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2 votes
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Half Man Half Biscuit - A Country Practice (1998)
3 votes -
Prefab Sprout - Bonny (1985)
2 votes -
Elijah who: Don't forget to feed your neopets (instrumental)
3 votes -
BLOODPANIC - Strikes (2020)
5 votes -
Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers - Jumpin' Jive (1943)
3 votes -
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (2020)
9 votes -
My Analog Journey: Portable Session - Rare Turkish Anatolian rock, funk and jazz
5 votes -
Neuromancer - Inhuman (2020)
5 votes -
Any interest in putting together a Tildes Best of 2020 music roundup?
The final results would look something like this. Ours here wouldn't be tailored to obscure music like that though, just the best albums of the year with no other qualifications. There hasn't been...
The final results would look something like this.
Ours here wouldn't be tailored to obscure music like that though, just the best albums of the year with no other qualifications. There hasn't been one on reddit since 2017, you can find the 2011-2017 sets in the archive. The first one was just me putting up 15 albums. I believe the highest number we ever hit was 287 albums. It's heartening when the artists show up to thank you for shining a light on their little corner of the music world, too. A good list is good press for Tildes, it'll make the rounds.
Frankly, the people who were instrumental in those roundups are here on Tildes now, so hitting past 300 isn't outside the realm of possibility, not that we need to get that extreme (it's just fun). There are several new type two listeners here too, so potentially we've already got more music lovers and more help here than we've had doing the previous set. General input from tens of thousands of people like you see on reddit isn't as important to this process as the hardcore music lovers, we'd get like 3 solid recs out of 1000 comments, and small/forgotten /r/letstalkmusic always kicked everyone else's ass when it came to album picks.
These things can be rather a lot of work, which is why they are hard to do. It's not the playlists that eat up the time, though - it's collecting all of the albums and getting enough ears on them to give them the stamp of approval for the final list. The way to make that easier is to get started on it early and spread the work out over several months. That way come November you're looking for late releases and overlooked gems rather than panicking and trying to do it all in a single week. Been there, that's the worst.
The way we'd do it before, we'd run roundup threads on reddit periodically (in several different subs) then sift the comments for album recommendations, listen to them to see if they passed muster. That's hardly necessary on Tildes, especially with the long-lived threads here that bump with activity and never truly lock. We also used a google docs spreadsheet so we could tally everyone's votes up, but that was a major pain in the ass I'd like to skip. Tildes' own votes should be more than enough, and exemplary tags can highlight the must-listen set that goes at the top.
I think the best way to do it is put up a collection thread that everyone who is interested can then bookmark or ignore, and then drop albums in the comments between now and mid-November. No, not in this thread, I'll post a thread for it during the first week of October. We just let that roll and keep dumping new albums into it, listening, and leaving comments there. Come late November I can whip that into a set of playlists in a weekend, that's the easy part.
I enjoy doing this because it's been my experience that most music publications would rather argue about what numerical order the same 50 albums should be in than round up all of the best and let the listeners decide for themselves. They also have an incentive to pimp bands that are industry darlings or that they are being paid to boost in the recommendations. We don't.
So, are you folks interested in getting the ball rolling on this in October? Leave a comment if you are interested in contributing (even if it's just a single album) so we can get a sense of how many people are down for this before we get started. If there isn't enough interest we can try again next year. I'd also like to invite the folks who have done this before to share their experiences, you know who you are. ;)
18 votes -
XTC - Senses Working Overtime (1982)
6 votes -
Michael Guy Bowman - Underneath It All (2012)
3 votes -
Henri Texier - Les Là-bas (1977)
7 votes -
Wardruna - Lyfjaberg (Healing-Mountain) (2020)
4 votes -
Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place to Die (2020)
Apple Music Spotify YouTube Melbourne metalcore outfit Alpha Wolf dropped their second LP today, their first with vocalist Lochie Keogh. A thorough evolution of their sound, A Quiet Place to Die...
Melbourne metalcore outfit Alpha Wolf dropped their second LP today, their first with vocalist Lochie Keogh. A thorough evolution of their sound, A Quiet Place to Die picks up where their previous release, the EP Fault, left off and goes bigger, harder and more bone shattering. With this release, Alpha Wolf arguably moves to the forefront of the nu-metalcore movement, combining elements of hardcore with nu-metal. The result is very down-tuned guitars chugging like crazy that occasionally make way for crushing breakdowns and on the fly harmonics. Keogh's vocals are raw and unflinching, as he barks out some dark themes and has come great pit calls. While there is mostly just non-stop chunky riffs, the band shows they can write ballads, in their own way, with tracks Bleed 4 You and Don't Ask.
For fans of Architects, Fit For a King, Stray From the Path and anyone that thought even the heaviest nu-metal bands weren't heavy enough.
6 votes -
Roya – Portkod (2020)
3 votes -
Houses - Paranoid (2020)
4 votes -
she - Music Like This (2019)
7 votes -
Shinji Hosoe - Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009)
6 votes -
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
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.
6 votes -
Daniel Norgren - Rolling Rolling Rolling (2019)
6 votes -
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (2020)
6 votes -
Rival Sons - Shooting Stars (2019)
3 votes -
Richard Cheese - WAP (lounge version) (2020)
8 votes -
Carole King - It's Too Late (1971)
7 votes -
Rediscovering the enormous social and spiritual legacy of Black Jazz Records
7 votes -
Ludwig Göransson has won the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) on The Mandalorian – the composer's first Emmy
10 votes -
All Them Witches - Rats in Ruin (2020)
5 votes -
Fleet Foxes - Wading In Waist-High Water (2020)
7 votes -
Aeronexus & MASKED - Cosmic Calamity (2020)
3 votes -
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
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.
11 votes -
Rameses B & Veela - One Day (2020)
5 votes -
Golden Dawn Arkestra - Allo Allo Boom (2019)
3 votes -
The Beths - You Are a Beam of Light (2020)
4 votes -
Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze (2010)
3 votes -
Forty years of hip-hop
12 votes -
The FBI, the second Red scare, and the folk singer who cooperated
6 votes -
Ednaswap - Torn (1995)
4 votes -
Skyway Man - Did Ya Know Him (2020)
3 votes -
It’s been a record year for guitar sales
7 votes -
East Side Story, Vol. 1 (2001)
3 votes -
Music theory and white supremacy
15 votes -
Alfa Mist - Galaxy (2020)
7 votes -
In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
6 votes -
Mastodon - Orion (2008)
7 votes -
Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77
8 votes -
anubasu-anubasu - With Your Love (2020)
3 votes -
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
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.
8 votes -
Looking for melodic instrumental metal bands!
Little disclaimer: I posted this on reddit too! I love melodic music and often prefer instrumental bands. So far I only know Demetori. (Don't judge it by the anime pictures if you're not into...
Little disclaimer: I posted this on reddit too!
I love melodic music and often prefer instrumental bands. So far I only know Demetori. (Don't judge it by the anime pictures if you're not into that.) They make covers of music from a game series, so it's bound to be melodic. And they're really good! Here's another great one from them. They make some lighter stuff, too.
Another example: The Black Mages. Again, they make video game covers. But Nobuo Uematsu is a member of the band, so they're awesome too!
One more example is Akira Yamaoka, but his style is more like rock.
Are there any melodic but instrumental bands out there? Progressive style is always a bonus.
11 votes -
Poolside FM: Transport yourself to 1980's Miami
13 votes