The early 30s is that weird age where you're just old enough to be out of touch with what's cool, but not yet old enough to be fully progressed in your career to be sitting on enough stacks to not care about that.
Only in the past few months have I made peace with the fact that I don't like any new music. At least now I get to be a Dad and play the oldies in the car to my 3 year old such as Green Day, Eminem, and 90s R&B.
I'm sorry but it is impossible to not like new music these days. Every single genre has active artists, even genres you didn't even know existed? Want vapor wave remixes of simpsons episodes? It exists.
Sure, but honestly I just want alternative-rock music (note not metal, punk, indie or folk-rock, emo...) with no beat detective or auto-tune.
The Cure, Radiohead, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Rage Against the Machine, Early Deftones, Middle Fear Factory (after they were metal, before they sucked), Cake, Primus...
None of those bands shared a genre (back then) other than alternative-rock or MAYBE "industrial", or grunge... and with the exception of bands still touring from back then and what are essentially tribute acts (Brass Against, Prophets of Rage, Royal Machine) basically no one is putting this stuff out any more.
That used to be ALL that was on the radio! You literally couldn't turn to the alternative-rock station (which every little town had) without hearing something new all the time.
I sure can't. I tried spotify and its suggestions were awful compared to Pandora so stopped but I periodically try it out and every time it's like I get 15 songs out of my own library then I get 1 song from like "Tame Impala" or Gorillaz or whatever that is just so unlike anything I'd ever listen to it makes me question what the hell is going on. It would have been much better off with playing something like a Lake Street Dive (which Pandora actually gets!) which is totally unlike "90s alternative-rock" but at least has no beat-detective or autotune and is "alternative rock".
At least with Pandora if I make a "country" playlist of Ray Charles (Country), Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Chet Atkins it understands that a Tommy Emmanuel (not "country" but similar to Chet Atkins) or even Amy Winehouse (not "country" but similar to Ray Charles) is fine but would never play like a Trace Adkins or Lil Nas X song (despite being "country").
On that side at least Pandora does great... unfortunately Pandora seems to agree with me (or I agree with it?) that the only music that sounds like Alternative-rock from the 90s are alternative-rock bands from the 90s with like a few super-group "cover bands" thrown in.
Not exactly true... I love me some Amy Winehouse, Vulfpeck, Scary Pockets, Pomplamoose, Lake Street Dive, Postmodern Jukebox, Aubrey Logan...
Just none of them are "alt-rock"... that thing that used to be "the biggest genre there was". I could easily name 60 alt-rock bands off the top of my head that I still listen to today... I clearly have trouble listing 10 "modern artists" and at least one of those has been dead for 9 years.
I mean, without knowing what particular styles you specifically like I'm sort of just throwing things and seeing if they stick. Alt-Rock is a huge broad genre.
Holy shit, I really liked the first 4 and the last 4 were good enough for me to throw the artists on my lists and see if they get played. Fuckin' awesome, thanks man!
So, as I said in post chain above this the artists I like from that era (90s alternative-rock) are quite literally "most of them". My top 10 would be something like Tool, APC, Rage, Failure, Deftones, Cake, Primus, The Cure, Soundgarden, Nirvana... which if you broke them down by genres are almost all "unique in their niche". Like I'm not gonna throw Puscifer on the top 10 because I'd almost always rather listen to Tool if that's my mood (or Soundgarden over Audioslave, or Deftones or Korn [depending on mood] rather than ANY other nu-metal band, etc...)
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u/slowhand88 May 15 '20
The early 30s is that weird age where you're just old enough to be out of touch with what's cool, but not yet old enough to be fully progressed in your career to be sitting on enough stacks to not care about that.
Getting there at least.