Salamu alaykum
 

Hi. Last.fm has apparently reached the limit of its usefulness in finding new music so I have come here. It can only do so much with overly broad genres, when you like free jazz you can get anything from Coltrane to Naked City. I mean, I like Coltrane and Naked City, but when you get into meaningless labels like "indie" or "avant-garde" it just becomes impractical to sift through the duds.

Hail Satan.

Welcome to the ranks of Music Banter! I have a question; what time period do the majority of your favorite songs tend to come from?

I never really thought about it before but I think the majority are actually fairly recent. Within the last 10 years at least. Drone didn't really exist in the 50s I guess.

I think you'd really like the sixties (but then again, I try to get everyone into the sixties :laughing:).

Anyway, here's a drone song written in the 1940s, and performed in the 1960s:

I really never expected to see something like that. That's like... metal from the 1800s or something to me.

The 60s were a great time for music though. Bert Jansch, Bob Dylan, Sun Ra, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Charles Manson, I think King Crimson and Townes Van Zandt got some albums in there before the end. Good times.

I feel you. I gave up on last.fm when it suggested Azealia Banks, claming she was highly similar to Bjork and iamamiwhoami.

...How do you remember your username to log in?

...At least I have a name..

Nameless joined before you did, so they should be welcoming you! :laughing:

Welcome to MB.

Last.fm has given me some goods recs for more simple things, but I could see why it'd fail with what you're looking for. You might find Rateyourmusic more useful in that aspect. Nice taste, btw.

It bugs me when they lump groups together because two dissimilar bands just happen to share members, or when they're considered similar because of historical association or genre fame. I mean, why should Black Sabbath only have five doom metal bands listed on the first four pages of artists they're similar to, while Dio, Pantera, Motorhead, and Slayer are all on the first page? Fail.

Depends on what you would call drone. John Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts is some very droney modern classical and it was composed in 1950. You ought to check out Theatre of Eternal Music. One of my favourite drone groups and they're out of the 1960s. They have John Cale in it among others, if you're a fan of drone it's a must listen.

Drone has existed for a while.

True dat. Ever since the organ was invented people have been holding one chord and seeing all of the textures that they could get. I was just giving a fifties example. Nice piece btw, I'll be checking more of that composer's work out.