Lol, idk if I’m gonna sound pedantic but over the years, I’ve really broadened my musical taste. I love discovering really out there stuff, stuff I’ve never listened to before and I can vibe with. Something I can say “yeah, there was real thought put into this”.
And yet everything seems to fit neatly into a genre. I rarely, rarely find something that’s new and fresh. Most stuff you find you can compare it to something else you know already.
I think my biggest discovery in recent time was Polyphia, especially after their New Levels New Devils album (Listen to GOAT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gkpYORQLU). I’ve never seen anyone do something like this with a guitar, and to this day I haven’t found anyone that does something similar.
Gasoline (“A journey into abstract hip hop”) was also a good discovery thanks to Youtube (seriously making me consider switching to Youtube music and paying for it lol)
That’s what I’m interested in, yknow. I love all genres of music and sometimes I’ll put on some 2Pac, and other times I’ll listen to Dream Theater. Elton John has some great songs and actually works really well when you have a chill evening with friends (bonus points if you actually have the vinyls to put on).
But after a while I want to discover something new, something that makes me think in music, if that makes sense.
Youtube is actually really good at recommending music, and Spotify not so much. So when I typed “good music” on Spotify to try and find some playlists, the top ones were labelled as “no specific genre” but that’s a lie lol, apparently good music is pop, country and 90s alt rock.
That’s the ultimate genre. To regroup everything that cannot properly be categorized.
Edit: also I’m seriously looking for beautiful traditional African and Arabic music from such artists. Super difficult to find when your web experience is white-centric. Love Lili Twil but it’s not on Spotify.
Funny enough, I think it’s kinda the opposite for me. Youtube sucks booty cheek for recommending music, unless you happen to stumble upon a nice channel. There’s a really nice channel called “David Dean Burkhart” which has a really nice selection of indie-esque music, if that’s your thing. Spotify is nice for me because of how fast you can go through music, and decide if you like it or not.
Do you have any music favorited on spotify? You probably won’t find much by just typing “good music” hehe. Their release radar is cool, the daily mixes, and the discover one (i think that’s what it is). You do have to sort through a lot of doodoo, but it’s worth it.
People say that they watch one “SJW destroyed” compilation and their entire recommendation feed is just that for months, but for me my recommendations are based on what I last watched. If Youtube recommends me a nice niche album and I listen to it, I will only get other albums. Until I watch a let’s play or something else, that is.
Release radar is a nice feature (if a bit hidden), but the daily mixes are usually just stuff I’ve heard before and is already in my playlist. Spotify is simply incapable of giving me anything new lol, unless I find something really really different (like afrobeat) and then ask for a radio based on that. Even then eventually it seems it will go back to songs I’ve listened to 50 times before. Which means they’re good, sure, but that’s not all I want to listen to x)
There’s a lot of that in the youtube shorts. I always make sure to hit “do not recommend”, but it keeps giving me the same shit. I don’t know why I spend that much time on it anyway, but holy shit, there’s so much Mat walsh shit and andrew tate shit 🤢. I think it’s nice when i come across a cute video of an animal doing something.