Music

Last year Helsingin Sanomat asked over 70 music professionals for the best pieces of all time. https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008504431.html

They did not publish a playlist, so I made it myself.

It's so hard to find korean language music suiting my tastes, as in something else than the flood of overproduced k-pop. But at least there's Cherry Filter.

This is one of my all time favourite tracks. It's just brilliant.

Wordless

This might sound a bit weird as a Gojira fan but with this specific band I’ve always listened to their live recordings (apart from Le Enfant Sauvage) and have never been interested in checking the albums.

Which album should I crank on the headphones?

Any genre, any era - what are some of your favorite live songs ever?

One of my favorites definitely has to be Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

A rock opera remix of the Final Fantasy VI opera sequence.

Stats

• Title: The Impresario (Opera Sequence)
• Album: Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin
• Year: 2013
• Artist: Jake Kaufman, Tommy Pedrini
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
• Copyright: Square Enix
• Encoded by: Andrew Aversa, Mike Vafeas
• Disc: 2 of 5
• Track: 15 of 17
• Lyrics: Link

Credits

• Jake Kaufman: arrangement, lyrics, guitar, bass, piano
• Tommy Pedrini: vocals
• Tony Marino: additional vocals
• James Montagna: additional vocals
• Brian "Dogboy" Burwell: drums
• Robert Altschuler: recording, mixing, mastering
• Command Recording Studios (Valencia, CA): studio

Source

• FLAC torrent (tracker)

Edit (2023-06-16T20:25+00): Fix formatting. Add lede.

Currently undertaking a little project, inspired by a friend, where I listen through the Bad Religion discography.

Bad Religion's second album Into the Unknown is their follow up to debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

From the warbling swell that starts the album's jumpy anthem "It's Only Over When…" ItU is unabashedly not a punk album, in the traditional mode. The prog tinged synth escapades cross 8 tracks and clock in at just under 33 minutes. Slower in pace than their previous releases the songs on ItU don't dwell in their larges, a fair critique of prog/new-wave, but shuffle along informed by Bad Religion's punk roots. "The Dichotomy," in particular, has a forward momentum that takes advantage of the additional sound space.

Lyrically Into the Unknown has been critiqued for straying from the socio-political commentary of Bad Religion's other efforts. Although there is definitely a cosmic flair to the album many of the songs track with the band's pointed pov. Misanthropic, perhaps, narrative, yes, rooted in anti-capitalism "Losing Generation" is the best example of the costumed take on the group's attitudes.

"The systems of life hum accordingly Every day, every year, every century But everywhere humans go, things get worse and worse Can't you tell through the smoke of the dirty city?

The jungle was once a tranquil hideaway For the king of the trees and the mountains themselves But man those things sell a million dollars a pound Cut 'em up, dry 'em out, good display for the shelves

Why can't we just leave them alone?

Who is the animal? Who is that dangerous beast? Why were the other ones made? I know it wasn't just for our feast

And now they're down to 250 lone souls They're a breed of a losing generation, it seems The killers are ourselves so you know who to blame It was man with his plan and his frightening greed"

I think this is a great album. I can definitely understand why a punk purist and/or a Bad Religion devotee might dislike the work. It's an oddity in Bad Religion's discography and doesn't seem to get much positive attention, I think that's a shame. Minor Threat's Out of Step is probably the best, capital p, Punk album to come out in 1983 and if that's the measure for punk albums then Into the Unknown doesn't ever get a fair shot. Appreciated on it's own merits and coming to it without a known is what truly allows the album to shine.

Does anyone know any good synthwave artists? I've been listening to Dreamkid on Bandcamp, but I thought I'd also see what other people are listening to.

Another neo-folk group. There was some discussion earlier that they are woefully underrepresented. So here's Wardruna!

Dark nordic folk music.

Singer-songwriter doom rock? Whatever it is, it's cool

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If you're in the mood for some Dirty Sludgy Rock music, with clean vocals Goatsnake might fit the bill.

Most well know for having Greg Anderson on guitar, of Sunn 0))) and Southern Lord Records fame.

You can tell I'm pasting this across a few relevant communities.

Upon reflection, I don't know if niche communities will help or possibly fragmented consolidated communities like this one, but I thought I'd just create a few communities mirroring my own favourite subreddits.

Hopefully this makes it easier for people in those subreddits to migrate over to Lemmy. We'll see.