Currently working my way through 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die with some friends using this website: https://1001albumsgenerator.com
Oh wow, nice share
Started using it today, it recommended Green Onions. Very nice album and I likely wouldn’t have listened to it otherwise.
There’s been a decent amount of activity at !sessionjams@sh.itjust.works and the music is always all over the place. Popular music, obscure music, non American music, pretty much everything depending on the day.
Just contributed myself, and subbed. Always looking for a good jam after a good smoke.
Always nice to have more music in the rotation, thanks for posting!
Nice
I quaff the grape’s nectar and doth play diverse melodies from Spotify until I chance upon a tune that pleases me.
Ha-har! If vibrant new melody be what ye seek, then music.youtube puts hair on yer cheek
Ye bastard!
I don’t think I ever found music. the music tended to find me.
It chases you down a dark alleyway and has its way with you? That’s dark, man.
Its just you hear it on the radio or when your at someplace or whatnot. happenstance. My condo had painters and I asked a guy what song he was playing when I walked by.
That’s really it. I don’t really seek out new music, as much as I happen to stumble upon it. My music library is intense and what I listen to changes frequently.
This thread is throwing up gold
Very cool. Kind of like how Pandora used to be when it first started.
I spent about 20 years getting stuck in the past while the culture got away from me; I just hadn’t got into any bands since the early 2000s, and it was getting pretty sad.
I also have pretty bad ADHD - music fucks up my ability to concentrate on language-based tasks, so I can’t just play stuff in the background while I do something else - and sitting there staring through multiple songs in a row just isn’t going to happen.
So I had a great idea: turn it into a game.
I nuked my youtube data completely, started again from scratch, and set out, not so much to discover new music, but to train the algorithm to fetch me cool stuff. How well can I nudge the thing into a model of stuff I tend to like?
- Open the home feed, and start going through it
- Reaction videos, influencers, other garbage, hit don’t recommend channel.
- Any music videos, open in new tab
- Rinse and repeat until I have a ridiculous number of tabs open
- Go through each tab:
- Skip through representative chunks of song, get at least 20 seconds of music in before making a decision
- If you just don’t like it, close the tab and move on.
- If you do like it:
- If it’s not posted by the original artist account, go find the original instead if possible.
- Hit like
- Save to playlists for whatever genres it seems to fit, plus a catch-all list (set public, for reasons I’ll explain)
- Open a few new tabs off the sidebar
- If you find three solid bangers from one artist, subscribe.
- When you run out of tabs, refresh the home feed.
It’s adjustable to suit my attention span at the time - if I need the dopamine I just skim more, if I want to chill I let it play longer.
It fits into spare minutes of downtime at work etc.
I have discovered SO MUCH amazing new music, and my tastes have expanded in all kinds of directions. I’ve started not only recognizing but actually having opinions on bands I see on posters as I walk down the street, which is just plain ridiculous for me.
I have gone down some weird and amazing rabbit holes, from Armenian music to Femtanyl.
Probably the best thing I’ve ever done, srsly.
Sometimes the algorithm can get stale, and you end up with a streak of bland, safe stuff that all seems the same.
When this happens, find one of the many third-party playlist-shuffle sites (because the built-in shuffle is still horribly broken), and feed it either your main playlist or some of the genre-specific ones you feel aren’t getting enough love, and listen through a bunch of songs there to dredge up the silt. (you may need to open them in separate tabs; the embed doesn’t always update your watch history properly). And this is why the lists need to be public, so third-party sites can browse your playlists.
Fentanyl is based as fuck
Yes, yes she is.
Someone once described her as machine girl’s furry alt account :D
Oh we’re talking about an artist?
In all seriousness though, that is literally the most accurate description I’ve ever heard lmao. It’s crazy how popular she’s gotten considering how new she is to the orbcore/digital hardcore scene.
Yeah, I’ve had a realization a few days ago when I checked out about a dozen songs that had north of 10 million views on YT, but I’ve never heard of them, at all, or of the artists behind them. And all of those were from some 10 years ago. So I guess my taste in music is kind of frozen in time and I’ve been trying for a while to complete collections of “old” artists rather than getting to know new ones.
I do get occasional inspiration from the folks at I Love Music, though.
Spotify radio mode
Bandcamp and Sputnik Music have been doing so since I was in school over a decade ago.
Find a stoner buddy whose autistic special interest is music and music history. You’ll have endless recommendations for cool shit.
Source: One of my best mates’ autistic special interest is music and music history.
As for me personally, I like looking up music and genres specific to local areas, particularly those from other cultures. Afrobeat’s been big on my mind ever since I discovered it, and I’ve been having good luck searching through old Zamrock albums.
You should post to !noyank@lemmy.ml – it’s a world-culture comm
Stream online from various college music stations. Some even have themed shows so you can tune in for stuff that’s your style.
Also, consider making a thread here about the genre you are looking for. I’ve participated in a couple here I think.
Edit: I went through my comment history so you don’t have to go through that awful garbage to find what you’re looking for.
Don’t be afraid to make your own. Peace.
Year-end best of lists. Allmusic, pitchfork, and whatever other sites come out with best of year rankings.
I really don’t care how Kanye does anything.
Different pronunciation. Kanye’s ye is “yay” while the plural second person pronoun “ye” is pronounce like “Yee”
I don’t know wwhat that means
Typo in your title. Kanye is known as “Ye”.
Edit: maybe not typo
It’s a joke, he changed his name to Ye
Are you Irish? Those are the only people I’ve heard use “ye” for the plural “you”. Which is a shame, because it has a nice ring to it. Ye and Y’all are like yin and yang
I’m mainly interested in old time fiddle tunes. I get them from youtube recommends sometimes, or from going to jams and hearing a cool tune, or someone I play with wants to learn a tune. I often post tunes I like on my old-time music lemmy community.
Anymore it’s either through yt recommendations or sometimes I’ll see other people recommending songs and decide to look them up.
Honestly I mostly pull from the soundtracks in whatever I watch. Also Eurovision.
