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Looking for hip hop, electronica, idm, chillout, downtempo, nu jazz, breakbeat, wonky, glitch hop, r&b, drum and bass albums

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quebra.mar
+Suede, Panchiko, Radiohead, Los Campesinos, Disco Elysium, Will Wood,
+Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj
+Nick Cave, Mazzy Star, Yo La Tengo, my bloody valentine, Grouper, Duster
+Dr. Octagon, Aesop Rock, Nujabes, Uyama Hiroto, John Coltrane, Boards of Canada, Nas, Deltron 3030, Autechre, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Jedi Mind Tricks, De La Soul, Deee-Lite, James Ferraro, A Tribe Called Quest, Bladee, ECCO2k
+Fiona Apple, Stereolab, Lil Kim, Madonna, Rose McDowall, Portishead, Guided by Voices, Alice Coltrane, Goldfrapp, AIR
+Ovens, Green Day, Stomach Book, Limp Bizkit, Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu
+Aphex Twin, Beach House, Ladytron, Katana Zero, Celeste
+Vince Staples, The Go! Team, Xiu Xiu, Comus, Run the Jewels, The Avalanches
+Sophie, Justice, LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy, New Order, Bladee, Janelle Monae, Charli XCX, t.A.T.u., Azealia Banks

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Autistic tgirl, probably uses something like soulseek
Absolutely trannies
mtf with good taste

limited myself to 1 album per artist, no EPs, and also did it pretty quick so idk how much i stand by the order and such
bi trans woman
+weezer, panic!, mitski
transbian
+gecs, mitski
transbian
transbian
+evanescence
transbian
+weezer, green day
gay trans man
bi trans woman
straight trans woman
transbian
cis gay

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bi trans man

1 month chart. if you can't tell i've been rly loving the new bcnr

gayden (fob, paramore, mcr)

transbian (grips, joy division, gorillaz)

i recognize like none of these so ur letters are "cooler than me." probably autistic tho

bi mtf (xcx, fiona, boa, bjork)

traaaansbian (mitski, sophie, gecs)

here’s my autogenerated list
transbian
100 gecs so transbian
bi grungler
bi mtf, also alternate universe me

hussy
autistic, probably mtf
bi cism
mtf

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mtf het
gay cis m
mtf bi
trans, dunno if mtf or ftm

chumped <3<3<3

they're kinda in reverse order. i just took a screenshot of my camera roll after saving the images.

hint: not trans
I'm bad at guessing letters so I'm just gonna comment on music tastes

only thing I'm familiar with here is radiohead and that's not my fav album of theirs, but just going off of album art, probably good taste

pink friday

BASED
I know I said I'm not good at guessing letters but I'm pretty confident that you're gay
+mbv
+++grouper
rly good taste, grouper's stuff is so fuckin good
+boc, nujabes
+++autechre
rly good taste too goddamn
whimp bisquick

continuing from previous post due to the shitty fuckin spam filter

all those video game soundtracks

bro...
drukqs is great tho obviously

kreayshawn

BASED
every flower in my garden is absolutely wonderful and I really should have put it on my chart, imagine it's swapped with the terminal 11 album (which is also very good but it's fresh in my mind since I listened to it the other day)
+justice, prodigy
wish I liked that sophie album more than I do
cool seeing charli xcx boiler room here too
another chart where I feel confident saying that you're gay
I was listening to savage garden with my brother the other day on a road trip, and we were talking about how some music from the 90s sounds very much from the 90s and how a lot of it is hard to listen to because of how dated it sounds. tidal is a really good example of a 90s album that doesn't have this issue. even the drums on "the first taste" sound great, even though you can tell that some of the drums on it are electronic
+fiona apple, bjork, nmh

what is wrong with video game soundtracks?

ugh fuck this spam filter I'm just gonna turn some of these quotes into greentexts

whew great chart, loads of great electronic on here

deadmau5

BASED, even though that's not my fav deadmau5 album
+massive attack, deadmau5, deathgrips, 0pn
most of the stuff on here isn't my cup of tea, tho I do like brand new eyes quite a bit
what is up with all the fiona apple I've been seeing recently, is her music poppin off somewhere else online for some reason or am I just noticing it because I recently relistened to tidal

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that yachty album is whack imo but otherwise Goode Shite

