I'm a movie buff and gamer but I want to dip my toes in other hobbies. I tried with Sup Forums but they all gave me retarded unhelpful answers.
How do I into music? What genres should I listen to? Should I study the history of music and the history of the genres I like?
I usually listen to whatever I find pleasing to the ear but the concept of doing research on an artists'/band's personal life and having a favorite "album" are foreign to me
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movies have music in them, oftentimes with bands playing so you're halfway there.
Rateyourmusic.com is your friend, just don't take the great albums of all time list to heart. Listen to whatever you stumble upon on here and there and find more similar album based off genres. People will shit on you for having entry level taste or whatever, but you gotta start somewhere so just ignore them and find more shit you enjoy.
When I meant the greatest album of all time list, I was referring to this:
rateyourmusic.com is DOGSHIT. just follow your intuition, fuck what other people think of your taste and fuck this board completely, it's full of assholes. you will get no helpful advice.
Just listen what other people listen. When you start to grasp it you can search music without caring for opinions. Listen to what you like user. Here they always give crap for liking something, so dont worry about it. And dont think to much about listening to music. No need to study.
start with classic/landmark albums of different genres
look at rockist 'greatest albums of all time' lists
don't do this, this is a waste of time
You want him to jump straight to meme artists?
Here's a pretty good chart for beginners in electronic subgenres
Listen to the general chart:
mu4chan.wikia.com
And then check out genre-specific charts: 4chanmusic.wikia.com
Find a genre you're more into, and look into that. Most people have a basic level of knowledge when it comes to everything broadly, but have more in-depth knowledge of genres they are more into and thus are more familiar with.
Listen to Silverchair. Neon Ballroom would be my recommendation.
they just wanna set you up as a Sup Forums mu sheep, don't bother. listen to what you like, let your interest grow naturally as it did in the way you became a movie buff. don't force feed yourself art, especially not from this godforsaken site.
>Sup Forums mu sheep
Everyone's essentially some kind of sheep when they start out, whether it's shit played on the radio, shit your friends like, shit that gets media attention, shit that's on the charts, shit that ends up on "best of" lists…you just gotta start somewhere, and work from that.
Rockism is a meme
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Best advice in thread.
whoa
this site's charts is SO limited and deeply malnourished and missing so much great music and this board is full of nazis trying to force everyone to agree and brainwash each other. you - whoever may read this - are better off without the terrible advice you'll get here. come here for a laugh only, these people don't know dick about music.
You're right user, you're so unique and deep
You didn't get recs from anybody ever (as though that's even a bad thing)
Don't bother listening,learn to play yourself.
I used to listen to others but its a waste of your time and days, play your own music, get a guitar learn some beginner chords.
>this site's charts is SO limited and deeply malnourished
No shit, all the charts are supposed to be introductory
Why do you people keep ignoring this and act as though they're supposed to be the end-all for music?
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>don't listen to any other person's music
>learn some guitar chords bro, that'll solve everything
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Other peoples music is a distraction to your own true music.
What makes you a movie buff? List your favourite movies and what music genres interest.
list your favorite pornstars and how many hours a day you sleep
This is a pretty good way but I would ad, Sup Forums has its own taste so the overall "essentials" chart is slanted heavily towards certain genres and aesthetics. Even the genre specific essentials charts may omit albums that are considered classic or important to a genre just because whoever made the chart didn't like them. If you can identify some genres you want to explore, it's a good idea to just do some general internet searches about "rock history", "origins of techno", etc. to get a more general perspective.
I also think it's very useful to get an overall historical timeline in your head about various major areas in the modern era - rock, electronic music, jazz, hip hop, etc. - so you can understand what came when and how these things influenced one another.
In general, a way of finding artists you like is checking the other releases on the same label as an artist you know you like (applies more to smaller labels - don't try to go listen to everything on Capitol or something, haha). Especially useful for metal, electronic subgenres, and other areas where there's not much publicity for artists and there's always tons of high quality stuff being released by new and unheard of artists.
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>I'm a movie buff and gamer
So you pay to see every Hollywood shitness and own a PS4 and 3 FPS games. Fuck off, you don't belong here and asking to be spoonfed is pathetic.
Use greatest of all time lists (RYM, Sup Forums essentials, and countless others), listen to any album or artist posted on Sup Forums that seems interesting (literally even if just the cover of an album seems appealing, just check out music)
that's what I did anyway
Some albums to start you off:
OK Computer
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Dark Side of The Moon
Is This It
Funeral
there are all rock classics that are easy to get into
and yet you're here
I watch through a director's body of work to see how they evolve as artists and to spot their signature style. I pay close attention to pacing, character development, shot composition, camera techniques, etc. I memorize the names of directors and actors and also the names of characters, even minor ones( I'm surprised that few people actually do this). I actually took the time to read up on the history of Hollywood and foreign film industries and some more stuff.
I pirate my games and haven't gone to the movie theater in 3 years. I hate FPS btw.
>asking to be spoonfed is pathetic.
If I don't I get laughed out for having shit taste.
So you know nothing about movies and music. Go find something out about them and then come back to talk about it.
thats the purpose of the music board buffoon. You don't have to go to the theater and support a decadent institution that is Hollywood to know about film
>Fuck off, you don't belong here
The purpose of this board is to discuss music. It is not to ask people to tell you what to like so you can become part of an imagined hivemind.
If you don't know anything about music don't post on this board. If you lurk you might find something.
>Please everyone make spoonfeed me threads so I can tell you all about the best charts I made for recommending music !
Read the sticky, newfag
best and most genuine advice here.
Smoke a reefer and put on Music Has the Right to Children.
Work with what you already enjoy, and use it as a bridge to listen to other artists that aren't in your comfort zone, so you can find out what you're inclined to like or dislike and build your musical taste.
You won't simply jump to harsh noise from the start, but i advise you this, if you listen to an artist and decide they are unacessible, check them out later once you went down in the rabbit hole.
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If you're actually new to music it's a good place to start
I mean say you want to listen to electronic music, albums that rockists appreciate will be good entry level listens e.g. daft punk
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>I usually listen to whatever I find pleasing to the ear
That's all music is supposed to be. Just listen to what you like, stop being autistic.
Here's the way I do it
>find genre I want to get into
>build collage on topsters.net of some essentials and some obscure albums
>spend around a month learning the history of the genre and listening to the topsters collage
It's worked quite well for me thus far. Right now i'm going through Midwest Emo and i'm finding a lot of stuff I like that I wouldn't have found had I only listened to the essentials. This is only a suggestion though, it might be a bit too structured for someone new to this and you'll eventually develop your own process for discovering new music that works for you.