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Video Game Music 🎮🎵
Same, I have a playlist full of songs from games that I’ve played like Nier automata and Undertale. Used to think people who liked video game music were cringey until I started playing video games myself and found the songs very catchy
The Nier automata soundtrack is on another level. What a collection of absolute masterpieces.
Weight of the world still brings a tear to my eye.
To me, it’s both Weight of the world and Song of the Ancients that makes me teary eyed.
You hear the album Determination by Ace Waters and RichardBB? Metal undertale covers.
Yes! I also really like his Bad Apple version. I actually like it more than the orig imo
Ori and the blind forest, a hat in time, deltarune. It’s amazing how good videogame soundtrack can get!
The soundtracks for almost any of the Guilty Gear games are just pure energy and fun and I totally recommend them
man of culture, plus lofi - it’s safe to say i dislike songs with lyrics 😂
The Stardew Valley music is where it’s at
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When I was a pre-teen and teenager, pop-punk and emo were popular.
Turns out I haven’t outgrown this genre. I now listen to more music from a variety of different genres and time periods, but ultimately, 80% of my library is still early 2000’s pop punk.
Yeah I though I was gonna outgrow metal.
Boy was I wrong.
Hey, you may like us over at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
That community looks like it has literally nothing to do with emo or pop-punk
Progressive metal
Playlist generated, thanks.
Plenty or great bands there!
+1 for Sleep Token. Amazing band, love their latest album TMBtE.
Dang I only really recognize Sleep Token, Soen, and Persefone from this list. All S-tier bands, I’ll have to check out the rest.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The PetroDragronic Apocalypse is one of the best records I’ve heard in some time, from any band, in any genre.
I can’t stop listening to it. To add, I’m not really a fan of any of their other records. They’re clearly good, just doesn’t resonate with me as much as this one does.
Moooottorr…
…Spiiiriiiit……
I like Japanese City Pop.
There’s a City Pop community here on Lemmy you can join!
Do you have a link? I could only find the lemmit.online one but that one just crossposts from Reddit.
!citypop@lemmy.world
Thanks! It took a while for it to sync with my instance but I can subscribe now.
Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Neil Young, Beck, Prince
Have you listened to Lord Huron? They are a modern band playing a traditional rock style, and they have a deep love for Neil Young
This is their most popular album, I think:
https://youtu.be/WiwWgN5O3WQ
Experimental Example: Nurse With Wound “Dueling Banjos” https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o
Psychedelia Example: 13th Floor Elevators “Earthquake” https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg
Krautrock Example: Neu! “Hero” https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s
Hip Hop Example: De La Soul “A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays” https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c
Post Punk Example: Chrome “Animal” https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw
Punk Example: Rich Kids “Ghosts of Princes in Towers” https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4
Country Rock Example: Nick Lowe “She Don’t Love Nobody” https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk
Live Music Example: Grateful Dead “Bertha” https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM
Tropicalia Example: Os Mutantes “Ave, Lucifer” https://piped.video/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo
World Example: Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects “Moulssinia” https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k
Indie Rock Example: Purple Mountains “She’s Making Friends, I’m Turning Stranger” https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o
https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg
https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s
https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c
https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw
https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4
https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk
https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM
https://piped.video/watch?v=SBvp7qP1o0s
https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k
https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34
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Power Metal:
Powerwolf
Gloryhammer
Alestorm
Sabaton
Windrose
Pagan music:
Emerald Rose
Tyr
And then sea shanties, folk music, Irish (rebel and otherwise), labor/protest music, and the occasional bouts of pure randomness.
Right now I cannot get enough of Miracle of Sound. Dude just checks every box there is for me. It’s like if every other kind of music I listen to got gene-spliced into one guy.
In no particular order other stuff:
Blackmore’s Night
Clamavi de Profundis
Omnia
Faun
Gloryhammer!
dundun DOUBLE dundun WIZARD
Sad for all the drama though but now we have two “gloryhammer” with Angus McSix.
I entirely missed this. What happened?
Oh damn. Quick recap:
The band fired Thomas Winkler (lead singer) aka Angus. No reason was given but his poor live performance after the pandemic was rumored.
Then some old chat was leaked that put to light that James (bassist aka hootsman) and Chris (song writer / former keyboardist aka Zargotrax) were racist/mysoginic trying to take advantage of their status to fuck fans.
Then some allegation of abuse against James were made.
At the end of it all Christ wrote a PR excuse letter. Gloryhammer got a new lead singer (Sozos Michael). Thomas went on his way to make a new band (Angus McSix).
So we got two album this year with gloryhammer style.
https://loudwire.com/alleged-leaked-chat-gloryhammer-misogynists-racists/ if you want to see the chat.
Goddamn. I thought people saying “Angus McSix” were making some kind of joke about whoever replaced Thomas.
Sucks that his bandmates turned out to be that kind of people, but I’ll definitely look into his new project.
Thanks for the recap!
Just be careful there is two song order. The one of the track listing (the bad one) and the lore one (the good one).
