#this album.... so good and modern

[sugar-petals]

i’ll be honest: ten’s ‘stunner’ comeback 100% proves why he’s not the biggest world star ever yet. the dancing, fashion, cinematography, editing, production, feeling, attitude, longevity, ideas, innovation, sex appeal, delivery. all of those are glaring problem areas. because. it’s. all. immaculate. 

he is too perfect, professional, demanding, and high-level to resonate with everyone. ten has never made a bad music video ever. do you know how loyal and almost niche his fanbase is? you can’t generate universal attention when you’re without flaws and remain unable to generate slop. this dude is too good for us! he has no weakness. which company and audience can handle that? 

and yes, he should be psy-level known for it with a billion views and everyone talking about it, to infuse the petty mainstream with his quality art. in any case, listen to stunner and the album. it’s so ridiculously good and a breath of fresh air in k-pop.

[fexjam]

Medic headcanons💉

[ranchstoryblog]

March Community Poll: That Folksy Feeling

Way, way back, for the original Super Famicom release of the first Bokujou Monogatari, there was a Satellaview broadcast version of the game that had an accompanying live radio show that included Japanese folk music while you played. To my knowledge, this is the first time any sort of licensed musical performance was associated with the series, though later Japanese ads would use songs from pop groups like Dreams Come True.

So naturally, it got me thinkin': If they were to try something like that again with the modern series, and outside Japan this time, what would they pick? It could be for a trailer, opening, credits, festival, whatever. For those who've never heard these songs before, I threw together a playlist real quick for ya:

Of course, I'm no expert. This is hardly a comprehensive list and more of a jumping off point since folk music was what the Japanese side of the series used first. Plenty of stuff from Europe and before the 20th century out there too, like Scarborough Fair, or songs from other genres like Fields of Gold that touch on the themes and imagery of the series. There's a lot to explore.

Maybe some day it'd be worth talking to someone more well versed in older music and really digging into the concept. If nothing else, it'd probably give characters like Griffin and Gustafa more songs to play if there was some good traditional music that didn't need licensing at all. Might also be worth it for an indie dev out there looking to give their own game's musicians something to sing at their festivals.

[tyrianluda]

it's always interesting when the "oh i hate modern rap! they all be rapping about drugs, gangs and sex" people say they like tupac, because that's when i know, for sure, they don't actually listen to him.

[adagger-adagger-fetchmeadagger]

just saw the WORST review of mania I've ever seen in the main fob tag so this is a reminder everyone go listen to mania the seventh studio album by American rock band Fall Out boy. NOW. listen to stay frosty listen to last of the real ones listen to hold me tight or dont listen to wilson listen to church listen to heavens gate listen to champion listen to sunshine riptide listen to young and menace listen to bishops knife trick. let the vibes and lyricism consume your soul!!!!

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[moonshapedbox]

last week someone changed the radio station at work and it only played the same 10 modern country songs every hour and it was pure torture i felt like daryl when he was locked in that bunker being forced to listen to “easy street” over and over again

[bredforloyalty]

does anyone want to recommend me.. like.. a Rock song mayhaps. or any song

[robertsbarbie]

i was listening to 16 Carriages again and it is LAUGHABLE that people think beyonce only got the grammy for album of the year as a "consolation" because like it truly is the most artistic, technically proficient excellent album of the year. i remember hearing the first two singles of cowboy carter and as a lifelong country fan immediately thinking about how perfectly country they were, and then i remember listening to the full album and being further blown away by how easily she made it her own while integrating homage to modern country, older country, and the country she knew as well as the intersectionality of artists in both like everything about the album from the aesthetics to the execution effectively communicated what she was going for because she's right it's not a country album it's a beyonce album. it's the art and craft that beyonce brings to everything she does especially music, it's the music industry, it's the fight, it's creating for the sake of creation, no album was close to its level in terms of all of that. it wasn't a consolation prize it was just simply the album of the year for a number of reasons

[headslikekites]

auuhhhhh the tricky trials ost is so peak

[taraxippos]

Get in bitch. Yes, we're listening to more Peter Gabriel. No, I'm not playing 'In Your Eyes' or 'Big Time' for you again. You fucking WISH we were listening to 'So'. No... I'm about to play you 'Peter Gabriel 1: Car'. Yeah, the first album. With that weird barbershop quartet bit in the middle. That song is honestly kind of shit but the rest of the album is truly phenomenal music, some of his best work and SO early in his solo career too? Good stuff. Anyway get ready for some 'Moribund the Burgermeister' you sorry cunt *locks the doors and

[thestarmaker]

It's a shame owl city hasn't put out anything new in like ten years. But ending on the ultraviolet ep means he at least went out on a good note. Too bad nothing came of that ep

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Anaïs Mitchell brainrot deserves to be a wider phenomenon

[stonedsoul]

BREAKING MY SILENCE on hackney diamonds!!! find it really interesting how people are comparing it to the rest of the 'modern' (i.e. post ww3) stones era... some ppl praising it as the best thing since tattoo you or whatever and a return to form after all the 'shit' allbums... other ppl trashing it as a soulless cash grab whilst simultaneously praising the don was albums... yes the production and overall. format of the album is different so i'm not saying it doesn't make sense to have preferences but guys. the quality of the songs is not very different at all. same shit different packaging. i don't understand where any of you are coming from

[takaska]

12 and 29!!!!!!!!!!!

12. three favourite songs from video games Leaving Earth from Mass Effect 3 is actually the first thing I ever saved as a draft on this site; so I could find it later lmao Nightsong by Neal Acree has been a favorite of mine since I was... probably 9 or 10? Whenever I first heard it lmao The Child You Were by Frances Aravel is a current favorite; from the game I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (god I could rant for ages...)

29. three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives) BYOB by System of a Down was the first song of theirs I'd heard; and they wound up helping to shape A Lot of my political ideals Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park was one of the first songs I ever recognized seeing myself in, feeling like I never belonged sucked so bad, but... seeing where they got despite their feelings? it meant a lot to me, then and now. Life Is Beautiful by Sixx AM (as well as most of the band's discography tbh) came to me when I needed it most- in highschool lmao. The concept that despite the pain, life is worth living, is something I've fought to keep alive in me

[mortalandstupid]

tigers jaw might be the best band to come out of the god awfulness that was the 2010s emo revival scene