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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2023 20:48:10 GMT
Figured I'd try this - NOT necessarily a song or album from 2023 - it doesn't have to be a current artist even........who did you get turned on to - new or old that you either played the most or who had a big impact on you in 2023? Or knocked you out live? boygenius? Caroline Polachek? Other Pitchforkism blah blh blah? ...........SZA? Taylor Swift? Lana Del Rey? Morrissey? (um, Nikan )........maybe you rediscovered Bowie in 2023? Maybe it was their look.........their yrics..........their politics........... For me it's CMAT.......she didn't make my favorite album of the year (she was 4th) but she also made a great non-album single (Mayday).........and I think her 2nd album - just about a year after her debut - tops her first in exactly the way I would have said would be a mistake: She went BIGGER.........more OTT, more camp at times..........more weird.........into Adult Contemporary territory ffs..........if any album should have flopped this year it hers.......it's a concept album about getting old ........I can't even "see" the concept tbh...........instead she moved a bit closer to being a star. No other artist is more surprising for me to like than her - and there is no other artist in Pop currently like her - I like how she wins me over every time on her own terms..........  |
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Post by Nikan on Dec 12, 2023 0:09:16 GMT
Coming to this thread while listening to this actually  It's no secret at this point: My 2023 was all about the man, the myth, the diva himself Morrissey. I've always been sort of a loner (and fine with it) but I've never been this far away from home and this much by myself (I'm studying abroad in Germany atm) and not really sure to do with my life tbh... so I'm pretty vulnurable to somebody like him and what he sings about. In terms of writing I think he's second to none; so aggressively himself it's almost toxic ("Alma Matters" kind of scares me when I listen to it now. This much stubbornness won't take anyone too far... Somebody up there really loves this bitch)... you cut that hard and manage to come off as surprisingly compassionate instead of edgy or something else, I won't care if you say bunch of dumb things throughout all the decades you've been around... Imagine my pleasant surprise when I recognized the sound of "Well I wonder" early on in The Killer, picture my hair rising up when "How Soon is Now" Kicked in, and the big-ass smile on my face when it ended with "There is a Light that never goes out". Are our minds connected David? I'm ready to have my share whenever you are  I'm open to date new artists and obsessions of course, but you have big shoes to fill dear fella. (Meanwhile, here is Don Draper acting all fishy and sus): |
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 12, 2023 8:43:29 GMT
when I recognized the sound of "Well I wonder" early on in The Killer, picture my hair rising up when "How Soon is Now" Kicked in, and the big-ass smile on my face when it ended with "There is a Light that never goes out". Are our minds connected David? I'm ready to have my share whenever you are This year had a lot of Pop Culture moments that were almost designed to turn people on to older artists - The Killer with The Smiths, huge re-releases of Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The 'Mats - there's an 11 CD reissue of ONE record by The Who ffs........the Beatles came back from the dead.......... Kate Bush was only a year ago ......nobody fell in love with Leonard Bernstein or Burt Bachrach in 2023? Martin Scorsese directed a David Johansen documentary and NOBODY posted about it.........some movie board this is |
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 12, 2023 13:34:46 GMT
According to my Spotify wrapped my top song this year was Sorry Somehow by Husker Du, which apparently I listened to 122 times (and that’s just on Spotify). Rounding out the top 10:
2. Counterfeit Woman - The Only Ones
3. April Skies - The Jesus and Mary Chain
4. Answering Machine - The Replacements
5. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
7. Plan 9 Channel 7 - The Damned
8. How Soon is Now? - The Smiths
9. Heroin - The Velvet Underground
10. Chartered Trips - Husker Du
My top 5 artists were:
1. Husker Du
2. Joy Division
3. Sonic Youth
4. The Clash
5. Pink Floyd
22/100 songs on my wrapped playlist were by either Husker Du or Joy Division
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 12, 2023 15:21:13 GMT
Goose
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Post by themoviesinner on Dec 12, 2023 18:22:09 GMT
I have been listening to a lot of progressive/psychedelic rock this year, mostly from the 70s (I've relistened to a lot of the classics from that period and a lot of albums which aren't very well known), but my favorite new discovery is certainly Magma and especially the albums Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh and Üdü Ẁüdü, which are very unique and incredibly interesting and have earned a place among my all time favorite albums. As for stuff from 2023, there's one album I've listened to multiple times ( Kob from Arkona), which is definitely my favorite of the year and among the bands best work. |
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Post by DaleCooper on Dec 31, 2023 0:43:57 GMT
Of music I barely had listened to before this calender year, my favorites is Draconian. Especially their album Under a godless veil is great.
Otherwise, it's hard to argue with numbers; Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey and Weyes Blood are my three most listened artists this year exactly because the have been among my favorite artists this year.
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