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Same, I have a playlist full of songs from games that I've played like Nier automata and Undertale. Used to think people who liked video game music were cringey until I started playing video games myself and found the songs very catchy
The Nier automata soundtrack is on another level. What a collection of absolute masterpieces.
Weight of the world still brings a tear to my eye.
Ori and the blind forest, a hat in time, deltarune. It's amazing how good videogame soundtrack can get!
When I was a pre-teen and teenager, pop-punk and emo were popular.
Turns out I haven't outgrown this genre. I now listen to more music from a variety of different genres and time periods, but ultimately, 80% of my library is still early 2000's pop punk.
Progressive metal
- Sleep Token
- Long Distance Calling
- Audrey Fall
- Brutus
- Countless Skies
- Before the Dawn
- Dawn of Solace
- Exquirla
- Merrow
- Primordial
- Psychonaut
- Rishloo
- Soen
- Somali Yacht Club
- Tides from Nebula
- Villagers of Ioanninan City
- Wheel
- Greta Van Fleet
- Persefone
Genres are for normies
I still most often listen to Grunge and 90 Hard and Alt rock. According to tidal Pearl Jam is a little more than half of all my song listens every month.
Side note, I think the collective noun for Lemmy users in any music thread should be Motorheads.
Power Metal:
Powerwolf
Gloryhammer
Alestorm
Sabaton
Windrose
Pagan music:
Emerald Rose
Tyr
And then sea shanties, folk music, Irish (rebel and otherwise), labor/protest music, and the occasional bouts of pure randomness.
Right now I cannot get enough of Miracle of Sound. Dude just checks every box there is for me. It's like if every other kind of music I listen to got gene-spliced into one guy.
In no particular order other stuff:
Blackmore's Night
Clamavi de Profundis
Omnia
Faun
I'd say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.
At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.
During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.
To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):
- Jakub Zytecki
- Chon
- Plini
- Periphery
- Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back ๐)
- Dirty Loops
- Up Dharma Down
- Joji
- Tycho
- Sleep Token
- Lorna Shore
- Tom Misch
Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.
Mostly sea shanties, Irish rebel songs, and Kesha.
That's a heady trio. Good lad
Experimental Example: Nurse With Wound "Dueling Banjos" https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o
Psychedelia Example: 13th Floor Elevators "Earthquake" https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg
Krautrock Example: Neu! "Hero" https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s
Hip Hop Example: De La Soul "A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays" https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c
Post Punk Example: Chrome "Animal" https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw
Punk Example: Rich Kids "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4
Country Rock Example: Nick Lowe "She Don't Love Nobody" https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk
Live Music Example: Grateful Dead "Bertha" https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM
Tropicalia Example: Os Mutantes "Ave, Lucifer" https://piped.video/watch?v=PSe2Dn960mo
World Example: Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects "Moulssinia" https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k
Indie Rock Example: Purple Mountains "She's Making Friends, I'm Turning Stranger" https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=7BwFYGfMv_o
https://piped.video/watch?v=OUurlw2_teg
https://piped.video/watch?v=H0HsOKN3ly4&t=148s
https://piped.video/watch?v=9S5lTgyfT2c
https://piped.video/watch?v=5OjniYelhDw
https://piped.video/watch?v=Hg71K6eTiv4
https://piped.video/watch?v=YNwteQFTLhk
https://piped.video/watch?v=p78PIvj-PwM
https://piped.video/watch?v=SBvp7qP1o0s
https://piped.video/watch?v=ZHNUuXQH11k
https://piped.video/watch?v=EhQjp-P4y34
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Post rock, synthwave, japanese jazz. I also love hard rock, but don't listen to it too often, because I can't listen to it while I'm working
Gonna use this post as a chance to give a shout out to Electric Callboy which I recently gave a chance to after they kept popping up in my recommendations, they're some sort of trance metalcore band, and boy do they have fun songs.
OT, but... How did we get to lemmites and not lemmings?
Here lately I mostly listen to the kind of music that your most insufferable hipster friend would try to recommend you.
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Radical Face
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Shins
Pat the Bunny
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Mal Blum
Daisy the Great
Delicate Steve
Professor Caveman
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
This is a bit messy looking, but these are my top five fav โgenresโ and my fav โartistsโ from each (genres in quotes because half of these arenโt exactly genres. Artists in quotes because one is not the artist but a sound the real artists use).
