https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-70s-live-album-explosion/
"Live releases became ubiquitous in the 1970s like never before. Previous decades had their share of great live records but it wasn’t until the mid/late 1960s that portable recording technology reached a level of sophistication that made faithful reproductions of incredibly loud concerts performed in wide open spaces possible. Live albums gave fans the opportunity to experience different, often improved versions of their favorite songs. Sometimes with 15-minute guitar solos! Which isn’t to say that these releases were raw and unadulterated. Often, bands would go into the studio and overdub subpar performances or shoddy sound to re-create the live experience without reproducing it exactly.
Live albums even rescued artists whose studio releases couldn’t capture the stage magic. Cheap Trick, KISS, Peter Frampton, Bob Seger, and the Allman Brothers all broke through thanks to live releases. In the case of Frampton and Foghat, they even became their best-selling albums. Whether it’s because the crowd response helped boost the energy, the arrangements were just better, or potential fans saw it as a chance to get a greatest hits package for a bargain price (labels frequently sold double-LP live albums for the price of one LP), it’s hard to imagine where the careers of some legendary acts would be without these releases. That didn’t happen nearly as much in subsequent decades. That’s what makes the clutch of classic 70s rock live releases documented here so noteworthy."
Death Discs
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In the UK they were called Death Discs. In America they were Teenage Tragedy Songs. If you were a happening DJ they were splatter platters, that genre of popular song, often a ballad, where someone dies. The late 1950s to the mid 1960s are full of them, a product of the moral panic society felt in the mid Fifties when confronted with outlaw imagery from the movies and this new rock and roll thing. Think Marlon Brando in The Wild One, James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause and Elvis swinging pelvis. The phenomenon was juvenile delinquency and the Man was terrified of it. Death discs are deliberately cautionary tales full of the symbols of juvenile delinquency like motorcycle crashes or drag racing accidents, plus suicides and drownings and plane crashes.
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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/BrothermanTrill/rym-ultimate-box-set-project-blowed-1/
Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeavkvKck5lBznYfzXsjiVF_BRMPTnxXN
Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EK83fUsNIyBIJr7v03T47
Project Blowed, Good Life Cafe and by extension Freestyle Fellowship was a massive undeground movement centering on Los Angeles in the 90s and early 2000s. Led by the open-mic workshop of the Good Life Cafe and the collective Project Blowed, the scene offered a more lyrical form of hip hop with lyrics focusing less on violence and more on skill, lyricism and other topics.
"Project Blowed is the essential outlet for much of the LA underground hip hop culture. It is a place that many people of all genders can go to freestyle, rhyme, or just speak what is on their mind.[9] Project Blowed was a turning point for the underground culture; it "did not fan the flames of urban decay and societal attacks. Project Blowed was putting out the fire." Rappers were required to pay a small fee to enter a battle and formally introduce themselves, and "MCs generally did not resort to homophobic slurs or excessive name calling during rap battles, as such behavior denoted lack of skill." This group discouraged violent activity among the youth and encouraged strict norms and respect."
Calgary Sound
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A mostly Canadian strain of independent music with a very distinct approach to guitar playing and song structure that tends to mix and match elements of post-punk, 1960s pop, math rock, psychedelia and no wave. The sound originated in the late 2000s with the Calgary, Alberta-based Women, followed by a multitude of young Calgary bands who sprung up in their wake, such as Faux Fur, Telstar Drugs, Dories and Gretchen. These post-Women bands tended to share members, most of whom would emigrate to Montreal by the mid 2010s and vastly influence that city's DIY scene. Women would split in 2010, but members continued with projects such as Patrick Flegel's Cindy Lee and Androgynous Mind as well as Matt Flegel and Mike Wallace's Preoccupations. The influence of these aforementioned artists (among many others) has spawned other microscenes both in and outside of Canada, such as in Atlanta (Jock Gang, Red Sea, Hellier Ulysses, Omni), Chicago (The Hecks, The Knees, Deeper, Pool Holograph) and London (Ice Baths, Ulrika Spacek, Great Ytene, Syd Kemp).
