Fontaines D.C, such a wonderful band. Certainly my favourite Irish band, probably ever.
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Further down today’s ranking of Music posts that are opinions and questions: page 2 of 3.
2 things jumped out at me about Troye Sivan's new music video. There's the "good for her!" wish fulfilment of casting a very cute Swedish actor as the man he needs to kiss and grind against. More important, though, is that he very prominently takes a dose of PrEP halfway through the video 💙💙💙
One of the most significant performances I have ever seen or will ever see last night - Laurie Anderson at the Millennium Centre in Caerdydd. Mindblowing tapestry of works, expanded my understanding about what art can be. what an icon.
The thing I love about these new Beatles mixes is that because I grew up on the not good 2009 mixes, every time they do a new rerelease it feels like listening to a brand new album. It’s wild how much better they all sound now
One of my fave aspects of mid-late 70s #AT40 were all the hits with spacey intros like “You Are My Starship.”
My lamest opinion is that Counting Crows first 3 or 4 albums are just near-perfect rootsy pop rock.
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr w/ 'You Don't Have To Be A Star...' I had their album on vinyl in the 1970s but transitioned to CDs in the '80s & thus haven't heard the album in decades. Need to revisit. The perfection that is Marilyn and great male vocals by her spouse, both former 5D members. #AT40
Went to Bluebeat DC tonight for Lady Hatchet + Dunia Best and really got up in my feels. The things you love matter. Your hobbies matter. Third spaces matter. Community matters. The people organizing all of this matter. The people performing matter. *You* matter. You're a part of this, too.
okay, real serious talk on digger: the soundtrack from cosmo sheldrake is absolutely phenomenal. avian elegy makes me want to cry because it sounds like a farewell, like we are listening to these beautiful, delicate birds moments before they are about to be rendered extinct. it is indeed an elegy
The symphony is doing The Planets tonight, and the program notes say Holst is “perilously close to being considered a one-trick pony,” which is mind-blowing to me, the concert band musician
There was a time when, if a band became popular, some critics would feel compelled to dig up a superficially similar but less popular band to champion instead. This practice seems to have fallen out of favor, though, and I'm wondering why.
This Firefall is one of the songs that I remembered every word of from when I was a kid, but couldn’t have named the band until I started listening to the SiriusXM #AT40.
Rufus and Chaka Khan never scored an American #1! This list tries to redress this grievous mortal sin. Don Henley meanwhile can't shut up about sins that are not his own. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/r...
I love how the One True PSB have made a record that puts the fusty historico-twee of the False PSB to shame thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Had The Beach Boys not become a nostalgia act, I really do feel like they could have had an amazing career in late 70's all the way to now even. The soft rock sound they were going for on "Carl and the Passions" and "Holland" made for two really great albums that I think should be more recognized.
there are songs which became wildly popular in the UK and it is baffling bordering on homophobic that they never made a dent in the US charts and then there are songs which those people are uniquely susceptible to because of the endemic black mold
Strange how #music and #film are both limited by the quality of the #writing. There are so many gorgeous, breathtaking songs and #movies that have completely pointless #lyrics or dialogue. In music, the singer's passionate, gripping delivery often masks a really bland or clumsy piece of placeholder #poetry.
Mastodon, I'm stuck in Rexall again. Please amuse me for ten seconds by telling me about a piece of art (music, book, videogame, piece of software which seemed to you an exceptional piece of craft, industrial design, visual art, graffiti, well cooked meal) that made you Excited recently
Just listened to the new Bunnymen album, and it's really good! The vibe is actually a bit closer to Ian McCulloch's solo stuff, more upbeat and lighter than Meteorites.
I don't like Steely Dan at all. To my ear everything is too smoothed out, too frictionless. As if it's suffocated in a vacuum. It's hard to explain, it's almost a claustrophobic reaction. But some people love them, and so they should. We don't need to have appointed, and approved, cultural heroes. That consensus just leads to mediocrity. Like what you like and ignore anyone who tries to tell you what good is and isn't.
There's a song called "Three Princes" on the new Deafheaven EP At Work in the Field of the Bomb (out today) and I'm choosing to believe it's a spiritual sequel to the Spin Doctors' hit.
it has occured to me that hero by mili (apart from the obvious limbus connotations) literally follows the heros journey as a format for the lyrics dude oh my god i love this damn song
pedantic grievance: the music industry's move to huge "box sets" for backlist music makes some sense, and streaming access is hella convenient, but something's lost when we don't treat each album as its own unit. My brain's not built to absorb 7 straight hours of music with the same cover art
Look, I don't want to write a folk song abt this guy, his background is uninteresting and his motives are unclear, but given how many folk songs began as some broadside written as a souvenir for a public execution I kinda feel like I have to.