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nier

I still haven't played replicant even though I brought it during a steam sale a while back, I need to get on that
went to the nier orchestra the first time it came to the us in chicago several years ago and it was fuckin incredible, though I went mostly for automata music
do you think nier replicant's ost is one of those osts that works well when removed from the context of the video game? that's usually my problem with vidya osts, the automata ost mostly doesn't have this issue imo

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school shooter

bit too edgy but you get a pass for it because of the strawberry switchblade album

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the only thing I rly recognize and fuck with is michael buble, even though he can be a bit of a shithead in regards to music opinions rofl

whoops, I posted some of my thoughts in the post under yours but imo the impact of most video game osts are lessened as a whole when removed from their original context. single songs can be great but it seems odd to me that anyone would sit down and listen to the entirety of a soundtrack in an album format when you can just play the game lol. there are some exceptions like the minecraft soundtrack (very good brian eno worship) and neil voss' soundtracks for the n64 tetris games (will probably never play the games themselves but the soundtracks legitimate contain some of the best breakbeat/idm stuff from the late 90s/early 2000s)
here's good example of a song that works entirely removed from its game
youtube.com/watch?v=ww0gZOOMOVE

Nothing. I don't get the stigma against soundtracks in general. They are still a body / collection of music. You can argue that their context matters, but there are many forgettable soundtracks, and their source material can't change that. There are soundtracks that were the only good thing about the source material, too. Like I get there is a bias for most people, but every music listener and critic is biased towards certain artists or certain genres. Some people are more positive with an album from an artist they really like, or overly critical with an album they would be more lenient on, if it had been made by another artist. It is the same criteria with movies, serials, anime, games, and books. I don't see how soundtracks are receptive to more biases than the other mediums. Many video game sites have recency bias. Many movie sites have nostalgia bias. Very few people have been completely objective and wholly impartial with their taste. Most native English speakers are already biased in only checking out and trying out media that is natively made with English text and English voices, or natively made in an Anglo country.

there's a stigma around video game soundtracks in particular because there are loads of people who listen to almost exclusively video game soundtracks, and are completely incurious when it comes to listening to music that isn't a soundtrack, like they need to be informed through another medium of what to think and feel when they listen to a specific piece of music. ultimately my issue is with those people, not with vidya osts themselves. this doesn't seem to happen with film soundtracks, just vidya. like I haven't run into anyone with the same kind of mindset who listens to almost exclusively film soundtracks.

case in point, how many of the vidya osts on this chart have you listened to without ever playing the game it comes from?
have someone listen to the parasite eve soundtrack (which is honestly one of my fav ps1 games), then have them listen to the cowboy bebop soundtrack, someone who hasn't experienced either of them before. the parasite eve soundtrack is good but they likely won't parse it as intended. the cowboy bebop soundtrack, on the other hand, absolutely fuckin rips regardless of whether you've seen the anime or haven't even heard of it.

here's a music/gaymen mixed chart
woa thats a lot of det-

Pokemans OST

TF2 OST

Lots of video game OSTs and a non-insignificant portion of them are Nintendo games

probably bi mtf, very weird interpretation of vibes skews it into cis lesbian territory
you seem like a woman
bi male

if you know many women who are listening to xanopticon and shit like this please tell them to hit me up
youtube.com/watch?v=1QAgaO4x8Vs

Half of them, at least, especially for the games that I can't emulate (well) or own. I think we are going have to disagree that soundtracks have an intended listening order or an intended listening setup. Like, I grew up with The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, South Park, Duckman, The Critic, and all that gay shit. Some I watch to this day, but if you asked me to pick and isolate BGM's from their OST's, I would not be able to, because they have forgettable BGM's. My feelings with their source material can't change that. Many people have watched Friends, Seinfeld, The X-Files, etc. in the '90s, but can they tell their BGM's apart? They can't, even with all the nostalgia in the world. I think that a lot of OST's are forgettable. If I find OST's I really like, I enjoy them separated and isolated from the source material like I would with any album from an artist with a long discography. I get that most people don't approach soundtracks like this, and I am not saying my way is the only right method. We digest and process music in different ways. Just because I really like the music fromCowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Michiko & Hatchin, Gangsta., Space Dandy, Carole & Tuesday, etc. It doesn't mean I expect every anime OST to match their energy. I enjoy the Infinite Ryvius, RahXephon, Soul Eater, Blood Blockade Battlefront, etc. OST's just as much as the other group of anime OST's listed before them, even if I don't enjoy their anime as much as I enjoyed those from Watanabe and/or Manglobe story and animation wise. This chart focused on bit music, chiptune, midi, sequencer, tracker, fm synthesis, demoscene, etc. Because I know some VGM fans which believe it is not real video game music if does not sound like 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit console and computer video game music. I won't die on that hill. I like video game music in both extremes (bit music versus "real" musical genres).

