…but how would I have been exposed to that music without the show?
How would I find music that I’ll possibly love, but I won’t be exposed to?
Doesn’t have to be rock at all.
I fucking hate YouTube Music, but the discovery algorithm is undeniable brilliant, even compared to Spotify
It takes maybe six months of skipping tracks you don’t like and fully listening to ones you do to teach it, but after that it’s pretty amazing
I share an account with my wife who has a hugely different taste, but it manages to find stuff we both like
ReVanced is the way
It takes maybe six months of skipping tracks
Lol, I look forward to good results by the end of the year? Maybe not the best algorithm after all.
I personally don’t have one particular way of discovering new music. It’s a mix of suggestions from different apps or friends. Shazam during movies and TV also helps guide some discoveries. Also just clicking through a rabbit hole of suggestions and marking stuff you like for future digging.
The algorithm will figure your rough taste out in a day.
But like most things in life, you’ll find patience does amazing things
Do you use ReVanced with the default Play Music app? What are the advantages?
Completely ignoring your question to say, that Peacemaker soundtrack is awesome! I had no idea about a lot of those songs but now the title track is my ringtone. Lol
James Gunn generally does a good job at choosing music for his movies/series
Yup! GOTG soundtracks are really good!
Whenever I find a new artist I like I’ll make a pandora station based on one of their songs. It usually reveals a bunch of similar artists, it’s how I found Noah Kahan around pandemic time
Local community radio show. CKUT and CISM in Montreal have great niche music shows: math-rock, electronica, experimental, underground hip-hop, name it, there’s a show for it.
I’m lucky to live in a really good radio town. For the last 10 years, I have found the best new music consistently from the KUTX community supported radio station.
You can listen to them online too. Laurie Gallardo is sort of my low key hero.
Many, perhaps most, music services have towards the bottom of an artist page a list of similar artists that you can explore. Also, if you see what compilations a song, or an artist, is on you can see what else is on that collection.
Also, music services have collections for different styles of music. As you listen to those, if you like a song you can try to see if you like other songs from the same group / artist.
Get some friends that like the same “kinds” of music as you. Ask them.
You could try random internet radios, usually long lists are easily searchable and just listen to them for a few mins at a time to see if you like anything then if you do look up that bands albums, or if you’re really interested read up about artists and what music inspires them and branch out from there.
“Underrated” and “awesome” tend to just… mean roughly the same thing in this context, and it’s so individual it’s hopeless to try to recommend stuff based on that alone. Popularity or unpopularity doesn’t necessarily speak to how much you’ll like it, either.
Recommendations are easier to give the better you know your tastes, and the better you can describe them.
You can also do some thinking about what you like and why, and see how others describe that song/album/artist/whatever to get some useful starting points. If you want to nerd out, Wikipedia and the like can tell you a lot about musical influences that shaped this or that style, and you can track it down and see if it resonates with you.
I’m really talking about quality material I’m not familiar with. I grant that even though it of high quality I may still not like it. But I would like to discover objectively good music that isn’t going to be played on the radio, or XM Sirius, or any other common interface.
So underrated speaks to popularity; underrated material isn’t going to be appreciated as much as it deserves. Whether I find that underrated material awesome is my own decision. But if like to have the exposure.