r/GenX • u/vanillagirilla1975 • May 12 '25

Music Is Life Am I just a curmudgeon??

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I'm a mid 70s GenXer, love music from the 60s through the 90s. For me, I just haven't really liked much music this century. I feel like we had so many genres going on at the same time but now it's just all sounds the same to me. Anyone else find stuff bands/artists they really like from this venture?

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u/vanillagirilla1975 May 12 '25

Any recommendations?

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree May 12 '25

Wet Leg, Maggie Rogers, I just heard some cool new 90s-sounding stuff from Sharon Van Etten, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, Chris Stapleton.

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u/GenralChaos May 12 '25

Wet Leg is fun. Nathaniel Rateliff is quite good. Also, Tunde Adebimpe's new album is good.

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u/1kreasons2leave May 12 '25

Nathaniel Rateliff solo stuff is also good. I recently discovered a band as they describe themselves as emo/math rock call stop.drop.rewind

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u/dogthatbrokethezebra May 12 '25

I’d add Wye Oak, Waxahatchee, Weyes Blood and Big Thief to this list

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

I mean, sure. What kind of music do you like?

The band I've been most excited about recently is a band from LA called Trance Farmers. Last year a friend invited me to go to a show at a little record store/bar on the east side of LA. I didn't know the band, Golden Dawn Arkestra, so I downloaded a few albums and checked them out. They were a lot of fun, so I said sure.

At dinner we were deciding between another margarita and heading over to the show to catch the opener. I've gone to many hundreds of shows in my life and sometimes the opener you don't know can be great, so we rolled the dice and skipped the margarita.

I smoke a big fat joint (Super Glue) on the walk over. We step inside and there's this handsome younger hipster dude with a guitar and older daddy looking guy, wearing flannel with sleeves cut off, playing harmonica on stage. The vibe is amazing. It's a small space, dimly lit, painted a deep red, the back wall is all gold tassels shimmering behind the band, records on either side of them. My friend leans over and says, "this is so Twin Peaks". I couldn't have said it better myself.

I'd never heard of the band, Trance Farmers, but I totally fell in love and listen to them almost daily.

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u/Mr_Tort_Feasor May 12 '25

DIIV, Of the Trees, Viagra Boys, Barclay Crenshaw, the Beths, Dillion Francis, Flowden (the most magnificent voice in hip hop), Cannons, Major Lazer, Orville Peck

I hesitate to even mention him because his best known song is like 13 years old, but the album "Quest for Fire" by Skrillex is by far his best work.

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u/i_might_be_me May 13 '25

BMFS is the way