Have you been rocking an old classic? Discovering something new? Revisiting some nostalgic bands from the past?
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A fun tool for discovering new bands: https://www.music-map.com/
radio was stale so threw went to my drive and doctor bogenbroom was going. Man I had to repeat that thing like 3 times. man. For living while I was die i iing, We were all just passing through.
I’ve discovered Esperanza Spalding. Smooth Soul and Jazz. Great music for cozy mornings.
I listened to some Vietnamese rock songs on YouTube. The language hurts my ears when spoken because it’s so tonal and twangy (no hate, my ears are just not used to it) but it sounds cool when sung. I haven’t found anything yet that really knocked my socks off but I’ve been enjoying it.
🤝 me with German and French
Yet to get used to either languages, but they sound great to me when sung.
Try Cantonese Popular Music in the 70s/80s/90s (I heard a few random modern ones and the modern ones suck ass lyric wise lol)
Look up Wong Ka Kui, Andy Lau.
海闊天空：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_FSptjRic (Sounds amazing to me as a native Cantonese speaker)
Tonal language is very unique, I like them (yes maybe I’m biased since I speak one of these tonal languages)
I think Vietnamese sounds kinda like an alt-universe version of Cantonese, the tones are so similar, but most words don’t make sense to me. Cantonese people and Vietnamese people kinda descended from a common ancestor in… not that long ago in the past (relative to the entire human history). Vietnamese sounds so cool tho, I mean I think the nasal sounds are a bit too “extra” compared to Cantonese, but it sounds cool.
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Been checking more Japanese songs from symphonic metal or adjacent genres, like Babymetal’s Metal Kingdom, Hiroyuki Sawano’s aLIEz and Marks, and Some Dreams/Mary Skelter 2’s Witchcraft - Theophile’s Miracle. Sadly finding anything is as hard as doing so for English songs ;-;
My favorite spin lately has been Citizen Of Glass by Agnes Obel.
Here is one of my favorite tracks, but her entire discography is fantastic:
Discovered hard/aggro phonk like Ghostface Playah, TXN4, and KSLV Noh.
No idea wtf is with the gym association and images of Guts from Berserk everywhere but the music is great ngl.
Reminds me of IDX(?) or like that more modern adjacent microgenre that Femtanyl and ZØMB occupy.
I was also having a brain fart earlier after my gf showed me this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Esp6ikwDc because I just assumed that Hungarian fascists would use Franz Liszt because he’s like the Hungarian composer, but I could’ve sworn that song is by Berlioz.
Indeed it was, and Berlioz was indeed a romanticist… a French romanticist though. He died in Paris too.
As far as I’m aware (which isnt very far at all), he was not living in or ever active in Hungary at any point. Liszt was also alive and active around basically the exact same time in the early to mid 1800s, so it wasn’t motivated by revanchism/reactionary idolisation of a particular period, and Liszt was also a romanticist, but y’know, actually a Hungarian one.
The only way it makes sense is because that part of Damnation of Faust by Berlioz is called “Hungarian March” so I guess they just went with that? Honestly nationalists do be shallow lol 😂
Might as well have gone with Hungarian Dances by Brahms or something. I guess that one is too nice sounding, and they wanted a “are we the baddies moment?” with that villainous theme, kind of embarrassing to lose a war after that too lol at least the Brits had a bit of levity to their colonel bogey song, forever immortalised in my mind as victoria 3 final boss music.
