Underground Listmaker

  Decade Rating: 3.92. Ranked  #1 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1970. 1970     1) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath  ||  Heavy Metal, Hard Rock     2)  Neil Young - Tell Me Why  ||  Country Rock, Folk Rock     3)  Exuma - Mama Loi, Papa Loi  ||  Freak Folk, Caribbean Folk     4)  Miles Davis - Pharaoh's Dance  ||  Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz     5)  Santana - Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen  ||  Latin Rock 1971     1) Joni Mitchell - All I Want  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk     2)  The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses  ||  Blues Rock     3)  Funkadelic - Super Stupid  ||  Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock     4)  Comus - Drip Drip  ||  Freak Folk, Avant-Folk, Progressive Folk     5)  Leonard Cohen - Avalanche  ||  Singer/Songwrit...

Decade Rating: 3.81. Ranked  #3 / 7. 5 songs per year, starting from 1960. 1960     1) Charles Mingus - Moanin'  ||  Post-Bop Jazz      2) Etta James - At Last  ||  Soul, Vocal Jazz     3) John Coltrane - Giant Steps  ||  Hard Bop Jazz     4) Miles Davis -  Concierto de Aranjuez  ||  Modal Jazz, Spanish Classical     5) Max Roach - Freedom Day  ||  Avant-Garde Jazz 1961     1) Roy Orbison - Crying  ||  Traditional Pop     2) Bill Evans Trio - Haunted Heart  ||  Cool Jazz     3)  Tod Dockstader - Piece #8  ||  Musique concrète, Electronic     4) Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces  ||  Nashville Sound, Countrypolitan     5)  Chavela Vargas - La llorna  ||  Ranchere, Bolero 1962     1) Charlie Mingus - Ysabel's Table Dance  ||  Post-Bop Jazz ...

My top played songs of the year so far. Fun facts:  - The average age of these tracks (by release year) is about 21 years. - The top genres on this list are subgenres of rock, pop, and electronic: particularly, indie / alt rock, art pop, and trip hop. - 56% of the vocalists are male, 26% are female, 10% are instrumental, 4% are non-binary, and 4% feature female and male vocalists. - I'm limiting this to one song per artist, to keep it interesting. The format of this list is: #. Artist Name - Song Title   ||  Genre(s)  ||  Release Year  ||  Gender of Vocalist  ||  2 descriptors  ||   Country 50. Portishead - Western Eyes  ||  Trip Hop, Acid Jazz  ||  1997  ||  F  ||  dark, mysterious  ||  UK 49. Parliament - Placebo Syndrome  ||  P-Funk  ||  1977  ||  M  ||  playful, futuristic  ||  USA 48. Nina Simone - Sinnerman  ||...

I admittedly listen to few live albums compared to studio recordings. The reason for this is that production and precision are important to me...nevertheless, there are some really fantastic live albums that I thought I'd share here. A few of these are not for the weak of heart...read the descriptors and genres when deciding which of these to try. Format is:  Artist - Album Name   ||  Genres  ||  Release Year  ||   Country   ||  two descriptors  ||   Rating 15. Radiohead -   I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings  ||  Alternative Rock, Electronic, Experimental Rock  ||  2001  ||  UK  ||  cryptic, cold  ||  9/10 14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -  Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen  ||  Art Rock, Post-Punk  ||  2018  ||  Australia  ||  energetic, melancholic  ||  9.5/10  13. Miles Davis - Dark Magus...