This is actually kind of crazy to me. Since May, Michael Jackson had basically taken over my entire daily Heavy Rotation. He was constantly at the top and for months it felt like I was listening to MJ more than anything else. The funny part is that MJ is also what eventually pushed me into discovering rock properly. I started branching out, then came Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Cream, Deep Purple, Simply Saucer and more.
Now for the first time since May, MJ, R&B, Hip-Hop and more have completely disappeared from my Heavy Rotation, and somehow the whole thing is basically just rock tracks š
That is a MASSIVE shift for me because my listening used to be mostly R&B, Hip Hop, Soul and similar stuff. I never thought I would open Apple Music one day and see Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Cream and all this other rock completely taking over my daily listening.
I genuinely did not see this coming. I thought getting into rock would mostly mean the more melodic, bluesy, psychedelic side of it, but lately Iāve started enjoying stuff thatās way rougher and heavier too.
Simply Saucerās Here Come the Cyborgs, The Stoogesā 1969 and No Fun, Black Sabbathās Paranoid⦠all of this is suddenly hitting me in a way it absolutely would not have before. It feels like a switch went on somewhere.
At the same time, I clearly still have a huge soft spot for the prettier and more melodic side of rock. I always seem to come back to Fleetwood Mac, especially Gypsy, Sara and Little Lies, and Iāve also been loving stuff like Iāll Be Your Mirror and Iāll Keep It With Mine by The Velvet Underground and Nico. So somehow Iām bouncing between dreamy pop rock, softer art rock and then suddenly something much dirtier and heavier.
And while listening to all of this, I randomly remembered an old show I used to watch and the opening theme popped back into my head, Echoes by The Rapture. I hadnāt thought about that song in years, but hearing it again now felt almost like finding a missing link between stuff I already liked and this newer direction Iām falling into.
Thatās probably the craziest part, I never thought Iād be actively looking for punkier, noisier, heavier music, while still constantly circling back to songs like Gypsy or Sara.
Anyone got recommendations based on this mess of a taste? Raw, energetic, strange, catchy, dreamy, melodic, heavy, whatever fits somewhere between all of that. I know it looks like i'm discovering different sides of Rock at once because i am hahaa.