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[DeafTourette]

In this thread, we're taking music from. 2000 - Present

Post your favorite songs in the last 25 years... Any and all genres because I refuse to believe there's no good music out there past 1999

I'll go first:

















And I like the cover of this song as well



This really reminded me of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song and New York Undercover

 

[Richard Packer]

 

[mitch1971]

What the hell happened to dynamic range in recording?

 

[No BBC=Anger]

 

[Audiophile]

Despite being the furthest thing from my wheelhouse I gave Sabrina Carpenter a shot after hearing a couple of her catchy tunes on the radio, ended up making a little six track / 18min playlist from Short N' Sweet. At first it's just corny, straightforward pop music with some catchy lines but most of the tracks have some interesting little melodic lines and runs in them that kinda subvert expectation. Even the autotune feels creatively and fittingly implemented as opposed to just being a blanket application to correct bad singing. A pleasant surprise!

I've been listening to Alice In Chains a lot, so a peppy little palette cleanser is good sometimes, lol..

Playlist: YouTube / Spotify

...this kinda flows nicely and "Coincidence" is a good finisher.

As mitch1971 mentioned above, these modern albums are dynamically compressed up the wazoo for Streaming, Hi/Std-Res Download & CD; and so is this (it has a DR of 6, when a similar pop album in the 80s or early very 90s would have been 11-14). So I need to get a vinyl copy at some point (while the format has less dynamic range, they're usually cut with greater competence out of both care and necessity, and more often than not they use a less compressed deliverable of the master).

 

[Audiophile]

"It Takes A Lot To Know A Man" | Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy (2014)




"Up All Night", "Strangest Thing" & "Thinking Of A Place" | The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2014)








"My Name Is Ruin" | Gary Numan - Savage: Songs From A Broken World (2017)




"Breathe Me" | Sia - Colour The Small One (2004)
...also from the Six Feet Under finale.

 

[DeafTourette]

 

[jason10mm]

What the hell happened to dynamic range in recording?

Everything is made to be played through a phone, or in ear headphones at most.

Who still has a big speaker set up?

Old people, that's who.

Just like video, if it's all on a 5" phone screen, who cares about quality?

 

[mitch1971]

Everything is made to be played through a phone, or in ear headphones at most.

Who still has a big speaker set up?

Old people, that's who.

Just like video, if it's all on a 5" phone screen, who cares about quality?

They used to play The Beatles on crappy mono record players, but it was still recorded with dynamic range.

Music is still recorded in state-of-the-art studios. Film is still recorded digitally in 8 -16k. People care.

 

[Danknugz]

well it could buy me a boat
it could buy me a truck to pull it
it could buy me a yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets

 

[Audiophile]

Kinda cheating as it's John Mayer channelling Journeyman/24 Nights-era Clapton & Toto alongside Greg Phillinganes, complete with a CBS Nice Price sticker on the cover,...but it did release in 2021!

 

[Mr Reasonable]

What the hell happened to dynamic range in recording?

It went out of fashion about 25 years ago and was fully killed when phone speakers became a popular way to consume music would be my guess.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Limp Bizkit is a guilty pleasure now admittedly, but I could jam to this before going on a night out on the town or before a sports event or whatever.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Limp Bizkit is a guilty pleasure now admittedly, but I could jam to this before going on a night out on the town or before a sports event or whatever.

I think it's a bit of a shame that this comeback era Limp Bizkit wasn't well received enough for them to be a going concern, I think they had a couple of decent tracks including this one (though Lil' Wayne feels like he's making the track much worse to me). Afaik, they ignore this era in their current set lists and stick to turn of the century nostalgia - down to making room to both open and close the set list with Break Stuff. As in play it twice.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

I think it's a bit of a shame that this comeback era Limp Bizkit wasn't well received enough for them to be a going concern, I think they had a couple of decent tracks including this one (though Lil' Wayne feels like he's making the track much worse to me). Afaik, they ignore this era in their current set lists and stick to turn of the century nostalgia - down to making room to both open and close the set list with Break Stuff. As in play it twice.

Wonder if there's any remix without or a changed Lil Wayne verse? The scene they were part of at the turn of the millennium, I guess a rising tide lifts all boats. The 2010s from what I gather was not a great time for rock music. There were highlights occasionally but nothing like the 90s/00s.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Wonder if there's any remix without or a changed Lil Wayne verse? The scene they were part of at the turn of the millennium, I guess a rising tide lifts all boats. The 2010s from what I gather was not a great time for rock music. There were highlights occasionally but nothing like the 90s/00s.

Yeah, I think Limp Bizkit were right place, right time, nu metal was massive, I think it was maybe the last time rock was a really big genre for teenagers/young people that got mainstream exposure (imo).

As for Lil' Wayne, no idea. It's weird to me that he'd drop a verse that seems so lacklustre, though I must admit I don't know him or hip hop in general well enough to appreciate the skill that might be involved. It's entirely possible that I'm missing the best qualities of it. It might even be loaded with references that are flying over my head, for all I know. But... It does feel like it sucks the energy out of a track that is basically all about groove and energy.

 

[Audiophile]

Cannons:

Fever Dream (2022)
"Hurricane", "Tunnel Of You" & "Purple Sun"

Spoiler

Shadows (2019)
"Fire For You"

Spoiler

Night Drive (2017)
"Future Love"

Spoiler

 

[DeafTourette]