Originally Posted by
sleep
Wow, this is a lot. I have always loved music and always been listening to a lot of it, let me talk about my history of my music taste and stuff I like: So, I am not your typical music listener... I am what other may call a "hipster" in terms of what type of media I consume. I rarely listen to a band or an artist you may see on the radio or any music streaming network, ever since i was little, I was very interested in music, watching music videos every day on TV on channels like MTV and such, but, what brought me to love music as much as I do nowadays is video games. If you analyze all the music I listen, you can somehow link it to a past game I played. Now, for the interesting part, what music I like to listen: Always been a fan of electronic music, be it EDM (not nowadays since it has become very bland and generic imo), chiptune, drum and bass, synthwave, vaporwave, trance, progressive stuff, even ambient music. I am also a huge jazz fan, bossa nova, big bang, fusion and relatives. Even though I do listen to a lot of different types of music, it's rare that I get interested enough in an artist music that I search for their other work, it must really be something unique or extremely well made for me to look for more of the same artist. Being so influenced by video game music, it is obvious that I am listen to a lot of video game OSTs, which I will write another post ranking my favorites
I honestly love IDM i need to get into it more, i've been on a rage kick recently its actually really really good. you mighy be pretty interested in this though its incredibly popular so it'll be out of your comfort zone a bit, though i think coming from an EDM/IDM background would help you appreciate the more quality music being put out for this genre like specifically the song
miss the rage ive been fucking obsessed with production of that song. ALSO!! you should totally check put that song i mentioned it has a lot of techno, jungle, rave inspired moments and i think you might have fun with it going a tiny bit outside your comfort zone.
Originally Posted by
piss
we may have had disagreements in the past but honestly your music taste is a W
I wasn't huge into music until I was 13 when I listened to a testament record and i was like "yo this shit is gas", and i've been exploring it more
my most recent topster (first 13 are 10/10 for me) may seem pretty linear but it's my taste
Huge into metal (melo, prog, tech death personal favorite) and hip-hop, recently listened to quadeca's and nas' new lp's, pretty good shit, can't believe quadeca dissed KSI at one point lmao; I've been exploring other genres like math and noise rock, thanks for the introduction to boris, pretty killer. Also listened to a lot of TWICE recently.
death is my favorite band, and by extension artist, of all time, and nothing will ever change that fact
if you ever want to recommend me anything hmu, would love to explore a lot more
OKAY, i'm a bit more sober now and can fully dive into this message.
I'd like to recommend you
(and anyone else interested in this thread, i see you browsing come pay attention its fun) 4 albums or so and if you ever listen to them seriously feel free to come back to this thread and let me hear about it i'd love to.
1. reading through some of the stuff you mentioned you were interested in the first thing that came to my mind was the band 15,000 guns a little outfit that started my intense watch on the atlanta noise rock / punk rock scene way back in april. they do a very intense mix of post punk, prog rock, and math rock; their absurdist lyrics only helping to elevate a confusing slurry of sound. the band will often rip their song apart and jam a little bit to themselves before slowly picking back up into the song. i've never seen anything like this and it's been slowly picking at my brain ever since i first heard it i mean i absolutely just NEED to hear more stuff like this. i seriously recommend checking out their self titled "
15,000 guns" album its one of my very rare 5/5s. the tones you will find on this album are also fucking amazing, their vocalist lets out the gnarliest screams sometimes too it is insane stuff absolutely a must hear for any prog rock fan.
2. you mentioned boris, i happen to fuckkiiiingggg love them sometimes. because i'm a lazy bitch i'm just gonna copy my review i did of "
flood" by them as i honestly cannot come up with a better way of talking about this album without repeating myself, so take it away me from 5 months ago.
Flood - Boris (2000)
Flood by Boris, is an album that is genuinely difficult to describe, often being described as drone it is so much more than that. It is the best concept album i have ever heard, as it's able to get the concept off without being able to understand the lyrics. Japanese primarily metal band Boris has always been incredibly experimental, but they have never been as experimental as their 3rd record Flood, a hypnotic "drone" record almost describing the before, after, and during stages of a tsunami with only their instruments. The Lo-Fi analog recording this album was created with creates an air of comfort, but also unease.
