Rating: 9.6/10

Favourite Track: stupid song

Least Favourite Track: purple

This album was just beautiful. In my opinion, not a single bad song. This is the first full album of Olivia Rodrigo’s that I've fully listened through and I must say that I am super impressed. I’ve heard singular songs from Olivia before and I’ve enjoyed them, but this was just so good to finally listen to more. There’s a great balance between slow ballads and upbeat tracks that created an interesting and fun listening experience for me.

The sound of the album is just amazing. Oliva is an amazing vocalist, and the instrumentals within her tracks also really click with me.

Standout track:

stupid song: YES YES YES I LOVE IT SO MUCH! I’ve heard this song prior to listening and this is what drew me to listen to the album and it’s just sooooo good.

I must also mention the climax in cigarette smoke is so amazing and it’s so good.

Nothing needs to change about this album.

So, so good.

Most famous Grunge artists have had unexpected or unusual deaths, most being suicides, I have heard a few conspiracies or things regarding their near Seattle underground lives and possibly the bonds and problems of many bands! First large death was Andrew Wood IIRC?

I have been stuck. I have no idea where to find new artists I like. I have Pandora but I can't ever seem to find what I'm looking for and the algorithm is kinda stuck on my usual likes. For instance one day I really wanted to listen to some Stevie Ray Vaughan style blues guitar but without lyrics but I couldn't find what I wanted and gave up. How do you all go about finding new artists?

Travis Barker was a guest on Billy Corgan’s podcast, The Magnificent Others. Corgan stated that he thought Travis Barker was the most influential dummer of the past 30 years. This got me thinking about bands that had an impact as I grew up. “Nevermind” by Nirvana was huge. Everyone with a guitar could play a Nirvana song. Now I’m not really comparing which is a better album, but after Nevermind really the biggest album that made an impact for other teens my age was “Enema of the State” by Blink 182. I’m a guitarist, and a big music fan. There are bands that came up (from my age group) that I can tell were listening to the exact same thing that I was growing up. I can remember getting into all kinds of different bands that were not so well known. Many that were not “pop” punk, but I don’t think I would have had access to their music if that one Blink album was not such a big hit. Corgan’s comment got me thinking about this. Not just Travis Barker, but was Blink 182 the most influential rock band from the late 90’s to the early 00’s outside of the grunge rock movement?

i used to listen to this album and it was by far the best album i had ever listened to, it got deleted a while ago i don’t know why and i would really really love to listen to it again, i even have that picture because i remember the song being so good i had to take a screenshot to remember it, i have some more pics of songs and the album too but i can’t find it anywhere anymore and i know if i had the opportunity to listen to it again snd if more people listened to it we all would really really enjoy it

the album name was poulard by mayombo and was released 12 January 2023 and deleted before 08 december 2024, i remember that song of the picture and another one that was called cyclomot. The songs were very similar and had the same vibe as “glow worms” by ivri

This past weekend, I drove to Saratoga (about an hour south of San Francisco) together with my boyfriend to see St. Paul & The Minneapolis Allstars. I’d heard all sorts of amazing things about their stage show, and all of them were true. We were guaranteed a good time with St. Paul (of The Time and The Family fame) at the helm, plus Elisa Fiorillo singing just as well as she did when she was young... and the Dr. Fink on the keys, no less!

What struck me the most, besides the music, was the makeup of the audience. Granted, it was a Saratoga crowd, so I knew what to expect, but I was mystified by the fact that in between the feather boas, the leather, and the purple clothing, there were hardly any young people in attendance. I thought, "This is Prince, for God’s sake! One of the greatest musicians who ever lived! His music is eternal... so how come I only see two young folks in the front row singing and dancing to it?" This question reignited a debate I’ve been having with several people lately about the current state of legacy artists—big and small—and how their inability to connect with a new generation of listeners could cost them their relevance in the years to come.

Certain performers and groups (and perhaps their labels and management) have clearly understood that relying on brand recognition alone is not enough to drive their catalog further. Take a couple of big examples like The Beatles and ABBA, arguably two of the greatest pop bands in history. They’ve been savvy enough to know that in order for their music to last forever, they have to create new opportunities for it to stay in people’s minds and continually reinvent themselves, targeting both longstanding fans and incoming ones in their product rollouts. As older fans wind down due to the relentless passing of time, their focus narrows to new fans and all possible ways to click with them—be it with new compilations, sync placements, live events, films, or even apparel. Hopefully, they are able to please both ends of the fandom without neglecting or sacrificing either sector.

We’re still seeing success stories of older artists whose music becomes as relevant today as it was when they were in their prime. Kate Bush, George Michael and Wham!, Fleetwood Mac, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tracy Chapman, Tiffany, Rick Astley... they’ve all ridden the nostalgia wave and appealed to a new audience. But I’m stuck on Prince. I’m scared that a genius like him will be forgotten by young people who don’t know the true essence of his artistry and his evocative lyrics that married the flesh with the sacred. I’m scared that people won’t even recognize Whitney Houston and why her voice mattered to people, from underground gay clubs to the Super Bowl.

What’s going to happen to all of those legends when we’re dead and gone? Will their estates, heirs, and record labels do nothing to further their legacy? Will they become dust, lost media, a forgotten relic of their time?

I have no answers to my questions, but hopefully someone does.