Sea shanties just hit different, especially when sung by native speakers.
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I dyslexia'd techno-sea shanties and now there's a genre I need in my life Edit if you can imagine it, someone has made it
TAKE MY MONEY AND MY MUSIC!
That's the worst kind of "techno" though..
I was thinking БАТЮШКА would have the combination of death metal and Gregorian chant covered. Or maybe black metal and chant, I suppose. Close enough though, imo.
As I don't really listen to Sea-Shanties or Techno anymore, the only thing that popped into my brain was that Wellerman song that turned into a whole thing on TikTok a while ago. As that was close to unavoidable at the time.
Combine all 4: dungeon synth
The same thing happens when I put my King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard discography on shuffle. Gotta at least sort by album or it's chaos.
Seriously. I saw them play a few years back and thought they were amazing. Some time later my friend put on an album in the car and my thought was, "what is this absolute garbage?" Same band somehow.
Yea, they are good at many sub genres of music, but not everyone is into all of them, or just not in the mood for death metal, jam band, EDM, Folk, and microtonal kazoo music all at one time lol.
(Saw them at Red Rocks last year for all 3 shows, everything was great live)
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I assume you are familiar with Mongol throat singing, especially delivered in the form of techno)? I also like guys who put traffic cones in their bass saxophone. Death metal with a Banjo anyone? This intrigues me, though I don't speak french.
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This person drinks from a horn.
This comment made me look up at my drinking horn hanging on the wall among Ren faire weapons and shield...
Genuine question: Is it practical both for drinking and cleaning or is it really just a gimmick to look cool?
It's kind of practical when standing or walking slowly, like at a fair. Since it's got a shoulder strap I don't have to hold it all the time. But you can't set it down with anything in it. Cleaning is a little awkward but not terrible, give it a good soak and use a bottle brush to get all the way down.
It is fun to drink out of a horn though
Mind if I get a link to some of the stuff you listen to? Always down to try new things. Giggidy
So this guy's meme actually hits pretty close to my music tastes somehow lmao. I think it's got to be because I grew up with Linkin Park and halo. So that set my path into metal, electronic, and liking chants/shanties. My tastes have grown and changed but generally the meme is right lol.
Metal
Good intro metal bands of various subgenres (featuring catchy clean vocal parts frequently)
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Wage war. - https://youtu.be/zKYL0WXVaTs
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Memphis mayfire - https://youtu.be/rwPODGGwFn0
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Bring me the horizon - https://youtu.be/Jq4NhAnnD0Q
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Motionless in white - https://youtu.be/Pj2miRJ6bZs
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Sleep token - https://youtu.be/vFHBOKa_ZG0
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Atreyu - https://youtu.be/PqCt54Wx2e0
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Bad omens - https://youtu.be/h31THl8shy4
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In Flames - https://youtu.be/4OkSsFsXLD8
Electronic
Currently I listen to a lot of retro EDM. Synth wave specifically. It's like modern EDM writing a lover letter to the 80s we all see in stranger things. Which, unironically I love the intro to that show. Music like the Weeknds blinding lights fits under this umbrella of genres (https://youtu.be/4NRXx6U8ABQ).
- The midnight
- Gunship
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Dance with the dead https://youtu.be/acITJV6VHBE
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Daniel deluxe https://youtu.be/jjQnsOzfv60
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Kavinsky https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY
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Essenger https://youtu.be/XtptYWXLdvo
Shout-out to Phonk as a genre too. It's great for studying or background for working
For sea shanties, the assassin's creed rogue and ac black flag soundtrack has great versions or real shanties.
Also look up the dreadnaughts
They are polka and shanties. It's awesome.
The longest John's are another sea shanty / folk song band that rules.
And the monk chants for me really is just the halo menu music lol. It's the best game music I've ever heard.
I would just click on this stuff and see if you like anything. There's so much more to these genres than what I'm posting.
Disclaimer: This is just a taste and I just picked some stuff quickly and randomly
Inb4 "sleep token isn't metal"
Try out Mongolian Metal. They combine metal and throat singing.
The who? The Hu! Who? The HU!
Can somebody please make a bot that scrapes a comment thread and produces a Spotify Playlist with all song suggestions? Would be amazing for this thread!
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my favourite "genre" of music is happyish songs about death
examples:
and also all the songs that give me specifically the same vibe. my friends are often confused
edit: thank you all for the recommendations <3 a lot new songs on my favourite playlist!
Not a 'revival hymn', but more of a 'survival hymn'. (As introduced one time by the artist.)
oh that one scratches the itch yes, perfect, thank you!
I can't click those right now, but very much look forward to them. Have one of my favorites:
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Yeah, I just put my whole collection on shuffle and have come to appreciate the simplicity of that.
I use this web music player at home, which only supports shuffle and because it's a web thing, I can't either use keyboard shortcuts to skip songs (without switching to that window).
And I actually like that I can't distract myself with selecting just the right music. Because if I don't distract myself and just get into coding or whatever, I'll quickly stop noticing what precise music is playing.
"I listen to everything" at the same time
When CD burners first became affordable, I made mixes.
150 songs. I had a disk that started with pop, moved to metal, back to easy listening and ended with classical.
What does everyone do? Insert mp3-CD and hit shuffle.
Megadeath: Sweating Bullets -> Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King -> MJ Smooth Criminal
Upgrade your friends. But don’t abandon the soundtrack of your life. It's a vital piece of the narrative. 🎧
sea shanties and gregorian chants are the fedoras of music genres
I do, adding also Free Jazz and Stockhausen with countriy music in between.
So, like... Sleep Token?
No joke though, this is incredible: https://youtu.be/JJpFTUP6fIo
In my day to day playlist I have mostly brutal metal and jazz, with some '90s British trip-hop, Romanian traditional music & hip hop fusion, a bit of manouche, 2000s alternative and '90s grunge here and there...
That's when I work or work out.
The Diablo or Witcher OSTs are for when I read or do my taxes.
Man I don't exactly love two out of four of those genres myself, but this thread has a few commenters that seem to want to pretend they're the adults in the room but in reality they're just a bunch of miserable cunts that either hate music or only want to listen to the same fucking popular shit over and over.
Like, popular music is fine to be clear but so is wanting to listen to weirder stuff.
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A great Celtic banger I've recently discovered. Also this one by Rose betts is great!
Seems like people in this thread might appreciate both those.
Ok, this is what social media is for. Thanks everyone, so much good stuff in here. Glad I have similarly esoteric tastes..
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