Flood 1: Flood part 1 starts off the album as hypnotic as it gets, somehow perfectly repetitive, a single guitar riff echoes onto itself creating a layer of sounds that clings onto you and refuses to let go. Starting around 6 minutes in, massive reverberating drums fade in and out. Singular drum hits pelting the track until the storm breaks, releasing a monsoon of genuinely panic inducing pounding. (this hadn't occurred to me until now but this might also represent the earthquake that causes the tsunami, i have spent 3 years with this album and its still giving me new interpretations)
Flood 2: After the storm, all seems fine for a while, blissful ignorance like a rainbow. The instrumentation on this song is absolutely beautiful, a slow drum beat with a relaxing progression, and swelling ambience whisks you away until the absolutely mesmerizing leads with an excellent thick, fuzzy tone that come in and sweep you off your feet, reminding you that the flood is yet to come as the tide rises.
Flood 3: The tide recedes a final time, allowing you your final moments of rest. Somber vocals somehow made eerie, remind me of an angel that appears before disasters. an absolutely emotionally devastating aura is created, until finally the tsunami hits, and the landscape is destroyed by the flood of noise. Roaring guitars sink you under the waves, and tries to drown you. Droning leads wash you away into the ocean, demanding control, and overpowering the land with the unmatched power of the ocean.
Flood 4: As the same riff plays over, and over fading out slowly, often the most criticized track just being the same thing for 21 minutes, I believe personally to be an absolutely necessary closer. Leaving you with time to regain composure. The flood is over, and the land needs time to heal, Flood part 4 represents the aftermath of the tsunami. Creating a wall of unpassable noise, as the track echoes to a close.
Flood is a masterpiece, an hour and ten minutes of music that is genuinely baffling to have been created by human beings. It surpasses Boris as a band entirely, and it will live on as one of the single greatest pieces of art to have ever been created.
cool review, i wrote it because someone called me a snob or something i think it was for some petty reason, pretty funny. though that album is really good and you should listen to it sorry for the low effort on this specific little part of this post lol.
3. ITS GIRLBOSS SEASON BITCHES!!! another steaming hot fresh banger straight out of the atlanta underground upchuck releases an incredibly fun take on hardcore punk. i've always thought if you're doing punk you have to have a very fun expressive and vocalist, it gives the music a lot more character, you really need that in a genre as overdone as hardcore punk; AND BOY DO THEY HAVE IT! the front woman's energy is intoxicating, the way she brings in some hip hop flows onto tracks like
leech, more interesting vocalizations are something punk and hip hop have both been very known for over the years, and i really like seeing them trade hands a little bit. (because obviously they wouldn't hand shake... its punk and hip hop they would tussle a little bit(just go with me)) this is an incredibly eclectic album with a lot more influences showing up on this record, bits of indie rock on
face card with some very good singing from the vocalist, some almost sludge metal sounding stuff on the first half of
wage for war. not to mention a female vocalist in an actually good punk band!!! thats not something you hear everyday so you have to appreciate what you can find (only other thing i can think of for good punk with female vocals is the band slant, without getting into skramz bands that being said definitely go check out the band i hate sex they're great). check out the song upchuck on the album"
upchuck" BY upchuck and then listen to the rest of the album also because its great.
4. I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!!! don't you just love having fun? do you know whats fun? POWER POP MIXED WITH OLD 2010 POP MUSIC ENERGY!!!! enter:
air guitar by the sobs, an incredibly fun little album that might be incredibly nostalgic finding to a lot of people my age. this is an equally eclectic album though obviously inspired by kero kero bonito they bring more than enough to the table to have a personality of their own (one i prefer over kero kero bonito in all honesty). every song has a very unique sound, and feel compared to the last, while still sounding like the same band, and maintaining cohesion. their song structures feel similar to trackmania grand league track design (BARE WITH ME FOR A SECOND), every song is designed to have one specific moment that is the "identity" of that specific song; take for example the song friday night has a particularly memorable (tasteful) breakcore switch (and when i say tasteful breakcore i'm saying its more like jungle, and its more inspired than that 250 million bpm shit that stuff melts braincells). i think everyone should hear this even if you don't like pop music its energy is infectious always reminds me of when i was a kid, and when everything was easy. good album definitely check it out !!! and then tell me all about your thoughts on it !!! i almost forgot to mention this band is really cool to hear coming from a place like singapore ! this is inspiring me to look more into singaporean music, and i encourage you to do the same there's a lot of good music that doesn't get over to people in the west!!!
this post was fun to make i might do more recommendations (THOUGH IT WONT BE FUCKING FOUR AGAIN JESUS CHRIST THE EFFORT GOING INTO THESE POSTS ITS ALMOST LIKE I CARE OR SOMETHING!!)
Last edited by Nurse; Dec 24, 2022 at 07:21 PM.