When was the last time you found piece that didn’t match your usual listening habits, but ended up liking it? How did you come accross it?
My taste has been mostly rock, metal and certain kinds of electroic music, but
Fallout introduced me to Billie Holiday
Youtube channel Inside the Score got me started on classical music, like actually listening and enjoying Beethoven, Sibelius and Dvorak and going even to a concert instead of just knowing the bits you can not avoid.
The jazz covers of Phoenix Wright music, especially The Dark Fragrance of Coffee, got me seeking for more of similar style.
There’s a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book ‘1000 albums to listen to before you die’. One day I got an Abba album and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It had a surprisingly dense, dream-like production to it. I expected simplistic pop but was surprised by how well structured and layered it was.
There’s a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book ‘1000 albums to listen to before you die’.
I just found this one, in case anyone is interested.
Yep, that’s the one I used. Fantastic site.
Just signed up here and already digging the first album, thanks for this!
People shit on Dancing Queen because of its ubiquity, but that track is an absolute masterclass in how to write a beloved three minute pop song. Benny & Bjorn know their shit.
The new Lil Yachty album this year surprised me for sure. Really big departure from what he usually does, and he did it (in my opinion) really well. Never been a fan of his in the past
Though it is more in line with what I usually listen to, experimental hip hop, psychedelic rock, indie. Just didn’t expect it from him.
Something separate from what I usually enjoy would be That’s The Spirit by Bring Me the Horizon. Never been into that genre really (metal? I’m honestly not sure how they’re classified) but I really enjoy this album and I’m sure it’s gonna be right near the top of my Spotify Wrapped this year.
I grew up performing. Loved music of all kinds. Went and studied music at university.
Then ended up hating music. Which is so weird I know. Something about needing to perform to survive haha. I didn’t like it.
I started listening to pop music in different languages. German. Italian. French. Etc.
Was surprised and became obsessed with an obscure Italian pop band from Turin called Pinguini Tattici Nucleari. Flew there from Australia. Saw them play.
Now they are huge in Italy.
But yeh. Dunno why it took listening in a language I didn’t understand to do it for me. Probably something with appreciating the actual music, rather than a catchy pop song. I say great music “creates interest”. And it definitely does.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3V9aCzb0dOvuLHRerJ8sJI?si=a5CAgXH5SQ-ejfl6qgoEfA
I have never been good at remembering lyrics and often kind of ignore them. I have been surprised multiple times about what songs that I have listened for a while are about when the lyrics finally click in my head.
I enjoy more the sound of the artist and in good music you don’t need to understand the words for the emotion to come through.
Like Memories of Dust is one of the most emotional songs even though the lyrics are in [human language]
I’ll check it out. Let me know what you think of my recommendation haha.
I really like the name Pinguini Tattici Nuclear. The music is good, but not quite something I would put on my playlist.
I liked the last album by The Interrupters, and I don’t even like punk music, but their songs were all wonderful
I guess when I ran into Aesop Rock, and got absolutely infatuated? I don’t do a lot of rap, so his stuff hitting so damn hard was a surprise.
I remember a few of the other times. Mostly it has taken the right moment, the right mindset and the right artist. A dark autumn evening and a walk in a park for Dark Sanctuary, falling asleep to SunnO))) and waking up to it was a mindblowing experience.
Carpenter Bruts album Trilogy opened up electronic music for me, and Crypt of the Necrodancers soundtrack cemented it.
Normally I used to listen to pretty heavy rock music and metal. Ever since seeing Hamilton all I can listen to is Broadway musicals. They get shit done!
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) English3•1 year ago
The first thing that came to mind
This was years ago. I didn’t like this band, but I knew of them.
My ex girlfriend told me to listen to this track.
I was kinda blazed, I put this on, put on my headphones, and holy FUCK
I never expected it. It’s so amazing, so heavy, so light, so aggressive and peaceful, it still gives me chills as I’m writing this.
If you want to be moved by music, be moved by the music, don’t be on your phone watching tiktok at the same time.
BE IN IT.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) English1•1 year ago
My second choice is an album by Ludovico Einaudi. Genre is neo classical.
I put it on at work, which was a big mistake. No work happened for an hour because I was moved almost to tears by this.
Sails of Charon - Scorpions - Woah just woah this is where all those great guitar gods took inspiration from? (from Randy Rhoads to Yngwie Malmsteen). Second realization: Welp now I know why Scorpions made such a huge, they were great. Now I can deconstruct the image of those sad arena shows. Ok Germany I get it, you guys aren’t square for liking Scorpions, they were the tits. Obs: I had the same realization when I saw a clip from AC/DC playing way back when on the streets and Angus was killing it.
Buena Vista Social Club. It came up on the 1001AlbumsGenerator. It’s probably the album I’ve revisited the most.
Didn’t expect to see this, and now I have Chan Chan in my head (and I love it).
Nice. It’s a bit different from my usual listening. Plus my Spanish is very very basic.
Another that came up on the generator with a sort of similar vibe was Getz/Gilberto, more light jazz but you might like it (if you don’t already know it).
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- GoGo Penguin (1, 2) - probably my biggest positive surprise in the Jazz/Fusion genre as of late. Singlehandedly re-invigorated my interest in the genre. I basically didn’t listen to this genre at all for a very long time but they changed that
- Mammal Hands (1) - I thought I didn’t even like saxophone but this band changed that. Very unexpected, very great. Apparently I just listened to the “wrong” kind of Jazz bands before. Discovered them right after GoGo Penguin.
Hey Mammal Hands surprised me too ahaha, I just wrote a comment about it
The older I get, the less surprised I am by liking stuff that doesn’t fit the story of who I am. Because when you break it down, music is just movement of air, and how can different varieties of air speak to who you are.
So the music I like is just the music I like, and that’s fine with me.
Not a single piece, but I was pleasantly surprised by Ethel Cain’s album Preacher’s Daughter. Definitely not the sort of music I usually listen to, so I didn’t expect that much despite what I’d heard about it, but I actually ended up quite liking a fair few of the songs (although definitely not all of them).
The first time I heard this song
https://soundcloud.com/blacklabelnsd/mastadon-rip (MASTADON - RIP)
I was blown away at how insane it is, like how could anyone ever make something like this at all is bewildering to me. The song structure and sounds didn’t even make sense to me at first.
But now this genre of music is the thing I love the most. This song is my absolute favorite of all time.
Randomly heard the track “Hollywood Baby” by 100 gecs in a store or restaurant or something. It instantly hooked into my brain and I’m still not sure why.
“Study” playlists on Spotify.
Not all of them mind you, mostly ones where the lyrics don’t really matter. Really chill and great.