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Schwilly19/rym-ultimate-box-set-dungeonwave/
Dungeonwave is a loose collection of recent fusions rooted in Dungeon Synth and crossed with Synthwave, its subgenres, and possibly other 1980s nostalgia-inducing synth genres like Horror Synth and Spacesynth. Some artists only have one or two songs so the below track selections are fairly specific.
No playlist at this time.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Chamardt/rym-ultimate-box-set-retro-metal/
Retro-Metal is a term used to qualify bands that take their main sources of inspiration from early '70s Heavy Metal, especially from bands such as Blue Öyster Cult, Thin Lizzy and, of course, Black Sabbath. It became a very crowded genre within the last decade and broke the mainstream with the somewhat controversial success of Ghost.
Stylistically, Retro-Metal lies between the usually bluesier Retro Hard Rock and the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal which takes cues from later, early '80s, Heavy Metal.
Most the bands presented here also fall under Stoner Metal, Traditional Doom Metal or Heavy Psych tags but distinguish themselves by an unabashedly "retro feel".
Some overlap with the second disc of Occult Rock which can be conceived as a "thematic" genre more than a purely musical one. Indeed, lots of bands here represented display a Satanist or Lovecraftian imagery.
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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/CaptainYachtStone/rym-ultimate-box-set-proto-yacht/
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Near the second half of the 1960s, Psychedelic Rock and Psychedelic Pop were taking over the charts, genres like Sunshine Pop and Pop Rock were at their peak, Merseybeat was slowly vanishing and Soft Rock was about to hit the road. Simultaneously, a new genre was born behind the curtains. It wouldn't be fully formed and developed until the very last years of the seventies, when it was revealed and baptized as Yacht Rock, a more popular and highly polished style of Soft Rock that embraced smoother R&B sensibilities in combination with layered vocal harmonies and state-of-the-art production. But have you ever wondered what happened before the late 70s when Yacht Rock was in its teenage years?
Proto-Yacht (AKAs Proto-Yacht Rock, Boat Rock, Early Yacht) is a fairly vague term used to describe music that either influenced or resembled Yacht Rock before the commercial breakthrough of the genre in 1976-77 (just like Proto-Punk). Common characteristics include not-so-polished production, a close similarity with Soft Rock sound, early use of congas and sax outside their respective genres and a quirky but mellow style of instrumentation. Proto-Yacht also borrows some elements from such genres like Country Rock, Folk Rock, Sunshine Pop, Blues Rock, Pub Rock and a little bit of Psychedelic Pop.
#yachtrock #yachtrockradio #rockmusic #softrock
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A rock opera is a musical work that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. A rock opera tells a coherent story, though details are often vague. A rock opera is similar to a concept album (of which it is a subset), though the latter may simply set a mood or maintain a theme. Jesus Christ Superstar was explicitly billed as a "rock opera" and though it first appeared in recorded Rock Opera form, it became far more famous as a Broadway musical, leading it to be called a "rock musical", blurring the distinction between the two terms.
Rock Operas and Musicals by nature were theatrical in its their style, often over-the-top performances, and were very much products of their time period . By the the end of the 70's they had mostly died out. (ie I'm not expanding the list past the 70's)
Rock Musical
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A rock musical is a theatrical production or film inspired by rock’s ethos and instrumentation, while a rock opera is a style of rock inspired by musical theatre’s methods of storytelling.
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Nu Metal https://rateyourmusic.com/list/DetoxScission/rym-ultimate-box-set-nu-metal-4-discs/ now a 4 disc set!!
Symphonic Rock
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Symphonic Rock is a subgenre of Rock that incorporates elements resembling symphonic and orchestral music. Symphonic rock artists generally incorporate large scale symphony orchestras to their music or use synthesisers to reproduce string sections. In contrast to its 1970s Progressive Rock counterpart Symphonic Prog, spearheaded by Yes and Genesis, symphonic rock incorporates its respective influences in a more accessible and standard context. It can be described as combining of progressive rock with classical music traditions. I would describe it as the twin brother of Baroque Pop.
