Not relevant to this revive but in the original go-round I enjoyed the discussion of how different people's technology played first alphabetical track or first alphabetical artist.
For a long time my wife and I had a shared bunch of music and when sorted alphabetically it always started with ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
Many xxxposts on Amazon music:
My grandparents and my parents and their friends bought Alexa, which I find odd because around my age only one person I know has an alexa. At least in my city it’s the people over 50 that are buying Alexa.
Anyhoo, this spike that I’ve noticed this past year in Alexa purchases might be why Amazon music is becoming important and why they can choose which song becomes a hit, most people just say “alexa play some “insert music genre”” which gives Amazon the chance to push whichever track they chose at the beginning of their playlists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Yep
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
can't find any info on this weird amateur (?) recording that has 100000 plays on spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/track/5lIikHmK6oZSaPw1vsi35S?si=mr9Syo9eTfS_0Lx8Rm-kGga glitch in the matrix?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
it was on my discover weekly 🤔
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
it's kind of amazing
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
yes it's weirdly enjoyable
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 07:46 (three years ago) link
crossposted from the J-pop thread, CHAI have covered Plastic Love:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkQgyxzRzI
― vcrash, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
i guess pavement "harness your hopes" and the galaxie 500 song could count for this
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
it wasn't a 'hit' per se, but the same year Orgy released Candyass, a band called Candyass released an album named Orgy.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
don’t forget green, who came out with an album called rem
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
REM was a single. And the bassist on it is currently out on $100,000 bond while working on a plea deal.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
jesus christ, R.E.M.'s lawyers are brutal.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
lol
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Hahaha
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Bowi.jpg
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
god damn that still cracks me up
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Not really a system glitch, I guess this is more a case of algorithms working how they're supposed to I guess, but still mostly by accident:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/11/how-old-ambient-japanese-music-became-a-smash-hit-on-youtube/
― silverfish, Thursday, 26 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Just came here to post that. Which came as a suggested article on my phone!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 27 November 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
it's now on spotify
https://garbageday.substack.com/p/grieving-on-my-peloton
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 December 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-07-19/surf-curse-freaks-tik-tok
― Max Ice (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
“Harness Your Hopes” appears on Spotify’s “Classic Punk” playlist; all the other tunes are decades older (needless to say, it doesn’t fit the theme). Pavement’s official Instagram posted a meme recently about the track’s ubiquity. It really is a weird thing.
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Sunday, 12 December 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
this thread is amazing, btw
i have noticed recently that "never too much" by luther vandross pops up on a lot of the spotify playlists i like and i always play them on shuffle (NOT repeat all). it will always play "never too much" multiple times. especially if i need to pause — and then it almost always plays "never too much" next. it's his most played song on spotify by quite a lot. it was a top forty hit when it was released, so i'm not sure how much it factors into this discussion. i just thought it was weird.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
The music has been sequenced for CD release in accordance with how the songs were recorded. So don't get your drawers crooked in your butt because songs are in a different order.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 12 February 2022 03:54 (two years ago) link
shit meant that for liner notes post.
this is a great thread either way. read it.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 12 February 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
your drawers crooked in your butt
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 February 2022 04:21 (two years ago) link
Pavement went ahead and made a "Harness Your Hopes" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ww_O3ceKU
― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
Hey guys, I'm starting a Soulseek-proof band called 'My Documents and the MP3s'. Who's in?
― Publicradio (3×5), Monday, 13 February 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
not sure if this is going to lead to anything
this is what comes up rn if you google animal collective😭😭 not a joke. try it yourself pic.twitter.com/RRb60zYqnS— jet’s key🪩✨ (@jetskitosway) June 3, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 3 June 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
boy i really dislike anco, but that is quite unfortunate.
(btw i was curious, so checked around and this seems to be exclusive to google)
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 3 June 2023 23:05 (ten months ago) link
Yes, you can see it in Google’s auto-suggestion when you just start typing the band name. Somehow the fact they’re both abbreviated as “AC” must have created a mucked-up mismatch.
