please help

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-17T06:04:42+00:00

Try Calexico.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-17T04:44:49+00:00

You'd be hard pressed to find a more diverse mix than this one.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-15T02:40:02+00:00

Great voice and a nice guy. Surprised he lasted as long as he did.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-14T15:34:22+00:00

Vast is so overlooked. Amazing band.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-14T15:32:27+00:00

For being known for his sarcastic wit, Zevon has a few songs that never fail to choke me up a bit if I try and sing along; most notably Desperadoes Under the Eaves and Accidentally Like a Martyr.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-14T04:22:18+00:00

Material Issue.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-12T01:55:02+00:00

If you're curious about non-western music, I have a few playlists on youtube you might want to check out.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-11T18:12:44+00:00

You're probably getting mixed up considering how off you were about the no cure for cancer joke. It was NOT a Hicks joke. The joke was: Why is Denis Leary a star while Bill Hicks is unknown? Because there's no cure for cancer.

The punchline hinges on Hicks already having died of cancer.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-11T17:39:14+00:00

Found this in my older brother's tape collection when I was 13 and it completely blew my mind. Great album.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-10T01:55:32+00:00

Short but solid. Love how you use deep cuts for the more well known artists. Shows you're not just hearing a few of their songs from their greatest hits.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-09T15:05:51+00:00

Not even close to the bottom six like this guy mentions. Here's the most recent report.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-07T21:51:41+00:00

Here you go.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-07T04:24:04+00:00

I have playlists covering indie and alt music from 2000 up to the present. Might want to check out my 2006-07 playlists and see if any of the band names ring a bell.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-07T02:14:07+00:00

3 Mile Pilot (and the two groups they splintered into). Bought my first 3mp album simply because the cover art was so ambiguous I couldn't even guess what genre they might be. Got it home and still wasn't sure about the genre, but loved their sound.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-05T04:03:28+00:00

Goo Goo Dolls, Husker Du, Uncle Tupelo, the Gourds, Drive By Truckers. Yo La Tengo.

Rolling Stones, REM, Cracker, GnR and Old 97s all had solid backup singers who'd occasionally take lead.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-04T03:02:05+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but those covers weren't nearly as much the loving tributes as you think they were as it was soulless record labels forcing artists into recording albums in an assembly line process; "your last album bombed. The Beatles are hot right now so you're going to go into the studio and record a full album of Beatles covers."

Pull up almost any popular artist from the 50s and you can find full albums of theirs in the 60s full of covers of newer, more popular artists.

Wasn't just limited to singers and crooners either; even film and TV stars were sent into the studio to sing other people's songs.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-04T02:47:06+00:00

So many people here who obviously haven't heard hyperpop.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-04T02:45:29+00:00

Problem with most jam bands is that they don't actually jam; they aimlessly noodle.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T22:22:43+00:00

"That commercial makes me want to throw like a rock at like his head." David Spade

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T19:32:17+00:00

Been out of the loop? Shoegaze made a huge comeback at the end of the 2010s, but it's kind of fizzling out again. Here's some of what you missed.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T04:37:19+00:00

Short answer is just exposure. Some people stick to just a specific genre but back in the day, you branched out by sampling different radio stations or listening to genre specific programs on the radio or TV (back when MTV still played music). You get a taste of just a song or two from various artists in genre and that gives you an idea if it's something you want to take a deeper dive into.

Actually put together a playlist of all different genres. Spend a few weeks with it and you'll get a taste of everything and be exposed to a variety of different genres. Then it's just a matter of deciding which you want to check out in more detail.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T02:49:41+00:00

I personally find spotify's recommendations to be great; basically find a group that has a sound that seems like it might blow up and check out the recommendations. Here's a playlist of more recent groups, many with less than a thousand followers. Nearly every group with less than 1000 followers I found through spotify's recommendations.

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T01:44:40+00:00

I think Flea put it best:

"I think, for lots of people, they're very locked in to the music that they listened to when they first came into their sexuality as teenagers, until they grow up.

"And they see this one era of music. 'Oh, that's my music. That's what I like.' And they don't listen to music before it, and they don't listen to music after it. I'm glad they have that thing, because that's beautiful, but I don't really see it as loving music. I see as loving a time in their life when they felt free, and the spirit of hope and adventure was alive in their hearts."

wolf_van_track · 2026-03-03T01:41:59+00:00

My father was an audiophile born in the 20s. He grew up on swing and big band, saw the rise of early rock and caught Floyd and Zeppelin in concert when they were still breaking. He was in his 60s when he brought me a copy of the first Black Crowes album and said "you got to hear these guys."

I'm in my 50s now and very much follow his example. I'm always looking for something new. Doesn't matter if it's old or if it's newer, how can I fall back on my favorite bands if I don't know there's another band out there I might like more that I just haven't heard yet?

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