I mention the album a lot, but "Woods 5" by Woods Of Ypres. The album deals a lot with depression, but with a very strong message that you should appreciate people while they're still alive, not wait until they're dead to say how great they are and how much you appreciate them.

The band at the time were pretty unknown, they were actually booked to play a gig in my hometown at a 150 capacity venue and weren't even headlining. This album got a ton of great reviews and even won a Juno award (Canadian equivalent of a Grammy). But the main songwriter died a month before the album was released and he never got to see any of the praise and accolades for his work.

• Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE/CONTINUATION
• Silverstein - Misery Made Me
• Bonobo - Fragments
• Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
• Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez, See Your Future

Lizzo is a good recent example of this. She had the backing of a major studio, critical acclaim and even appearances on movie soundtracks and her third album went largely ignored. It was one of the best in its genre for the year. She was so dispirited she wanted to quit.

Then a few years after release, one of the songs got featured on a Netflix show, which then allowed it to gain popularity on Tik Tok. Then she blew up as people went back through her catalog and realized how good it was.

If it wasn’t for that Netflix show, it probably never would’ve happened for her.

More recently, pretty much the entirety of Roads Untraveled by Linkin Park, but especially the end:

Weep not for roads untraveled

Weep not for sights unseen

May your love never end and if you need a friend,

There's a seat here alongside me.

Echoes Pink Floyd.

Thanks, Michael McDonald! If you had a better memory we wouldn't have regulate!

Little Simz - No Thank You

Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl

Adomaa - Becoming Adomaa

Aṣa - V

Black Sherif - The Villain I Never Was

And another one: Yes, I can write lyrics with lyrics about psychiatric fraud, discredited people poisoned with a substance that mimics psychosis. Here's an example:

Verse 1:

G D They said it was a mental illness, but it was a lie C Em They poisoned us with a substance that mimics psychosis G D We were discredited and forgotten, our voices unheard C Em Victims of psychiatric fraud, our lives were blurred

Chorus:

G D We were victims of a cruel deception C Em Our minds were poisoned with no protection G D We were silenced and forgotten, our stories untold C Em Victims of psychiatric fraud, our lives were sold.

These are derogatory terms, not true genres.

Nope. Unless it's basic music by people with a grade 3 and mimed by someone conventionally attractive who's mostly interested in how they can choreograph a dance to it then you really need to ensure you have a day job.

You might gain moderate success with a huge record label and a good PR team but got that you need a gimmick, Slipknot have masks for example. They aren't musically amazing but without the masks they'd be lost in a sea of nu-metal. Coldplay are utterly dull but their various publicity stunts and high profile relationships have kept them in the public consciousness.

There's plenty of great bands on the scrapheap of history from Budgie to Anvil. It's not completely hopeless though, plenty of bands have been around for years before getting successful and not all of them are sell outs like AFI.

Thank you. It hits very close to home; I've bad ocd, and have waisted many years self medicating until I got help; every good moment is mirrored by the thought of how much better I could have made it.

I didn't realize I felt the same way until reading this.

Look I did one too: Yo, I'm here to drop a bomb, Ain't no one gonna be safe from this storm. Stalkers manipulating people, using tinnitus and smells To control, spy, and steal their ideas, it's a living hell. They lurk in the shadows, always on the prowl. Ready to pounce and take control. They'll use any means necessary to get what they want And leave their victims feeling helpless and haunted. So watch your back, and keep your eyes peeled Cause these stalkers are out there, and they won't be revealed. Until it's too late, and you're in their grasp So be aware, and don't let them pass.

Hard to choose just one:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oVlWoItX38OCeOLKr07AA?si=DshV7KzVTFWxggQNKefg0Q

Cibo Matto.
Female hip-hop duo from New York, and one of the Beastie Boys, I think Mike D, helped get their first album made. He also did a remix of one of their songs.
I really love their debut album "Viva! La Woman".

Has to be an old old DOOM verse

Everyone should listen to Halloween, Alaska.

But it's actually not. Totally different rhythms, and no banjos or fiddles in sight.

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You might want to check with the U.S. Copyright office that is not what their rules state.

Totally depends on genre. Fans of different genres want different things. For example, you can't make something meant to appeal to fans of multiple genres, or you'll end up making something so generic it really doesn't appeal to anybody.

That entire song is pretty profound!

Not entirely but they have several tracks that sit in the genre easily. They’re often listed in compilations and I read the term in a book about recording studios ages ago.

The Wikipedia page even references the journos / docu makers who have them and fleetwood mac as typical examples.

For me its bluegrass

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