Makes me think less about "the club" and more about being drunk and taking an uber home in NYC. I don't really care for this kind of music, but later book editions definitely gotta dip into some of their Techno budget to put more stuff like this in there.
I really like Tori Amos music : ) Singer-songwriter stuff is so much better when it's piano-based
Go! Go! Power Rangers
2004 was a really good year in music, this clearly included. Super fun! Seems like a lot of people get annoyed by the cartoon samples, but honestly it's like listening to someone laying the groundwork for how to do a youtube poop (this is a compliment).
Wasn't really sure what to do with this until learning that the Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf guy was part of this group. It's ~EcLeCtIc~, you see. I was a TMBG guy back in my youth, probably would have gone wild for this shit if I'd heard it when it came out
*Very* reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, who's an artist that I never really quite got the hang of during the main run. I feel like I prefer singer-songwriter stuff when the arrangements are piano-based instead of guitar.
2004 was a really good year in music, this clearly included. Super fun! Seems like a lot of people get annoyed by the cartoon samples, but honestly it's like listening to someone laying the groundwork for how to do a youtube poop (this is a compliment).
Appreciative of people putting more actual world music on the users list, especially for something like this where it’s truly a broad international collaboration
Cannibal Surf Babe tricked me into thinking this would be a much better time than it was.
A lot of fun ideas and moves in this, all of which fail to transcend the extremely stale production sensibilities of the time
Fucking outrageous, it's like he's doing an Elvis Costello impression for some reason. On the one hand, I guess mission accomplished from the original project that I can pick up on that now. On the other hand, all of Costello's six albums on there sounded identical to each other. The People wanted more of that in the feed?
Shares some DNA with the Korns and the Slipknots of the world, elevated by having decent production/mixing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFyCPicGbXM Honestly for coming out late 80s, this sounded relatively fresh
Go! Go! Power Rangers
My head’s turned into an empty cavern. Sole occupant: one cello. Fun headphones listen, did not need to be over an hour.
Pretty solid alt-rock, and from decently early on, as far as that specific scene goes
Wasn't really sure what to do with this until learning that the Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf guy was part of this group. It's ~EcLeCtIc~, you see. I was a TMBG guy back in my youth, probably would have gone wild for this shit if I'd heard it when it came out
Get up and DANCE! Music that puts me in a very good mood
Midway through the 2010s was a really strong period of Garage/Psych rock. King Gizzard’s kind of evolved in the last ten years to take up Phish’s torch, but the rest of them for some reason haven’t really broken their Scene containment into much of a mainstream. This one is very much part of all that stuff; space alien vocal affect aside, it leans lots more Garage than Psych. Pretty fun!
Lol the people here are such babies about Phish. Phish is a band that wasn’t on the original list at all. They deserved to have *exactly* one slot on there, and this is probably the best one to represent their whole deal, given the live-experience tape sharing schtick they had going on during their peak. It's got the arpeggios, it's got the distinctive guitar sound, it's got the white guy funk passages. The arrangements are complex and varied enough to pass the 2+ hour length of this *way* faster than a lot of the 75-minute entries from normal 90s bands. Sorry you guys met an annoying hippy once.
Man this era of soft boy indie rock has been nonstop whiffs as it comes up. Flaming Lips couldn’t do it for me, these guys had no chance
New Wave-adjacent. Gothy, but not in a fun way. It's like halfway between Joy Division and The Cure, and not as good as either
Pretty big gulf between what I thought this was going to be, and what it actually was. Kept me interested through the whole thing. Not minding what this scamp is getting up to
Pretty glad to have drawn this one on a dark, quiet, rainy morning.
Very fun album, which is weird because I hated Green Day, and this doesn't seem all that different. Mysteries for the ages
On the better end of stuff I've heard from shoegaze: a genre I don't care for very much
I get that Whedon Voice hadn't yet worn people down in 2013, but this is insufferable in 2025. Lyrics are clumsy and trying too hard for "colloquial," and the vocalist can't pull off the Cake thing he's aiming for. Honestly after checking the wikipedia for the band, "Trying Too Hard" is just kind of the issue in general. I like Trying Too Hard bands when they're applying that effort to the sound production & musicianship, but Mathias Kom's whole deal seems to be an overeducation in the *social* production of music, and the end result comes across like something like The Oatmeal, or any of those other comics that wants very badly to be relatable, so that you'll share it with your facebook friends (in 2013). More SEO than any kind of artistic statement. And apparently a lot of people like that kind of thing! I find it offputting.
Didn't recognize the people on the cover or their names, but the vibe of the album cover had me bracing for like a simon & garfunkel sound. But no! It's a couple of King Crimson members doing a quick side thing! Good stuff.