Kawaii metal: Babymetal and Ladybaby
Anime music: guess Iโll say Aimer because thatโs probably the one artist with the most anime songs in my playlist (shoutout to Nier games soundtracks because they donโt fit in any of my other fav โgenresโ)
Vocaloids and utauloids: Flower is my fav vocaloid - love how she sounds, love her designs, and it helps that she was made for j-rock/metal
Vtubers/Hololive performers: Bae is bae
Rock/metal: Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica
Retrowave // synthwave
listen to electric callboy
My first love is Hip Hop but I love lots of genres Funk, Soul, Jazz, Electronic, House, Techno, Dreampop, Ambient, Balearic, Indie/Alternative - Iโm probably missing something ๐. Iโve even setup some communities here on Lemmy for my music genres that I love.
Some of my favourite artists:
- Mount Kimbie
- The xx
- J Dilla
- Flying Lotus
- Larry Heard/Mr Fingers
- The Avalanches
- Khruangbin
- Beach House
- Toro Y Moi
- Erykah Badu
- Miles Davis
- Four Tet
- Leon Vynehall
- Jonny Nash
EDIT: Adding City Pop genre as well since I saw another user comment that
2nd EDIT: Oh and Reggae, Dub too!
3rd EDIT: Okay I keep adding artists thinking I canโt believe I left such and such off haha Iโll stop now!
Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.
But lately I've been on a classical music kick.
I can't speak for anyone else, but my favorite couple of genres over the past half year or so has definitely been 90s pop music and vocalsynth (vocaloid and other similar products).
I only really started getting into 90s pop because I found a playlist of songs for it on yt and decided to save it because I liked what I heard.
I am mostly listening to melodic death metal.
But since I discovered Lorna Shore, I enjoy more extreme genres as well, and I am getting my feet wet with deathcore.
almost exclusively electronic music, just can't seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I'd be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.
also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus
I'm all over the place. Some of my favorites include Flogging Molly, The White Stripes, and MC Frontalot. Lately I've been getting into the stoner metal band Gnome.
I listen to Rock, Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Ska, EDM, and K-Pop.
Some of my favorite bands are Thrice, Streetlight Manifesto, Alkaline Trio, Band-Maid, Dreamcatcher. I dunno man, I just like music.
Some absolutely belting suggestions in this thread nice work guys!
I think I'm the only one here who likes mainstream J-pop.
Anybody for Aimer, ReoNa, LiSa, Yorushika, Minami, TK from Ling Tosite Sigure, nZk, Uru, Tielle, Yuuri?
No? I suppose I'm alone in my listening habits. I do like baroque music though
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a few recommendations:
Djent/Core:
- Architects
- Spiritbox
- Jinjer
- Polaris
- Periphery
- Dayseeker
- Holding Abscence
Prog:
- Leprous
- Wheel
- Vola
- Animals as Leaders
- Haken
- TesseracT
Mainly early 2000s "Whose Line is it Anyway?" hoedowns. My favorite is the one where they make fun of Colin's baldness.
My musical tastes vary from rock and itโs many subgenres and off shoots to dozens of genres of EDM (mainly Progressive House, Trance, Techno, Psytrance, Dubstep, and Drum & Bass). I have a Spotify library exceeding 12k tracks.
Some of my favorite acts in no particular order include The Offspring, Rise Against, Pearl Jam, Ghost, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Breaking Benjamin, Billy Talent, Linkin Park, Paramore, Deadmau5, Feed Me, Kill The Noise, Liquid Stranger, Dance With The Dead, Ghostland Observatory, Rezz, Eric Prydz, Infected Mushroom, Heatbeat, Death On The Balcony, Hernan Cattaneo, and Lee Burridge just to name a few.
Iโve kinda got all my eggs in different baskets but mostly I listen to pop punk, alternative, and some classic rock
Mostly it's different subgenres of rock and metal (like 70% of all comments here. Seriously, I've never met so many ppl that listen to my favorite music in one place xD).
I kinda have a few moods. For the "fun and energetic" mood I have hard rock and heavy metal, for the "my job is f*cking me and I don't like it" I have nu metal and some other things that sound angry, for the "fancy" I have a strange mix of P!atD, Franz Ferdinand, some songs that are creepy/sad but sound happy ("I can't decide", "Don't fear the Reaper", "To The Sea") and steampunk/dark cabaret/murder song bands (Voltaire, Coppelius, the Cog is Dead, American Murder Song)
rock/metal and most derivatives. for example metallica, ac/dc, iris and others.