I'm gonna say it's all down to what you're playing it out of as well as the bitrate and compression involved of what you're playing.

I'm suprised Spotify has such a terrible bitrate in the age of unlimited data plans. Amazon Music has lossless as standard and a lot of releases are in 24 bit up to 192kHz compared to CDs at 16 bit 44.1kHz 1411kbs. So many releases on Amazon Music sound better then CD.

Dance Monkey, Baby Shark, Dougie Stick Song, Party Hard by Andrew WK, Doki Doki Morning by Baby Metal, Thomas The Tank Engine Theme (the old one), Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones and maybe Frontier Psychiatrist by Avalanches.

It's a style of pop music that's nostalgic, whimsical, sort of hippyish, dreamy, floaty and at the same time can be quite interesting to those who normally venture more towards singer songwriter style musicians.

I'm quite hit and miss with her stuff. God Knows I Tried is my favourite song by her. Cola also really appeals to me. There's a music video channel on YouTube called Lana del Radio that got me into some of her stuff.

A lot of her songs I find ignorable and just not quite my thing, but quite a few stir me up. She's interesting artistically compared to more overplayed artists. The songs have depth that your typical Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift songs don't have or maybe I'm just biased.

She sort of straddles that middle ground between Chelsea Wolfe and Kate Bush, with a lot of appeal to Florence And The Machine fans. She's a bit of something old and a bit of something new. Kinda timeless in a way.

I completely understand why she's popular. Some might say like Fine China.

There's consistency of critical acclaim and consistency in a signature sound across all releases. I assume it's the former you want in which case the measuring has already been done for you by hundreds of media outlets; be it individual magazines giving top marks to every album released by an artist or a high average across multiple publications.

If however you want consistency in sound, then you either listen to that for yourself or go by recommendations and work your way from there. Slayer are very consistent. Each album is a bit different from the previous, but you still know for the most part what you're getting with a Slayer album. The opposite of this would be Metallica and I can't be bothered to type up why in full, but most of their fans will know already.

When depression or burnout hit, then sure, but for seemingly most people, nope.

Also don't rely on the radio to meet your needs. Most stations just play the same granny safe stuff over and over, even ignoring newer singles from popular artists.

Rammstein with Deutschland. The first two words are the name of what is probably their biggest hit Du Hast. The music video also finishes with a piano rendition of their other biggest hit Sonne.

Nerdy (acoustic version) by Poison The Well.

https://youtu.be/YnopHCL1Jk8

Agreeing. It's the angelic choir vocals at the start and the words "remember I will always love you, I'm your son". That creepy bass, the zipper and belt buckle sounds, the eerie vocals and words like "innocent child", some sinister phrasing "and on your flesh I'll eat". Then the chorus comes in with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Back to creepy and eerie verse. Chorus comes in fully unhinged. Song slows a bit only to end up making way for a genuine breakdown with real tears as the rest of the band gradually drop out, unsure of how to deal with their singer crying with rage and dispair. The song then ends with a tape recording of a woman singing what sounds like a lullaby a mother would sing to comfort their child.

It's hair raising through out. There are songs that reduce me to tears, but this one just leaves me in shock. Being raped as a child by a neighbour and having his parents refuse to believe him. That's a lot of trauma for anyone, let alone a child whose probably up to that point been naive about how nice the world is. The rawness and emotional weight behind that song makes it seem untouchable. That whole first album hits hard and as the closing track it stays in your brain whether you want it to or not.

I recognise American Idiot by Green Day in less then a second based on the first three chords.

Sloop John B by Beach Boys from that opening high note.

Out Of Control by Rancid.

Spit It Out by Slipknot.

Portrait Of Karma by Circle Takes The Square.

Nazi Punks Fuck Off by Dead Kennedys.

Sadist Nation by Darkest Hour.

Suffer by Napalm Death.

Modern Man by Bad Religion.

Radio Cambodia by Glassjaw.

I should be able to think of thousands, but it's 2am in the UK and my mind is going blank.

Warmness On The Soul by Avenged Sevenfold. Its an eighties style piano ballad, so quite different from the rest of their material.