MicShazam will listen to anything.
 

I will listen to anything. Feed me, and I will give my (probably ignorant) opinion.

Although I would like it if you tried to find something that I would maybe appreicate. This would require you to understand what I want from music, so that's a long shot :(

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Give me your best/worst shot.

I'm the most inane member of MB, so it will just be undercooked opinions and nothing in depth.

Actually, the thing is that I'm bored to that degree where I'd like to taste the business end of a shotgun just for the novel sensation of something new.

^Very odd. I mean, the music is in thoroughly non-odd territory, but the lyrics play around with the topic of gender change. It kind of humorously plays with escalation of the idea to the point of absurdity. Seems like it was really just intended to be a bit of silly non-committal fun, but it comes off as oddly uneasy about the idea of being trans gender.

Am I crazy, or does these lyrics come off as horribly dated in 2018?

Ignoring all that, it was a decent listening experience. The singer tried his hardest to be an annoying fruit, but he has a fairly likeable voice.

I could see you digging this.

I don't really know what you're into. But here's a banger anyways

I loved this so much. In fact, I loved it so much, that I hated that it faded out during a really ecstatic moment near the end of the clip. I could totally see this artist collaborating with Barbara Morgenstern. The music in this Youtube video doesnt' only have a fantastic aesthetic on it's own, but recalls a variety of artists that I like, such as Barbara Morgenstern, Jenny Hval, and maybe even Olga Bell.

I find this video clip and the accompanying music to hit that particular divide that I find so magical. It's not fantastical, but it's not quite like reality either. It's heightened reality.

This is where all the best art is to be found in my world view. Not entirely simple escapism, but not quite banal reality either. A stronger experience of the real. Not recalling elves and wizards, but some perhaps romanticized, heightened experience of this world, with it's infrastructures, impersonal electronically facilitated communication.
There's something magical about music that manages to make the modern and impersonal seem very full of character and life.

Pardon me if I'm coming off as pretentious or something. I'm just trying to convey how some music feels more "real" to me than a lot of other music that maybe tries do be "real" and grounded.

The above track somehow hits very close to home for me. I feel like this music speaks to the experience I have of reality. Can't explain it any better than that.

Very glad you enjoyed it so much.
They also remind me of Barbara Morgenstern which was an additional reason I assumed you'd dig it.

I like it on some level, but It's stuck on that "good for a hip hop track" level. Maybe I need to do some work to get beyond that.

I did listen to it several times and did get into some kind of groove, but I'm just not that into it.

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Not sure what your opinions on electronic music are, but this is a favorite of mine:

Mic you need some secretaries or something to deal with these things.

Or maybe cut the work load in half by listening to a different song on each ear.

But I'm into the idea of having my own secretaries.

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^Good movie btw

The last time I gave you recs it so happened that you were somewhat interested in the Danish band and kept the criticism to a bare minimum, but you were more severely critical of Belgium bands ... perhaps stemming from a prejudice against Belgian people? Now let's see how well the French Canadians will do.

ELI ET PAPILLON - Courage

lol, don't worry, I've got nothing against Belgians. Even if their beers tend to be severaly overrated.

This we can agree on. Overly sweet mfs.

Belgian beer is great.

Maybe a bit too on the busy and messy side for my liking, but I find everything else about it really enjoyable. Definitely added to a playlist.

I really dig the 90's sounding metal production. Unlike most metalheads, I think 90's metal albums had generally vastly better sound than 80's and 00's metal albums. Huge generalization, but 90's albums just tended to have various ways of giving you really fat bass and skittering drums that felt way more organic and real than in modern metal. Plus I liked how 90's metal dropped the tinny, reverby habits of 80's metal.

Musically, I like this fairly much. Not hugely into the vocals I'm afraid. Especially not the screechy dude. The keyboards also generally remind me of various forms of goth and symphonic metal that I do my best to avoid. Still, there's enough here that I like that I might check out a bit more from this band.

Smooth, groovy, fun. I like it. The bass playing is very satisfying here. I've always loves bass guitars, so there's no way I wasn't gonna mentally zoom in on it when listening to this. Also, for some reason, this music makes me feel like I'm watching some sort of very old and corny TV show, but in a good way (?).

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Hold your horses! I was already listening to it when you posted that.

Kinda caught between interesting and annoying. Not my favourite thing I've heard by Galas, but oddly mesmerizing later in the track especially. I've got a fair amount of music that would turn heads if I put it on at board game night, since most people have very limited experiences with different kinds of music. But this track would straight up have my guests running for the exits in terror. It deserves respect for that alone.

The only CD I have that might get close to provoking that reaction would be Olga Bell's debut album "Krai", although that's a far less abrasive sort of weird.

If you were a midnight toker then I'd totally recommend Plague Mass. I don't really know what to do with it or much of her earlier work when sober but god damn is Plague Mass the most hypnotic album I've ever heard when good and stoned.

I might be able to get into it if I simply returned to it enough times. Diamanda Galas is someone I've never gotten into fully, but I always come back eventually.

Sounds fairly much like Testament, and I'm not really into them either. It's not bad by any means. I can always get into that sort of basic chugging, but there wasn't really anything here that would make me want to come back. The songwriting and personality of the performances just didn't really register as anything inspired.

Five minutes well enough spent, but that's it for me.

Same. But she's an artist whose core worth I think might be inscrutable if you're just not crazy enough. That's where drugs come in. Plague Mass is where it's at though I think because it has a more organic production that feels like she's actually there and singing like a real person. Makes her impact more visceral than something like Litanies of Satan. And that cover communicates exactly what she is perfectly: an inhuman spirit of vengeance.

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I feel like I'm too weird to connect to the musical tastes of people who aren't music nerds, but too restrained in my preferences to really fit in among music geeks either. My favourite type of music these days is something just like this ffs:


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It's a miracle I'm curious about Galas at all - and when sober, no less.

I'm not a musical freak by any means but sometimes the weird **** just sinks into that sweet spot you didn't even know existed.

I legit think this is the most out there music I like, so not really that much. Although more than the first couple minutes will let on.

I don't know how to convince anyone to listen to it, so I'll just drop it here.

Olga Bell - Krai (full album)

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it's a lady

80s metal production is great not because it's the most accomplished but because metal in its pure 80s form doesn't need polish and nuance. Metal along with hardcore is the musical realization of the desire to smash faces and eat brains and prettying that up can honestly be reductive.

Casiopea does have some elements of the Japanese city pop boom of the late 70's, which means they have the capacity to reflect the bounciness and cheesiness of that culture.

The band members are also really talented. Here's Akira Jimbo (drummer) and Tetsuo Sakurai (bassist) doing some duo pieces. I think they're from some old VHS'.



^Jimbo kills it with the double kick on this one.

A lot of 80's metal has studio trickery applied, though. Not least added reverb. The sort of 90's metal production that I like so much is the sort where it sounds like they pretty much just plugged everything in, recorded it, then layered it. No filtering or much of anything else. I'm not sure why 90's metal sounds generally so much fatter than 80's metal. Probably some changes in recording technology, plus some changes in what's a trendy sound for metal. The 90's was the decade where groove and bass came back to metal.