Classical devices often employed in Symphonic Rock include the following:
◆ The accompaniment of a symphony orchestra
◆ Higher complexity than other types of rock and pop
◆ Use of classical instruments, such as strings, harpsichord and woodwinds
Many artists such as The Beatles wanted to go with orchestral music along with rock music. Songs such as Strawberry Fields Forever and A Day In the Life are one of the earliest of symphonic rock ever recorded. The songs had complex structure and uses of powerful backing vocals and organ melody. However newly formed bands like Procol Harum and The Moody Blues took symphonic rock further.
Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeavkvKck5lDCULC1INjV_MIsHlNkXk0n
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Rage is a form of Trap that takes heavy focus on very dense synths, usually leading to repetitive, "buzzing", beats, combining this with Trap's standard drum programming, although a considerable part of Rage operates with more minimalistic drum patterns, sometimes denoting a Plugg influence.
The name Rage comes from its most notable single, Miss the Rage, whose beat is comprised of a reversed Future Bass loop from a Cymatics sample pack. The uniqueness of this beat led many producers to want to replicate the style, searching on YouTube for "Miss The Rage Type Beats", eventually turning into just "Rage Beats", which got popularized as the genre's de facto name.
Late Night Lo-Fi
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/poisonAshley/rym-ultimate-box-set-late-night-lo-fi/
is a subgenre or style of vaporwave that aims to recreate and repurpose moods and aesthetics associated with 80s and 90s late night television programming. Public broadcasting channels, local news channels, and late night programming in general in the 80s/90s often employed visuals of spacious cities and flashy lights accompanied by smooth jazz, synth funk, pop, and other palatable "urban-sounding" genres to distinguish a nocturnal mood for their nighttime bumpers and programming as well as create a sense of liveliness.
Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb510May8rY
Barber Beats https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-barber-beats/
Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeavkvKck5lALJb-SshrfbXP4gVXZclp6
Barber beats primarily developed from Vaporwave and the larger Vapor movement during the mid-to-late-2010s. Characterized by major elements borrowed from Downtempo, Trip Hop, Instrumental Hip Hop, and even Nu Jazz, the genre would present a less "ironic" and self-referential take on vaporwave ethos than many vapor trends. It additionally trades the prominently washed-out, reverb-heavy, and hyper-real sound of genres like Dreampunk or early vaporwave for more organic-sounding soundscapes, often including samples of live instrumentation or even New Age-inspired "tribal" drums and percussion. Not unlike other vapor trends, many producers attempt to emulate a purposedly dated, 1990s-sounding atmosphere, with many elements closely resembling 1990s underground chill-out music. Elements of genres like Atmospheric Drum and Bass, Ambient House, and Progressive Breaks are occasionally present as well.
Barber beats was coined as a term by Aloe City Records for the downtempo production style of Haircuts for Men, who inspired Aloe City Records affiliates like Macroblank. The term would quickly spread in usage throughout the 2020s. Following its increasing growth, the genre was compiled in works like Selected Barber Works. The genre has also faced particular criticism in the vaporwave scene for many producers' reliance on plundering existing music and re-mixing and producing it as barber beats, especially older vaporwave tracks. Barber beats typically has a distinctive visual style (likely inspired by a graphic design style known as "Acid Graphics") that sets it apart from previous vapor trends, with elaborate, lavish covers depicting mythological figures, typically featuring heavily edited images of classical sculpture, with vinyl-inspired framing and design
Punk Blues
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/MarilynRoxie/rym-ultimate-box-set-punk-blues/
Punk blues fuses the instrumentation and scales of Blues Rock with the rawness and attitude of Punk Rock, while not necessarily adhering to its traditional sound.
