TUNEZ.

who doesn't like music? the grinch, that's who.

for a brief and shallow introduction into my music taste, my favorite stuff tends to be of the neo-psychedelic/prog-rock strand. if a song can pull me into a 7-minute long ride with guitars and whatever exotic instrument they decide to use that day as horses, then it's probably pretty good in my book.

my brother once described it as "the music taste of a musician". which, the most i've ever done were some shitty beepbox tunes i made when i was 12 that i don't even have anymore, so IDK.

but, of course, that's all labels! i'll listen to most things as long as they're interesting in some way, limit drawn before Merzbow - Woodpecker No. 1 (don't look it up)
i tend to have pretty repetitive listening patterns, i don't really have a big stash of music i like that i press shuffle on, i deliberately pick out albums i feel like listening to at the moment; and if not that, then i listen to the last few songs i have on my liked songs playlist. all of this combined means i listen to approx. two things, scientists yet to find a third one.

for the sake of getting my points across (describing music sucks), i'll be giving respective short audio samples of stuff i like when we get to it.
this page is roughly ordered by date of discovery

now, before i was about 11, i didn't really care much for music in the traditional sense. like, sure, i listened to fuckin' minecraft parodies and the fnaf song by the living tombstone and just music from the games i liked (i remember genuinely listening to one of those joke "sound test" songs from undertale), but y'know... every kid my age did that.

The Doors

then comes 2018, i'm sitting in the backseat of my mom's car, we're going god-knows where, and my brother pops in a CD of this little known album "The Doors", made by this little known band called... "The Doors". and my eyes, in that moment, were OPENED.

honestly, pretty freakin' good opener into the world of classic rock. jim was quite the eccentric character, one that wrote some really good songs. Strange Days would probably be my favorite album, but i've always had a soft spot for The Soft Parade, despite the fact it's probably the least-liked of the morrison era.
"buh-but mah geetaarz-" YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD, WITH PRAYER!

i even kinda like Other Voices, though of course it's no competition with practically everything they released prior.

samples:

^{moonlight drive}

^{the unknown soldier}

^{waiting for the sun}

^{the soft parade}

The Beatles

i had contemplated whether or not there's even a point to adding a section about the beatles, i mean... c'mon. most renowned musicians in the world, am i saying much by praising Abbey Road?

i will say that my favorite song from them is undoubtably Hey Bulldog or Savoy Truffle. i quite like I Want You (She's So Heavy) too, but pretentious people never pick the most popular things as their favorite.

samples:
its the beatles

Tame Impala

now, up until this point my music taste was just vaguely "old stuff", i could nary point to any aspect of a select song that i enjoyed, until 2020 came and i heard Elephant for the first time.

this was a little bit of an internal revolution for me, out with the old, in with the new! Lonerism became my new favorite album, and rightfully fucking so, really. to this day, i consider it a psychedelic masterpiece. kevin parker thought he was making his own "pet sounds" and in a way, he did.

but of course, if you know anything about tame impala, then you know that there's two camps of people that enjoy his music: those who like currents and beyond, and those who don't. i lie in the latter.
it's not necessarily that he stopped making psych-rock/psych-pop or whatever, but that he started pandering to club-goers; people that famously care about the contents of the song they're listening to.
it's the fact he will quite possibly never make another Sun's Coming Up, one of the most emotional songs i have ever heard in my life, just makes me sad. but, at least he enjoys making it, i guess.

at least Currents still had some good stuff, The Slow Rush is just so... BORING. it's BORING! that's what it is! sigh...

now if there's anything in particular i'd like to thank tame impala for, it's definitely introducing me to pond.

samples:

^{apocalypse dreams}

^{sun's coming up}

^{solitude is bliss}

^{the bold arrow of time}

Pond

this is another australian band (prevalent theme in my music taste), very closely related to tame impala, and they fucking rock. they're the bees knees.

The Weather is easily one of my favorite albums of all time, excellently gloomy and hopeless, but strong. Edge of the World Pt. 1 and 2 are great highlights, with some of the most grand and bombastic climaxes in songs that i've ever heard.

it's that balance between creating absolutely wonderful musical tapestries and not taking what they do seriously at all that makes them such an interesting band to me.
take Hobo Rocket for example, O Dharma is so...

^{o dharma}

beautiful... that's the only way i can describe it, and then the title track is like:

^{hobo rocket}

sTARRRR riiiiidEERR!!! rIdinG Through THe UniveRSe At TwiCE thE spEEED of lIIGIIIIGHT.... WHere DO i find mY Horse WIith Wings/???

and then right back to beauty.

samples:

^{medicine hat}

^zond

^{czech locomotive}

^A/B

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

hands down my favorite musicians (and another band from australia).

separate page for these guys.

here's some samples anyway:

^{you can be your silhouette (<3)}

^hell

^{digital black}

^{the river}

^{all is known}

^{i'm in your mind fuzz}

^{the floating fire}

^candles

black midi

here's a fun discovery story, i had just finished listening to some album (probably from king gizzard) and spotify was serving me random songs. now, usually what spotify serves me is ok, but it's never anything that strikes me as particularly interesting. i am frankly wasting money by paying for spotify, considering its discoverability goes wholly unused by me, but that's besides the point.

buncha songs come and go, nothing that gels with me all that much, until i hear Welcome To Hell.

^{welcome to hell}

had you seen me in that moment, you'd think i won a yacht or something; 2 minutes into the song my jaw was genuinely wide open, up until the very moment it ended. safe to say, i immediately listened to the entire album that song originated from and fell in love.

Hellfire is a cacophany of noises that perfectly come together to form one of the greatest auditory experiences known to man. through and through it is a sustained blow after blow to your precious little amygdala, which only desires more.

Cavalcade and Schlagenheim are pretty good too in their own right, though neither of them really rival Hellfire for me. one feels like a Proto-Hellfire and the other is completely different compared to what they made afterwards.

unfortunately, they broke up this year, but i can't be too sad; they capped off their discography with something truly great, and the members are still gonna be making music, just not as black midi. onto a new sound!

samples:

^sugar/tzu

^{dangerous liaisons}

^{john L}

^{hogwash and balderdash}

^{the race is about to begin}

^{years ago}

Addendum: Modify

let me take you back to 2021, i'm browsing youtube one day and i get recommended this unassuming, fanmade music video:

...now, considering you're on neocities you're probably no stranger to this video or lemon demon in general, but let me tell you; i was.

there's... SOMETHING about this song, i don't really know what it is, the brashness of it, the prevailing bass, that metallic rattle, idk; but it absolutely bypassed every single reinforced iron door in my brain and forced itself into my ears like nothing ever before.

i clocked in most of these listens in about a week. A week. A WEEK. A WEEK.

A WEEK.

this was my most-listened to song ever up until VERY RECENTLY, it took 3 years of listening to a band i absolutely adore for it to be beaten.

the kicker is that i don't really care about lemon demon in general, like there's ultimate showdown, obviously... uh... touch-tone telephone? that's it, i don't care for much else that neil cicierega made, and yet this song managed to absolutely hypnotize me for an entire week.

this was long @_@