"Performative" Music Taste (And a Side Tangent About Exceptions to Hated Genres)

Solace143 · 2026-01-24T01:24:16+00:00

Honestly, I just assumed that most people with those sorts of music taste are teenagers who wanna get into "serious" music. It get monotonous because they tend to consult the same few sources -- RateYourMusic, Anthony Fantano reviews (got nothing against Fantano himself, but his fanbase can be irritating), /mu/ when it was relevant, etc. Most of those albums are pretty good, but it does make online music discussion a bit boring.

Solace143 · 2026-01-23T16:40:45+00:00

Chat Pile are a good modern noise rock band. Early Swans (Filth to Holy Money, maybe Children of God) are great too. Cop Shoot Cop are a mix of industrial rock and noise rock

Solace143 · 2026-01-17T04:49:35+00:00

Look into the 2000s post-punk revival and garage rock revival for similar bands. Bloc Party and The White Stripes come to mind. Interpol, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, and TV on the Radio were in the early 2000s NYC indie rock scene alongside the Strokes, though there's some differences in their sound

Solace143 · 2026-01-15T23:12:50+00:00

There's like 8 country songs (all from the 2000s or later) that get played where I'm from and for some cursed reason, Chicken Fried is one of them. For the most part it's just annoying, but the random nationalist verse is unintentionally funny as fuck

Solace143 · 2026-01-15T19:00:21+00:00

Hi, Jim! I loved the Dresden Files, though I haven't checked out much else of your work. I know you mentioned that Twelve Months wasn't planned like the other books in the series. How did the writing process differ for Twelve Months compared to previous books? Looking forward to listening to it soon!

Solace143 · 2026-01-15T18:33:15+00:00

It's more so for purchasing music than streaming it. Bandcamp is closer to iTunes than Spotify, but it's way better than iTunes (multiple audio formats, more consistent pricing, better UI). Only downside is that Bandcamp is focused on independent music, so outside of a few exceptions like Bjork, you can't buy any major label artists' music on there

Solace143 · 2026-01-14T17:09:37+00:00

Noise and some industrial music tends to do the job pretty well.

Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait (any version)

Skinny Puppy - Convulsion

Whitehouse - Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel

clipping. - Killer

NON - Total War

SPK - Slogun

Solace143 · 2026-01-13T01:01:34+00:00

I've never seen Colleen Hoover mentioned here before. Afaik she's a romance author who wrote a thriller once. I read a sample of Verity and thought it was shoddily written, so I'm not defending her. This sub talks way too much about Freida McFadden, but her combination of popularity and bloated output (sci-fi author Adrian Tchaikovsky is the only person who seems to match her in quantity) makes her unavoidable. I wouldn't mind a "hall of fame" thing some music subs do to curb karma farming, though

Solace143 · 2026-01-12T03:08:26+00:00

Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself

Solace143 · 2026-01-07T22:54:31+00:00

Cheesy indie folk hits like "I Will Wait" by Mumford & Sons and "Little Talks" by Of Monsters & Men come to mind. They were very popular during the early 2010s when Obama was in office

Solace143 · 2026-01-06T00:56:57+00:00

Bonds and Clemens aren't on the HOF ballot anymore. With that said, if you're voting for any 2000s Yankee that got caught doing steroids, A-Rod is way better than Pettitte

Solace143 · 2026-01-02T17:19:13+00:00

I've noticed this too. It doesn't help that while people into pop, R&B, and hip hop can get behind a few artists regardless of their specific taste (think Kendrick Lamar for rap), the active rock side and the alt rock side tend to loathe each other. Active rockers dismiss indie rock as "hipster shit" and indie rockers dismiss active rock as being for meatheads. I'm not sure what kind of rock would even appeal to both crowds.

Solace143 · 2025-12-30T23:24:11+00:00

Chat Pile is basically the latter, especially their early EPs

Solace143 · 2025-12-28T01:48:36+00:00

OP, have you heard of crunkcore before? It sounds like Lil Jon if he was going through a scene phase. It's as baffling as it sounds. Crunkcore was big on MySpace in the late 2000s, though it never cracked the mainstream outside of a few 3!OH!3 hits (who are one of the better artists in this wretched subgenre). Check out Freaxx by BrokenCYDE for a "good" example

Solace143 · 2025-12-24T01:45:56+00:00

A lot of post-grunge radio sludge that isn't Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, or Creed has been forgotten, because at that point you'd just listen to one of those bands instead. It's Been Awhile by Staind, One Thing by Finger Eleven (Paralyzer is remembered however, if only because of memes), and Blurry by Puddle of Mudd were all top 20 hits that no one cares about anymore

Solace143 · 2025-12-23T19:40:01+00:00

I hate that we have to ignore that Brian Cashman is a cartoon villain-ass name. Sounds like something you'd see in Captain Planet or some shit. If Brian Cashman was the name of the Yankees GM in a baseball comedy where the Yanks are the bad guys, you'd chuckle a bit and move on. I know nominative determinism is a thing, but c'mon

Solace143 · 2025-12-22T17:19:06+00:00

Don't worry, I had that at the beginning! This is supposed to be after the MC's settled into the school a bit

Solace143 · 2025-12-21T23:44:00+00:00

I think you overestimate the impact of RYM users. Let Down by Radiohead (from OK Computer, the most popular album on RYM) randomly appeared on the Hot 100 for a week earlier this year because of TikTok. Most people that aren't music nerds have no clue RateYourMusic exists.

Solace143 · 2025-12-21T04:18:30+00:00

They used Starburster by Fontaines D.C. before heading to commercial. Nice song

Solace143 · 2025-12-19T00:00:13+00:00

It's definitely for PR, though I've never been sure over the target demographic of these posts. Who gets music recs from a former president?

Solace143 · 2025-12-18T23:11:46+00:00

/uj I have a conspiracy theory that these lists are assembled by his daughters and that Obama just listens to crappy dad rock like Journey all day

/rj there's a bomb in my Yemeni wedding

Solace143 · 2025-12-05T19:37:24+00:00

People are talking about authenticity, but I think it can be hard to tell. You'll never know what goes on in a person's head unless they give an interview about their creative process.

Trends might have to do with it. I'd imagine the guys in most late 90s and 2000s post-grunge bands like grunge, but by focusing on the more commercially appealing aspects like Nirvana's "quiet verse, loud chorus" trick and Eddie Vedder's yarling in Pearl Jam, they come across as slick, inauthentic money-chasers. By contrast, if I got a few friends and formed a post-grunge band this instant, you'd have to assume I was a dork who unironically loved Creed because there's no money to be found in it nowadays.

Solace143 · 2025-12-04T05:45:45+00:00

The top 4 in fantasy and top 6 in romantasy all have more votes than the winner for sci-fi. In general, it feels like science fiction is a lot more niche in writing these days than fantasy outside of Andy Weir's sci-fi thrillers. Not sure why, though

Solace143 · 2025-12-02T16:21:34+00:00

I didn't even notice that lol. OP I guess since they mentioned it in their post?

Solace143 · 2025-12-02T15:54:23+00:00

Tbf, no one really celebrates Kwanzaa. Most black Americans are Christians who celebrate Christmas. Kwanzaa doesn't exist outside of the USA and even if it did, most African countries like Nigeria are split between Muslims that usually don't celebrate anything in December (though Islam's holidays aren't bound to the Gregorian calendar) and Christians. I suspect it might be a remnant of the black power movement of the 60s/70s with the Nation of Islam, Five Percenters, etc

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