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#punkblues #thegunclub #thebirthdayparty
Getting up some new playlists for old sets. Here's Country Rock.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Peppery_C/rym_ultimate_boxset__country_rock/
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#countryrock #theband #theeagles #buffalospringfield
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/CaptainYachtStone/rym-ultimate-box-set-post-yacht-rock/
The West Coast Sound was going through its heyday between the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. Famous session musicians like Jeff Porcaro, Michael McDonald, Larry Carlton, and Bill Champlin, along with top-notch producers from the L.A. elite like David Foster, Michael Omartian and Jay Graydon were everywhere at the time, always giving it all to achieve an ideal sound in order to bake an essential Yacht Rock album, one after another. However, by the second half of the 80s, the Yacht Rock genre was slowly tumbling down; with the upcoming boom of some Contemporary R&B artists, a brand new age for Adult Contemporary hits; the AOR/Metal apogee and the Dance-Pop/Synthpop peak years, it was no surprise that the Yacht Rock era would come to an end... or not.
Post-Yacht Rock (aka Post-Yacht, Faux-Yacht) is a term used to describe the brief west coast sound era from the late 80s throughout the 90s, the end of a glossy era and the beginning of a new, high-tech, crispy one. Unlike Yacht Rock revival (State Cows, Young Gun Silver Fox, Dawn Patrol, etc.), Post-Yacht Rock makes a difference featuring some elements from such genres like Adult Contemporary, AOR and Sophisti-Pop in order to emulate the smooth feeling of what Yacht Rock brought to us, sailing.
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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-proto-goth/
The lead up to how Goth became Goth. From the 50's to the late 70's several key artists and songs lead the way from a variety of directions.
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Black Noise https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Clikbim/rym-ultimate-box-set-black-noise/
As the RYM genre suggests, Black Noise / Blackened Noise is a subgenre that pushes the limits of how harsh and abrasive black metal can be, usually by taking elements of Dark Ambient, Raw Black Metal, and the standard Noise or Power Electronics are frequently merged together. Despite the genre being largely niche, there is a large repertoire of music in this style of music dating as far back as the late 80s, when Black Metal was still in its infancy. This list is to compile the most essential tracks from the most essential artists of each era from beginning to end. This has long been one of my favorite subgenres of Black Metal for its pure chaos and anger while still having the lo-fi qualities of black metal that I enjoy so much, and it's about time that Black Noise is added as a subgenre to the Box Set.
4 Discs of Youtube Playlists are attached to the list. Please check it out!
Retro Hard Rock
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Chamardt/rym-ultimate-box-set-retro-hard-rock/
The early 2000s saw the birth of many bands who tried to bring a new life to the then-struggling Hard Rock genre, taking cues from the acts of the late '60s and the '70s like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC or Deep Purple. Sometimes, the term "New Wave of Classic Rock" is also used to gather the bands represented here.
A particularly well represented sub-genre of Retro-Hard Rock is what may be called "Heavy Psych Revival" (Dead Meadow, Causa Sui, Stonefield), but Blues Rock (Blue Pills, Larkin Poe), Southern Rock (Black Stone Cherry, Blackberry Smoke) or Glam Rock (The Darkness) have also their devotees.
That "Retro-Hard Rock" trend began roughly at the same time that the Garage Rock Revival one, but has received much less mainstream media coverage. Both genres could be seen as a reaction to the excessively polished sound of Post-Grunge bands who dominated the airwaves in the late '90s.
This set is limited to contemporary bands playing some form of "Classic Rock", so revivalists of Glam Metal or AOR aren't included. "Retro-Metal", which is a distinct but related genre, will soon be covered in another set.
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Deconstructed club music emerged in the late 2010s as the hybridization of diverse Electronic Dance Music genres with an abrasive Post-Industrial sound. Under the influence of the cut-up DJing techniques developed by DJs such as Total Freedom in the underground New York City party GHE20G0TH1K, as well as of cutting-edge UK Bass producers such as Kingdom and Jam City popularized by labels such as Night Slugs and Fade to Mind in the first half of the decade, a constellation of producers in an internet context developed a common approach to merging rhythmic dance music genres such as Trap, Ballroom, Baltimore Club, Jersey Club and Grime, and taking them to their limits, often with a conceptual or political bent. Deconstructed club music has spread mainly through internet networking, finding expression among netlabels and collectives such as NON Worldwide, Janus Berlin and Halcyon Veil.
