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2 votes
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Help with a playlist : )
I love all kinds of music, but am unable to play everything I like at work. If anyone here has the desire to introduce me (and anyone in this thread) to some beloved stuff that may not be...
I love all kinds of music, but am unable to play everything I like at work.
If anyone here has the desire to introduce me (and anyone in this thread) to some beloved stuff that may not be familiar, I would appreciate it.
As my name suggests, this is in a restaurant, so it would just have to exclude anything too introspective/atonal/delicate, and anything too speedy/loud/without melody (curses and lewdness are fine with my boss, though, interestingly enough!)
I would certainly listen to that sort of stuff, personally, though so please be free to include it with caveat.
No offense to artists who are household names and near it, but I am sorely tired of all the songs I've heard before, and my coworkers are never going to leave out the early 90s Madonna, so I am just trying to mix it up!
12 votes -
Kamasi Washington - Street Fighter Mas (2018)
5 votes -
Craig Stickland - Warning (NonCOMM 2018)
2 votes -
Fifty years on, The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' haunts us still
4 votes -
The cult of Aphex Twin
8 votes -
Reina del Cid - The Cooling
3 votes -
AJR - "Sober Up" | Black Box Sessions (2018)
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~music Listening Club 2 - Dancing Time
The second week of our listening club is here already! This week we focus on our first user-voted obscure record: Dancing Time, the Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77. Here is...
The second week of our listening club is here already! This week we focus on our first user-voted obscure record: Dancing Time, the Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77.
Here is the pitch given by @arghdos :
I'll nominate The Funkees': Dancing Time. This is some of the best afro-funk that has made it's way to the west. Bandcamp had a great feature on the Funkees a few years ago, they started as a band right at the end of the Nigerian civil war, and became defining proponents of Nigerian funk (along with the Hykkers, BLO, etc.) in the shadow the the giant in the room (i.e., Fela). They were much more influenced by sounds like James Brown and Santana (e.g., check out this ridiculously good cover of War's Slippin' Into Darkness), and present an entirely different side of mid-70's Nigerian music. In 1973, they moved to London and released two albums under John Peel before disbanding under internal strife in 1977. This album collects all their released Nigerian 45's with the best of the London recorded material.
Here's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the band, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with Dancing Time. Remember that this is intended to be a slow moving thing, feel free to take your time and comment at any point in the week!
If you'd like to stream or buy the album, it can be found on most platforms here.
16 votes -
Kiara Scuro with Minou & Guttersnip3 on Balamii
2 votes -
Confidence Man - Out The Window (Andrew Weatherall Remix) (2018)
4 votes -
Cuco - Lover is A Day
2 votes -
Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophane (2016)
3 votes -
Charles Tolliver Quartet (1971)
6 votes -
Ninja Sex Party – Danny Don't You Know
5 votes -
Tommy Boy concept record, Sandusky, Ohio
5 votes -
Queen - Live at LIVE AID Wembley Stadium 7/13/1985
8 votes -
Lusine feat. Vilja Larjosto — Just A Cloud
5 votes -
As I Lay Dying - My Own Grave
5 votes -
New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler dead at age 68
5 votes -
CHVRCHES - Get Out (2018)
7 votes -
Random Collective Undersound Mixtapes Vol 036: Tejedor
2 votes -
The Dear Hunter - A Night on the Town (2015)
6 votes -
Reddit Playlists - Reddit Playlists - Create Playlists from a subreddit
8 votes -
Milfred Graves Quartet (1973)
5 votes -
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire (2009)
5 votes -
David Bazan - Hard To Be (2010)
7 votes -
What's your favourite Mountain Goats album?
I can't decide between All Hail West Texas and All Eternals Deck. Darnielle is so fantastic at his craft.
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Promoting Anything That's NOT Individual Tracks?
In my opinion, part of what makes places like /r/music so mind-numbingly boring is that outside of news, there's just individual tracks and question threads that beg for individual tracks. There's...
In my opinion, part of what makes places like /r/music so mind-numbingly boring is that outside of news, there's just individual tracks and question threads that beg for individual tracks.
There's some value in this and if that's the way you consume music, then cool. But as someone who primarily listens to albums, I rarely want to discover music like this. Like maybe if I'm looking into a new genre, it's cool to get an introductory song to get what it's all about, but beyond that it's kinda a haze.
So others who value any kind of music listening outside of singles + loose tracks, what do you think we can do to shape this community into something that includes us a little more? Discussions on DJ sets? Album reviews? Games like the survivors done on artist-specific subreddits? I don't think this is something that just naturally gets fixed through the hierarchy system or something, like many of the other problems with /r/music. What can we do?
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Gorillaz - The Now Now now released
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Chart thread
I was looking over some of my charts of albums recently and I thought this might be a cool idea. If you don't know what a chart is, basically you can go here and put together a chart of up to 100...
I was looking over some of my charts of albums recently and I thought this might be a cool idea.
If you don't know what a chart is, basically you can go here and put together a chart of up to 100 of your favorite albums to show people a quick look at your taste or whatever. I've seen people use this as favorite albums, albums that mean a lot to them but aren't necessarily their favorite, people putting custom pictures and making a list of their favorite artists, people making a chart of albums with a "theme" (food on the cover, albums about break-ups, albums of certain genres, etc.), the possibility is whatever you feel like putting together a bunch of albums/artists/anything else you can think of together to show to other people interested in them. I thought it might be a cool idea to see what other ~music users enjoy listening to.
You can also use this to show your rateyourmusic account if you have one, your last.fm, your sputnikmusic, anything pertaining to music that would be cool to look at.
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
14 votes -
Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat (2018)
4 votes -
Coheed and Cambria - Unheavenly Creatures (2018)
5 votes -
Avin's Naked Trio - Somniac
3 votes -
John Coltrane's "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album"
10 votes -
Interview with Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez (details on new album & storyline)
7 votes -
Shook - I Will Be There (2018)
7 votes -
Sahara All Star Band Jos - Feso Jaiye
4 votes -
Tom Waits at 29 being interviewed by Australian TV Host - Textbook Waits' Subversion
6 votes -
Tidiani Koné & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Djanfa Magni (2010)
3 votes -
Gong - Flying Teapot (1973)
5 votes -
Rolo Tomassi - Rituals (2017)
4 votes -
Fat Mattress - I Don't Mind
2 votes -
Khruangbin - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) (2018)
4 votes -
Mystikal - Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against The Wall) [2001]
4 votes -
What's being added to your Summer 2018 playlist right now?
Looking for those jams, pop earworms, and party playlist songs that you have on repeat!
10 votes -
Resident Advisor: RA517 - Awesome Tapes From Africa
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Grimes - World Princess part II (2015)
4 votes -
Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash (1997)
6 votes