Random Music Talk CXXX: The AFL Finally Gets Revenge on Meat Loaf

[LemonMelon]

My primary phone is an android but I actually have an iPhone through work, so I get the best experience out of Apple Music sometimes.

[gump]

I’ve been a Spotify user for a long time, and never liked Apple Music, especially how it sometimes messed up with my local library (I still have a ton of songs on iTunes). It would be inconvenient to change, but then again principles should outweigh convenience I guess. I might save my playlists and cancel my family account. Fuck this. What a world. Thinking that Joe Rogan is more important than historical figures like Neil Young or Joni.

Glad to see their stock free falling.

[mikal]

Originally Posted by gump

I’ve been a Spotify user for a long time, and never liked Apple Music, especially how it sometimes messed up with my local library (I still have a ton of songs on iTunes). It would be inconvenient to change, but then again principles should outweigh convenience I guess. I might save my playlists and cancel my family account. Fuck this. What a world. Thinking that Joe Rogan is more important than historical figures like Neil Young or Joni.

Glad to see their stock free falling.

That used to be a complaint of mine but they resolved it a couple years ago.

[gump]

Originally Posted by mikal

That used to be a complaint of mine but they resolved it a couple years ago.

That’s good to know. I’m on a free Apple Music subscription for another few months and might just switch over then.

[Joey788]

Originally Posted by mikal

My concert calendar is really filling up!

Biffy Clyro and Kenny Wayne Shepard in April and Foo
Fighters in August.

Same here! Got tickets for lots of great shows this year so far.

In February, Courtney Barnett at Radio City and Waxahatchee at Brooklyn Steel.
Mitski in March at Radio City. Big Thief in April at Kings Theatre.
And Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen and Julien Baker super-concert at Central Park in August!

[lazarus]

Originally Posted by cobl04

Waiting for Laz to march in here all high and mighty for never using it in the first place

[bono_212]

Originally Posted by DaveC

i would like to cancel my spotify account but i'm not sure that there's another option that's as good. apple music is no bueno because we have all android phones and a 22 year old car. i wish google music was still awesome.

YouTube Music is such a fucking disappointment, but I'm never getting rid of it because I'm not going back to YouTube with ads.

I will continue to hold out hope that they'll fix it one day, or for some reason decide to restore Google Play Music. (Yes, I know that Google never goes back )

[bono_212]

I just listened to Twin Shadow's Confess for the first time in probably a decade and I finally understand why people have been disappointed by his career. I personally like where he ended up, but he really was something totally different on that first record, and it's way, way better than I remembered (not that I didn't remember it being good).

[bono_212]

*I meant to say Forget, not Confess.

[iron yuppie]

I listened back through Blur's discography the last few days for the first time in ages. I'm not sure if this is a hot take, but I don't get the acclaim for Parklife. Honestly I would put everything except the debut above it. And I much, much prefer the later albums - beginning with the S/T - above the earlier ones. Apparently that is a divide in the fandom.

[Vlad n U 2]

13 is the best for mine, followed by Modern Life is Rubbish.

[iron yuppie]

I stumbled across a 90s band called "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282" on RYM. Their album Strangers from the Universe made the kind of impression on me that only happens a few times a year. They're like a cross between Meat Puppets and Built to Spill.

[bono_212]

I was beginning to fear we would leave January without a great acoustic-female-vocalist-not-quite-folk-not-quite-rock album, but don't worry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk9ZkLEisw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUEw3ZHoNw

I'm VAGUELY familiar with the existence of Hadestown, but otherwise, I'd never heard of her before, so I was surprised to see this listed as her 8th studio album. Anyone know if it's worth going back over?

[cobl04]

Fuck this guy. Spotify CEO To Artists: “You Can’t Record Music Once Every Three To Four Years And Think That’s Going To Be Enough”

[prbiker15]

Rock Hall 2022 nominees announced.

https://vote.rockhall.com/en/

[gump]

Originally Posted by gump

This year has been so slow with new releases. I haven't loved anything yet.

That has been corrected. Silvana Estrada's Marchita is the first album I've really loved this year. It's a beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZigatfywoQ

[bono_212]

ha! I saw this morning that you were my friend on RYM that rated it and was going to ask you your thoughts, but you beat me to it. I enjoyed it quite a bit as well.


Speaking of RYM, if anyone has 2.5 hours to spend, this is QUITE good: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...im/a_k_a-yaya/

I just don't know how to rate an album this long. I will NEVER sit down and listen to it as an entire album again, but boy is it pleasant while it's on. Maybe at a dinner party...if I'm ever grown up enough to have one of those.

[HeartlandGirl]

I've got exactly 2.5 hours until my first class starts, so yeah, I'll give it a go!

[gump]

Originally Posted by bono_212

ha! I saw this morning that you were my friend on RYM that rated it and was going to ask you your thoughts, but you beat me to it. I enjoyed it quite a bit as well.


Speaking of RYM, if anyone has 2.5 hours to spend, this is QUITE good: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...im/a_k_a-yaya/

I just don't know how to rate an album this long. I will NEVER sit down and listen to it as an entire album again, but boy is it pleasant while it's on. Maybe at a dinner party...if I'm ever grown up enough to have one of those.

I've followed you on RYM eons ago!

I do think her record could be a big hit in the B&C crowd.

2.5 hours while parenting a toddler is a hard ask. But I might try it during my work-from-home days.

[HeartlandGirl]

So far, listening to Yaya Kim has turned my classroom into a James Bond film.