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What have you achieved this year? 2022 edition
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Narz
keeping it real
We got a 2023 goals thread?
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Just You know ... Staying Alive ... if that counts as an achievement ....
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Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
This is been in my head recently because this is quite incredible. It's hard to keep up with that much music, as it becomes work. Recommendation algorithms will only really give you songs unless you've carefully curated a separate youtube, so it takes effort to find and decide, even if you're tackling lists. Albums, even good ones, often require a few songs in to get into the whole experience and commitment, until the artist intent marinates you wonder why you aren't listening to favorites, better music, (sub-)genres you prefer. What inspired this, what did you listen to, and what opinions would you share? And have you continued or was this just a straight run?
dusters
Emperor
I just listened to Bring me The Horizon's Next gen. It is some top level pop metal with compressed sound made up jelly for emo kids/teens who are still contemplating if this life is worth living.
They found a way to sound metal and pop at the same time. Added hyper pop as well. Mash-up of so many genres. Themes are about mental problems and vampires. Stuff for teenagers I guess.
Previously I listened to Spiritbox newest EP which was more mature, more unique, but pop as well.
Edit - i'm a son of musicologist so I listen to new music almost every day, cus it's fun to discover new stuff if it's good. Usually takes 5 seconds to distinguish.
Comrade Ceasefire
Simmer slowly
Many musicians have tried variations on music outside of their usual experience.
A famous effort is by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album) - Wikipedia
A South African muso called The Kiffness also adds to existing music and a variety of "found" sounds.
dusters
Emperor
Many musicians have tried variations on music outside of their usual experience.
A famous effort is by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
I love this song. Try it yourself if your voice is up to the challenge.My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album) - Wikipedia
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A South African muso called The Kiffness also adds to existing music and a variety of "found" sounds.
The last two clips are so called arrangements for various traditional instruments rendered with electronics or mixed together I guess.
I can bring you some remixes - gothic Xmas, a take on classic song
and bardcore
bernie14
Filter Manipulator
It does
Comrade Ceasefire
Simmer slowly
Moderator Action: We have a music thread and this is not it.
sophie
Break My Heart
Late in 2021 I started feeling like my music tastes were getting stale, and that there were a lot of big landmark albums and artist discographies that I had never really delved into, so I started making efforts at compiling a list of albums to listen to. That list and listening through it went through a couple haphazard iterations, before I settled on my current more comprehensive method. Selection criteria is: must have received 4.5 or 5 stars on allmusic, have an actual review, be findable in a streaming app (or compilable as a playlist), cannot be a comedy album or a film/broadway soundtrack, compilation, greatest hits, or ethnographic recording. Beyond that it’s purely qualitative: the criteria typically leave me with 3-500 albums for a year. I go through each one, read the reviews, talk to people, pare down albums that feel skippable, after which I settle on a list of around 70-100 albums that seem historically important, influential, well-regarded, and represent a well-rounded, varied sample of music coming out for that year. I organize it into an approximately chronological order based on album release date, and listen.
Listening is very intentionally not serious. I think one of the major issues with when I tried to do something similar with movies was that I took myself way too seriously. Operating with the knowledge that others might be watching, that I felt like I had to say something serious, interesting, or profound made what was supposed to be a fun process of personal discovery into a slog. Mostly it operates as a list to draw from when I’m working or cooking and I want something novel to listen to, and is mostly experienced impressionistically rather than something more rigorous or, like, hermeneutical I guess??
The list is still ongoing. I’ve now listened to around 850 albums and am currently wrapping up the last 10 or so albums of 1968. It’s been a great exercise, I feel like I’ve learned so much, both from the making of the list, and from the listening. My goals of finding new artists and genres, and doing deeper/more comprehensive dives into artists’ discographies are being achieved. It’s been nice to hear albums in their historical and sonic context rather than in isolation or as part of an individual artist’s discographic development. The intertextualities become revealed: you get to see how Dylan speaks to the Beatles speaks to the Beach Boys speaks to the Byrds and back around again. You get to watch the development of musical subcultures, how they work and collaborate and communicate with others within that subculture, then perhaps “break containment,” affecting other subcultures who then modulate and innovate within their own subculture (e.g. the interplay between the LA, Nashville, New York, SF, and London scenes for rock/folk/country; or Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, and Philadelphia for Soul). Placing the albums in context also makes the exceptional, the novel, and the groundbreaking really shine in a way that is harder to appreciate when you’re listening to 100 earth-shattering records decontextualized and back to back. Elvis and Buddy Holly feel like shotgun shells to the chest when heard after dozens of hours of crooners. You also get to appreciate how influential their work is. Hearing the Byrds’ debut, or Phil Spector enter the scene is affecting, but I feel like I’ve gotten a greater appreciation for their influence when the year following their respective debut features like 60% albums that sound *exactly* like that debut.
So it’s been good fun! At the rate I’m going it would be like at least a decade before I caught up, but I’m mostly fine with that? I’m trying to be mindful of when I’m getting burnt out, or when I’m churning through albums such that they start to meld into one undifferentiated mass, and to listen and be responsive to my brain when it’s telling me it wants to listen to some familiar 70s dad rock or modern pop for a minute or skip ahead and go down a 70s funk/disco rabbit hole. I’d definitely recommend doing it for yourself!
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Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I love everything about this. I’ve been doing a much smaller somewhat project the past couple years in spurts with big gaps, which is listening to all the UK number one hits in order. I hit around 1971 and have been meaning to dive back in. There was such a heroic bump at the end of the 1960s, when the Beatles were breaking the format and charting between others covering them, and I’m dodging all these amazing 70s acts that are all about the albums so this project skips the good stuff.
A friend of mine found it “less alienating” to start recent and work backward. Having gone both directions for different affects, I think I prefer starting old and getting new. But for listening to the origins of big 70s-80s synth music it was cool to drill backward.
Anyway, that’s incredible, thanks for sharing that journey. There’s so much to be experienced going through music whole album by whole album like that.
Dusters and comrade if one of you wants to start a thread on music discovery more generally I’m happy to oblige over there.
