need help expanding music selection, am basic fag who doesnt know music
You're a lost cause. Sorry.
Just start with /mu/core, but make sure not to become a drone, branch out from what you like
>>64673072
check out these artists:
kanye
death grips
bjork
animal collective
crimson king
kendrick lamar
run the jewels
radiohead
have fun
just listen to literally every single album that came out this week and see what you like
If you like Coldplay you'd probably like Radiohead.
>>64673072
god damn... well aren't in denial
Listen to these (TMR, Soumtracks For The Blind and The Glow are to be listened last or not at all).
Explore the genres and discographies of the ones you liked.
>>64673072
Alright, I don't even care you have Linkin Park, Cold Play, and 21 Pilots. Ditch the Chvrches. Shitty meme band who only has a following due to their qt front woman.
Just start with basic /mu/core stuff. Find a genre you like and explore it. Use websites like RYM, Discogs, Last.fm, etc.
It's not that you know nothing, it's that you are very limited, with only 9 artist, and you really need to branch out to knew artists and probably new genres too.
http://pastebin.com/7Syxr4rZ
This list is very helpful for getting started with some of the music that a lot of people consider to be worth listening to, you don't have to listen to it all but listen to as much as you can.
Also for your own sake realize that just because /mu/ likes it doesn't mean you have to.
Primus
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Sigur Ros
>>64673072
If you liked Night Visions, check out 2000s post punk revival like
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Interpol - TOTBL
The National - Boxer
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
>>64673166
Hospice isn't on /mu/core anymore. Do you feel old yet?
wow. I see you must really like Radiohead.
Vampire Weekend
St. Vincent
Belle and Sebastian
The Decemberists
River City Extension
Some accessible indie rock/pop
>>64673166
Why those three albums last or not at all? I love 2/3 of them
>>64673166
>not listening to The Glow at all
Why do that to yourself?
Thanks for the help so far guys, really appreciate it :D
>>64673624
Is this a bait thread?
>>64673687
no. i realized that my library was just meh and wanted more diverse music and vocals
>>64673826
I'm only asking because of the rage face
>>64673897
~~~~ not a fan of the vocals although they're similar to Cold Play.
>>64673880
i realized that it did make it look like a bait thread, woops
>>64673072
You should start by listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." It's an album that everyone on /mu/ started off listening to. It's pretty catchy and enjoyable. Even though I don't listen to it anymore, it's an album that made me more open to listening to new and interesting music. Really changed my whole perspective.
>>64673072
Honestly from your situation you should start with the classics, like your rolling stones top 100 albums of all time or something. Understand that it's not the best music out there, but it will all be accessible and [spoiler] good [/spoiler] and could provide a base for your to expand your taste from.
>>64674580
This.
Do not start with /mu/core you'll end up an uneducated drone. One thing you could do is explore the influences of your favorite artists.
>>64673072
Theres no helping you
>>64673072
TasteKid
Lastfm
RYM
>>64673072
In all honesty the key is not dismissing albums that strike you as odd or unlistenable too soon. When you're developing your taste it's more a matter of prolonged exposure than anything else. Most albums are growers, and sometimes it takes a while for it to "click", but once you get it you fucking GET IT. and it'll feel great and it will be much easier to get into other genres with a broadened perspective. Critically acclaimed albums are such for a reason.
Just lurk and explore with an open mind
>also holy shit your music is cringe
>>64673212
>Steve Roach
>Robert Rich
I would take one of those out and put in SAW II desu as much as it's become the generic starting ambient album it got that status for a reason. And Coil is definitely one of the most accessible entries into industrial
That's just stupid nitpicking though. This is fuckin awesome
>>64673166
dude The Glow is way more accessible than Spiderland
>>64673166
Why the fuck is Trout Mask /mu/core?
Isn't the whole point if /mu/core supposed to be accessible albums that help people begin broadening their musical taste?
