feraltrucker5 said:You're stuck in a dead end somewhere. Either you're clinging to some genre that's completely dead by today's standards, or you're getting your recommendations from all the wrong people, but clearly something is broken if you're constantly feeling let down...
amberorca192 said:I feel like I know exactly what kind of music we're talking about here 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thanks for the comments and the breakdown, amberorca192!
I've been sitting with this for a bit and I've come to this realization where when I'm listening to music I already know is good and fits my mood, it just recharges my soul and gets me going... but when I'm out there digging for new bands, I rarely catch that same spark unless I stumble onto something truly special, which is 🙂 though since that doesn't happen nearly enough, I guess I've just lost the drive...
John Castillo2 said:Look, after years of digging through music, I’ve built up this massive library of bands I actually dig, and even within that pile, there are hundreds of albums I haven't even touched yet. It just means I can always throw on something new from a band I already respect...
I get that, honestly, except I don't really sit down and listen to music properly anymore; I just let it run in the background while I'm busy doing something else and my mind is miles away on completely different stuff🙄
@Arthur Thomas/">@@Arthur Thomas, I’ll be honest, I can't stand YouTube even though I use it, because the algorithm just shoves whatever has the most views down your throat, so you end up listening to a track, thinking it's great, downloading the whole album, and then realizing those were the only two songs worth anything...
What even is Last.fm? I mean, I’ve wandered onto that site a few times, but I never bothered making an account, so I have no clue what the point of it actually is...🤷
The question is pretty obvious, but I’m asking because honestly, I’m just not feeling it anymore... 👎 I'm terrified that if this keeps up, I'll end up only knowing about those bands you're forced to hear, you know, all that mindless garbage on Top 40 radio or whatever hits are trending on Spotify... and that’s a dead end. Whenever I actually find time for music—maybe two hours a day at most—I usually just stick to the stuff I already know and love, but when I do try to dig around and download a new album, I'll listen for a bit and then just totally zone out, or maybe I'll just shut it off entirely after a few minutes... It's just how it is, and 95% of the time when I grab something new, I hate it, and even if there's something decent, it's usually just one or two tracks on the whole damn record. 🙂
I honestly fell in love the second I heard that "American folk songs" compilation. If you’re into punk rock and haven't checked this out yet, you're seriously missing out...
It was one of those breezy spring afternoons back in September '93, right around the time John Paul II was touring Lithuania, and all those heavy hitters like Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Abbas, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat were actually sitting down together in the States... meanwhile, back in Anytown, USA, they were holding that famous Local Assembly where Đapić got picked as party president while Paraga was way over in the USA, back when everyone was still messing around with MS-DOS 6.2...
Four enthusiasts, total Haša fanatics, ended up in Ocić's basement once they finally cleared out all that crap from the middle of the room, just to run a first rehearsal on some acoustic gear: a Melody Mengeš guitar, a cheap no-name guitar, a drum kit made out of an Anytown, USA shoebox paired with some birch twigs for sticks right in front of Ocić's building, and a microphone consisting of nothing but air—specifically 78.084% nitrogen, 20.947% oxygen, 0.934% argon, 0.033% carbon dioxide, and a bunch of other trace elements like neon, helium, krypton, sulfur dioxide, methane, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, xenon, nitrogen dioxide, iodine, carbon monoxide, and ammonia... which happens to be our absolute favorite ingredient...
Back in that basement, you had Ivo Biljka, whom Babylon basically had to carry on his shoulder whenever they headed out to scrap with Retfale; then there was Ocić, who suggested hosting the "jam session" in his cellar, though judging by that smug grin he flashed when walking in, I’d bet my life he’d left a massive pile of crap right in the middle of the floor... Koc, who just went by Koc back then; Davke, who was going by Daniel arap Moi at the time; Shandor, who didn't even have a nickname yet before the whole evolution from Andrew to Androš to Šandor finally landed him on Shandor; and Marinac, who was already established in the music scene playing in Limbo, where he and Koc were recording the second punk album in V. B. K. history—they'd already cut that legendary "Soaked Chicken" along with that even more iconic track, "Why'd you tie my chicken to the flagpole just for it to get soaked?", which the famous North American Conductors actually covered... and finally Zoltojed, who only showed up because everyone else had cleared out of the Desire club...
We used to belt out "Anarchy in the U.K.," "Blitzkrieg Bop," and that first original track, "Rahitis," on our guitars... but honestly, every single song was a total train wreck, completely missing the beat and falling all out of tune—which, I guess, became the band's signature style right from the start and hasn't changed one bit since...
Since they were so incredibly bad at everything, they decided to double down on writing their own songs, mostly because they couldn't figure out how to cover a track or even interpret one properly... which led to tracks like "Pigs from Ethiopia," "Haša," "Drot," "Hiper," and I won't even get started on the rest. In the meantime, they realized that the whole quartet of Ivo Biljka, Ocić, Marinac, and Zoltojed had absolutely zero drumming talent—whether it was due to sheer stupidity, missing limbs, or just a complete lack of rhythm—so they brought in the legendary Pipa, the fastest hand on Hitler's streets. Once the "masterpieces" were finished, everything was set by January 1994 for their first gig at the IPK department store over in Sjenjak, organized by Bubali, a local guy from Sjenjak who, just a few years prior, belonged to the 6th Slavonian Shock Corps. That show is basically considered the official debut of the "Fat President" crew, a name that truly earned its spot by weeding out all the other potential contenders like "ß," "3 DJ's" (or 3 days of riding), and "The Harmon Beds"...
