Hip Genres & Musical Styles: Which Is The Worst??

my deep apologies to the genre of Tropicalia, clearly my uninformed vote in this ilx poll has caused great harm to so many

― sarahell, Thursday, 18 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Thank you

Not the one that mixes yacht rock songwriting/singing with death metal drumming?

xp

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan)

i can't say for sure we're not talking about the same record!

Ok, I have a very clear memory of listening to this record online (and I think posting it somewhere to ILM), but now I can't find it anywhere and it's making me think I hallucinated it. I think Greg Fox was on drums???

Tropicalia today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXX6L_fXuzk

Just to say that I'm not a total ignoramus when it comes to this shit

fair enough. i have been to Brazil many times, heard lots and lots of Brazilian music from all eras, collaborated on music with, and then supported Os Mutantes and helped run a Brazilian reissue label, but would still consider myself pretty much a total ignoaramus simply by nature of the depth and volume of music that has been made and released there, which is truly breathtaking.

hard bop is great!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Hard_Bop_%28album%29.jpg

music is pretty great.

if u gonna bop u better bop hard

bill evans looks like a member of kraftwerk, no idea why he’s not more hip

engagement with a handful of artists and albums :

Tropicalia
Free Jazz!!
Musique Concrete
Northern Soul
Psychedelic/Acid Folk
Hard Bop
Dub
Japanese (Psych)
Garage
Dancehall

more than a handful:

Classic Indie Rock (1980-2000???? argue w me here please)
Krautrock
Industrial/Noise

no to minimal engagement, maybe one comp max:

Private Press Singer-Songwriter
Country Blues
West Coast Psychedelic Rock
English Folk
Ska (original only)
Salsa
Boogaloo

Original ska is awesome

it's all awesome, mostloy, that's why it's so fun

btw is it Garage Rock or UK Garage?

It's the Garage where they started Apple

hate to say to that unperson poster, but sorry, you're pretty dumb about brazilian music. if you say something as stupid as 'samba is soft', hate to tell you, you know shit.

which doesn't mean you can review albums by brazillian artists. just saying, be a bit more humble?

can't review, sorry

all music are bad

Write in vote for British

which doesn't mean you can review albums by brazillian artists. just saying, be a bit more humble?

― fpsa

turns out that unperson poster is actually actually jerry shirley, doesn't get much more humble than that

i do like hard bop but the thing i always think of is that my copy of john coltrane's "the olatunji concert" somehow got tagged as "hard bop". great hard bop record, that one.

Obscurity?

― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes)

that's the thing, it's getting to the point where fukui is better-known among a certain demographic than evans is...

Ok, I have a very clear memory of listening to this record online (and I think posting it somewhere to ILM), but now I can't find it anywhere and it's making me think I hallucinated it. I think Greg Fox was on drums???

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan)

nah i'm thinking of the newest fire-toolz record, the new liturgy record is really nice too tho (fox isn't on that one mind)

Yeah this was something else, it's driving me crazy

Genres missing:

Canadian novelty alt-rock
Swedish K-Pop
Nu-gaze
90s Tribute Album Remixes
Spoonman

the production on that O Pacto youtube xyzzzz posted is wild ... thank you!

That's baile funk, which just keeps getting better.

thanking you kate for this all time scold-

LISTEN TO MORE BILL EVANS MOTHERFUCKERS

and unperson for that link!

(also small chuckle at bill evans getting brought up and the cliche "BUT HE DOESN'T SWING!!" retort almost immediately following. "things repeat forever and there never is a remedy")

the worst industrial/noise is more unlistenable than the worst of anything else here, that's getting my vote

ha I feel that exact same way about private press SSW stuff, by a wide margin (sorry ian)

Fun fact:

"Now I didn't call the music I was doing `free jazz.' Someone [at the Atlantic record label] named it that, put a Jackson Pollock painting on it and called it `Free Jazz.'"

the production on that O Pacto youtube xyzzzz posted is wild ... thank you!

11/10.

I always mean to dig for more new baile funk on soundcloud, but there are some gems in these threads:

baile funk - search and destroy

rolling baile funk 2021

maybe wrong thread, but anyone wanting to hear bill evans doing not "LOUNGE PIANO MUSIC" check out living time. it may confirm your hatred of not only bill evans, but also free jazz! hooray!

around the same time as _symbiosis_ with the claus ogerman orchestra which isn't as "free jazz" as _living time_ but isn't quite lounge.

to me bill evans isn't just "lounge piano music", he's lounge piano music suffused with as much pain and loss as, like, gloria ann taylor

ryo fukui otoh just kinda sounds like lounge piano music for the "lo-fi hip-hop beats" generation imo. that's probably not fair to him, i'm old.

harsh but fair imo

also thanks for the vanguarda paulista link

idk how anybody expects to sustain a convo on a thread like this, i just sort of pop in and out

I sometimes collaborate with a Texan songwriter who lives in Maryland but who (I think by virtue of a diplomatic career) is decently well versed in Brazilian music and frequently writes and sings in Portuguese.

This may have been the only time I have combined bouzouki and bodhran, only to be completely drowned out by a lead triangle.

https://www.reverbnation.com/ceroe/song/32457769-bom-dia-neila

idk how anybody expects to sustain a convo on a thread like this, i just sort of pop in and out

― budo jeru, Thursday, May 18, 2023 3:00 PM

idk i kinda like it!

and i appreciate kate's internet cult(ure)-informed thoughts because i willfully ignored all that shit forever and i can get the cliff's notes on shit like why "the kids" sleep on bill evans.

(never heard fukui, checking out now. two tracks in and yeah these guys definitely dug sunday at the village vanguard)

i'm not dissing the quality of (most) posts, i'm just saying i never have the fucking energy to keep track of it all

ahhhhh, i'm old, "keeping track of it all" hasn't been a goal of mine for a while. i just pop in and obsessively track a thread for a day or so and then i get bored and ghost for a week or a month or six months.

the only way to do ilm afaic

ha I feel that exact same way about private press SSW stuff, by a wide margin (sorry ian)

― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:26 (yesterday) link

you don't need to apologize to me, buddy. the vast majority of that stuff is terrible! but like in all types of music there are plenty of lovely records.

"Japanese" free jazz

jazz critics shitting on Bill Evans, now I've seen everything

Thank you for the laughs, message board

Bill Evans rules

"jazz critics"

A certain kind of Country Rock deserves mention here, I think - Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Mike Nesmith, ppl like Townes Van Zandt, the more obscure stuff on the Numero Wayfaring Strangers series. Some overlap with the private press singer/songwriter stuff I guess.

Yeah that’s a viable choice. My personal gripe with that stuff is that people will gobble it up but ignore every $2 kris kristofferson record, say. Whatever!

Kristofferson rules. But yeah it's a genre where the uber hip and the uber not hip (Eagles, Linda Ronstad) rub shoulders.

Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Mike Nesmith, ppl like Townes Van Zandt

these are all great though