We need to expand our music listening categories

Kpatch

Kpatch

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This rather expansive music category listing was sent to me, perhaps it’s connected to Spotify. Anyway, we might be being lazy. I don’t recall anyone posting their favorite Bubble Trance or Vapor Twitch albums. Shame! Surely we could try harder. There’s no Death Step or post-punk brasileiro fans here?


Edit: Oh, I dug deeper, it is a Spotify feature. If you belong you can hear music samples by clicking on the highlighted links. Pretty cool. I don’t belong but I might join now.

”Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 5,092 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-12-12. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.”
 
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JohnVF said:
I'm into Italo Disco if that helps.
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Helps? Wellllll.... 😁 I probably wouldn't recognize most of it, but a few I probably would.

In my case, it's probably easier to list music styles I don't like, since I listen to so much. A typical psychotic evening for me might include a couple of jazz LPs, The Cramps, Edu Lobo, Bert Kaempfert, Eddie Palmieri and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, after having listened to my trained 70s Soul station on Pandora, fresh off a Funkadelic track.

I'm weird that way...
 
Rudy said:
Helps? Wellllll.... 😁 I probably wouldn't recognize most of it, but a few I probably would.

In my case, it's probably easier to list music styles I don't like, since I listen to so much. A typical psychotic evening for me might include a couple of jazz LPs, The Cramps, Edu Lobo, Bert Kaempfert, Eddie Palmieri and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, after having listened to my trained 70s Soul station on Pandora, fresh off a Funkadelic track.

I'm weird that way...
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That sounds like a good evening. We'll open a bottle of wine here and maybe get into the (now-legal) smokey-smokes and genre hop from '60s lounge to post-punk to industrial to '70s soul then New Wave then throw in some weird stuff like Esquivel then go back to some sort of synth-pop and then hit some 90s indie then jazz then some '80s pop or funk and then maybe classical before getting into some french synth stuff...and somewhere in there my wife will try, again, to get me to like the early '90s Latin-American grunge-lite she grew up with, but it never sticks.

I don't like new country music. At all. And I don't care for most of what the kids call EDM (see the vapor twitch thread). Most modern pop music is out, too, though I'll listen to Billie Eilish or Lana Del Rey if that counts. Beyond that I'll try most anything.

Whatever makes somebody happy... though some of it, admittedly, I don't get at all.
 
I think we are pretty much in line with our dislikes. Some of the newer artists I like (or at least, newer to me) are ones that throw back to an earlier time. JD McPherson is going strong on roots rock. The James Hunter Six has been doing the same with a blue-eyed soul flavor. And a Leon Bridges tune came up on Pandora, "Smooth Sailing," that I'd swear was soul straight out of the early 60s. Yet it was recorded just a few years ago. Durand Jones & The Indications follow a similar path. All good!

I do like a small number of earlier country artists, but the one band that really struck a note for me was BR5-49, a country style from way back, but with a modern twist to the lyrics...and a great sense of humor. (Given their past experience playing on Lower Broadway in Nashville, it was estimated they knew hundreds of cover songs in addition to their own works.) And my recent discovery of The Mavericks came at a good time.

I'm big on Latin American music, especially Brazilian. I like some newer contemporary jazz, but that shlock they call $mooth Jazz reminds me of modern "bro country"--commercialized and repetitive. It's a fine line. I like groups/artists like Four80East, Praful, etc., but a Boney James or Rick Braun record would send me screaming from the room. 😁
 
Ooh, there's a lot of good music on that page. I'll need to explore it much, much more. I've already found a handful of genres with bands I recognize in there. :)
 
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I think I’ve heard the same Leon Bridges track, as I “shazamed” it and went down a little rabbit hole. Michael Kiwanuka is another current artist with that old soul at heart.
 
Rockabilly, fifties rock'n'roll, real country (no plastic hats), forties big bands, some jazz; even Brubeck at times. Discovered jazz through working my way back from Fats Domino to Fats Waller after which the horizon just kept expanding. Still does. Keepin' it good and loud, near-field; excluding anything after the rot set in (Bleatles, Rolling Drones, Motown, etc).
 
I was out with a musician friend (darkwave if we’re still in the genres kick) on Wednesday and a good deal of our conversation revolved around whether current music was as bad as we thought it was, or if we merely thought it was bad because there was simply so much of it that the really good stuff was lost in the chaff, and we were too old and set in our ways to find it. A further complication was that the music we ourselves enjoyed and in his case made, would be considered “bad” by many people older than us, and also younger than us, simply because we grew up in different environments so maybe if we were 20, the pop music we thought was currently excruciatingly generic, would appeal to us in some way that was impossible for us vaguely middle aged dudes to understand. Eventually we gave up and started talking about ex girlfriends.
 
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