Even though there have been plenty of horse-themed concerts before, the IPK has never seen a "stable" quite like this one... The whole V. B. K. crew showed up to support the event, but they clearly couldn't get into the groove with the waltz, salsa, or ballet, so they decided to try some pogo instead, which they loved so much they basically pushed the boundaries of dance until they hit rock bottom... As for Majić, he just wasn't feeling the Christianity thing, so he ripped the crucifix right off the wall and spent the night alternating between jumping around and throwing up on it...
The Fat President guys were consistently top-tier, so there were times during their sets where every single band member would just drift into playing something different, while some of them would occasionally hop off stage to try their hand at performing Pogues covers alongside elite dancers like Pica, Velje, Komljen, Kreke, Mehe, Vili, Nilbarnik, Marinac, Rencek, Danilo, Goble, Sime, Limen, and Pantelija, not to mention the rest of that crowd... Ivo Biljka wasn't part of the Pogues crew though...
After scrubbing the blood off the floor and surviving the police raid, you could actually call that show a success. Things were looking pretty grim after that, though—like they were walking straight into a prison cell. But Koc managed to dodge every single trap set for him, including those from that relentless Inspector Cole and that annoying cop Nedrag, whom Shandor once famously farted right in his face without any repercussions... well, none for Shandor, anyway. Not for Nedrag's nose. Nedrag never even made inspector...
From their MySpace page 🤣 It's such a shame they don't sing in American anymore and stopped playing hardcore music 😢
How are you even supposed to wrap your head around this, honestly, I actually feel a bit regretful now that I've wasted my time reading a few posts here and learned anything at all about this mess... Dora and the Eurovision Song Contest are nothing more than pure trash pop, if you ask me, kind of like how Bo Diddley would have put it.(Quoting him again)... I guess it’s just the kind of stuff a certain type of Southerner would actually sit through.🤷
I’ve always been obsessed with this Reason For - Apple But honestly, I know it won't do much for you, especially since you're into listening to bands like Taylor Swift, but whatever...
Kenneth Rodriguez58 said:Look, we’re just here to talk about the lineup and the setlists... if you find it easier to come in here and act like a total jerk instead of just clicking over to the festival website to see who's playing, then honestly, more power to you... 🙏
My bad if this thread is strictly for one thing, I'm still new to this place, but on that other serious music forum I used to hang out on, people actually bother to list the where, when, and who whenever they start a thread about an event. I guess that's why that place is a total ghost town, while this site feels more like some low-rent reality TV show, if you ask me, kind of like how Rambo would put it...
Gregory Harris8 said:You don't have the time or the interest, yet you somehow find the energy to act all high and mighty by typing out nonsense instead of just hitting up their official website to get the actual news from the source... sometimes I feel like the internet barely even reached this part of America...
If you're going to start a thread like this, you should at least put some effort into it! Regardless of what's already sitting on their official site, and besides, maybe try actually reading the subforum rules for once. ☕
Kenneth Rodriguez58 said:This was posted before any info about the festival was even out, so how was I supposed to know who, what, where, or when it would be happening!?
The key word in my post regarding that answer is "update"... and honestly, why did you even open the thread so early before there was anything to report? You just wanted to be the one to kick things off, didn't you?...🤷
I just sat through that lineup and I honestly can't believe the absolute garbage they called music 👎 Out of 2 hours of clips, maybe a couple of tracks weren't total trash, but the rest was just pathetic, soul-crushing nonsense, and it makes me wonder where the hell rock is even headed in this country! They actually had the nerve to call it "harder and more modern rock," but if that's the case, it certainly wasn't harder... it was just bland, lifeless, and depressing enough to make you want to end it all 🤷 If this is what passes for "modern rock" nowadays, then it’s officially the first genre I’m ready to spit in the face of, because I can’t even think of one single decent example That other segment about concerts, festivals, and radio shows might have been a decent idea if it didn't require staying up until 5 or 6 in the morning just to catch it ☕
Sophia Wells72 said:Yeah. There is absolutely no way I'm giving them an inch... I might give them one shot, but honestly, who knows when that will be 🤷🤣 given how they schedule these things.
👍 I'm thinking the exact same thing, though maybe I'll tune in today just to see what the hell is actually happening!
It’s usually right at the end of the broadcast, so it probably didn't cost them much to air this, and I guess you always end up with a few music fanatics willing to sacrifice their sleep for some mediocre tunes... 🙂 I'm mostly just annoyed I missed last Tuesday when they were playing punk.
I’m thinking maybe when you see something on the schedule that actually looks interesting to everyone else, just drop a note here to remind people... who knows, maybe someone will even film it or something 😁
I went to tune in today, but apparently when they say Tuesday, they actually mean Wednesday morning... basically, the Tuesday schedule doesn't wrap up until 6:00 AM on Wednesday!
I noticed PBS has started airing music videos overnight before rolling out the full concerts, and I caught a quick glimpse of it last week when I stumbled home a bit tipsy, which actually didn't seem half bad compared to the other music shows we get here in the States... So, I wanted to see what you guys think about all this? Has anyone actually tuned in yet? It feels like a step in the right direction, but who knows how much more they'll actually change... I'm going to try and catch it on Tuesday and then I'll give you my actual take..
Here’s what I just dug up on their website.
Starting Friday, January 14th, PBS begins broadcasting its late-night music programming. Depending on the schedule, the nightly lineup should kick off around 1:00 AM.
The first three hours will feature music videos hand-picked by the Juilliard School. For the rest of the program, we'll be watching concerts, festivals, and various music specials pulled from their own archives.
Mondays focus on pop music aimed at a younger crowd, while Tuesdays shift toward harder, modern rock. Wednesdays are dedicated to classical and traditional music. Thursdays feature folk and choral music, Fridays cover jazz and ethno, Saturdays bring back pop and easy listening, and Sundays offer softer rock for all ages.