What is that one song of a genre you usually don't like but love the one particular song?
Could be anything. New or old. Some song stuck in your mind right now. Whatever.
Could be anything. New or old. Some song stuck in your mind right now. Whatever.
The best one that comes to mind for me is the album Brother, Sister by Mewithoutyou. I don't really like any other Post-Hardcore album and I really can't get into most other albums by Mewithoutyou, but I've probably listened to this one close to a hundred times.
Hi, I'm filling in for @Whom, since she told me she wouldn't be around to post this and asked that I make sure to post it.
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 discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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 discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
So, as a followup to the music tagging thread from a few days ago, I would like to propose the following for discussion.
The consensus from the last post appeared to be a yes on this. Please note:, this doesn't mean that anyone who submits a track is required to go look up / determine the best genre themselves. If they choose not to, one of the tag mods may do so for them while browsing. Further, we seemed to reach a consensus last time that in the future it would be best to automate this step as completely as possible.
I / @Whom have done some digging and found several different schemes we might use as a basis. For convenience, I've reproduced them in a table for you below:
<html> <head> <body>| FreeDB | Discogs | Wikipedia | Allmusic | Rate Your Music |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blues | Blues | Blues | Blues | Ambient |
| Classical | Brass & Military | Classical | Classical | Blues |
| Country | Children's | Country | Country | Classical Music |
| Folk | Classical | Electronic | Electronic | Comedy |
| Jazz | Electronic | Folk | International | Country |
| Newage | Folk, World, & Country | Hip-hop | Jazz | Dance |
| Reggae | Funk / Soul | Jazz | Latin | Electronic |
| Rock | Hip-hop | Reggae | Pop/Rock | Experimental |
| Soundtrack | Jazz | Religious | R&B | Field Recordings |
| Latin | Rock | Rap | Folk | |
| Non-Music | Traditional | Reggae | Hip Hop | |
| Pop | Industrial Music | |||
| Reggae | Jazz | |||
| Rock | Metal | |||
| Stage & Screen | Musical Theatre and Entertainment | |||
| New Age | ||||
| Pop | ||||
| Psychedelia | ||||
| Punk | ||||
| R&B | ||||
| Regional Music | ||||
| Rock | ||||
| Singer/Songwriter | ||||
| Ska | ||||
| Sounds and Effects | ||||
| Spoken Word |
I think ideally we will be able to come up with (say) a list the size of wikipedia, allmusic or discogs such that determining the right genre isn't much of a burden on tag mods. In the future, we could expand this or even start inheriting the RYM genre hierarchy (e.g., Ska -> 2 Tone, Jamaican Ska, Spouge, Third Wave Ska)
So with that out of the way, I think the best way to proceed is for each of you to either:
A) Build a list of your own with one of these as a basis. We can count up how many people include a genre an count as a vote for it's inclusion.
Or
B) Argue for / against a specific genre's inclusion.
Sound good? Did I miss anything?
Hello all you good people, we made it to week 10! Here we've got this week's user-voted record: ▣世界から解放され▣ by ░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ !
From @Cleb:
Internet Club takes a bizarre set of samples consisting of things from Dragon Ball to some random Japanese radio show and turns them into a glitchy, repetitive vaporwave project that sounds just a little bit unhinged.
Here's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the artist, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with ▣世界から解放され▣. 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 YouTube or bought on Bandcamp.
Sup yall, we're here in week 9! It's time for another classic record discussion: Kraftwerk's The Man Machine! (or Die Mensch-Maschine)
Here's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the artist, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with The Man Machine. 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.
Don't forget to nominate and vote for next week's obscure record in response to this comment! Feel free to do something fun, dumb, or special in celebration of our tenth week!