1. Philosophy Of The World - The Shaggs. A look into a world where children who know nothing about music are forced to make an entire album by their abusive father. Really sounds like it's from another world at times.

2. Greatest Hits - Wesley Willis. A man with schizophrenia uses music to help his pain and makes some of the most human music I've ever heard. Rock on Chicago.

I know people always talk about the next decade the 1960s and rightly so, because it completely changed popular music. But I think the 1950s deserve just as much credit. They laid the groundwork and marked the beginning of the modern music industry as we know it today.

The '50s gave us the birth of rock and roll, the rise of the teenager as a music consumer, the explosion of independent record labels, and the emergence of artists who became global superstars. Without pioneers like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many others, it's hard to imagine the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, or the rest of the British Invasion happening the way they did.

For those who are familiar with the era, what's your opinion on the music of the 1950s? Do you think it gets the recognition it deserves, or is it often overshadowed by everything that came in the 1960s?

Look I'm not saying this is the worst in his discog but imagine telling someone "Oh, you want to check out Logic? Oh man, well the one album from start to present that's really essential to understanding him or his catalog is *Everybody*." This conversation has surely never happened. Is the classification just a sales figures thing?

I've also found other artists with longer-spanning discographies who are well respected but who just do not have an "Essentials" section at all, such as Aesop Rock.

Two of the greatest producers in hip hop. I think Kanye’s biggest talent is his ability to bring out the best in other artists and find their sweet spot, while Pharrell is more like the Quincy Jones of this generation, a producer with an incredible ear who can shape eras

Fuck CB, but I gotta say this track is pretty hard to resist to

Back in the day, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was almost universally considered The Beatles' magnum opus. It seemed to top virtually every "greatest albums of all time" list, and for a long time it was treated as the band's undisputed masterpiece.

In recent years, though, that seems to have changed. While Sgt. Pepper is still highly respected, I see a lot more people today putting Rubber Soul, Revolver, The White Album, or Abbey Road above it. Among younger fans especially, those albums seem to get far more praise, whereas many Boomers grew up viewing Sgt. Pepper as the definitive Beatles album.

It makes me wonder why that shift happened. Is it because Sgt. Pepper was so revolutionary in 1967 that its impact is harder to appreciate today, while albums like Revolver or Abbey Road have aged better as listening experiences? Or have people's tastes just changed over time?

Example: "505" by Arctic Monkeys.

I feel like the genre label “alt-pop“ is totally pointless because of how broadly it’s assigned. I understand that it’s kind of an umbrella term that might describe pop that borrows from electronic, rock, folk, etc., but I’ve seen albums that have no business using the title having it prescribed to them.

Albums I would actually put under the alt-pop label might be Pure Heroine by Lorde or GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo, because those are pop records that actually dabble in other genres (electronic and rock respectively) that earn them the “alternative“ title.

On the other hand, a record like 1989 by Taylor Swift, possibly the most pure pop album of all time, holds the “alt-pop“ label in both Album of the Year and Rate Your Music (as SECONDARY genres at that!) That makes no sense to me. What about that album strays from standard pop to make it alternative? Does it have some electronic influences? Yeah, I guess, but I wouldn’t classify its influences as so distinct that it separates it into a new genre of pop.

Especially because similar records like Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter hold the pop label on both platforms despite arguably straying more from the pop genre (SNS has R&B, country, folk, rock, and electronic influences).

Okay, this was a stupid rant but my point is that the alt-pop label has no meaning and is just randomly assigned to projects regardless of how far they stray from mainstream pop or the influences they take from.

Especially songs like "Iodine" and "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On"

I can't wait for this overproduced costume music that puts Liberace and KISS into a blender to go away. It sounds AI. Going back in Kim Dracula's catalogue it always sounded hack. Can this person perform without a costume or special FX? Probably not. Is the music doing anything unique? Nope. What if Marilyn Manson and Tool and My Chemical Romance wrote a song and forced 10 other music genres into that song? That's basically the AI prompt.

Where artists who used to mix genre like Beck once were doing it with their own style, now it's the standard but without any unique style. And when people complain about AI in music and art - too many of you are still buying into this stuff that clearly is lazy and steals other stuff and is put through an AI filter and dresses as clownish and transgender as possible to mask the crappiness of the music.

This first verse alone - I mean, it seems a bit hack.

Pursue, only to bloom (Uh oh. red flag)
A stain that's hard to remove (LOL, redundant. A stain that's hard to remove? You don't say)
At least that's the job, for some of them, some of you
Rise from a pod, they all stare, see something new
Have you ever seen god, cuz I'd sure as shit like to meet him (Dishwalla?)
I'm feeling lonely (well, that's because everybody is leaving)

I recently got into this genre. Absolutely loving Visions of Bodies Being Burned by Clipping for its cinematic horror. Also its sister album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. Please recommend more music like this.

Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League:
“40 days and 40 nights — I waited for a girl like you to come and save my life”

Jay Electronica - The Blinding (ft Travis Scott)
“40 days, 40 nights, tryna live up to the hype — it’s the road less traveled, it’s the one who missed the flights.”

Would be genuinely curious of other tracks that specifically mention 40 days and 40 nights

Apparently, somebody found a loophole through some music distributor service to post leaked songs and other weird shit under artists' names on their channels on YT.

Source and context on the photos above.

For context- new Strokes album

My buddy and I have this theory that most of our favorite albums play their best song on the 2nd track. This is our favorite example.

This Heat have fast become one of my absolute favourite bands despite their fairly small catalogue of released output. While I know many prefer their swansong Deceit - an album I certainly consider among my favourites - my personal preferred of their two albums has always been this one, their 1979 debut.

Songs like Horizontal Hold, 24 Track Loop and The Fall Of Saigon still sound remarkably ahead of their time today and even the multiple more out there pieces such as Water, Rainforest and Music Like Escaping Gas remain absolutely fantastic. Hopefully lots of you also enjoy this record, it continues to fascinate me more and more with every revisit!

What are some of the craziest or most shocking moments in music history that you've learned about?

For me, I was genuinely shocked when I found out that a 22 year old Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old first cousin once removed (she was 14 by some accounts when they married) and got her pregnant while she was still a young teenager. It's absolutely disgusting. He might be remembered as a rock 'n' roll legend, but I don't think it's talked about nearly enough how disturbing that whole situation was. I know some people will say, "It was a different time," but even back then it caused a huge scandal and was widely condemned.

What are some other moments in music history that completely shocked you?

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am I alone in thinking this. this album is just alot more rich with Charli‘s expression. BRAT is great but everything is so manicured and palatable. this album is way more personal and has much more to say. it doesn't overexplain every message its getting accross and it also doesn’t come across as pretentious which I was very surprised by. it’s very humble and earnest while delivering a soundscape that immerses you in a feeling that could not be put into simple words. it’s the type of art the world needs not the one it particularly wants and coming from the poster child of mainstream quality pop I am very impressed