Solo acts/singer-songwriter music living or dying for me based entirely on the backing music. She did good work here
Makes me think less about "the club" and more about being drunk and taking an uber home in NYC. I don't really care for this kind of music, but later book editions definitely gotta dip into some of their Techno budget to put more stuff like this in there.
Solo acts/singer-songwriter music living or dying for me based entirely on how interesting I think the backing music is. This one bounced off me.
I loved their debut. This one's still grungy, but leans a lot more industrial on the B-side & has a kind of euro dance/pop stink on the A-side. Both directions are very Produced, and it's worse than what the first album was doing. Still liked it a lot!
Reminds me of the Barry Adamson albums from the original list, but with more of a dub/trip hop flavor & less circus brass
Stinks to live in a world where the wikipedia on this thing is talking about how this is a very emotive & personal album for Robinson, but all of my associations with this kind of music is, like, cab rides and twitch stream intermissions. The background radiation of overstimulating situations. New generation of elevator music. I didn’t even dislike it, I think I just have negative associations with where I’m likely to hear stuff like this out in the world
An hour-15 of pretty decent blues rock. I don't think this brought much to the table that the original list didn't cover, and there wasn't enough variety in the runtime to stop it wearing out its welcome
There was a lot of stuff I’d missed in the 90s that I knew I was ignoring at the time. Crash Test Dummies is a weird one because I only heard about them last year, but everyone was talking like this was a big deal band at the time. Had to be there, apparently
Comes in swinging, and then settles into kind of a "Dreamy" space. Would have preferred the alchemy lean harder toward the first mode, but overall it was pretty decent
I guess grunge lasted long enough that someone tried to get proggy with it. It's not a good match, this was a chore.
Ed Balls. Hüsker Dü guy's solo work. Middle-of-the-road 90s alt-rock, doesn't have much new to bring to the table, and the new stuff it *does* bring gets a bit grating
I really like Tori Amos music : ) Singer-songwriter stuff is so much better when it's piano-based
This was a *bold* choice for a user submission, but it was a good one, this kicked ass. Rare long punk album, and on top of that it kept it interesting the whole time. The original list + the user albums have really elevated how I feel about french music, all of their stuff has come across really well
God I can't stand this kind of breathy vocal delivery. Awful headphones experience.
I was about to be very annoyed about these 00s indie singer guys all sounding the fucking same, but then I looked it up and it is literally the actual Death Cab guy. Forgiven. I'm liking way more than Death Cab, it's got good beeps & boops
Not minding it! Springsteen’s an artist where the original list was actually really helpful for learning to appreciate him a lot more.
WAY more personality than brat. Feminomenon is one of the most annoying songs I've heard in my life (writing "get it hot like papa john" into the CHORUS?! what is WRONG with you), but I actually liked the rest of it! Roan's one of the more interesting acts in pop music right now, and the original list should have more of this kind of thing on it.
Just kind of standard rock, with a bit of new wave sensibility creeping in. Sorta the general sound of 1979 distilled into 40 minutes. I dunno that this has brought much new or interesting to my life
Perfectly fine bluesy soulsy
Felt like it took the album a little while to figure its situation out. The second half was more what I was expecting out of Primus, but the early songs were all over the place
Sad man with a guitar. Heard a million like it.
Super cool pick! Between showcasing an aborigial artist, and the orchestral arrangements of the thing, it's hitting a huge density of music that the original list gave short shrift to
Pretty fun, but also sitting in an unfortunate time period where it's *way* late to the party on this style of funk, while also not far enough forward from it to be at the right time for the callback
I remember nothing about this one day later
This was just lovely. A+. I think this is not actually shoegaze but it's what I feel like shoegaze *should* be trying to sound like
Bratty in a way that charli xcx could only dream of achieving. It's a masterfully-executed vision, but it is so goddamn stupid
Oh man, this is an easy band to make fun of, but I actually really liked this. Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_bus_incident
Never listened to these guys before, and this wasn't at all what I was expecting (Thought it was going to be, like, black metal or something). Instead, it's a masterwork of ambient, atmospheric soundscaping. Super cool!
Having a tough time figuring myself out on this one. The music’s Good and the vocal style’s not bad, but the two really really clash in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s on purpose
Some of the original list’s Costello budget should have gone to this, but it is also in the same family as Costello
Mid-10s rap. Didn't really make me feel any kind of way, but seems like it was fun to make.
Solid example of some 90s punk, but also most 90s punk doesn't really do much for me
Falls somewhere between evanescence and let the bodies hit the floor. Thinks it's rougher & tougher than those, but it's wrong about that. I like the album art, though.