I like Slow Pulp but I think in a decade this is gonna be the lane of indie that sounds the most dated to the 2020s. When you sound that much like Phoebe Bridgers, you should probably work to sound less like Phoebe Bridgers
Just heard Rope. I love me some synthwave. The melody is fun and the lyrics are poignant, but something about the mixing and audio levels feels… off? I’m not even sure how to explain it. It almost feels like it’s not quite finished. I’ll probably appreciate it more in context.
that Glastonbury set of Rick Astley covering a bunch of Smiths songs really is a delight to listen to. it's an hour long but it just glides by so smoothly and joyfully that you wouldn't think they were originally sung by someone as awful and miserable and crotchety as Morrissey
forcing *every* program director to play the album version of Living For The City yes, I know it's 7:21 long, but you lose SO MUCH of the song with the single edit. a lot of the impact of the song just goes away. NEVER air the single edit, it's such a bastardization of a quite powerful song.
Really excited to be at the Imperial War Museum last night for A Man From The Future. As a Pet Shop Boys fan, but also being fascinated and deeply moved by Alan Turing’s story. Genuinely one of PSB’s most accomplished and moving musical works. A wonderful evening 💚🧡 #PetShopBoys
i think alan menken disney songs are the gold standard of disney musicals. im ready to throw in the wrench and say its not worth listening to anything new from disney; the rest are meaningless, unfulfilling songs that im ok forgetting
people acting like the fast bit in tinashe’s melatonin are impossible. it’s a 3 sentence chorus that repeats
Tell me you’ve never heard Backstreet Boys’ I Want It That Way😀
Operation Mincemeat last night was the best musical I have seen in quite a while. I know it was good when I add songs to my playlists. Off to listen to Dear Bill and have another cry
#LastStageFits Lima Day 1 I laughed, I started this thread to look at their outfits, and in this you can only really see Jin's bejewelled crown t-shirt! #BTSWorldTour despite RMs Weverse post asking ARMY to stop hanging around outside the hotel, they don't look too tired, maybe can transfer grumpiness to a Moody Pout? 🎤 Home + Outro:Wings ( I was like, do they deserve those songs if they were hanging around outside the hotel being noisy, guess that was minority of audience...)
I’ve been a bit sniffy about Teenage Fanclub post-Gerry. However, the new one is a belter. Raymond’s songs are just beautiful.
The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/06/african-music-afrobeats-tyla?ref=thetonearm.com
the 8 bonus tracks from #CarlyRaeJepsen somehow make an already amazing double album even more astounding 😭 “In Pure Faith,” “Yes,” “Love Depressed,” and “Sixteen and Rising” stuck out on first listen (but I genuinely love all 8 (+ the 24 originals)) #NewMusic #DayAndNight #NewRelease #pop
it kills me that no one ever talk about how Taylor Swift’s song “Actually Romantic” is just a blatant/shitty rip off of the Pixies “Where is My Mind?”
Artms was great :youngeunthumb: They went all in on sexy concepts for this concert. The setlist was full of slow sexy songs. Jungeunie aegyo princess of course couldn't help herself and was constantly doing cute things though :wonkekw: I was hoping she would have hair extensions in since she cut off her beautiful hair but no.. Yerim had to perform eclipse in her place since Jungeun can't do the hair flips :chuukek2:
I have entered the cultural mainstream and listened to Choosin' Texas. My verdict: better than I thought but kind of a boring throwback. Clear appeal to older country fans and probably dominated country radio as a result. Wrap it up.
there's a trend on twitter rn about some podcast making a democratically determined top 200 emo album list, and while there's plenty of "this isn't real emo" or "this should be much higher/not on the list" discourse, i appreciate everyone sharing their favorite albums so i can listen to new stuff
My hot music take is that lyrics alone do not make good music. The voice is just one instrument among many, and first and foremost it has to sound good. You can have good music without vocals, but music with only lyrics is just poetry.
I have suddenly found myself digging on the Kids soundtrack again
Who would have thought that the Pet Shop Boys would be perfect biographers of the greatest British scientist of the 20th Century
Votre Fille A 20 Ans by Serge Reggiani is one song I can't listen to 'til the end, this year ...
It's hard to explain it but some bands get worse when their singer finally learns how to sing
This album literally changed my life. After 18 years of nobody knowing how to pronounce my last name, suddenly everyone got it right... and immediately followed up by asking, "Are you related to Alanis?"
Flowers by Miley Cyrus is the pop music version of Nathan Explosion of Dethklok saying "So we found out we can just buy psychological validation online"
Tirritate French and German musicologists alike by calling Schlager music the German chansons.
there's bits of Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation that sound like a direct link to They Might Be Giants.
