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Sometimes I look at my music library and am forced to confront the fact that at least half of it comes from the LJ FST comm circa 2005 (the other half is 'video game soundtracks I got from friends in college' and 'lots of industrial/EBM/new wave I torrented')

Which is I guess mostly okay except I don't want to become one of those adults who hates new music because I don't listen to it, so feel free to drop me some recs. I tend to prefer stuff with a strong melody line, but while my main library is a lot of industrial/new wave/90s-00s alt rock, I do have a little bit of everything.

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Pale Waves - Television Romance [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1j5M5PTC4]
Daughter - Youth [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QT5eGHCJdE]
Soccer Mommy - circle the drain [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTc1w32Vbeo]
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sfYpolGCu8]
Beirut - My Night With the Prostitute from Marseille [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f19kox9yrT8]
Paramore - Hard Times [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y4VE8CJhlg]
the Mountain Goats - the Jordan Lake Sessions (Volume 1) [https://youtu.be/YcrDgsveJwQ]
St. Vincent - These Days [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ]

Thank you, will give these a listen!

I have no idea how I missed Japanese Breakfast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfcZEIo6Bw] hopefully you can forgive me.

This is going to be all over the place genre-wise but I can promise a melody line?

Perfume — Time Warp
Wednesday Campanella — The Bamboo Princess
misi Ke — Cast Away
tricot — Abanaku Naku Nai Machi e
Galileo Galilei — Blues
Jyocho — A Parallel Universe
Hitsujibungaku — Muffler
Jen Jen — In Retrospect Lunar Calendar 2017.1.21
Crunch — Simple Mind
Sakanaction — Takarajima

Also a few songs in the spirit of fst:

Hannah Georgas — Somebody
Mutya Keisha Siobhan — Flatline
Said the Whale — F—ks to Give

Variety is good for the soul, thank you <3

My tastes are also all over the place, but I do talk about some songs I like over here. (Some of them are new, some of them aren't.)

The John Wick and Godzilla: King of the Monsters OSTs also came to mind when I was trying to think of newer stuff I listen to lol.

I will give that a look! OSTs are great for when I'm working and need some background sound that won't be too distracting, so I'll slot those into that list ;)

I have no recs because ahahahaha same. I miss that LJ comm; I found so much neat stuff there. The top 40 pop station that drones all day at the office doesn't cut it. I'm camping out on this post for 24 hours.

Yeah I can't stand ads so I almost never listen to the radio - plus the one modern rock station in my area got bought out a few years ago and the frequency is Christian radio now, so my only two real options are the classic rock station north of me (which plays more Def Leppard that I really want to hear), or the good days when I can pick up one of the college radio stations out of Boston that has an unusually beefy transmitter.

Some of the fanmix stuff has moved to Spotify, but it's a lot harder to search there, unfortunately, and you don't get the nice line notes.

I am cheerfully recommending Will Wood and the Tapeworms to many people. Imagine a music nerd with 2 pianos, bipolar, a ska band, and a bone to pick with the entire medical and psychiatric industry, using the DSM and the Merck Manual as a rhyming dictionary. Except more listenable than that.

....Okay I really just need to see the realization of that description, if absolutely nothing else.

One of the best exemplars of that, though a bit light on the horns: Black Box Warrior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGze0Hfr5w (lyrics version because it's helpful; none of these are suitable for blasting into an unknown environment because of strong mental illness and momento-mori content, and this one says both "Nazi" and "suicide" very loud)

My personal favorite: Mr. Capgras Encounters a Second-Hand Vanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJDv8arVAtg (nudity but no peen, genderfuckery and excessive use of makeup, screaming)

The entire Normal Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQPfTorN8jA (these videos are often ok to read the comments "You know you’re listening to a will wood song when you can’t tell if it’s the sax hitting a curtain note or will screaming")

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"Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics but I Need You to Leave" is basically Bruce Springsteen with a thesis about how modern mental health care sucks but it's better than the 50s equivalent.

I find myself mostly with 70s/80s rock most of the time. I wasn't even born in the 70s. I'm not sure what that says about me.

I have a decent amount of 60s rock kicking around, which I blame my dad for (but in a good way, I like it).

Oh, I don't mind the 70s rock. I like it. I also go through phases where the only thing I listen to is Queen (which spans three decades, but we can make a case for them also being 70s), which is fine. But I feel my knowledge of music stops somewhere for sure.

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