Apparently I had no idea what The Decemberists' deal is. I was bracing myself for Flaming Lips style soft boy indie music, and instead I got a rock opera! Very good submission, I feel like Meat Loaf was the closest the original list came to allowing Theatre-adjacent stuff into it
There's some flashes of fun & creativity, but mostly it's like if the weather channel didn't have commercials
I usually like Waters & Pink Floyd, but this is off-the-charts Boomer Midlife Crisis art
"Ska Punk" but really it comes off sounding like a less-funky RHCP. More interesting than I thought it'd be, but still not really a fan
Just the most boring, twinkly over-produced type of late 80s pop music. Complete snoozefest.
This one didn’t have their famous song, but all the other songs sound exactly like the famous song. 2010s Coming of Age Movie sound. Of a very specific time, and I wasn’t really into them when the time was right, either.
Trying to figure out how to express "this is good, but insanely overrated" without getting pelted by tomatoes. Deserves to be on the main list, but the reason I think that has more to do with its status as Cultural Phenomenon than actually connecting with the music any kind of way
MF DOOM having a hell of a year in 2004. It was fun to listen to him on something where the production was less gonzo than "Mm..Food," but I also think I liked the gonzo stuff more.
Endless respect to the submitter for putting theater kid stuff onto the list. I remember the Hamilton fans liking the Broadway show of this, but it didn't break Musical Theatre Containment in the same way. This was pretty fun, but tbh I think I'd have been more impressed by it if I hadn't gotten that Decemberists album last week, in terms of theatric rock opera fare.
Familiar with this guy from a couple of prog album remasters he did. Wish I had a better vocabulary for it, but this kind of has the same vibe as the Todd Rundgren stuff from the main list. Something about Producer guys and their musical sensibilities
Punk doesn't always have a ton of syncopation, and for some reason that started bugging me on this one by the time it ended. Very marching
The trick is that I don't understand what British prog guys are saying, either
I never listened to much emo back when it was big. This is the first one I've heard that I unabashedly love. They absolutely nailed the alchemy on this, way more verve than any of their peers
The original list and user submissions are both trying their hardest to convince me that Franz Ferdinand was the only good rock band to ever come out of Scotland
Bugs me that it's basically a coin toss whether I'll like one of the audience favorites. Gave it a couple listens, and there's definitely stuff I liked in it, but I can't access whatever gets people enthusiastic about it
9 years since it released! Their full discography's so big that I tend to underrate this one, but it still fucking rips. Sounds like it's being played by a swarm of angry bees. Great pick from the submitter, the garage rock sound's a good entry point to King Gizzard's stuff
Great stuff, falls along the ranks of “stuff I might have underrated before I learned to like Radiohead,” which tbf is basically post-rock in a nutshell
Was not expecting from the artist name that this was going to be funky jazz fusion! Rare music that's good for both working and cooking
ohhhh man. Haven't thought about these guys in a minute. I like Nightwish probably more than they deserve. This one's weird, because it's both the first album I'd grab to explain their whole deal, and it's catching them at an awkward stage, moving from "sneaking Mozart-style arpeggios to an audience that thinks it doesn't like classical music" to them trying out more poppy and folky sounds. I had high hopes when they hired a bagpipes guy full-time, but they've never quite been able to overcome the Muse disease that makes them sideline their more creative ideas in service of Deep and Epic Thoughts. Also doesn't help that their audio mixing is mediocre, which is really not what you want when your arrangements lean on the "symphony" of Symphonic Metal. Anyway, makes me a little sad that the top reviews are all "wow this sucks," because I'm kinda charmed by the goofy aspects of the band... but also I don't really have a pitch to bring a general audience around on them. "Imaginaerum" would probably hit for some of the rock opera fans in the crowd.
It’s extremely funny that they decided to sex up the album cover that much. I went in expecting something at least a little bit raucous from the brass band, but they somehow got trumpets to make smooth patio music.
He was on a real hot streak during the 2010s. Not quite what I was expecting, it's baseline R&B, but he's bringing in a lot of old-timey funk influences. Kinda sounds Diet Prince at points. In conversation with different things than I thought it'd be.
Wow, what a fun pull! Posing a very important question of “hey if what makes ska fun is the latin influence, why not check out the uncut version?”
Back before "eclectic mix" albums were irredeemably nerd-coded. Kinda coming across like a clunkier NiN
Never actually sat down to listen to TOOL before. I'm into it, kind of falls in between "weight lifting music for intellectuals" and "stoner sludgy," depending on the song.
I'm floored that someone had an appetite for more of this bullshit after living with the main list for three whole years
Good & moody, but I liked what was going on in this one less than Lateralus. Little bit too much metal of the era, not enough weird basslines