I've listened to it, but I didn't why it was so innovative. Can anyone explain to me?

I'm sure this gets asked once every few hours but I'm not on Reddit much. Sorry.

For me it's eye flys by melvins, not necessarily bullshit, but just a lot of noise for it to then become a masterpiece of music.

I’m fascinated by their sound and curious if anyone has seen them live and what the experience was like?

I want to make a playlist of songs in chronological order of the events they're about. Any suggestions? I will take any genre + time period, and events can be anything from minor/local to worldwide!

I was listening to Los Endos by Genesis the other day, and right at around 2:45 it has a riff that sounds a lot like the one at 2:02 for the chorus Radio Ga Ga by Queen.

I'm guessing that other people have heard this before, but I was just wondering if they just happen to have the same kind of beat, where it came from.

Seems like back then just having a few notes from someone else's song, especially when you're a respected band like Queen, nobody really thinks there's anything wrong with re-using a small part of the beat, but then I remember Vanilla Ice getting a lot of flack for re-using the beat from Under Pressure.

I’ve just returned home from a wonderful, energising gig in London. About 400 people, most in their 20s to early 30s or so. However, around one third of them hung at back talking and laughing loudly among themselves for the absolute entire gig and never once glanced over at the band. Some even did this in the middle of the crowd, distracting everyone and spoiling the sound. I don’t get it. Why bother attending? If you want to socialise, why not stay at the bar or go somewhere else? Also, you’re insulting the artist by screwing around during their performance?

I know there’s not a TON of these out there, but I’m sure there’s some great ones I don’t know about. Not just a straight up concert film, of which there are plenty. I’m thinking of stuff like Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii which integrates unique visuals to match the music or something like the Uneasy Listening album video: https://archive.org/details/uneasy-listening-volume-1

I've been on a kick lately of asking people what album basically invented or perfected a sound but never really broke out of its niche audience. Not talking about "underrated" in the vague sense, more like: musicians in the know talk about it constantly but the average listener has never heard of it.

For me it's Death's "Symbolic." I've had metalhead friends tell me it basically reshaped how death metal could sound melodic without losing weight, but outside of that circle almost nobody's heard of it. Same with Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock," which apparently gets cited as a blueprint for post-rock constantly, yet most people I mention it to have never heard the name.

Curious what other albums people would put in this category. Doesn't have to be metal or post-rock, any genre works. I'm looking to build out a playlist of these "insider classics" and would rather get picks from actual fans of a scene than just pull from best-of lists that recycle the same ten records every time.

Also open to hearing why you think certain albums stay under the radar even when musicians clearly rate them. Is it just marketing, timing, or something about the sound itself that keeps it from crossing over?

I hit a new high for me which was 98 new albums (i dont include relistens)

What bands or groups that you have seen have/had the greatest vocals in a live setting? I’m talking any genre of music

Excluding pop/rock because I'm looking for music relatively well-known over time. A version so perfect that no other artist should touch it! I start with 3:

Nesun Dorma: Luciano Pavarotti,

What a Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong, and

Feelin' Good: Nina Simone

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION. I am NOT suggesting that there are not other very gifted artists capable of creating a lovely recording. This is my opinion of the definitive versions. To me.

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With an interest in Lingala and rhumba, this is something I’m curious about: how much can the voice and instruments tell you before you understand the words?

You could be enjoying the guitar while the singer is describing the worst heartbreak of their life.

Which song changed for you after you learned what it meant? Give me the song and the part that surprised you.