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i was looking at Spotify a few months ago and noticed that one of my favorite bands has almost no listeners at all, which explained why i had only discovered them randomly and never heard anyone else talk about them. but then i noticed that a lot of some of the best bands i listen to, most of which are even currently active, have so few listeners i would think they're some "local band" but they're not! none of them are! they're all real bands! Cosmonauts 6,095 monthly listeners - psyche/stoner/rock - "Shaker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcJtRdhX-cA this was the second band that inspired this thread. i was assuming they had at least as many listeners as something like The Black Angels, but they're nowhere even remotely close to that. Kids on a Crime Spree - 6,452 monthly listeners - psyche rock - "How Com You're Such a Liar, Steve?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVYh_X9uxjk this was the band that inspired the thread. not only does nobody listen to them, but they suddenly put a new album out THIS YEAR after having not done anything since 2010. i like to think that me listening to them at least 2 times a day is what inspired them to come back. i'm serious when i say they're my favorite current band. they're so fuckin good. so good i'm gonna post a second song "sweet tooth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABR3FhZhU0
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My favorite band that qualifies is British Neo-Soul group ZEBEDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSDoWM0qHgU
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May 7, 2022 16:51
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I submit The Frost, a 1960s/70s psychedelic rock band that seemed like it should have been a lot more famous than it ended up being. Only 1,000 monthly listeners on Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm4byxG9uaw Also two newer rock bands that have very few listeners but sound really good: Riot Course - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAwdj7wPY8 V*A*S*E - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMPgVG4BRY
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May 7, 2022 17:05
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ive been listening to this stoner/doom album almost every day for the last month pretty sure half of all the listens on spotify are from me at this point (currently only 52 monthly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3oAKlT-834
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May 7, 2022 17:15
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Part Maroon, Part Indigo - Transworld Identity - 745 monthly listeners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRiKrlcDBLY Who Gave You the Right - Livi Dillon - 115 monthly listeners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJG3yh1uXY0
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May 7, 2022 17:39
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i like that this happens. it's the second main feature of spotify for me. if i go looking for music, i'm going to get recommended certain things that already have a big audience. on spotify i can just be skipping through algorithmically generated playlists and end up with 3 new bands i like in one night, and then it turns out 2 of them barely qualify as famous at all. you've got people making music alone in their houses presented right alongside established classics and megabands like they're all on the same level and it ends up feeling like they basically are. it's all just music take your pick. the only major downside is that most of the music i get recommended tends to be within the same genre. i listen to a lot of female vocalist rock music, and some of that is because i've always liked that, but most of it is now because that's 75% of what spotify gives me. there's a lot of variety within that but i'm going to have to train this thing to show me some male led bands at some point because it's getting weird. it evens makes me want to get myself together and put music on there at some point because in the past i've been very ah well who is gonna listen to it anyway, it's good enough as it is just for me. but y'know people might actually end up finding it and enjoying it on this large a scale with this much randomness so it's cool. roomtone fucked around with this message at 18:09 on May 7, 2022 |
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May 7, 2022 18:03
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2r1sfIpKlieHUw8tBleV1K?si=-0orsa1bRIavQ8bMw15rZw Like they say you never stop hustling
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May 8, 2022 00:57
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your favorite band is nu-50s-bop?
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May 8, 2022 01:05
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Wendigee posted:your favorite band is nu-50s-bop? Kids on a Crime Spree sound like 50s bop to you?  i mean, they are certainly a pop band, but they are also just as much a fuzzy shoegaze-twee band. hell they're on Slumberland records dude lmao
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May 8, 2022 19:25
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dsf posted:ive been listening to this stoner/doom album almost every day for the last month pretty sure half of all the listens on spotify are from me at this point (currently only 52 monthly): I'm listening to it now. Have you heard of Ufomammut? Snailking is one of their album titles, which has gotta be where the band got its name
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May 8, 2022 19:38
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Savage Master-4,213 monthly listeners High'N'Heavy-542 monthly listeners Beastmaker-5,679 monthly listeners Black Spell-671 monthly listeners Sign Of The Sorcerer-155 monthly listeners Book Of Wyrms-594 monthly listeners Smoke Mountain-78 monthly listeners
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Chill Rob G. - hip hop - 6,342 monthly listeners "bad dreams" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7bG_m67gVo okay now this one is legitimately baffling and a travesty. Chill Rob G's one and only album is one of the best and most foundational hip hop albums of all time. 6k monthly listeners is literally nothing. i can't figure this one out at all.
