なので、たまたま耳にした音楽が「最高!」みたいな体験は最近では映画のsound trackからが多い。今年たくさん聴いたSON LUXもEverything Everywhere All At Onceを観たから。MODERATもANNIHILATIONがきっかけだった気がする。AMERICAN UTOPIAはDavid ByrneのBroadwayミュージカルだけど自分は映画で観た。人生で一番最初に買ったLPレコードはVANGELISの南極物語のsoundtrackだし子供の頃からか。
OKAY GUYS I JUST SAW A REPOST OF A POST BUT LIKE I DIDNT WANT TO REPOST THE WHOLE THING BUT PRETTY MUCH IT WAS TALKING ABOUT WEBSITES AND THE INTERNET, YADA YADA YADA (THAT STUFF), BUT LIKE ONE PERSON MENTIONED:
RADIOGARDEN
i have been using this for maybe the last year and a half. PLEASE PEOPLE, for the love of WHATEVER ENTITY OR NON ENTITY YOU MAY BELIEVE IN... try out radiogarden. You can listen to radios across the WORLD, like:
I want to listen to a very specific genre without having to go digging for it and making spotify playlist for it? BAM, radiogarden
I want to listen to a radio station in New York or LA but I live 100s or 1000s of miles away? BOOM, radiogarden
I have the random urge to know what type of music is being played in Greenland bc I genuinely thought it was just a land of ice and no way people could live there? AGAIN, radio garden, FOR. THE. WIN.
Lately I’ve been leaning towards discovering new music through radio and music video stations, as they do a lot more in helping me find new music than streaming services ever did.
I think the problem is that streaming’s algorithmic nature leads to locking yourself into a comfort bubble with the same old playlists with the same old recommendations. “Made For You” playlists further lock you into that box as long as the songs get more streams.
Meanwhile, I watched Rage recently (the Australian equivalent of MTV) and it got me hooked on Reel Big Fish and Little Simz, two amazing artists I had no interest in before because I was never made aware of their music. I rediscovered The KLF through listening to Radio X on the RadioGarden app. Two mediums of listening to music known for constant repeats of popular songs have done more for me (in terms of finding music) than Spotify has ever done.
At the end of the day, all three still want your money, but Spotify wants your money by locking you in your comfort zone and all your “favourite playlists”.
Not even gonna lie one of my favorite traits of myself is having a music taste created 90% by randomly exploring radiogarden, plumbing the depths of youtube, and that one time i went through the wikipedia page for music genres and tried to listen to a song from every regional sub genre (didn't get very far)
Everyone should just go on Spotify or YouTube or RadioGarden or whatever and find some niche genres in foreign countries from some other decade to fall in love with actually
- I feel displeased enough with my Spotify Wrapped to not share, because my top artists/songs were either things I put on for background noise while working, or from Discover Weekly when I spammed a song on repeat but touched nothing else from the artist (that I can remember, anyways). This is misrepresentation! The only one I consider accurate was Ghost, a phenomenon which emerged solely because the friend I stayed with in Florida brainwashed me with the album Prequelle (on CD) every time we drove in her car, and made me watch all the skits and half the music videos. I am not immune to being bewitched in the moonlight, it seems.
- I only share my shameful folly in the hopes that someone else might be spared the same fate, but for the love of god if you move to the subtropics or warmer, do not put your luggage in a dark, poorly ventilated space and leave it there for months so it and its contents can happily ferment, while occasionally spritzing it with deodorizer and hoping the mildew smell that wafts generously whenever it’s opened will magically clear itself up. It won’t. It really, really won’t.
- While browsing RadioGarden, I started listening to Lao National Radio on a whim for some background noise (they alternate between talking and playing classic Laotian music, all of which I think sounds delightful), and at some point began wondering if they were broadcasting in Thai because I recognized a good deal of words and could make out the weather report (the dreaded อากาศเย็น forever cemented into my memory), but no, apparently there’s just a lot of mutual intelligibility. I came to the conclusion that (although I could be completely wrong) my Thai is at such a low level that I’m only catching basic vocabulary that would naturally overlap anyways. I’m nowhere near at a level suitable for language exchange but it makes me wonder if I’d enjoy trying to learn again, albeit in a better environment than last time.
- Two weeks of vacation went by in the blink of an eye. I really don’t want to go back to waking up exhausted for the rush hour train, having headaches, and drifting off in class. At this point I’m doing it for my ARC status, because I don’t want to have to worry about leaving the country for a visa run any time in the next 3 months during recovery. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Chinese, but my circadian rhythm is not set for mornings, and I’m so tired of the teacher roulette and disorganisation at my school. Also I need to get a job, since I failed yet again to do anything remotely resembling grad school application (at least I talked about it more than usual, that’s a step, right?). Next semester ends the same day my apartment contract is up, so that’s a thing, but we’ll see how I feel when the time comes.
FOR REAL!!! i remember being little on roadtrips making my whole family listen to the classical radio channel.......... i would make up whole stories aobut what was happening...... pulling up that channel on radiogarden now :]
for ewalllllllll this is so so true. have you heard of beethovens wig it was genuinely a pilar of mg childhood and it’s like half of why i am Like This. i love a silly little song….