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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

yea relatabke this happens when thwy let me choosd the music, it always ends up at a weird mix of chiptune, power metal, classical, jazz, funk and "using only windows error sounds" among many other things you usually wouldnt find in the playlist such as floppotron videos or "megalovania but every instrument is a metal pipe"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Sea shanties just hit different, especially when sung by native speakers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

Gregorian metal

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TAKE MY MONEY AND MY MUSIC!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's the worst kind of "techno" though..

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Combine all 4: dungeon synth

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Metal and sea shanties with Alestorm

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This person drinks from a horn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comment made me look up at my drinking horn hanging on the wall among Ren faire weapons and shield...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genuine question: Is it practical both for drinking and cleaning or is it really just a gimmick to look cool?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mind if I get a link to some of the stuff you listen to? Always down to try new things. Giggidy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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)

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
  1. https://youtu.be/4rJ9z6IXnb8

  2. https://youtu.be/dlW1w6gCWr8

  3. https://youtu.be/9LD3NKlS55g

  • Gunship
  1. https://youtu.be/60ruvzfXQoE

  2. https://youtu.be/-nC5TBv3sfU

  3. https://youtu.be/3kOWOAi5_2o

  4. https://youtu.be/ylyShIQ5LR4

Shout-out to Phonk as a genre too. It's great for studying or background for working

https://youtu.be/J4t4pMZBXZg

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"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try out Mongolian Metal. They combine metal and throat singing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The who? The Hu! Who? The HU!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

my favourite "genre" of music is happyish songs about death

examples:

We're All Gonna Die

Memento Mori

When I Die

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not a 'revival hymn', but more of a 'survival hymn'. (As introduced one time by the artist.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah I'm into indie hip hop and medieval beekeepers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Upgrade your friends. But don’t abandon the soundtrack of your life. It's a vital piece of the narrative. 🎧

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"I listen to everything" at the same time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I do, adding also Free Jazz and Stockhausen with countriy music in between.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Normal activities: normal music

Taxes: boss music

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sea shanties and gregorian chants are the fedoras of music genres

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If you dont mind French language songs:

https://youtu.be/Upg_3ExpTNE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ok, this is what social media is for. Thanks everyone, so much good stuff in here. Glad I have similarly esoteric tastes..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
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