Lisa Davis46 said:Just saying, this was honestly perfect for me today while I was out taking photos in the morning light! I could easily listen to this early in the day, maybe with a cappuccino and a smoke (yeah, I still roll my own)... 🕺 It’s got soul.
Do you happen to know any Italian? 😁 To me, this whole thing—(especially 🤔)—sounds like a precursor to a musical, weird as that sounds, even though that style only really popped off in Italy for a hot minute before opera totally crushed it. It’s got these short spoken bits mixed in with mostly drunken-sounding tracks. (I don't get why they can't just sing "la la la" during those Renaissance party tunes; instead, they have to throw in all that "fa, falalalala falalala" 🤷 nonsense.) Toward the end, there’s a spoken part mentioning Palestrina (that famous composer from back then)😲, and right after that, there's this slow song that feels like he's mocking him 🕺 . By the way, this guy used to compose these pieces where cats meow, dogs bark, and all sorts of animals make noise 🙏 . Have you ever heard of Jordina Savall? Next time, we'll be diving into something from "his" catalog.
This thing falls under some niche genre called madrigal comedy. You can read more about it here . I don't speak a lick of Italian, but I think it's about some guys in baggy pants. 🤔
Edit: Hard to say how this will go, but my bet is on this being a total flop. 🙏
Maybe the old-timers know better than I do, but it feels to me like the new wave back home wasn't quite the same thing as the actual new wave out in the rest of the world (England, America ?!??)
To me, our version felt more like a gritty, rocker-heavy punk sound, whereas true new wave was way more driven by those synthesizers. 🤷
Troubadour : Oswald von Wolkenstein - Her wiert uns dürstet also sere
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So, Oswald was kicking around from roughly 1376 to 1445, which means I guess I could technically toss him onto a classical music playlist. But honestly? No matter how old the track is, it doesn't have that "high art" vibe. It just sounds like a straight-up party bop. I’d never call this classical music anyway. To me, this is just pop—doesn't matter if it was written in the 14th or 15th century.
I refuse to be subscribed to anything in this life. Especially I'm not paying some corporate vultures a monthly fee just to access stuff I don't even physically own.
You can use Spotify without being in love with it and they aren't annoying with ads😉
@redbear12/">@@redbear12 look, just get Premium. These platforms are basically useless if you aren't paying for it. 🤷 And yeah, I'm with you on the album thing. The downside with Spotify is it doesn't stop after the album ends—it just keeps playing random similar stuff whereas Pandora actually stops once the album is done.
Plus, Spotify’s UI is way cleaner, especially on a phone. The "snaps" are great and having the lyrics right there is a huge plus.
You can actually make it stop. Just hit settings—you find that by clicking the little downward arrow next to your profile icon in the top right corner. Scroll down to autoplay and just toggle that switch off. 🎉
EDIT: I only use my laptop. My phone is basically a fossil at this point, and honestly, money is a bit tight right now, so I don't really need Premium. It’s not like it's expensive or anything, it's just not in the budget currently.
Structure-wise, it’s pretty basic Baroque stuff compared to Vivaldi or Bach.
Found this interesting deep dive on "popular music." They claim you can track its evolution starting from the 17th century. Hmm. Maybe they just mean things that went mainstream? Because honestly, some Medieval tracks sound pretty pop to me. Wikipedia has this entry on "light music" saying it's always evolving, but they don't really nail down the specific trajectory.
Also, this explanation of popular music lists all the different genres that fit under the umbrella.
Popular music includes: songs and dances printed in England during the late 17th century; melodies used in 18th-century English ballad opera, German Operetta, Italian opera buffa, and French opéra comique—stuff that reached the masses via traveling musicians and street performers; most choral societies and brass band repertoires in the 19th century; music from promenade concerts and outdoor festivals in the 19th century (think amusement gardens or taverns) in cities like Vienna (with orchestras by composer-conductors Johann Strauss II and his father, mostly waltzes), Paris (Philippe Mussard), London (Louis Jullien), and so on; the repertoire of musical theater (operetta, zarzuela, cabaret, vaudeville, revue) from the late 19th to early 20th century (ranging from Jacques Offenbach through Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II, Karl Millöcker, Ivan Zajac, Arthur Sullivan, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, and Ivo Tijardović); American song and musical productions by composers (Paul Dresser, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, etc.) from the Tin Pan Alley era at the turn of the 20th century; and various types of American ethnic music (like Irish folk, country, or predominantly African American cakewalk, ragtime, jazz, and blues)...
