When was the last time you found piece that didn’t match your usual listening habits, but ended up liking it? How did you come accross it?
My taste has been mostly rock, metal and certain kinds of electroic music, but
Fallout introduced me to Billie Holiday
Youtube channel Inside the Score got me started on classical music, like actually listening and enjoying Beethoven, Sibelius and Dvorak and going even to a concert instead of just knowing the bits you can not avoid.
The jazz covers of Phoenix Wright music, especially The Dark Fragrance of Coffee, got me seeking for more of similar style.
I liked the last album by The Interrupters, and I don’t even like punk music, but their songs were all wonderful
There’s a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book ‘1000 albums to listen to before you die’. One day I got an Abba album and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It had a surprisingly dense, dream-like production to it. I expected simplistic pop but was surprised by how well structured and layered it was.
People shit on Dancing Queen because of its ubiquity, but that track is an absolute masterclass in how to write a beloved three minute pop song. Benny & Bjorn know their shit.
Yep, that’s the one I used. Fantastic site.
Just signed up here and already digging the first album, thanks for this!
Surprised by Ludovico Einaudi, as well.
I discovered a band, that I never could manage to listen to or was even interested. A while ago I got totally hooked - TOOL 🔨
And the most amazing thing the YT algo recommend - Dom whiting’s Drum’n’Bass bike ride (streams) As a fanatic cyclist I love the combo and couldn’t stop listening after the first minutes. Of course, I’m looking forward to participate to one of those.
Celldweller - the last firstborn is awesome mix of electronic music and hard rock (or how would you call it)
Wow! That’s a blast from the past I wasn’t expecting on here. The genre is industrial, which is basically anything with a rock vibe and also a techno beat.
The older I get, the less surprised I am by liking stuff that doesn’t fit the story of who I am. Because when you break it down, music is just movement of air, and how can different varieties of air speak to who you are.
So the music I like is just the music I like, and that’s fine with me.
Not a single piece, but I was pleasantly surprised by Ethel Cain’s album Preacher’s Daughter. Definitely not the sort of music I usually listen to, so I didn’t expect that much despite what I’d heard about it, but I actually ended up quite liking a fair few of the songs (although definitely not all of them).
I like everything, so there are very few genres or styles of music that I don’t expect to ever like at all.
Well raggaeton is one of them…
But man, have you guys listened to DATA by Tainy? It’s actually fucking good.
My main gripe with raggaeton has always been the samey and honestly uninspired production.
I know Bad Bunny had a banger last year, I haven’t listened to the whole album. But I didn’t love the few songs I heard.
But man DATA is awesome. It gives me Dawn FM vibes. It’s dark, very synth-genres inspired, and I do get an OPN vibe from it. Maybe that’s why I loved it tbh.
If you guys haven’t listened to it, give it a try. Specially if you like synth-genres and experimental electronic music, but don’t like raggaeton.
MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind was a really pleasant discovery for me recently.
The first time I heard this song
https://soundcloud.com/blacklabelnsd/mastadon-rip (MASTADON - RIP)
I was blown away at how insane it is, like how could anyone ever make something like this at all is bewildering to me. The song structure and sounds didn’t even make sense to me at first.
But now this genre of music is the thing I love the most. This song is my absolute favorite of all time.
Sails of Charon - Scorpions - Woah just woah this is where all those great guitar gods took inspiration from? (from Randy Rhoads to Yngwie Malmsteen). Second realization: Welp now I know why Scorpions made such a huge, they were great. Now I can deconstruct the image of those sad arena shows. Ok Germany I get it, you guys aren’t square for liking Scorpions, they were the tits. Obs: I had the same realization when I saw a clip from AC/DC playing way back when on the streets and Angus was killing it.
I generally listen to a pretty big variety of music, but over the past few years I’ve really been liking jazz and big band music from the 1930s and 1940s. So much so that I made an internet radio station of public domain music from that era so I could listen to it like it was a radio broadcast then.
I grew up not liking rap and hip hop, except exclusively liking Eminem. But lately I’ve been trying to branch out. Thought I’d give Kanye a try, so I listed to the College Dropout album and wow, I was not expecting to like it the way I did. Almost the whole thing is solid beats and decent rhymes. Same with Graduation. Color me impressed Kanye, I don’t like you as a person but your early music is great.
Randomly heard the track “Hollywood Baby” by 100 gecs in a store or restaurant or something. It instantly hooked into my brain and I’m still not sure why.
I guess when I ran into Aesop Rock, and got absolutely infatuated? I don’t do a lot of rap, so his stuff hitting so damn hard was a surprise.
I remember a few of the other times. Mostly it has taken the right moment, the right mindset and the right artist. A dark autumn evening and a walk in a park for Dark Sanctuary, falling asleep to SunnO))) and waking up to it was a mindblowing experience.
Carpenter Bruts album Trilogy opened up electronic music for me, and Crypt of the Necrodancers soundtrack cemented it.
So so many examples of this.
I’m normally into ndh, industry and electronically, with some metal thrown in. I did however get a good surprise by the following musicians/bands
- Dirty shirt
- Otyken
- Shahram Nazeri
- Sofi Tukker
