Favorite recent music

[HugoVirtuoso]

Originally Posted by AnonymousHero

Not sure how easy it is to appreciate if you don't understand the original language, but the translation at least gets the "this is metal" message across, I think.

I think it is an acquired taste to enjoy music with foreign lyrics. As long as the song sounds great / epic, that's good enough, imo. I understand that not everyone easily enjoys music without understanding lyrics. To each, their own.

[bio_hazard]

It's funny- sometimes I like artists MORE when I can't understand their lyrics compared to their songs in english. Probably a combination of not realizing how uninteresting their non-english lyrics are, plus crossover songs are likely to be even more pop than their earlier non-english stuff.

[CyclopsSlayer]

I tend towards the Techno/EBM

Funker Vogt - Tanzbefehl

T.O.Y. - The Darkness and the Light

The Anix - Again

Deadlife - Deviant

And when I want something harder,

Velvet Acid Christ - Caustic Disco

[wobbly]

Not sure it counts as new but here's the Asterix remix of Pistolero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40H76sNkGYs

The original is Juno Reactor. They are good. Super weird, but good.

[AnonymousHero]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Not sure it counts as new but here's the Asterix remix of Pistolero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40H76sNkGYs

The original is Juno Reactor. They are good. Super weird, but good.

This is very... wat-esque. I don't like it, but I like it, if you know what I mean.

[Pete Mack]

Sometimes. But there are a few artists whose lyrics are top notch,
too. Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, etc.

Originally Posted by bio_hazard

It's funny- sometimes I like artists MORE when I can't understand their lyrics compared to their songs in english. Probably a combination of not realizing how uninteresting their non-english lyrics are, plus crossover songs are likely to be even more pop than their earlier non-english stuff.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Zelda: A Link to the Past - Dark World Theme Orchestrated

Fits the atmosphere of PCB gameplay and all Angband variants all across

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

Hugo--my trouble with much recent metal is that the chord progressions are seriously hackneyed. The one you link is a case in point: excellent guitar playing, but the tune doesn't remotely compare to (say) Thunderstruck or Technical Difficulties. Those are genuinely interesting musically--as is much Van Halen. TwoCello's cover of Thunderstruck demonstrates just how interesting a tune it really is--not to mention making an utterly hilarious music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Is that really about how recent it is? Metal has always been a pretty wide variety of styles. I mean compare:

Naiad - Acrophobe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsg0Sr-uDs

to

A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MAg9E5K3w

& also

A Perfect Circle - Pet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_QOoQ_Op4
just because I like the song

[Grotug]

+2 for Leonard Cohen. Never understood why he wasn't more popular. Master lyricist.

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

I don't much like what goes for pop music these days, but I recently discovered "alt country", which seems to do it. Spent today listening to Star Anna, Matthew Perryman, and Devotchka (which I actually discovered years ago.)
Anyone else have new favorites?

Is Matthew Perryman Jones alt country? I discovered him on the trailer for Manchester by the Sea. Very good movie and song.

I really like the score for Stranger Things. Some recent discoveries:

Donnis Trio. Josh Ritter: I really like the songs Thin Blue Flame and Change of Time
Revisited and rediscovered Young Galaxy.

You might like Ola Podrida; the songs: Run off the road and Lost and Found

[bio_hazard]

Does Cracker count as Alt Country?

The roots stuff like Gillian Welch and Steve Earle, also Alison Krause/Robert Plant Raising Sand are some of my favorites. When I lived near Monterey I'd listen to a radio station called KPIG that played only this stuff.