where do you discover music? also if you shared a list of your all time favorites that would be awesome
I use RateYourMusic's New Music page a LOT to find things that just came out, and I use their charts a fair amount when i want to get conversant in a genre. But I go about these things in a pretty rigorous weird completionist way, so that might not work for you.
To be honest, a pretty good way to be introduced to music you would not hear otherwise is something like college radio - and I'm not just saying this because I am now volunteering and doing radio DJ sets at a college radio station. There might be one that you can listen to on the radio itself, but a lot of them now have ways that you can listen to a webcast of what's currently playing as well as prior shows. For example. You will definitely hear things all over the place but like, with some level of human intention beyond weird algorithms that are pretty shallow.
All time favorites are hard to pin down, because I like a lot of different stuff.
Electronic (in some way): Portishead, Massive Attack, Masters At Work, C+C Music Factory, La Bouche, Recoil, Pendulum, Error, James K, Aphex Twin
Hardcore/Metal/Aggressive Music: Godflesh, Zao, Converge, Nine Inch Nails, Coalesce, With Honor, Modern Life is War, Bane, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Circle Takes the Square, Gorilla Biscuits, Embrace, Ceremony (I could go on and on)
Rock Music Otherwise: Jackson Browne, The Clash, Placebo, Popul Vuh, Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, The Ronettes
Other: Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Enya, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Harold Budd, Lorena McKennitt
I'm probably forgetting stuff, but this is definitely my short list for like, what really works for me. There's definitely lesser albums from all of these artists but I think each of them has one truly great album at least.
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