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I was listening to a bunch of mashup songs. If you delve into it you'll find stuff like Danzig and Idol singing to a Rihanna song, or Bananarama doing vocals for Rammstein. The more of the mashup songs I heard, the more I started wondering are there only so many chord progressions, are commercial song structures set in stone, is the earworm a product of familiarity?

While listening to those mashups, I thought there's no fucking way Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" could ever be mashed up..

I was listening to a bunch of mashup songs. If you delve into it you'll find stuff like Danzig and Idol singing to a Rihanna song, or Bananarama doing vocals for Rammstein. The more of the mashup songs I heard, the more I started wondering are there only so many chord progressions, are commercial song structures set in stone, is the earworm a product of familiarity? While listening to those mashups, I thought there's no fucking way Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" could ever be mashed up..

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Yeah, ln the last 20+ years l went from hard core ( cromags etc) to prog metal (Tool) and got bored. Until I discovered a whole new genre that had eluded me. It's new if you never heard it before.

Doom / Dessert/ Stoner (in order below)

If you want a guitar like you've never heard before: YOB; Adrift in the Ocean

The try Homme's Old band Kyuss ; Whitewater

For viceral guitar dirt fuzz sound

Electric Wizard; Funeralopolis

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YOB is great, didn't expect to see that name on here.

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Listening to Adrift in the Ocean. Tool and iron maiden vibes. I'll listen to the others later.

The more I age the more I like orchestral/classical music. Adagio for strings, canon in d, gustav holst: the planets, etc. Everything modern is derivative. There was some new "sound" with grunge - the melvins: revolve and such, but everything seems to have stopped around there. Pop music today is formulaic and targeted at an unrefined IQ of 90.