Let's say you hate 99% of newer music.. What's the 1% you do you like?*

Adele

Jenny Lewis / Rilo Kiley

Wilco

Nick Waterhouse

to name a few off the top of my head.
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Do you just keep rambling?????? If so, you too are timeless.....

 

Hang on friend. - You said of a posters long list of great new (and old) music: "Did you listen to all that? Or did you just copy that list from their website? "That looks exhausting to have to sit by the radio and listen to all of them just to find out if there's any keepers." As if someone in their right mind would do that in 2019.

Then you go on some tangent about 1989... And my comprehension is questioned? How about questioning what you are going on about? If a minor rant( or whatever it was) about playlists not existing in 1989 imparts some clarity, I have news for you.

So here's the news - FLASH! I dunno if you've looked up lately but it ain't 1989. Radio stations have extensive playlists of what gone and what's coming. You don't have to sit by a radio for hours to find out what 's been played. So in taking your post as one coherent thought, which I assumed it was, it ended up in the "whut"? category.

Then you make an offhand comment about content saturation (whatever that's supposed to be) which further reinforces the idea (in my mind) that your post is all one thought. Apparently, it was never intended to be one thought. Is that what you're saying?

 

Let's say you hate 99% of newer music.. What's the 1% you do you like?

The 1% that sounds like old music.

 

A recent fav:
St. Paul & the Broken Bones

 

Here here! Hear hear?!

 

Bevis Frond-Stephen Malkmus-Royal Trux....all their new albums are great...and Fleet Foxes kick ass in general.

 

Accurately describing, I would say.

 

Nobody alive has heard 1% of newer music let alone 99%.

 

Seriously, though, a few years ago I got hooked on HAIM. A couple of songs in to their album I was reminded of Fleetwood Mac and "modern day FM" is how I relayed my thoughts of the band to my friends. I read articles after that where others made the same comparison so it wasn't me being loony.

For those of you who haven't heard them, here's an example off their first album:

 

There’s many genres nowadays. Complexity is an inevitable part of development. It’s all good.

 

Most of the "new music" I discover is old music that I never knew about 40 or 50 years ago. So yeah, I love new music!

But seriously, I do actually like quite a lot of the new music, if it has its roots in the classic stuff. Roots Rock, country rock, nu-folk, nu-psych, rock.

I like a bunch...if you all that know me, trust me, you can close your eyes and pick any one below, and you will be happy. Celtic to roots to folk to rock to bluesrock to pop.

Jason Isbell and Drive By Truckers
Wilco and Jeff Tweedy
Bill Callahan-Dream River
Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers...In The Time Of The Great Remembering
Anais Mitchell..Hadestown
Eric Koskinen
Freda Leask & Shoormal
Hezekiah Jones
Israel Nash Gripka
Grant Lee Phillips, Grant Lee Buffalo
Gregory Alan Isakov
Jason Spooner
Kasey Chambers
Kate Rusby
Laura Marling

The Great Park, folk psych rock (hard to describe)...I have 15 albums by The Great Park. By far the most of any contemporary artist..he just grabs me.

The Great Park, "I Do Wrong"


John Moreland, blues rock
Matt Andersen-folk blues
Lukas Nelson & The Promise Of The Real
Lynne Hanson-River Of Sand, roots
Michael Mazochi
Piers Facinni
Pugwash
River Crombie. jazzy folk fusion..Light Trails
Rod Picott/Slaid Cleaves
RunRig
Ryley Walker
Matt Dieghton (Mother Earth, jazz funk fusion)
Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek, Red House Painters
Peter Bradley Adams, Eastmountainsouth
Sam Brenner, roots
Sarah Jarosz
Scott Matthews
Shakey Graves
The Duhks
Strand Of Oaks
Sufjan Stevens
Thea Gilmore
Weird Owl
Weird With Cats...Yah Ra Hooray

 

Some of my favorite new (or new-ish) artists:

Electronic:
James Shinra
Dave Monolith
iTal Tek
Tycho
Pretty Lights
Jack U
Friendly Fires

Pop:
Halsey
Marshmello
MØ
Blood Orange
21 Pilots

Hip Hop/Rap:
Kid Cudi
Run The Jewels

Rock:
Tame Impala
Julia Holter
Wolf Alice
Don Broco
Agent Fresco
We Are Scientists
Closure In Moscow

 

I’m that rare person who loves all music, with the exception being 99% of Country produced after 1990...

But I listen to it all. I like Ed Sheeran and enjoy Bastille and pop stuff like GaGa and on and on, but I also love Kula Shaker and Johnny Cash and Elvis and Green Day and The Police and Beastie Boys and Classical and on and on....

Last night, I listened to The Gorillaz and then Donald Fagan and some Weezer. I ended off with Eva Cassidy and Billy Joel

 

Just forget it. Doesn't matter. I saw something, I said what I saw. That's it.

 

I love that song.... Even though it reminds me of five star.

 

Anderson Paak.
Sounds like the spiritual godson of Stevie Wonder and Sly Stone.

 

I totally love a lot of indie bands. Every single act I like other than the old time rock stars is an indie artist or band that pretty much nobody ever heard of.

 

Snail Mail: They were playing this at Starbucks the other night.
One song sounded like Sonic Youth meets Avril Lavigne!
I know it sells at Sonic Boom here, but me being 59, I just can't listen to a 19 year old girl and take it seriously.

Same with Greta Van Fleet (they're "kids" and they are just plain bad and a parody at that)

 

I take that back. The only music I 'hate' is power ballads by 80s hair bands. Except Scorpions and G&R.

 

A sprinkling of reverse ageism, and a spritz of misogyny, all in one post.

Impressive.

 

The latest Black Rebel Motorcycle Club record should be much bigger around here in my view.
Ditto the last few Mogwai records. Interpol. Death from above 1979. Wintersleep.

 

...and herein lies the problem with a thread like this and this forum in general.
You give an opinion and someone gets offended and gives you a snotty reply...

 

You'll have to do a bit more that to offend me.

Right now it's more amusement / entertainment. But keep it up, I'll let you know when it really bothers me.