I had a friend who was a big Diamanda Galas fan, and who'd spontaneously shriek, groan, sigh, or sing lyrics from their songs. I wish I'd listened to more of it while they were around.
Funny how the next song in the youtube recommendation is Killing Joke's "Eighties"... sure, the guitar riff sounds similar but it's not immediately obvious which is the better song.
In general, yeah. But it really depends; if it's a mom and her kid, or if it looks like someone shuttling between multiple jobs and this is the only time they have, then I'd give em a pass.
omg for some reason this made me think of the cartoon character/avatar/sprite Tina the Troubled Teen saying "I hate my stupid friends!" and I just spent the last half hour looking up the history of that.
That's pretty interesting, because it suggests a whole historiography of music appreciation. Like, the term "post-punk" was meaningless before punk, right? So imagine there's some new groundbreaking genre a couple years from now, and everything we're listening to is re-contextualized to determine how "proto-NewGroundbreakingGenre" it is. And the people who listen to NewGroundbreakingGenre literally hear music differently than we do.
I am in no way minimizing your comment -- I think it's pretty awesome when some DJ puts on a song and gives it a genre name that I've never heard of before. Clearly they spend a lot of time listening to music and can identify distinctions that I can't.
Well, I think it's a little different with punk and metal, bc a band is more likely to want to call themselves punk or metal. Now someone may disagree that they are in fact punk. And they may disagree that the band is a certain kind of metal. But the band itself won't be as reluctant to identify as such.
Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.
just fucking cool. Don't let Big Interior Decor tell you what to do with your hanging houseplant chains!