When was the last time you found piece that didn’t match your usual listening habits, but ended up liking it? How did you come accross it?
My taste has been mostly rock, metal and certain kinds of electroic music, but
Fallout introduced me to Billie Holiday
Youtube channel Inside the Score got me started on classical music, like actually listening and enjoying Beethoven, Sibelius and Dvorak and going even to a concert instead of just knowing the bits you can not avoid.
The jazz covers of Phoenix Wright music, especially The Dark Fragrance of Coffee, got me seeking for more of similar style.
There’s a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book ‘1000 albums to listen to before you die’. One day I got an Abba album and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It had a surprisingly dense, dream-like production to it. I expected simplistic pop but was surprised by how well structured and layered it was.
People shit on Dancing Queen because of its ubiquity, but that track is an absolute masterclass in how to write a beloved three minute pop song. Benny & Bjorn know their shit.
There’s a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book ‘1000 albums to listen to before you die’.
I just found this one, in case anyone is interested.
Just signed up here and already digging the first album, thanks for this!
Yep, that’s the one I used. Fantastic site.
If you’d told me this time last year that my new favourite genre of 2023 was going to be Finnish rap, I’d have said “no I hate rap”.
Well, actually I’d have said “this is some kind of Eurovision related nonsense isn’t it?” and the answer is yes. The people’s champ Käärijä hooked me in with his party metal, got me checking out his rap back-catalogue and now Spotify has decided all my playlists should be Finnish and here we are.
Ja ja ding dong!
For me also. Eurovision has been very meh for me, but this year I actually liked many of the songs and Germany really didn’t deserve the last place in finals.
I don’t like the style Käärijä’s albums are produced, but live he is awesome. Cha cha is even better when he can do his own thing instead of worrying the choreography.
Love that live show! The week after such a crushing disappointment, too.
It was a ridiculously strong year, and agreed 100% about Germany. I’ve actually been listening to a fair bit of Lord of the Lost as well since the final. I am a Eurovision superfan so may be biased, but it’s kinda crazy how many new types of music it can introduce you to.
Also had Ylivoimainen by KUUMAA on repeat, the Finnish national selection was absolutely stacked (as per).
The first thing that came to mind
This was years ago. I didn’t like this band, but I knew of them.
My ex girlfriend told me to listen to this track.
I was kinda blazed, I put this on, put on my headphones, and holy FUCK
I never expected it. It’s so amazing, so heavy, so light, so aggressive and peaceful, it still gives me chills as I’m writing this.
If you want to be moved by music, be moved by the music, don’t be on your phone watching tiktok at the same time.
BE IN IT.
My second choice is an album by Ludovico Einaudi. Genre is neo classical.
I put it on at work, which was a big mistake. No work happened for an hour because I was moved almost to tears by this.
I think I’ve learned over the years that I can like almost anything, and although I’m more likely to like music from my favourite genres, it’s possible I’ll like anything.
The most recent example I can think is that an artist I like did a cover/colab of Unholy by Sam Smith and after listening a couple of times I listened to the original and found I actually prefer that.
I also like things which are borderline not music, like The Shaggs.
Miley Cyrus did a tribute to Tom Petty and it was incredible. I never thought I would say that about anything she did.
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Thanks so much for the recommendation. This is awesome!
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Sure does! Just cooked while blasting the album. I am so happy └( ＾ω＾)」
Fifty Fifty Cupid, but maybe I’m having a midlife crisis
Celldweller - the last firstborn is awesome mix of electronic music and hard rock (or how would you call it)
Wow! That’s a blast from the past I wasn’t expecting on here. The genre is industrial, which is basically anything with a rock vibe and also a techno beat.
Not a single piece, but I was pleasantly surprised by Ethel Cain’s album Preacher’s Daughter. Definitely not the sort of music I usually listen to, so I didn’t expect that much despite what I’d heard about it, but I actually ended up quite liking a fair few of the songs (although definitely not all of them).
The first time I heard this song
https://soundcloud.com/blacklabelnsd/mastadon-rip (MASTADON - RIP)
I was blown away at how insane it is, like how could anyone ever make something like this at all is bewildering to me. The song structure and sounds didn’t even make sense to me at first.
But now this genre of music is the thing I love the most. This song is my absolute favorite of all time.
Surprised by Ludovico Einaudi, as well.
I discovered a band, that I never could manage to listen to or was even interested. A while ago I got totally hooked - TOOL 🔨
And the most amazing thing the YT algo recommend - Dom whiting’s Drum’n’Bass bike ride (streams) As a fanatic cyclist I love the combo and couldn’t stop listening after the first minutes. Of course, I’m looking forward to participate to one of those.
MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind was a really pleasant discovery for me recently.
The older I get, the less surprised I am by liking stuff that doesn’t fit the story of who I am. Because when you break it down, music is just movement of air, and how can different varieties of air speak to who you are.
So the music I like is just the music I like, and that’s fine with me.
I generally listen to a pretty big variety of music, but over the past few years I’ve really been liking jazz and big band music from the 1930s and 1940s. So much so that I made an internet radio station of public domain music from that era so I could listen to it like it was a radio broadcast then.
Sails of Charon - Scorpions - Woah just woah this is where all those great guitar gods took inspiration from? (from Randy Rhoads to Yngwie Malmsteen). Second realization: Welp now I know why Scorpions made such a huge, they were great. Now I can deconstruct the image of those sad arena shows. Ok Germany I get it, you guys aren’t square for liking Scorpions, they were the tits. Obs: I had the same realization when I saw a clip from AC/DC playing way back when on the streets and Angus was killing it.