TMR is doin too much
2fast2bulbous
>>64674062
You're still a retard asking to be spoonfed that never bothered to read the sticky and the part that says "Discover music". Of course someone like you would have a rage face saved on his hard drive.
>>64673072
/thread.
>>64676984
aaaand welcome to /mu/
naisu baito
>>64677020
>/threading your own post
gross.
also, where's the punk?
>>64677181
Here it is
>>64673072
look up /mu/core charts mah nignog
i know we love to hate on them but really its a fucking great way to get into different kinds of music. the problem is people who fail to go beyond it.
go through a mucore chart, download the albums that pique your interest. from there go through other albums by the artist and read stuff online about them and check out related bands.
check out rateyourmusic.com
click on charts and that should be a pretty good introduction to the essentials. its a great site in general
you'll be fine mi amigo. within a few months you should be able to shit on other people for having bad taste :)
>>64676920
>listens to TMR
>Wow, this is really fucking weird!
>I want more!
>avant-garde
>>64676920
Trout Mask Replica is accessible though
Versus, say, Machine Gun. Or 革命京劇 Ver.1.28 (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28)
>Asking /mu/ for music recommendations
This'll go over well.
Word of advice, OP: the worst board to discuss the topic you want to discuss is the board dedicated to that topic.
>>64673109
>crimson king
>>64679334
what? how is that even a comparison
neither of those are /mu/core they're avant-teen RYMcore
>>64673166
The Glow Pt. 2 and Mount Eerie are albums everyone should listen to at least once. Fucking crazy. Mount Eerie completely transcends music for me.
>>64679344
>le /mu/ doesn't know anything about music meme
We unironically have better taste than 99% of other places/people.
Like literally, name a better music forum than us. Protip you cant.
holy fucking shit this is some high quality bait
>>64679344
Nah, this is bullshit. Of course you have a lot of shitposting on /mu/ that screw up the curve so to speak. But there's still a lot of ambition to listening to music that other boards don't share.
/daily/ is a very underrated thread in my opinion. Yeah it's teeming with tripfags, but that doesn't matter. It's where the most actual music discussion takes place that doesn't mainly evolve around /mu/core.
Discussing music on other boards always ends up with people having half-knowledge on one single genre, those mostly being metal and hip hop, not that there's anything wrong with it. But it's not very open, and usually ruined by a /mu/ tourist who wants to seem like he knows about shit by attacking people who don't exclusively listen to /mu/core outside of /mu/.
>>64676984
ya fell for the fucking bait good job man
>>64679449
>We unironically have better taste than 99% of other places/people.
Please. /mu/ is a board that talks about a select few artists/groups frequently (none of which are as obscure or "patrician" as you'd like to believe since you're talking about musicians with millions of fans), collects vinyl records almost exclusively like your typical Johnny-come-lately impressionable faggot with special-snowflake syndrome, and actively discourages deviation from "mainstream /mu/core" discussion.
/mu/ is full of fucking retards with complete shit taste. You faggots have completely destroyed a board that was decent when it was created. /mu/ manages to be somehow worse at music discussion than fucking /tv/ is at TV and movie discussion.
>Like literally, name a better music forum than us. Protip you cant.
Literally every other single board on 4chan, for starters.
>>64679524
you are literally just being silly
>>64679524
Remember that most of the people who constantly make Death Grips threads with barely any substance or who make "I listened to this beloved album and I think it's horrible" threads are not serious. They are shitposters who pretend to be idiots.
You can't call out /mu/'s taste and opinions, because you haven't actually seen them in ages. You don't fucking know what people on /mu/ like, because most rather just pretend that they only listen to /mu/core, for shits and giggles.
Vinyl collectors are usually a vocal minority. You better believe that there are a lot of collectors on /mu/ who don't give a fuck about it and just buy whatever they want, in whatever format they choose.
>>64679524
no way, other boards unironically listen to video game music, Muse and Imagine Dragons.
/mu/core is actual great music, if you only listen to that, yes, you have boring taste, but still very fucking good taste.
