Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[wease]

Pretty sure this guy posts on RM

well sure, everything is going to fall short when you put it up against the year when the greatest rock masterpiece ever was released

The greatest rock masterpiece? Jeez

[liebzz]

You can really say anything on Twitter.

[BurtReynolds]

[The Argonaut]

My top five artists were Phoebe Bridgers, Tom Waits, Tierra Whack, Lucy Dacus, & Laura Marling. My aura was wistful and yearning.

[Birds in Hell]

[Ello Sailor]

Mogwai, Kanye, Turnstile, Smashing Pumpkins and D'Angelo.

Top track was Mogwai's 'Ceiling Granny', followed by Kanye's 'Off the Grid'. Then a bunch more Mogwai and some Turnstile.

[tragabigzanda]

Has anyone checked out the older Turnstile stuff yet? I’m wondering how it compares.

[Ello Sailor]

The further back you go, the more they seem to lean on their hardcore roots. It's not completely devoid of pop and metal elements, but it's certainly less refined in terms of overall sound.

[tragabigzanda]

I figured Elizondo had a big hand in the sound of this one, but wasn't sure of the extent. Still probably my #2 pick for AOTY.

[tragabigzanda]

Don't use Spotify, but if I had to guess:

Artists

Thundercat
Flying Lotus
Radiohead/Thom Yorke
Steve Reich
Nels Cline/Wilco

Genres
Jazz
Minimalist/krautrock (sorry Malloy)
Classical
Rock
Country

This is the first year in a really long time that I went deep on jazz, but I didn't really focus on one artist. Bounced around a lot.

AOTY: Floating Points & Pharoah Saunders
Runner-up: Turnstile

Edit: Ok, the thing I probably listened to the most is a playlist of music my kid likes to listen to. But I'm not counting that.

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[Kevin Davis]

I think Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders is album of the year for me too, trag

[tragabigzanda]

That thing has just grown and grown on me. I don't put it on all the time because it's pretty weighty, but I have no doubt I'll still be spinning it in 20 years (god willing).

[Jorge]

the thing I probably listened to the most is a playlist of music my kid likes to listen to. But I'm not counting that.

You must count that

[BurtReynolds]

This is all well and good, but what color is your aura?

[epilogue]

59,769 minutes listening to Spotify

Top Songs:
1. The Melting of the Sun - St. Vincent
2. Down - St. Vincent
3. Pay Your Way in Pain - St. Vincent
4. Somebody Like Me - St. Vincent
5. Stay - Valerie June

Top Artists
1. St. Vincent
2. They Might Be Giants
3. Pearl Jam
4. The Decemberists
5. Tom Waits

Top Genres:
1. Indie Folk
2. Alt Country
3. Indie Rock
4. Singer-Songwriter
5. Art Pop

Artist Who Appeared in the Most Playlsits:
Pearl Jam

Top Podcast:
Pod Save America

Audio Aura:
bold and focused

128 different genres

1,618 different artists
2,741 minutes listening to St. Vincent

[Jorge]

This is all well and good, but what color is your aura?

[Jorge]

So my music moods are "yearning" and "melancholy," my most-listened-to songs are a bunch of millennial pop, my top genre is jazz, and my top artist is Ramones. See? Messy

[VinylGuy]

I dont use Spotify that much i guess this year, because it list Jeff Ament as my fourth most listen artist and its because of his album, which i listened a lot, but still.

Also the genres are weird, Alternative Rock and Indie Rock arent the same?




Top 5 artists

Pearl Jam
Phoebe Bridgers
St Vincent
Ament
Kanye West

Top 5 songs

I Know The End
Halloween
Kyoto
Quick Escape
Dance Of The Clairvoyants

Genres

Grunge
Alternative Rock
Art Pop
Soul
Indie rock

[The Argonaut]

The genres are odd. My list was

Singer-Songwriter
Indie Rock
Anti-Folk
Art Pop
Indie Pop

but I don't even know what those are and the lines so blurry now. In a post-radio world, music genres are kind of unhelpful and meaningless

[BurtReynolds]

Audio Aura:
bold and focused

Color, epilogue. I need a color.