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When was the last time you were surprised by liking a piece of music?

When was the last time you found piece that didn’t match your usual listening habits, but ended up liking it? How did you come accross it?

My taste has been mostly rock, metal and certain kinds of electroic music, but

Fallout introduced me to Billie Holiday

Youtube channel Inside the Score got me started on classical music, like actually listening and enjoying Beethoven, Sibelius and Dvorak and going even to a concert instead of just knowing the bits you can not avoid.

The jazz covers of Phoenix Wright music, especially The Dark Fragrance of Coffee, got me seeking for more of similar style.

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  • There's a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book '1000 albums to listen to before you die'. One day I got an Abba album and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It had a surprisingly dense, dream-like production to it. I expected simplistic pop but was surprised by how well structured and layered it was.

    • There's a site that gives you an album a day to listen to and review from the book '1000 albums to listen to before you die'.

      I just found this one, in case anyone is interested.

    • People shit on Dancing Queen because of its ubiquity, but that track is an absolute masterclass in how to write a beloved three minute pop song. Benny & Bjorn know their shit.

  • The first thing that came to mind

    This was years ago. I didn't like this band, but I knew of them.

    My ex girlfriend told me to listen to this track.

    I was kinda blazed, I put this on, put on my headphones, and holy FUCK

    I never expected it. It's so amazing, so heavy, so light, so aggressive and peaceful, it still gives me chills as I'm writing this.

    If you want to be moved by music, be moved by the music, don't be on your phone watching tiktok at the same time.

    BE IN IT.

    • My second choice is an album by Ludovico Einaudi. Genre is neo classical.

      I put it on at work, which was a big mistake. No work happened for an hour because I was moved almost to tears by this.

  • Pinguini Tattici Nucleari.

    I grew up performing. Loved music of all kinds. Went and studied music at university.

    Then ended up hating music. Which is so weird I know. Something about needing to perform to survive haha. I didn’t like it.

    I started listening to pop music in different languages. German. Italian. French. Etc.

    Was surprised and became obsessed with an obscure Italian pop band from Turin called Pinguini Tattici Nucleari. Flew there from Australia. Saw them play.

    Now they are huge in Italy.

    But yeh. Dunno why it took listening in a language I didn’t understand to do it for me. Probably something with appreciating the actual music, rather than a catchy pop song. I say great music “creates interest”. And it definitely does.

    https://open.spotify.com/track/3V9aCzb0dOvuLHRerJ8sJI?si=a5CAgXH5SQ-ejfl6qgoEfA

    • I have never been good at remembering lyrics and often kind of ignore them. I have been surprised multiple times about what songs that I have listened for a while are about when the lyrics finally click in my head.

      I enjoy more the sound of the artist and in good music you don't need to understand the words for the emotion to come through.

      Like Memories of Dust is one of the most emotional songs even though the lyrics are in [human language]

  • The new Lil Yachty album this year surprised me for sure. Really big departure from what he usually does, and he did it (in my opinion) really well. Never been a fan of his in the past

    Though it is more in line with what I usually listen to, experimental hip hop, psychedelic rock, indie. Just didn't expect it from him.

    Something separate from what I usually enjoy would be That's The Spirit by Bring Me the Horizon. Never been into that genre really (metal? I'm honestly not sure how they're classified) but I really enjoy this album and I'm sure it's gonna be right near the top of my Spotify Wrapped this year.

  • I grew up not liking rap and hip hop, except exclusively liking Eminem. But lately I've been trying to branch out. Thought I'd give Kanye a try, so I listed to the College Dropout album and wow, I was not expecting to like it the way I did. Almost the whole thing is solid beats and decent rhymes. Same with Graduation. Color me impressed Kanye, I don't like you as a person but your early music is great.

  • The older I get, the less surprised I am by liking stuff that doesn’t fit the story of who I am. Because when you break it down, music is just movement of air, and how can different varieties of air speak to who you are.

    So the music I like is just the music I like, and that’s fine with me.

  • I was shocked by how much I enjoyed APESHIT by the Carter, it also helped me discover Formation by Beyonce. I don't really enjoy her other songs but those two are rad.

  • Maybe not the last time, but the last time I remember stumbling into a new genre. Mdou Moctor completely blew me away. Nigerian psychedelic rock meets folk and blues in such a unique and beautiful way.

    Incredible musicianship, catchy songwriting, really easy to get lost in the music. It’s not something I ever sought out, it was just mentioned in a Reddit thread.

  • I was surlrised by two different pieces: To Ponemo Stithous Mou (Giannis Parios) which is improvised and it's incredible + Chaser (Mammal Hands) because I found it in my savdd music but didn't know how and when I found it and I was surprised by how I liked it

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