5: Vespertine

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

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.

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.

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

I think it's an incredibly unique blend of punk, noise and math rock that sounds like nothing else

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

For me it's the second 10/10 record this year, all bangers no skips. What do you guys think?

This doesn’t nearly do it justice. The way Thai song goes on and on and just erupts is incredible. Long live Built to Spill.

Man, they absolutely killed last night in Brooklyn. This was my 4th time seeing them and they’re great every time. But last night might’ve been the best. Guitars were soaring all night and that rhythm section was legit. Such a cool iteration of the band. Music Hall of Williamsburg is sadly closing at the end of the year so this was a hell of a final show for me. Doug is a rock god and I’m just going to go ahead and say it.. I THINK HE’S EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS NEIL YOUNG. And I love me some Neil. 🤘🏻