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Saturday, 3 June 2023 23:27 (ten months ago) link
who am i to argue with google
― mh, Sunday, 4 June 2023 16:49 (ten months ago) link
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-06/hiroshi-yoshimura-from-internet-obscurity-to-youtube-sensation/11366386
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 09:07 (five months ago) link
found a new one yesterday-https://i.imgur.com/TAIsDoI.jpeg
(hope that image works. here's the direct link in case.)
band is mid-90s emo group everyone asked about you + the song is "sometimes memory fails me sometimes" + i find its female vox + flute coda quite delightful. i don't do tiktok, so not sure what the context of the song's use was/is. very solid jam imo.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
idk where this fits. i was recommended x-cetra in the similar artists section on the spotify profile for some modern bay area twee bands. here they are on discogs. i genuinely don't know what to make of this one. the backstory is pretty nebulous, too. seems like it's been "known" for a while but also has gotten numero's attention as of late. it's on spotify.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 03:03 (two months ago) link
sorry for the redundancy. just kinda wild what shows up on there sometimes.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 03:04 (two months ago) link
oh yeah, sorry i didn't say anything about the actual music--
ermmm... proto-vaporwave shaggs?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 03:06 (two months ago) link
They appear to be children (or preteens at most) in that cover art…
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 04:28 (two months ago) link
they are.
(or were, at the time of recording)
i'm very confused by the whole thing. it's getting rym hype too.
the bio claims they all loved (among other things) fiona apple-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFeTGwi5Iowx-cetra - 'wonderland' (2000)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 05:55 (two months ago) link
That’s actually kinda cool & sophisticated, I can see why ppl are into it (I listened to a few more tracks). Dunno about the Shaggs comparison; seems like they can sing pretty well…
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:20 (two months ago) link
yeah some of the songs are... ehhhmm, kinda good? but like- was this meant to be heard? idk, just weird vibes. whoever did the music was into something else entirely.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:28 (two months ago) link
Looks like his blog includes his radio show playlists (so you can see exactly what he’s into): http://kunstlertreu.blogspot.com/
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:36 (two months ago) link
(tantalizingly, it goes all the way back to 2002… which doesn’t quite get there)
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:43 (two months ago) link
oh weird, i was listening to this X-Cetra earlier and it was reminding me of something i couldn't put my finger on... i thought maybe some of the synth patches were presets i knew but i think it was because i used to have this Künstler Treu 12" from 2001:
https://www.discogs.com/release/178993-K%C3%BCnstler-Treu-Humuhumunukunuku-apuaa
it's kind of lightly-glitchy, woozy early-Mouse on Mars/Global Goon-ish electronic music with sampled easy-listening/hawaiian elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFymlAwuKXc
i wonder what the connection was...
― linee, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 08:05 (two months ago) link
kind of an angular way to take the thread's premise, but this thread always reminds me of the Monotones's "The Book of Love". Simply because that big percussive "thud" between "ba-doooooo" and "who wrote the book of love?" was itself an accident. it wasn't part of the song, but some kid was outside the garage they were practicing in, kicking a ball, and he managed to smack the ball into the garage at that exact moment of the song, and they heard it and loved it and decided to add it.
idk that the song becomes popular without that.
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
I've listened to the X-cetra a few times now (here's the full album)... I'm typically skeptical of this kind of thing, but I gotta admit this is the "real deal."
Someone should email the producer guy and ask how it came together, etc.
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
yeah, couple more listens+i really like a few songs. album is short, but gets better as it goes along. fascinating!
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 18:58 (two months ago) link
So, if I write a song called "how swift was my Taylor?" and become pka "the 1989”, well...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:11 (two months ago) link
xxp
looks like Achim Treu submitted some of it for the WFMU 365 Days project way back in 2003...
https://wfmu.org/365/2003/233.shtml
X-Cetra - Conversation/Idiotic/Wasn't There
X-Cetra is a group of sparkely-eyed young girls (very young - aged 10 to 12 at the time of this recording) from Northern California. Actually they had dreamed of becoming a girl group. Unfortunately the music they were given to work with was supplied from the archives of their avantgarde-music-loving hippy papa Don Campau. They tried their best to make catchy pop tunes out of this material, but the end results remain rather bizarre nonetheless. Dark, strange passages made oddly endearing by the sweetness of the girls' voices and the youth of their lyrics. I'm afraid they're never going to hit the Top 40, but maybe the Top 40 of musical oddities.
- Achim Treu"
― linee, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:22 (two months ago) link