@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’m not really a classic rock person, down near the bottom of my sorta tastes. I’ll still give it a go!
1. Revolver - The Beatles
2. Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Acabou Chorare - Novos Baianos
4. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
5. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6. Who’s Next - The Who
7. Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
8. Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
9. Fragile - Yes
10. Meddle - Pink Floyd
@nessisonett Much to their discontent It's a bit of bollocks anyway, just because bands came from the same location people started grouping them together like it's the same genre music.
@nessisonett May I recommend Unspeakable by Bill Frisell? It's a 70s jazz/rnb/funk sounding record made in the 00s with lots of contributions from a 70s r&b producer.
"Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation." - Alasdair Gray
Oh wow, the Spotify end of year thing is out and is rather embarrassing hahaha. I must have listened to an absolute ton of VGM this year tbh. Would be interesting to share people’s results!
I still buy all my music and this year, as I’m listening to so much more because of work, each week I rotate five albums off my phone for ones I’ve not listened to for ages. I go through my library alphabetically to try and find ones I might not otherwise think of.
It’s been quite good fun and there are so many albums I have that I hadn’t listened to in over a decade that are still great. Lots of the noughties indie albums are still great fun like the debuts from Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand.
I still use last.fm though (anyone remember that??) so still have some stats for the year!
@nessisonett Not sure how accurate that is, but because I listen to a dj mix every week, that dj is my top listened to artist. Even though he plays other artists music and other djs present the show. And it also says my lost listen to song is 'Intro', because the first track is always the introduction! 🤣
@Thrillho Ha! Last.fm is still used by your truly as well. Still enjoy scrolling through my lists and discovering news bands through it. I've been on it since 2005 or so but deleted my scrobbles in 2010 (very silly of me), but it means I can still see how my taste has changed over the last decade. How time flies!
My top artist is still Frank Turner (5,404) even though I haven't listened to his stuff at all in the last couple of years. It's still 1,000 listens more than second place (The Menzingers) and more than double that of anything outside the top 5.
It used to be really good for recommendations but I don't really use it for that any more. The recommendations feature of Spotify is one of the few reasons I'd use it but I don't like it as a business model. It's fantastic for the consumer but not the artist and I have lots of musician friends.
A good piece on Spotify in the Guardian today by Nadine Shah;
@Thrillho Only 64,000 scrobbles since 2010 for me, although the rate has spiked enormously since I've become self-employed
I agree about Spotify et al as they generally screw bands over royally. I find little joy in streaming, I'd much rather drip feed new music so you don't get blase about it and really appreciate new stuff. I mostly use bandcamp nowadays, but still buy a new album every now and again on CD (remember those?).
@johncalmc Ooh, Chromatics, I assume that’s due to their album coming out this year? I’m a big fan of them too and Johnny Jewel’s other projects.
@ShaiHulud@Thrillho I mostly agree about Spotify which is why I tend to buy physical copies of albums if I enjoy them. I use it for everyday use and commuting though, although I guess I could just use my Walkman! It was funny reading through the material my uncle gets sent from the royalties people due to Spotify and radio, you get to see which country the user was from too. You roughly get a tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of a dollar which just plainly isn’t enough to live on unless you get onto a major playlist used in cafes, bars or something similar. Every one of them from Danananaykroyd have gone on to take ‘proper’ jobs later in life because they don’t get enough to live on by any stretch of the matter. It’s really quite sad to be honest.
My most listened to song this year is apparently 'Every Single Day' by Melt Yourself Down. If ever a song summed up a year, then this must surely be it.
Khruangbin also feature heavily, as does Beck - I'm in his top 0.5%, which I imagine he's chuffed about
@nessisonett I think what I listen to most is based on what playlists I've made this year. That's how it usually goes. Like my most listened to track is nearly always whatever the first track on my best of whatever year it is playlist is. And I've made playlists for all of my top five this year. I have a lot of neatly organised playlists.
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