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▲ 3 r/musicsuggestions

Any essential indie artists that have taken their discography of Spotify and are only available on YouTube?

Since a lot of artists are boycotting Spotify now, I’m wondering if theres any essential artists that I’m yet to discover that im missing out on because they arent on Spotify anymore. I’ve started listening on YouTube and YouTube Music for artists like these:

Joanna Newsom

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Godspeed You Black Emperor.

I’m just worried that there may be many hidden gems I’ll miss out on discovering. Any suggestions?

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/Jazz

What other artists are missing from my jazz essentials list?

I’m creating a playlist that essential covers musics most essential artists, across all genres. Currently the following artists are on the playlist for jazz, but are there any other essentials I’m missing?

It would also be helpful to suggest the best song from them if you have anyone new to suggest.

Albert Adler

Amy Winehouse

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Booker T and the MGs

Benny Goodman

Bud Powell

Bill Evans

Billie Holiday

Cannonball Adderley

Cecil Taylor

Charles Mingus

Charlie Parker

Chick Corea

Clifford Brown

Count Basie

Dave Brubeck quartet

Dexter Gordon

Django Reinhardt

Dizzy Gillespie

Ella Fitzgerald

Eric Dolphy

Frank Sinatra

Herbie Hancock

Horace Silver

John Coltrane

Lee Morgan

Louis Armstrong

EDIT: Miles Davis, just realised I forgot to add him

McCoy Tyner

Nat King Cole

Nina Simone

Norah Jones

Ornette Coleman

Sonny Rollins

Stan Getz

Sun Ra

Thelonious Monk

Wayne Shorter

Wes Montgomery

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 3 days ago
▲ 32 r/funk

What's missing from my essential funk artists list?

I'm creating a playlist called 1000 songs, 1000 artists, which is essentially supposed to cover the most essential artists in music history as well as essential artists in each respective genre. I've got a plentiful amount of rock, pop, blues, folk, electronic, jazz, hiphop, reggae and indie but don't have much of a comprehensive knowledge of funk. I've already got songs from the following artists, but I need more funk artists. Any suggestions?

It would also be extremely helpful what you think the best song from that respective artist is.

Earth, Wind and Fire

James Brown

Funkadelic

Sly and the Family Stone

Parliament

Rick James

The Ohio Players

George Clinton

Betty Davis

The Meters

Shuggie Otis

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 5 days ago
▲ 11 r/MusicRecommendations

I will rate ALL songs recommended to me within the next 30 minutes. ONLY ONE SONG PER USER.

EDIT: TIMES UP PEOPLE! DONT COMMENT ANY MORE SONGS! I WONT LISTEN TO ANY MORE RECOMMENDED NOW

EDIT 2: I’ll have to sleep soon guys, but I PROMISE I will rate the rest of the suggestions tomorrow!

I will rate any ONE song that is recommended within the next 30 minutes. After 30 minutes I won’t accept any more song recs.

I’ll listen to every single song, AS LONG as you only recommend one and you recommend it within the next 30 minutes. ONE song per user. I WILL skip you if you recommend more than one.

I’m not picky on genres, but I like indie rock, shoegaze, indie pop and jazz especially. But recommend whatever you like. Go!

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 11 days ago
▲ 3 r/MusicRecommendations

Give me songs that feel like an experience, but ONLY in the context of the album

to clarify, give me songs that don’t hit as hard unless you listen to them in the context of the full album they’re in. like you have to listen to the full album for that specific song to hit as hard as it does.

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 18 days ago
▲ 11 r/musicsuggestions

Songs that are stories akin in to Aesop’s fables or a Brothers Grimm fairytale?

EDIT: thanks for the suggestions so far guys! I should also add that I’d prefer if the genre was folk-oriented. I’m compiling the playlist here

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36AaK0TTfYzK6anLt5rybM?si=sc1XckZDRniU24M_JCniTA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=FNs6wQ0MRZO0y

Also a YouTube version as some songs aren’t available on spotify

So I am aware that this is incredible specific criteria, but essentially I’m creating a playlist called “straight out of Aesop’s fables”. Basically these are songs that are self-contained, fairytale like stories that are meant to be allegories for something else. The reason why I say Aesop’s fables or Brothers Grimm is because the common denominator between these songs is that they:

  • use characters such as animals and monarchs (kings and queens) in these stories
  • fairytale like imagery while still being dark
  • the songs are either metaphors for moral lessons or point to some sort of philosophical truth or tragic reality.

Examples of songs in the playlist already:

  • Bird Song by Florence and the Machine - the narrator is hiding a dark secret of something they did, an in efforts to keep it, the narrator kills the bird who threatens to tell everyone. The dark plot twist is the narrator essentially becomes the bird, screaming the secret like the bird was themselves.
  • The Queen and the Soldier by Suzanne Vega. An allegory about how we push away and hurt those we love in order to avoid vulnerability. The soldier questions the Queen saying he won’t fight for her anymore as too many of his comrades have been lost, and he doesn’t even know the cause for which he fights for. The Queen has a secret that is paining her to keep so he can’t tell the soldier, so instead she has him killed to avoid confiding in him.
  • Monkey and Bear by Joanna Newsom. This tells an origin story of the constellation Ursa Major. In it, the bear frees himself from the tyrannical rule of the monkey, who offers him false promises of prosperity.

The idea is I want the playlist to feel like almost like a children’s dark fairytale book, with each song being its own self-contained story. I don’t just want any old song that uses mythical imagery, I want songs like these. Any suggestions?

u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 20 days ago
▲ 10 r/SuzanneVega

What’s your all time favourite Suzanne Vega song?

Mine is The Queen and the Soldier. It’s just such a perfect song, such a perfect allegory, maybe even up there with one of the greatest songs lyrically of all time. What’s yours?

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 1 month ago
▲ 11 r/SuzanneVega

How would you rank Suzanne Vega’s albums?

For me it’s:

  1. Solitude Standing
  2. Nine Objects Of Desire
  3. Self titled
  4. 99.9ºF
  5. Songs in Red and Gray
  6. Beauty and Crime
  7. Tales from the Realm of the Queen Of Pentacles
  8. Flying with Angels
  9. Days of Open Hand
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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/musicsuggestions

What’s a band/artist that everyone said was amazing and who you expected would blow you away, but when you did finally listen to them they were just… fine?

Is there any band you expected to love because how highly they’re regarded, but then felt mildly disappointed after discovering them yourself?

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u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 1 month ago
▲ 44 r/songs

Recommend me ONE song to listen to. I will rate every comment that is posted within the next hour ONLY IF ITS ONE SONG. BUT I WILL SKIP YOU IF YOU COMMENT MORE THAN ONE SONG.

I tend to listen to indie rock and jazz, but I’m open to anything. Give me your best.

I’m serious, I won’t listen if you comment more than one song.

EDIT: If anyone’s interested, I’m making a playlist with all the recs so you can listen along:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2GibvzEl3Pw9V87zcwOgTA?si=wFS5bAYrTu6rFBSPWmesSg&utm_source=copy-link&pi=YGcTTLmlQJK4X

EDIT: ONE HOUR IS OVER! DONT COMMENT ANYMORE! ALL THE COMMENTS LISTED NOW WILL BE RATED! I WONT RATE ANY MORE COMMENTS POSTED AFTER THIS EDIT!

u/Capital-Scholar4944 — 1 month ago