I wanted to explore this, it seems like it mostly happens in classic rock. I like it because it's like the group delivering a thesis statement for the content of their music or their intended commercial trajectory.

I think it works even better when it's done by a band later into their career, like they're reflecting on the culmination of their work. Can people link me examples? I'd love to see if this has happened more outside of the rock genre

Off the top of my head:

Bad Company (debut album)

Black Sabbath (debut album)

Damn Yankees (debut album)

Blue Öyster Cult (11th album)

Dimmu Borgir (8th album, black metal)

Run the Jewels (debut album, rap)

Eyes of Noctom (debut album, black metal, fun fact: this is Nicholas Cage's son)

Highwaymen (debut album, country)

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I like it a lot though. Going to listen to more of them.

edit: Fuck this is really good. It goes so well with retrowave and some goth music I've collected from lemmy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Oop, I am bad at checking replies.

    Yeah, TBM is criminally underplayed. If they hadn't shown up on a Pandora station for me some 15 or so years ago, I don't know if or when I would have encountered them. Glad you're enjoying them! They have a really unique sound that scratches an itch in my brain that no one else really does.

    I'd be happy to trade music recs as I'm big into retrowave and some goth as well.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Hell yeah, it blew my mind that album that Happy Birthday was on was from 2002. At that age I would have had no idea music like this existed, I can't imagine how I would have reacted.

    Sure! The band this reminds me the most of is Gunship. But also this group called Your Inland Empire got posted to c/gothindustrial and they fit the sound pretty well.

    I'm open to any more you'd recommend 🤘

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    Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if my life trajectory went slightly differently if I discovered them back in 2002 as well.

    Love Gunship, been a fan since their eponymous album (though no such track yet, haha) and I've been listening to Unicorn pretty regularly since its release.

    I haven't heard of Your Inland Empire, but I like their sound from the track you linked. I'll have to check out more of them.

    I don't listen to The Midnight a lot, but they are what immediately come to mind for retrowave with vocals.

    Since we've only discussed artists with vocalists, I'm not going to go too deep into non-vocalist solo artists but I love darksynth, so I gotta give shout outs to Pertubator and Carpenter Brut who are the goats of the genre and have several tracks with featured vocalists. And a much more obscure darksynth artist without vocals I am going to recommend is Orax's Love Kills the Demon as it emotionally vibes closer to TBM than a lot of other things for me.

    A bit more mainstream, Shiny Toy Guns has some similar energy to TBM, more so on their first and third albums, though I guess they've been on hiatus for 10+ years now.

    Let me know if any of this tickle your fancy. I didn't pick out any real goth stuff, but I should have been asleep hours ago, ha

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I love Perturbator and Carpenter Brut. That Desire song is new to me though, I haven't heard anything of theirs be so chill before. Also reminds me I've been meaning to watch that Angel Egg film

    These are all great! My favorite was the Midnight Sun one but I'm going to be exploring them all a lot more. I liked how quintessentially 2000's that Shiny Toy Guns video was. So thanks for showing me more stuff 😀

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