I like The Man Behind The Slaughter by The Living Tombstone. I don’t tend to enjoy fan-made music, but this one was too groovy to pass up.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      When I first saw Gimme Chocolate as a share on Facebook, I thought BabyMetal were a one hit wonder meme band. Cool and fun but not a “real” band, I didn’t think anymore about it.

      A few years later I heard they were releasing a second album and I was like “these guys are actually serious?!”. I checked out more of their stuff and got hooked.

      At that time in my life I had been listening to metal for well over a decade and was wondering if I was actually getting bored of it. BabyMetal were a huge breath of fresh air to the scene.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 year ago

    Jinjer - Pisces

    Although it’s not a comedic song in itself, when the chorus kicks in, the cognitive dissonance of that mismatching voice is funny. But then after 5 listens you are just impressed because it sounds good. And that made me unironically listen to it more and I put it in my playlist, recognizing the depth of the lyrics and that unique feeling of the song.

    That’s btw 1 of 2 songs from jinjer that are considered outliers and those are the only two that I like by jinjer which is very weird.

  • Indie59@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I will still champion “That’s Not My Name” by Ting Tings. It’s a well-crafted pop song that most people miss the “subtlety” (for lack of a better word) of the message. It’s about a woman wanting to be social, but hating all of the poor flirtation in the pick-up scene.

    And I never knew it until I had it on an exercise mix and was able to hyper focus on it while trying to zone out in my cadence run. It usually just glossed by as a chippy beat.

  • Iam@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    1 year ago

    1996-1997, Watched a VHS tape of a Chick Corea concert from the 80s. Cheesy as fuck jazz on stage. Laughing at the bad hair, and dated styling.

    Suddenly I’m into jazz and listening to all sorts. Opened me up to some great musicians and great songs.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      Legit, I’ve always been neutral to not a fan of jazz. But here lately, jazz bass has made that change. Ran into some Peewee Hill stuff, then saw some videos of him and Abraham Laboriel along with some other players. There’s just something about the bass being so central that made the switch in my head flip to the on position and make me hear jazz in a new way

  • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s not quite what you’re asking, but I have had my perspective on a lot of songs changed once I actually looked up their lyrics.

    My listening comprehension for music lyrics is piss poor. For any given pop or rock song I’d hear on the radio, maybe 70% of the time I find lyrics unintelligible. Clearly it’s skill issue on my part, as the body of music listeners at large seem to have no problems understanding what they’re hearing. I don’t know how people do it.

    Sometimes I’ll catch enough words to throw into a search engine and get the song’s title and lyrics, and maybe even a short blurb of context. That knowledge alone can make a song go from irritating noise to something I find rather pleasant.

    I believe the most recent song I looked up and learned something about was Even Flow by Pearl Jam. It’s a song about homelessness. Who knew? Fucking everyone, probably! But not me. For fifteen years all I heard was “FREEEEE-ZIIIIIN’…” and the rest just goes to mush. I also learned Even Flow is a completely different song from Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. The damn radio kept bamboozling me with that similar vocal progression they both have!

    Ah well. Better on the bus fifteen years late than never on the bus at all. They say ignorance is bliss, but it’s also the source of a lot of undue hatred. I find I hate far fewer songs when I actually understand what they’re trying to say (if anything).

    Of course, knowing doesn’t magically fix all stinkers. I Love It by Icona Pop didn’t get any better in my eyes when I found the lyrics for it. I find most pop country songs (which I am unavoidably subject to, living in the American midwest) don’t have much novel or interesting to say, either. The closer I look, the more accurate Bo Burnham’s Pandering becomes, and I hate it.

    I guess the silver lining here is I get to lucky 10,000 my way through many of history’s greatest hits. I’m sure many people would give a lot to experience something they like again for the first time. By virtue of my being absurdly late to the party, I get to do it every day.

    • 31415926535@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m the same way, most song lyricsare incomprehensible gibberish. So you’ll probably recognize this catchy line: “wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night”

  • Adi2121@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Started listening to Buddy Holly by Weezer ironically for the meme edits some months ago, now Weezer is my favourite band.

    • radix@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s a certified bop. I’m saving it to my playlists now.

      Do you remember how you found the song? And do you have any clue what it means?

      • EfreetSK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Do you remember how you found the song?

        I do actually :) I saw it featured in a video, something like “metal band reacts to modern music” and I think the metal band was Gloryhammer

        Edit: Found it, it wasn’t Gloryhammer

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_U7ejfOuV0&t=366s

        And do you have any clue what it means?

        That I don’t know for sure, the beginning sounds like it’s about falling in love but what the refrain means I have no idea