The Music Thread

I did some digging into the songs I have liked on Spotify. 60% of them are rock, pop, soul, top 40, rap and R&B from the 1950s through the 2000s. The other 40% is country from the 1960s to 2010s, and 2010s pop, rock, top 40 and hip hop.
 
CarolinaFever said:
I did some digging into the songs I have liked on Spotify. 60% of them are rock, pop, soul, top 40, rap and R&B from the 1950s through the 2000s. The other 40% is country from the 1960s to 2010s, and 2010s pop, rock, top 40 and hip hop.
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I spend that time listening to music.
 
finesse said:
I spend that time listening to music.
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I was listening to music while I did it.

Actually, it wasn't hard to figure out because I have all the 1950s to 2000s rock, pop, soul, top 40, rap and R&B music on one playlist. I just compared that to the rest of the songs I have liked on Spotify.
 
Ok, gonna draw you youngsters back to the 60s. I saw the Dave Clark 5 in Dorton Arena when I was 15yo. It was such a great rocking concert

 
Not sure if they ever got posted here but a band called Geese- kind of jam/indie/art rock blew up in a big way earlier this year thanks to their album Getting Killed. Which was a fine album but didn’t really grab me.

Turns out they hired a firm to help them go viral and it worked, and lots of people kind of feel weird about it. Obviously marketing firms have been around forever, but this one in particular seems to specialize in making social media campaigns seem very organic, which is leading to the bad feelings.

www.wired.com

The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.
www.wired.com www.wired.com


 
nrsair said:
Not sure if they ever got posted here but a band called Geese- kind of jam/indie/art rock blew up in a big way earlier this year thanks to their album Getting Killed. Which was a fine album but didn’t really grab me.

Turns out they hired a firm to help them go viral and it worked, and lots of people kind of feel weird about it. Obviously marketing firms have been around forever, but this one in particular seems to specialize in making social media campaigns seem very organic, which is leading to the bad feelings.

www.wired.com

The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.
www.wired.com www.wired.com


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Interesting. I became a big fan a little over a year ago. I first got into Cameron Winter’s (Geese’s frontman) solo album that came out at the end of 2024. It totally grabbed me. I still listen to it frequently. I had never heard of Geese before that, but upon learning that was his band I checked out their most recent album at the time, 3D Country, which came out in 2023. Loved it. I was hyped for Getting Killed and it didn’t disappoint. Loved it as well. The wife and I caught Geese at the Grey Eagle in Asheville in November 2025. It was cool to see them in such a tiny venue. They probably won't play a venue that small again for a long time, if ever.

I don’t have an issue with the social media marketing. It’s the way things work these days. Much of their success can also be attributed the good reviews the album got as well, which is independent from the marketing. The reviews can easily pan a heavily marketed album and they often do. I don’t really follow social media anyway, so when I stumble upon some musical act, it’s not directly related to marketing. I generally have no idea what’s supposed to be cool or not cool.

And after reading that article, none of it seems like a big deal or anything nefarious.
 
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