Identified by aggressive, frantic, post-industrial sound design featuring metallic or staccato sounds such as samples of glass smashing, gunshots, etc., deconstructed club aims for an excessive, apocalyptic-sounding soundscape, with constant rhythmic switch-ups and atonality. Thematically, it is common to address politics such as race relations, feminism, queer identity and colonialism, as many of the developments of this sound and its associated nightlife come from marginalized communities. These topics are not always present, since some deconstructed club artists prefer to engage with futurism and technology conceptually, for example.
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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-epic-collage/
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Epic collage is a term coined by musicologist Adam Harper to describe the digital collage-like musical form of prominent producer Elysia Crampton and her affiliates through NON Worldwide. Despite utilizing the thematic elements of Deconstructed Club as well as adopting its abrasive sonic palette through its direct concurrence with contemporary Post-Industrial music, epic collages are not necessarily beat-driven or club-oriented and favour a more sprawling cinematic approach which may more accurately resemble genres such as Ambient, Glitch, Noise, New Age, Cinematic Classical, Nature Recordings, or Progressive Electronic.
An epic collage may draw upon elements of Spoken Word, Poetry, or Radio Drama which is most frequently exhibited through (but not limited to) the use of text-to-speech transcription, clips of spoken ASMR, and samples from various pop media (film or video game dialogue, interviews, viral videos, etc.). Epic collage artists are also commonly defined by their ability to decontextualize recognizable samples (such as vocal stems from Pop, Contemporary R&B, Trap, or Nu Metal tracks) and provide them with a seemingly conflicting sonic backdrop which thusly results in a Mashup (or mess-up) that strives to be greater than the sum of its parts, oftentimes conveying gravitas as opposed to the levitas of a more conventional mashup (though perhaps a blurring of the lines between the two).
Releases in this style may emulate the pounding trailer impacts and machine gun clatter of Chino Amobi’s Paradiso, or they might favour the rustling forest critters of Sentinel’s Murmur, or even the stretched and distorted samplework of Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas’s Lexachast, regardless of the aesthetic relation they all share with deconstructed club.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym-ultimate-box-set-fourth-world-japan/
Japanese Fourth World. Prior Set now WITH a
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeavkvKck5lDTjELqRsy4QpTsAH3Qh53H
and a
Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2BVc8jlkQmhoBvMzJmMheM?si=6bef7f56e1e34a95
#japanesemusic #fourthworld #fourthworldmusic #fourthworldfriday
Japanese Dub. Prior Set now WITH a
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXb3JmQMka9ksQaesJ6mC11L1W21ZVvXC
and a
Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jEoetyI8igFhDh7GtgIDe?si=de5268cab7c144aa
#japanesemusic #fishmans
![https://rateyourmusic.com/list/BrothermanTrill/rym-ultimate-box-set-project-blowed-1/
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Spotify Playlist
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Project Blowed, Good Life Cafe and by extension Freestyle Fellowship was a massive undeground movement centering on Los Angeles in the 90s and early 2000s. Led by the open-mic workshop of the Good Life Cafe and the collective Project Blowed, the scene offered a more lyrical form of hip hop with lyrics focusing less on violence and more on skill, lyricism and other topics.
"Project Blowed is the essential outlet for much of the LA underground hip hop culture. It is a place that many people of all genders can go to freestyle, rhyme, or just speak what is on their mind.[9] Project Blowed was a turning point for the underground culture; it "did not fan the flames of urban decay and societal attacks. Project Blowed was putting out the fire." Rappers were required to pay a small fee to enter a battle and formally introduce themselves, and "MCs generally did not resort to homophobic slurs or excessive name calling during rap battles, as such behavior denoted lack of skill." This group discouraged violent activity among the youth and encouraged strict norms and 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