Topic: The Music Thread

Every year I spend hours crafting a pointless best music of whatever year it is playlist on Spotify that is like 14 hours long. So if you have 14 hours spare and your taste in music is exactly the same as mine then you'll like this. Pretty specific demographic, all told.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ucyb5kzqmdxIFtftdHQFW?si=5...

@Solea Thanks, I'll be sure to pick up John Zorn's split with Napalm Death. Did he do anything else with them?

Any other Nels Cline fans on here? Besides Dirty Baby, the Andrew Hill album, Lovers, Currents, Constellations, the John Coltrane covers album and Destroy All Nels Cline, what are the best albums from his diverse catalog? (Vinyl is preferable.)

Also, can anyone recommend any other free jazz guitarists? (I like Sonny Sharrock and Otomo Yoshihide besides him.)

@Kidfried OMG YES I adore her music! MAGDALENE is one of my favourite albums of the year.

And Frank and Radiohead definitely make my top 5 for sure, what else you into?

I am a huge Suffocation fan, I want to know are any of their post-Doug Cerrito albums worth buying? Edit: Recently I've been listening to a lot of non-metal stuff. Gary Clark Jr. is excellent.

Edit: I have now more or less given up on rock and it's related sub-genres altogether, save for the sound of the electric guitar on some jazz recordings. Has anyone else made a complete left-turn and sacrificed the music of their yesteryear for something new and intriguing?

What is everyone's top 10 albums of the 2010s?

My top ten:

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
2. Blonde - Frank Ocean
3. Flowerboy - Tyler, The Creator
4. IGOR - Tyler, The Creator
5. Currents - Tame Impala
6. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
7. Yeezus - Kanye West
8. Lemonade - Beyonce
9. The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West
10. Once in a Long, Long While... - Low Roar

Honourable Mentions: TPAB (Kendrick Lamar), Channel Orange (Frank Ocean), 22 A Million (Bon Iver), Magdalene (FKA Twigs), Multi Love (Unknown Mortal Orchestra), Lonerism (Tame Impala), ANTI (Rihanna), Melodrama (Lorde), Ye (Kanye West), KSG (Kanye West & Others), 2014 Forest Hills Drive (J Cole), Anima (Thom Yorke), Assume Form (James Blake).

@DonJorginho Ooh, not done one of these yet.

1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2. Minecraft: Volume Alpha - C418 (yes really)
3. Time n Place - Kero Kero Bonito
4. 무너지기 (Crumbling) - Mid-Air Thief
5. Come In - Weatherday
6. Visions - Grimes
7. Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides - SOPHIE
8. Leak 04-13 - Jai Paul
9. Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never
10. Igor - Tyler the Creator

Shoutout to Orpheus by Hermit and the Recluse, Bonito Generation by KKB and Magdalene by FKA Twigs, who just missed out.

@nessisonett My honourable mentions were TPAB, Magdalene, 21 A Million, Multilove and Anti.

Your list is great, respect the C418 Soundtrack as that is amazing.

@LN78 Never been a big fan of Oasis but Definitely Maybe is a great album. WTSMG has a few truly great songs but it’s not as consistent. I’m more of a Pulp and Blur fan when it comes to Britpop but it’s not exactly the most coherent genre considering those 3 bands aren’t massively similar other than the fact they’re English.

@DonJorginho I really do not listen to enough albums to justify putting together a top 10, but I can say that my personal favourite would be Jessie J's R.O.S.E. I doubt I'll find any people who share the same view here, considering it appears everyone's music tastes are dramatically different than mine! I suppose female pop is not the norm here, haha. Just an incredible album with all memorable songs that fit together really well. Great themes throughout with top notch production and vocals. It's definitely the album I've listened to that I come back to most often.

@Tjuz Female pop’s perfectly acceptable, Grimes, FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey etc. I just don’t think I’d give a Jessie J album a go because I still remember her music from back in the day, which is rather bad of me. Maybe I’ll like it, eh?

@nessisonett That's understandable. I personally love her music from back in the day as well, but in all fairness, the album R.O.S.E. is entirely different. It's with a new label and everything, and even touches on the struggles she had with her old label to make the music she really wanted to make. It's very much R&B rather than the pop she's known for, and unlike her old music, it feels like it's coming straight from the heart. I'd recommend giving it a shot since it's so different! You might be able to enjoy her new sound if you enjoy simplistic production with a focus on vocals.

Did my own edit of one of my favourite Kanye leaks, Cash To Burn

Changes:

• Mixing Changes
• Rearranged how the song is laid out
• Incorporated parts of each version to leak so far
• Added some little bits to the instrumental to flesh it out

Let me know what you think! I do a lot of these edits and do my own beats so might post more in future.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QktFjVfNLGtoyEadc4zOWa1zzBYB...

@Kidfried I do loads of it, I just love making music and make my own stuff too, I use Logic Pro X on my mac in my own studio in my bedroom, luckily my room is big enough to have walk in wardrobe that serves as a booth to record, then have a quarter of the room dedicated to the work desk to do the actually programming and keyboard playing, then sit on the couch and plug it into to my surround to hear how it all sounds.

I just am passionate for music and creating my own stuff, I usually do a lot of audio cutting, EQ mixing, using my keyboard to sample, and include parts of my own sounds into the music to make it really sound new.

Who listens to Death Grips here?

They are a really cool, innovative, batshit crazy alternative group.

Songs I would recommend if you are looking to get into them, these are lighter songs from their discography that can ease you in.

BIRDS

GET GOT

HUSTLE BONES

I'VE SEEN FOOTAGE

@DonJorginho Death Grips are certainly insane and really good. Listened to Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix last night which is them at their wackiest.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Honestly never been the biggest metal fan but certain sub genres can be fun. Unsilent Death by Nails is a classic and City by Strapping Young Lad rips. Stoner metal is great too with Kyuss and Boris being my favourite bands there.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy What's your favorite album? Mine is The Blackening.

Any Kyuss and QOTSA fans on here? Which do you prefer? and why? I would say Kyuss for Josh Homme's superior tone and style as their guitarist, but QOTSA for Homme's vocals, he's a much better vocalist than John Garcia, but Kyuss are more fun overall and their songs are more high energy than QOTSA's.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic QOTSA are a great traditional ‘rock band’ and both Rated R and Songs for the Deaf are great albums but I’d have to go with Kyuss too. Welcome to Sky Valley is one of my favourite stoner metal albums and it’s just a great fun album. It’s definitely one I’m keeping my eye out for on vinyl. I really enjoy a lot of stoner/drone metal compared to most other types so Kyuss are basically a perfect band for my tastes. Honestly I probably listen to QOTSA more however, since they’re a great singles band. Now I’m all confused 😂

Any John McLaughlin fans on here? I think he plays in a rock style within a jazz context, maybe that sounds obvious, but there are only a few guys in the jazz world who do that, and do it well.