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Can we please get back to all the great music from 2024, please?
Your favorite songs of 2024
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Mozzer1980
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- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Joy
- The Cure - Alone
- The Cure - Endsong
- David Gilmour - Between Two Points
- Morrissey - I Ex-Love You
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
I don’t give a toss about Gillian Anderson, all I know is silly old men look even sillier when they’re grooving to mainstream music aimed at young women.
BookishBoy
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I really don't understand this objection of yours, at all! Should we not all be free to listen to whatever makes us happy, or feel something? And do you have other objections?
How about middle-aged (or older) women listening to Harry Styles?
Or a teenage girl listening to The Cure?
Or Taylor Swift listening to The Blue Nile?
Are those things bad as well?
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
I don’t care, man. But Audrey posted a snide giph aimed at my taste in music, and Horst Wessel, er…I mean Born to Harangue, piled on. So I fired back. I think that’s perfectly fine.
BookishBoy
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Fair enough!
Maudlin Street
Always different, always the same
I haven't listened to much new music this year, but here are a few songs I've liked:
Roman Holiday
Burn down the disco
It looks like it was 2023. But Good Luck, Babe! is from this year, and I liked that one. Not a year-end favorite, but good. Like Charli XCX, Chappel Roan only came onto my radar by way of the presidential election.
Born to Harangue
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I think this new Aubrey might appreciate …Baby One More Time
Born to Harangue
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Born to Harangue
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Some electronic music for you all
gashonthenail
Make Orwell Fiction Again
I would probably add anything from Kim Gordon's 2024 album - The Collective - to the list. Highly recommended. Not bad for someone now over 70! There's hope for us all yet.
Born to Harangue
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Since Zoom is open to various types of experimental music you’d think she would be able to get something from some of the songs below, but they were released in 2024 and not 1994 so she won’t listen 
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Roman Holiday
Burn down the disco
Sir Chloe was played for me by my Spotify algorithm several times. It also gave me a good song by a power-pop trio who, when I looked them up, it turned that all three members were transsexuals or non-binary. Now I can't remember the band name and Google is not helpful.
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The only band I heard recently that has a transsexual lead singer (who’s also Jewish) is Ekko Astral. They were given the #1 spot on Pitchfork’s list of the best rock albums of 2024. I tend to avoid transsexual artists - 100gecs, Ethel Cain, Arca, and Jane Remover are some of the most well known ones at the moment - because I just know their lyrical themes and aesthetic aren’t going to be to my liking. I’ll listen to non-binary artists because what is that really, it’s practically a meaningless term. Demi Lovato called herself non-binary for a couple of years then got engaged to a man and reverted to she/her pronouns because she started feeling “more feminine” again. I look upon it mostly as a fad among a segment of young people who decades ago would have been referring to themselves as “punk” or “emo”. It seems to be a case of, as a form of self-identity: “you’ll grow out of it/into something else”.
Here’s a song about Israel’s war on Palestine by Ekko Astral which lyrically is a lot tamer than it could have been, since I had the feeling that if they were writing a song about ‘white supremacy’ the words would be much more visceral and graphic. Here, the lyrics start off with the singer not being able to sleep, there’s the vague refrain of “nothing is the same as it was” and the song ends by blaming the politicians in Washington D.C. (“the district sleeps atoned tonight”). There’s one section in the middle where they talk about “dropping bombs” and “shooting pregnant mothers”, but all in all, considering what they could have said, I wasn’t that impressed and thought of it as a fairly light slap on the wrist for Israel (“all sides bleed across a crime scene”).
Here’s a song about Israel’s war on Palestine by Ekko Astral which lyrically is a lot tamer than it could have been, since I had the feeling that if they were writing a song about ‘white supremacy’ the words would be much more visceral and graphic. Here, the lyrics start off with the singer not being able to sleep, there’s the vague refrain of “nothing is the same as it was” and the song ends by blaming the politicians in Washington D.C. (“the district sleeps atoned tonight”). There’s one section in the middle where they talk about “dropping bombs” and “shooting pregnant mothers”, but all in all, considering what they could have said, I wasn’t that impressed and thought of it as a fairly light slap on the wrist for Israel (“all sides bleed across a crime scene”).
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Since Zoom is open to various types of experimental music you’d think she would be able to get something from some of the songs below, but they were released in 2024 and not 1994 so she won’t listen
worth commenting on these …
I’m familiar with his New History Warfare albums, actually my favorite from him is this
album …
SORROW - a reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, by Colin Stetson
3 track album
colinstetson.bandcamp.com
haven’t been keeping track, so thanks for the heads up on his latest release
I like this, well the novelty of it. Also makes me think of Stereolab in its playfulness, and what they were doing years ago. It’s interesting how new technology shapes music along the way, this of course is nothing new. The only problem, is that it runs the risk of sounding dated in 5 years time, don’t you think? Well, maybe it doesn’t matter. I mean, I think Viva Hate sounds a little dated on some songs actually, but I still enjoy it.
now this I dig!, will definitely look into it.
ever get into this ? ….
ZOOM FROM GLOOM
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Oh yeah!
hmmm, are you familiar with this artist ? …
Born to Harangue
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Oh yeah!
hmmm, are you familiar with this artist ? …
I wasn’t sure whether to include that Lago song but something told me you’d like it. I nearly replaced it with EABS - Flair but instead I added both. I agree that Fievel Is Glauque could end up sounding dated in a few years, which has been a problem for countless bands this century.
Months ago I found a mix CD that I made when I was a teenager and I listened to some of it; one of the songs was ‘Bandages’ by Hot Hot Heat from 2003 which sounded HORRIBLY dated— much more so than bands from the 80s or 90s, I thought. Many of those early 21st century bands do not hold up at all. As I sit here now I can’t even put my finger on what it is, whether it’s more of a production issue or songwriting/talent, or all of the above. Part of the problem as well probably was that bands like that were *trying* to sound cutting edge, with abrasive guitars and shrieking vocals, and it got old fast. That’s not the same issue that Fievel Is Glauque face with their sound but instinctively I get what you mean about that.
Speaking of Stereolab, here’s another song from this year which reminded me of them, I thought I was hearing traces of ‘John Cage Bubblegum’ in it:
I haven’t heard the songs you posted but I’ll check them out later today. I’m glad you liked or found something of interest in some of what I sent you Zoom, thanks for listening
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props for donatachi as i love buttons.
super american - altima song
super american - altima song
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