I think we are going have to disagree that soundtracks have an intended listening order or an intended listening setup.

but they do have an intended listening "setup" by virtue of them being soundtracks, like that is, quite literally, the purpose of a soundtrack. imo bringing up "forgettable bgms" just strengthens the idea that they are specifically meant to exist within the context of the medium they were written for. they are a musical backdrop for scenes and there's no reason whatsoever to listen to them in a casual way.
I find it interesting that everything you mentioned by name in this post is not a video game. I'm talking about video game soundtracks. tbqh I have no issues with film/tv osts, or rather I don't have the same issue with them as I do with video game osts. the format of film/tv kinda necessitates music that is still scenic. maybe that's not the best way to describe it but I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
I enjoy a lot of the games in this chart and a lot of them have very memorable music, but a lot of that comes down to my enjoyment of the games themselves. does big blue from f-zero kick ass? hell yes. do I want to listen to it casually outside of the game? not really. is the music from the og pokemon red and blue fun and exciting? hell yes. am I going to casually listen to every piece of music from the game in whatever order they're in on the official release? nope.
again, I don't have an issue with video game osts in and of themselves. the concept of sitting down and listening to the music from a video game in the same way you would listen to an album is just very strange to me. at least with film/tv it's very possible to do that. tim hecker's one of my favorite artists ever, I've never seen a single frame from the movie "infinity pool," but I can still enjoy his soundtrack for it as presented on spotify because it still feels like an album experience. not his best, certainly. but it still feels like an album.

oh...someone derailed the thread and it died. nice.

case in point

It really isn't, you're conflating two very different ideas

can a soundtrack be listened to standalone, after playing the game

would be a sensible question because there are soundtracks that fail this test, but then no one lists them on their topster.

is a soundtrack just as appealing without ever touching the game

is, on the other hand, patently stupid. It's completely normal for music to be evaluated in a broader context. Do you consider Not Like Us bad music because the experience will never be the same for people who weren't tuned in into Kendrick vs Drake beef as for those who were? A huge chunk of "real" music is enhanced by knowing its relation to real life context, authors' personal story, etcetera. Soundtracks are enhanced by your emotional relation to the original medium. That's not an issue, that's a normal part of how we experience music.

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can't believe people are arguing this much about whether video game music can be listened to without playing the game considering the amount of people I've met who have the Undertale ost saved without playing the game

I find it interesting that everything you mentioned by name in this post is not a video game. I'm talking about video game soundtracks. tbqh I have no issues with film/tv osts, or rather I don't have the same issue with them as I do with video game osts. the format of film/tv kinda necessitates music that is still scenic. maybe that's not the best way to describe it but I hope you get what I'm trying to say

It is just someone being pedantic at this point. NTA you were arguing with earlier. I don't see how video game OST's are any different than movie or TV OST's. Sure, they used to be really primitive and chip driven, but they began to have CD audio by the early '90s, and by the fifth console gen (excluding CD add ons like the Sega CD and Turbo CD), their music sampled and used live instruments as opposed to being processed by chips. I don't have to be a video game expert to listen to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater licensed music, or the Katamari Damacy vocal songs. You don't have to play every Mario, Pokemon, GTA, Final Fantasy, Sonic, Zelda, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo, Dragon Quest, Mortal Kombat, Animal Crossing, Halo, Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear, etc. to enjoy their music as stand alone music pieced. Context or not. If you can agree there are boring OST's in the TV and film medium, you can also agree video game OST's can be boring, too, regardless of how long they are played, whether those are interacted with, or knowing about the scene / level the music is used for. Anon can argue about author intent all you like, but people play and experience things in different ways. That is like saying people that enjoy old video games in monitors or screens, are not playing as intended just because they were designed to look best in old CRT TV's or old computers. Or that unless you watch a movie in a big screen at the cinema, you are not getting the real experience. Or that unless you read and watch all your media without a dub and/or translation, it is not the same

you guys ruined this thread jfc

genuinely, and then brought the soundtrack chart into /mugen/ lol

insert post about pure music aestheticians and symphonic poetry