DevinBelow

DevinBelow t1_j3t8q9r wrote

Reply to Bonnaroo 2023 Lineup - thoughts? by QuicklyThisWay

As bad as, but no worse than, normal.

I wish it would go back to being a little more focused like it was in the first few years. I'm not saying it needs to go back to being a jam band festival. I'm even not saying I want it to be some homogeneous festival where every band sounds the same and there is no variety to the music, but who exactly does this lineup appeal to? I see no more than 10 acts that I would pay to see, and that is not anywhere close to enough acts to possilbly paying that much to spend three days baking out in the sun, and I feel like I have very diverse taste in music.

Like if you love Kendrick (and I do). Like he's your favorite and the kind of hiphop he does is what you are most into...why would you buy tickets for this festival? There aren't really any other big hiphop acts of note, that are along the lines of Kendrick. If Foo Fighters are your favorite band and that kind of 90's/'00's post-grunge sound is your favorite thing...why would you choose to go see them here where there are really no other similar bands on the lineup? If you're going just for Umphrey's or Korn or Tyler Childers, and only like the types of music that those types of acts make, why would you go to Bonnaroo, where no other contemporaries of any of those artists are playing?

It's a diverse lineup, but to a fault, imo. It'd be cool if it were like, "Ok, this year is going to be Roots rock, Hip Hop and Funk", and you based the lineup aroudn that, but this is just a too many cooks thing imo.

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DevinBelow t1_j1dk4hj wrote

Reply to Bands or albums with the depth of production that the psychedelic Beatles had? by IDNTKNWNYTHING

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow

Love - Forever Changes

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

Jimi Hendix - Axis Bold as Love

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension

The Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun

A lot of these lack the sophistication of production that Peppers, but they also don't have George Martin producing. They are all just drenched in psychedelia though and mostly all use a lot of the same tools and equipment to create that reverby dreamy like sound.

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DevinBelow t1_j0uptqd wrote

Reply to Which Soul and R&B albums should everyone listen to at least once in their lifetime? by MajesticMidnite

Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (specifically the complete recordings if you can find it)

Aretha Franklin - I've Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club '63

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key Of Life

A lot of the best R&B was not really written around the LP format, so definitely get some "Best of" compilations of Smokey & The Miracles, The Crystals, The Supremes, The Four Tops and that kind of classic Motown stuff too, but those five albums above are all absolutely essential.

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DevinBelow t1_iyf5ieg wrote

Reply to Mostly listen to rap right now, trying to find new genres and artists to listen to but I can’t find any songs or artists that I really like, any suggestions? by Budget_Ad9626

Branch out into the stuff that influenced rap music. 60's and 70's funk like Funkadelic, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Tower of Power, the Meters and such. Or based on your tastes, may even just explore earlier rap and go from there. Check out KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Digital Underground, and stuff like that, then move backwards into the 60's/70's funk.

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DevinBelow t1_iyf4wjv wrote

Reply to I have two questions about music and Spotify by [deleted]

About 10,000 minutes.

Spotify started out pretty damn cheap, and had almost everything I wanted. The selection has gone up, but so has the cost. Compared to the thousands of dollars I used to spend on music every year though, Spotify still costs, comparably, next to nothing.

As far as why Spotify vs some of the other services...at this point, it's that it knows me and my tastes, and it would take years for another service to be able to form the same type of suggestions/playlists that Spotify does, AND the fact that it has XBOX integration, so I can have my own music playing in non-narrative/audio-dependent games, but that's a huge #2, behind the algorithm thing.

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DevinBelow t1_iyczbmk wrote

Reply to If you were to choose your top ten bands of the 90’s, who would you include on your list? by Counting-Trains

  1. Phish
  2. Ween
  3. The Gandharvas
  4. Radiohead
  5. Fugazi
  6. Pavement
  7. Sonic Youth
  8. Oasis
  9. REM
  10. Blur

That's tough. Jane's Addiction would be high on the list, and REM a lot higher if this were top bands of the 80's. Blur just cracking the top 10 because I've got tickets to see them in Dublin next June and I'm getting psyched up. Also, Radiohead wouldn't even make my list of top 10 for the 2000's, but their 90's shit was strong.

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DevinBelow t1_iyads5d wrote

Reply to How close are Spotify recordings of classical music to the original works? by Apaticamente

I don't think Spotify does their own recordings.

They do offer various recordings of performances by various orchestras throughout the world. Some aim to be as authentic as possible in terms of using original instruments, and so forth, but that's just not realistic usually. Most Oboe players don't have an oboe dating back to the 16th century, for example. I guess my overall point is, we don't know. We don't have recordings from four hundred years ago to compare modern performances against.

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DevinBelow t1_iy9iw1o wrote

Reply to What album is a 10/10 or close to it? by 0CldntThnkOfUsrNme0

A few off the dome:

The Beatles - Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road

Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street

The Kinks - Village Green, Arthur, Lola

The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty

The Ramones - The Ramones

The Replacements - Let it Be, Tim, Pleased to Meet Me

Prince - 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Sign o the Times

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Frank Zappa - Freak Out!, Overnite Sensation, Lather, Joe's Garage

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall

Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!, There's a Riot Going on, Fresh

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension, Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, Tribute to Jack Johnson, Bitches Brew

John Coltrane - Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme

Carole King - Tapestry

Bobby Charles - Bobby Charles

The Band - Music From Big Pink, The Band

Love - Forever Changes, Da Capo

Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime

Fugazi - Repeater, 13 Songs, In on the Kill Taker

Ween - GodWEENSatan: The Oneness, The Mollusk, Pure Guava

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DevinBelow t1_iy8a2wf wrote

Reply to Bands that never changed vocalists by IR-Master

It would be much easier to list the handful of bands that have changed their lead vocalist.

I think 95% of bands probably keep their original singer through the duration of the band.

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DevinBelow t1_iy4zj12 wrote

Reply to Do artists compose shorter songs nowadays? by callmebycecilia

Songs in the 50's-early '60's always used to be in that 2-3 minute range to fit standard radio formatting. Then LP's allowed for artists to release longer songs, so eventually radio stations went "well, maybe people do want to hear that new Beatles song that is 5 minutes long, so we should accomodate that", but then LP sales have dropped off the radar in the last 15 years so maybe radio has a bit more sway in how long hit pop songs are going to be again. Or it might just be that artists are getting lazy and it's way easier to write a 3 minute song with no key changes or noticable dynamic shifts, than it is to write a 12 minute opus that explores multiple key changes, rhythms and themes.

Regardless...I'm just saying it's no tthe first time that 2-3 minute songs have been the "norm" in popular music.

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DevinBelow t1_ixqfn81 wrote

Reply to What 60s song would be a hit if released today with a modern treatment? by Berkshire_Hunt

Probably none. Music today has to be a static rhythm with no key changes or real progression, in order to be a "hit".

I'd say, in a perfect world, if good music still made it in the top 40, some underrated 60's songs that could be hits, that weren't in their day:

(I've Got) Levitation - 13th Floor Elevators

See Emily Play - Pink Floyd

Cosmic Charlie - The Grateful Dead

Kick out the Jams - MC5

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