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Eddy Lee Ryder - Dark Americana - 1,683 monthly listeners Her best song is "Small Apartment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwpmdY_Tn0 But also "Cold River" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2EtHL84KQ And Body Bags:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LnZ1ME5auc are catchy And, under her old name Liz Brennan is an all time great video in "MGF" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFgrLeQnYM
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Martin grech - 1,200 monthly listeners I've been a fan of him for about 15 years, his tour for 'unholy' is in my top 5 shows of all time, and I don't understand how he's not more well known. Had some terrible luck with record labels and got hosed over by the industry more than most. His first 2 albums aren't on Spotify but can be found on YouTube. https://open.spotify.com/album/21Igi7lQCeuKzMPQ7EWta6?si=RyUCQiZ4SL2nxJvu21H-cA&utm_source=copy-link The best song off his second album, the only link on the entire internet where it can be listened to, has 7700 plays after 13 years. It's big, dramatic and has a hell of a payoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRJ574AGXg cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 02:28 on May 10, 2022 |
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May 10, 2022 02:21
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it's FEWER THAN
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Vim Fuego posted:I'm listening to it now. Have you heard of Ufomammut? Snailking is one of their album titles, which has gotta be where the band got its name yes! love ufomammut. actually listening to their new album today, its pretty good!
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May 10, 2022 18:29
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I could never listen to a band with over 30. You can't stay true with any more than that
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rzC0I7iHmQVohZbjlvP3z?si=LPhwTXM2QlOCkZYLGMjhLA&utm_source=copy-link Autumn in June has 8k monthly listeners. Chill vapor synth wave
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May 10, 2022 18:56
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potato! posted:My favorite band that qualifies is British Neo-Soul group ZEBEDE: The kids James and John are cooler.  I was going to suggest Grant MacDonald, the singer of Ram Ranch, but I looked it up. Amazingly, he has 160k monthly listeners. Spotify helpfully lists his latest single "Buttfuckin Prince Harry". So I'm sorry, the obscure band you like is less admired than a guy who keeps singing about cowboy penises.
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May 10, 2022 18:58
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cubicle gangster posted:Martin grech - 1,200 monthly listeners I went to see him with some friends including a girl I was trying and failed to get with. Must have been... 2002-2003? I think he was supported by Mew, who I much preferred.
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Jack harlon and the dead crows. Psychedelic cowboy doom. https://youtu.be/sDufONuzNqw
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local band I saw a couple of times back in 2015. they broke up a few years ago which was a shame cause I think they could've been pretty big. all their stuff's free on bandcamp too if anyone's interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlED6fowds
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if we're allowing "local bands", Knoxville's own Dixie Dirt were absolutely loving phenomenal they have 52 monthly listeners lmao i listen to this song a LOT. it describes the essential early-2000s small town hipster experience so well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBoScfgJQE
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May 11, 2022 15:04
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I don't use spotify but apparently Mechamaiko only has 8.3k listeners
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May 11, 2022 15:14
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Vim Fuego posted:I'm listening to it now. Have you heard of Ufomammut? Snailking is one of their album titles, which has gotta be where the band got its name Ufom is so good, I got to see them live with Monolord in the dingy basement that was the Crowbar in Brisbane. That show loving ruled. Also one of my projects is on Spotify with about 5 monthly listeners lol
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syntaxfunction posted:Ufom is so good, I got to see them live with Monolord in the dingy basement that was the Crowbar in Brisbane. That show loving ruled. I saw that tour at crowbar Sydney and it owned.
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Bunch of amateurs in here. https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Y84KwK8WonkLhtwPdY9BL 5 monthly listeners, baby. (it is my band) (honestly I don't know who those 5 are)
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Gruffalo Soldier posted:Bunch of amateurs in here. Vapid Koi on Spotify for my project. Also five listeners 
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my latest album also has less than 5 monthly listeners, but i know nobody wants to listen to it so i'm not gonna post it lmao
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precision posted:my latest album also has less than 5 monthly listeners, but i know nobody wants to listen to it so i'm not gonna post it lmao 
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