Source
There's more, but it stays on topic.
And finally, some Renaissance soft-pop to wrap things up.
Haven't listened to a single second of any of these albums. Honestly, I just can't be bothered (maybe I'm just too busy?)
But I threw my vote toward Dead Can Dance - Anastasis and whatever was last on the list, mostly because I caught a bit of their stuff a while back. To be fair, they're all solid in their own way 😛
Frank Ocean - Blonde This is his second and final studio LP (counting the visual album and the mixtape), pretty much his last major musical statement. While his debut leaned into those classic R&B/soul vibes, this one feels more like an R&B/soul take on Radiohead’s Kid A. I know that’s a bit of a stretch, but you get what I'm saying, right?
0:00 Nikes 5:13 Ivy 9:22 Pink + White 12:26 Be Yourself 13:53 Solo 18:10 Skyline To 21:17 Self Control 25:25 Good Guy 26:31 Nights 31:38 Solo (Reprise) 32:57 Pretty Sweet 35:35 Facebook Story 36:44 Close To You 38:08 White Ferrari 42:18 Seigfried 47:52 Godspeed 50:50 Futura Free
silverseal2 said:Hey everyone! I'm trying to figure out which of these three apps is actually the best: Spotify, Pandora, or Apple Music. I'm about to pull the trigger on a subscription, so I want to know which one is actually worth the money and won't just be a waste of my premium cash.
Just so you know, Spotify gives you a free month of premium to test the waters.
In my experience, if you aren't dropping serious cash on a subscription, Spotify blows Pandora out of the water.
The only real headache with Spotify is the search bar. As soon as I start typing in artists, the whole app starts lagging like crazy, and then I’m stuck just waiting around before I can search for someone else. But honestly, I mostly just use it to browse through artist profiles to see what they're up to. It's more about the info for me.
With Pandora, the ads were just relentless. It was constant, and there was this one specific, obnoxious loud ad that just wouldn't quit. It was driving me nuts.
When I'm vibing to music on Spotify, the ads are way less intrusive. They're actually quieter and somehow even tolerable, so they don't totally kill the mood while I'm listening.
Also, the playback logic is pretty smooth. If I search for something and hit play, once the album wraps up, it just rolls right into the next thing in the queue. But if I click a direct Spotify link for a specific release, it plays exactly that and stops dead after the last track. No extra fluff.
I think I might have accidentally signed up twice using two different email addresses. I'm not sure how, but even when I'm not logged in, I can still click a Spotify link for an album and listen to it without any issues.😕
Man, I actually won the vote for the album I picked. 😁
My album ended up with 6 votes. 🙏 It was basically a toss-up where someone else could have easily tied me, but nope. Nothing. At least metal didn't take the win this time. 😁
EDIT: Edgar Allan Poe gets zero points. 😲 Nobody even realized I recommended that album last time just to mess with people—it was literally on one of those "worst albums ever" lists. There’s a whole saga involving Philosophy of the World. Frank Zappa thought it was a masterpiece, and so did Kurt Cobain. Eventually, the critics came around and started praising it. 😁
I’ve got a quick question for you guys. Maybe not right this second, but down the road, I’m planning on recommending an album that isn't even on YouTube—it's strictly a Spotify thing. It’s a short one, too. Under thirty minutes total.
Can I actually enter the album game if it's only available on Spotify? I suggested an album once before, but some of it was also on YouTube.
Honestly, I don't know how many people here actually use Spotify, but personally, I think it's way better for listening to full albums than YouTube. Plus, it doesn't nag you with ads nearly as much as Deezer does. ☕