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For the EDM fans out there, some semi-pony themed dubstep/progressive house/electro music: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5ceb5aLKALh-g6vhAcpxw
Not really music but meta-music: I recently learned that Spotify lets you organize playlists into folders, which I didn't know before. Previously I'd been very hesitant to make too many playlists because I didn't want them to become disorganized, but now I've made a whole bunch of playlists containing music I just hadn't been listening to because I didn't have a system for reminding myself that it existed.
Just so this comment contains an actual music recommendation, Pentatonix is a lovely a cappella group.
Kanye West's Yeezus is an absolute masterpiece. It's like the black Kid A. Highly recommended.
I thought it was terrible.
Why?
I find it tough to explain stuff like this. I just thought it was crap, and didn't understand an ounce of the hype or adoration. There may be nothing deeper to it than I just didn't enjoy it.
Fair enough, I guess. Out of curiosity, did you like MBDTF?
For the record I loved all of MBDTF, and thought Yeezus was awful (bar Blood on the Leaves and Bound 2). I can't quantify my dislike particularly, beyond noting that to me Kanye is great as a great producer. His voice can be pretty annoying, and his lyrics dodgy. Usually his production is enough to make me overlook it. I thought the production on Yeezus was all over the place, so I didn't have much to distract me from not liking his voice or lyrics, and in fact was bad enough that I rated the sound of the album as something that dragged it down instead of the usual propping it up.
I definitely agree that the lyrics on Yeezus don't stand on their own, but I absolutely loved the sound of the album. To each his own, I guess.
I really liked about half of it, and thought the other half was meh.
Kanye West is an extremely talented musician, so even when he sucks I find it interesting.
Edit: Playing Yeezus now ... yeah, this is entirely disappointing compared to MBDTF and I'm thinking "what happened?" I realise he's going from deliberate maximalism to deliberate minimalism, but nevertheless ... He's also under the delusion he's as good at words as he is at music.
Nanda Collection by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, which is mostly hyperactive and annoying with a paucity of actually good songs. Yasutaka, this is not as good as the previous one. I want a new Capsule album for this.
Playing the complete-except-the-first-three-albums-nobody-wants-to-know-about Kraftwerk catalogue. Amazingly elegant music.