@Thrillho Cool, like you say our tastes in music have been similar in the past, so it was nice surprise to wake up to your recommendations this morning. I'll check them out one at a time, so I've already got Tree River's April 2022 release 'Time Being' playing now, courtesy of a Big Scary Monsters full album stream.
Just as a heads up, Anxious' 'Little Green House' is the poppier side of a modern pop punk band's sound, so it's not like punkier, old-school Descendents pop punk, although on the flip side Comeback Kid's 'Heavy Steps' is consistent with the band's previous output, if you fancy a heavier hardcore listen.
Hot Water Music's 'Feel the Void' is the best of the band's more recent albums, and it's a highlight of my 2022 music picks so far this year.
@nessisonett I always say that 1989 was my favourite year in video games, and 1997 was my favourite year in music.
Freightliner was the song on the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, and it's off Hot Water Music's 1997 album 'Fuel for the Hate Game'. Listening to Freightliner, including the lyrics, reminds me of my friend who recommended lots of bands to me, like Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker.
'Fuel for the Hate Game' is one of many albums that makes me reminisce about 1997 as being an awesome year for me!
I am passionate about retro gaming, from antiquated consoles to the continuation of classics. Obviously I love PSone, and PS2 retro games. I blast my ears to breakneck melodic punk, gruff vocals and nimble alternative guitar hooks.
Listened to the Ben Folds Five’s Whatever And Ever Amen, which kinda sounded like if Randy Newman was an emo kid who got his lunch money stolen by the glee club. Sort of worked though.
@Jimmer-jammer Brilliant jazz album here, and a favourite of @nessisonett 's as well I believe. Let me know what you think, and also feel free to dial in with your full-length review of Bitches' Brew at some point as well.
"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".
@TheBrandedSwordsman Ahh yeah, I listened to that one a few years back. I remember one thought being that he must have had a different percussionist because just the beats alone gave the album a totally different vibe. There’s a bit more energy that’s almost heading towards big band territory which I enjoy in a fun way, even if I think that his more experimental stuff is more interesting.
@LN78 They seem to have passed me by but I had a little listen there. They remind me a bit of Deftones, with a similar melodic take on progressive metal but with slightly poppier vocals. I could see them doing well in the UK metal scene as their promotion and merchandising is really impressive for a smaller act but I think they’d probably have to release a more accessible album to really break into the mainstream. There definitely seems to be a new wave of rock and metal coming through but TikTok is where most acts are having big success and the genre just doesn’t lend itself to that instant hit nature.
I'm continuing my weird and psychotic journey of cataloguing and organising all of my Spotify playlists. Really into it this week. I finalised a bunch of playlists for the best music of every decade starting with the sixties, which I've been working on for like four years or something, but we're like done now. Done done. Happy with the running orders and everything. And yeah, at some point I'll hear a song from 1964 I never heard before and I'll have to slot it in but I'll allow that.
I'm now cataloguing my favourite albums of each decade because that's where we're at now. At the minute it's going to be twenty per decade but who knows. I got twenty for the eighties and twenty for the nineties. Doing the 2010s now because I hate the 2000s.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Probably Black Saint of course and then Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. All over the place for sure but in a really fun way.
@johncalmc I have one 64 hour playlist that I just put any song I like into. Been adding to it since about 2014 and it’s interesting to see my tastes changing.
@nessisonett I wish I had one of those. I have a playlist called "Every Song I Have Ever Liked" that I add every song I like to but I started it long after I joined Spotify so it's not really chronological or autobiographical since loads of songs were added at the same time when I first did it. It's 400 hours long.
Weirdly gutted about coming so close with Eurovision. I obviously get why Ukraine won and beating them would have been a foreign policy disaster but it does feel as if we just came on the wrong year!
Currently revisiting the NIN back catalogue. I'm finding that some of the early albums that I listened to when I was a teenager are still my favourites but the With Teeth album has got something about it...
Apart from NIN I've listened to plenty of Filter and Rammstein but wanted to see if anyone could recommend anything I've missed?
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