Ween.

Paul Kelly

Anything you like and are familiar with.... Those are the ones that will show you how different your new headphones are since you're used to them on a different set so listening to the same stuff on a different set should be the strongest indicator u/JediMaS10

The Cure, Tom petty… good choices. Probably Milk Carton Kids.

We found the emo kid. Highly likely you were born in 1994.

The Cure

PJ Harvey

It really depends on how heavily they lean on their views, and if their views are troublesome or not. I wouldn't listen to Burzum, for example, because Varg is abhorrent, but right-wing views in general are common in black metal, and I do enjoy some of the bands. I wouldn't deem right-wing views as enough to drop a band, in spite of my objection to the right-wing, but going further into far-right views would be an immediate no, because I'd then be supporting fascists. I'm not entirely sure if I'd support far-left bands either, especially if it was a significant part of them and their music, because there are issues with the far-left as well, though for vastly different reasons.

Definitely AIC for me too!

How do you define new and more recent?

My favorite headphone albums from the past two years were Moderat - MORE D4TA (2022) and Hans Zimmer - The Dune Sketchbook (2021).

My favorite headphone albums of all time, though I wouldn‘t call them new or recent, are Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999), Burial - Untrue (2007), and Jon Hopkins - Immunity (2013).

Beautifully put.

Whenever you listen to a song you gain some agency over it. You are interpreter of that piece of art and it means something to you that it doesn't mean to the person who created it, based on your own life experience. That said, fuck financially supporting someone with obviously harmful views, or who has committed obviously harmful acts. The monetary support is the issue in the current musical climate.

Not an answer to your question but a recent movie, Tar, revolves around this argument. Take time to watch it.

Probably Slipknot

I try to separate my politics and my music, as well as the artist from the music. If I didn't, my music library would be incredibly small.

To put is simply, people are complex. One person's angelic saint is another's horrible monster--and I'm pretty sure every musician has done something wrong to someone, somehow, to some degree. So, I buy the music that I like and stay largely ignorant of an artist's history or political views--and even then, there are some people whose music I refuse to buy.

Jethro Tull

Alice in chains. When I first heard that Layne Staley died, my first (selfish) thought was "this is going to be bad for me"

Ah yes

I would listen to Satan himself if he put out a fucking excellent shoegaze album...

good choice, but i would go for the doors.

Its up to you and your own sense of morals. Sometimes one member of a group has done something bad (eg David Ruffin of The Temptations, domestic violence) but I'd still buy their stuff.

But Gary Glitter (child sex abuse) I wouldn't feel comfortable supporting him.

You've just discovered the moral argument for piracy.

Cocteau Twins

Rush.

It’s very “arguable” that they’re not a band, because cartoons can’t write and perform music. That is the work of Deltron, Damon, Cibo Matto, and the visual artist. Your argument is super-floppy. Gorillaz a band, and, more subjectively, I think they’re pretty good!