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[DeafTourette]

In this thread, we're taking music from. 2000 - Present

Post your favorite songs in the last 25 years... Any and all genres because I refuse to believe there's no good music out there past 1999

I'll go first:

















And I like the cover of this song as well



This really reminded me of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song and New York Undercover

 

[Richard Packer]

 

[mitch1971]

What the hell happened to dynamic range in recording?

 

[No BBC=Anger]

 

[Audiophile]

Despite being the furthest thing from my wheelhouse I gave Sabrina Carpenter a shot after hearing a couple of her catchy tunes on the radio, ended up making a little six track / 18min playlist from Short N' Sweet. At first it's just corny, straightforward pop music with some catchy lines but most of the tracks have some interesting little melodic lines and runs in them that kinda subvert expectation. Even the autotune feels creatively and fittingly implemented as opposed to just being a blanket application to correct bad singing. A pleasant surprise!

I've been listening to Alice In Chains a lot, so a peppy little palette cleanser is good sometimes, lol..

Playlist: YouTube / Spotify

...this kinda flows nicely and "Coincidence" is a good finisher.

As mitch1971 mentioned above, these modern albums are dynamically compressed up the wazoo for Streaming, Hi/Std-Res Download & CD; and so is this (it has a DR of 6, when a similar pop album in the 80s or early very 90s would have been 11-14). So I need to get a vinyl copy at some point (while the format has less dynamic range, they're usually cut with greater competence out of both care and necessity, and more often than not they use a less compressed deliverable of the master).