For whatever reason they decided not to put the song in the lore order so the story makes no sense if you listen to the album in the track listening order.
That’s fuckin’ ridiculous.
I have the exact same list for power metal lol, only thing I’d add is twilight force.
I also like chiptune stuff, a great artist that kinda crosses over chiptune and metal is rainbowdragoneyes, he has done remixes of gloryhammer and alestorm, and has a whole EP of remixed and OC pirate metal chiptune.
I swear I’ve heard of twilight force but for the life of me I can’t remember what they sound like. I’ll have to look them up and get reacquainted.
Some of their more prominent characteristics are high, soaring vocals, kinda constantly epic sounding, and pretty cheesy (which is a good thing)
I like them a lot
Mostly sea shanties, Irish rebel songs, and Kesha.
That’s a heady trio. Good lad
I still most often listen to Grunge and 90 Hard and Alt rock. According to tidal Pearl Jam is a little more than half of all my song listens every month.
Side note, I think the collective noun for Lemmy users in any music thread should be Motorheads.
I used to hate grunge and especially Pearl Jam as a kid, but the genre’s grown on me a lot the last couple years
Post rock, synthwave, japanese jazz. I also love hard rock, but don’t listen to it too often, because I can’t listen to it while I’m working
Genres are for normies
I can’t speak for anyone else, but my favorite couple of genres over the past half year or so has definitely been 90s pop music and vocalsynth (vocaloid and other similar products).
I only really started getting into 90s pop because I found a playlist of songs for it on yt and decided to save it because I liked what I heard.
Retrowave // synthwave
Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.
But lately I’ve been on a classical music kick.
If you don’t already know, Billy Joel has a deep love for classical music, and in interviews talks about how it influenced his pop/rock songs
I recently started listening to classical and boy does it require a completely different listening approach! I’m listening almost exclusively to Mahler’s No.5 since my attention fades away after the first movement and I need lots of listening to know what’s actually going on
Mahlers 5th is good, but I think his 4th is better.
But my personal favorite is Beethoven’s 5th. I used to HATE that symphony when I was a kid, my grandmother loved it and it bored me to tears.
Turns out the version she had on CD that she always listened to was the worst recording you can find of it. It was WAY too slow, it made the whole thing drag on. That symphony works best when it’s damn near rushing. When I got back into classical a few months back I found the Berliner Philharmoniker playing it directed by Simon Rattle, and the sprint through that symphony, and it works SO MUCH BETTER. It was very clearly intended to be played fast, so many of the parts feel way more interesting and there’s sections where each part of the orchestra feels like it’s tripping over the others to be heard.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Since you look much more knowledgeable than me, could you help me understand how to navigate the overwhelming amount of different versions for every piece of music? For now I’m completely ignoring who’s playing and conducting and sometimes I timidly try to listen to another version, usually just to come back to the comfort of the first version I listened
Usually I try to listen to a few different versions until I land on one that really clicks with me. It takes a little bit to really understand what that means. To me the orchestra is less important than the director. The music is always the same, but the director decides which parts will pop out the most, how fast the tempo is, and how he wants the orchestra to play parts.
I’ll use the beethoven example again.
Here is the version that I don’t like. That was the “familiar” version I knew, and I didn’t like it so I never listened to this piece.
When I got into my current classical kick, I went to Spotify and stumbled on this version: https://open.spotify.com/track/4mw5oRBKNBfNV0dXAOIcne
I literally picked it because I thought the album cover was interesting because it had some color. A lot of classical albums are committed to black and white for some reason.
Googling a piece can help, especially if you search for like “beethoven 5th best recordings.” You’ll find a lot of opinions out there, and it can help you get a starting point for a given piece to go from.
If you find yourself wanting to go to a more “comfortable” version, it means something in the recording you’re listening to isn’t clicking with you. That’s OK! Try to identify what it is that makes you not like that recording, and what the one you prefer does differently that makes you prefer it. It helps to write it down; if you make posts here or on Mastodon that may help a lot with articulating what you do or don’t like (and boost engagement).
Seemingly “simple” things like “i think this section is too fast” or “the version I like has the horn section louder here, but this version focussed on the windpipes” really influence how you hear the music and make a big difference, and are completely valid reasons to prefer one recording over another.
I was recently revisiting some Billy Joel. He really was a great folk storyteller.
Like, Allentown tells a history so succinctly but authentically. It really is a skill he honed.
He’s incredibly good at turning experiences into words. Allentown is still relevant today, the way he wrote it it just describes so many peoples American experience.
But he did that a lot. Where I think he’s best with it is more emotional songs, he really captures whatever emotion he’s getting into words well. Like, Captain Jack does a good job of telling the story of someone in small town America, but I always heard it as a song about depression. All this stuff is happening around you and you’re just kinda there for it, not really feeling much of anything.
Or how he captures that nervous feeling about meeting a girl for the first time in Get it Right the First Time. He is so good at getting emotion into music.