>>64673166
>>64679644
>/mu/core is actual great music
don't listen to these plebs. you want the good stuff.
Just start with these 10 bands:
>The Beatles (Sgt. Peppers onwards)
>The Smiths
>The Rolling Stones (Beggars to Exile)
>Pink Floyd (Meddle - The Wall)
>Led Zeppelin
>Oasis (first two + the masterplan)
>Soundgarden (king animal is trash)
>Queens of the Stone Age
>ISIS
>Alice In Chains
>>64680496
holy fuck screencapped
>>64673072
I don't know what's more pathetic, your taste, or the fact that people are spoonfeeding you
You are beyond hope OP..Why dont you kill yourself by diving into spoon full of hot water?
>>64673072
How old are you? I had more diverse taste when I was 14
>>64673072
Ok senpai. We have some work to do.
Don't listen to the mongs that keep posting /mu/core pics, because most of those albums take some getting used to before you can appreciate them. Start off with the following.
the Microphones - The Glow pt. 2 (You can just DL it on Bandcamp)
Death Grips - Exmilitary ( Easiest to listen to in my opinion )
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City (better than TPAB imo)
Bob Marley - Exodus (very chill reggae album, you'll like it)
Gorrilaz - Demon Days (most of the songs are very catchy, White Light is a personal fav)
Enjoy!
>>64681499
The good thing about all of these albums is that if you enjoy any of them, there are always similar albums out there (For example if you like Exodus, check out Peter Tosh's Equal Rights)
Btw, you should probably check out Neutral Milk Hotel if you really want to get into /mu/sic. Takes some getting used to, but after a while you will love it.
Coldplay
>Radiohead
>Muse
Linkin Park
>Deftones
>Rage Against the Machine
Chvrches
>Metric
>Purity Ring
Of Monsters and Men
>Fleet Foxes
>Bon Iver
>>64681624
Also if you try Radiohead start with these albums
The Bends
OK Computer
In Rainbows
The first 2 actually influenced Coldplay a lot.
Just browse /mu/. That's what I did and I went from pretty much the same as you (but with different music) to this. It's not really large of a range of genres, but it's certainly better than what I had a few months ago. And it's always getting bigger by the day though, there's always new music to discover.
I went through /mu/ core shit and chose what I liked then expanded from there.
>>64673109
>kanye
>death grips
awful taste
>>64679449
>We unironically have better taste than 99% of other places/people.
That's what /lit/ thinks about their taste in literature.
Both wrong desu desu~~~
>>64682149
Why do you even bother to waste your time typing out these memes?
>>64683043
I feel the need to remind you that you have no musical taste.
You might as well listen to Taylor Swift or whatever shit kids like nowoday.
Just a couple things
I didnt intend for this to be a bait thread as some are people are song
Im so disconnected from other types of music that i honestly just needed some help
Thanks so far to everyone for the help, expected this thread to die during the night
>>64683186
>Taylor Swift
I'm not a fan of her music, but you're retarded if you think her music doesn't have any merit.
>>64683207
It doesn't.
She's hot. That for sure.
>>64673072
>Coldplay
>Imagine Dragons
>Linkin Park
Oh boy.
>>64683207
Tired of this bait
delete everything you have and start going through the top 100 albums on rate your music.
> http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart
then i would start branching out based on what you liked. this is really easy to do with rym.
>>64673072
Neutral Milk Hotel
My Bloody Valentine
Radiohead
Swans
Frank Turner (this one especially)
You should try some death metal
Some starters:
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsWguQ8gl4
Entombed - Left Hand Path
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6exw6xT0oo
Death - Human
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvI1mXY3QQ
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YIj44JDiUJs
Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CyEUCVEQzA
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bNkfujpnQ
>>64673826
There are worse things than a plain average mainstream music taste, and if you stay here, you will see exactly how deep this shitty rabbit hole goes. If I were you I would just embrace how you have it now, or find a less toxic place to go about it.
>>64680496
>not rubber soul onwards
disgusting
