Chapotraphouse

Moondog is really dope

What is even the point of people developing lemmy just to have 1 megathread for every comm? That negates entire functionality of lemmy.

A problem that I've seen with the music comm is that the sidebar indicates that all posts should link to songs. The movies comm sidebar indicates that movies and television should be discussed. The music sidebar says only post songs. It's like whoever made the comm didn't consider that there should be music news or other music-related discussion posted within the comm.

Most music nerds don't even listen to individual songs. They listen to full albums. Listening to individual songs is for people who play pop radio promo singles.

What if instead of genres it was feelings

So who else loves La Dispute?

Absolutely start a megathread on the music comm. With a weekly subject like genre or era. I think it’s worth a collective effort to try and make c music have both individual song/album posts as well as analysis/effort and recommendation requests.

Hexbear, play Despacito

I feel like you cant really listen a song recommended to you online. It becomes part of the category 'internet' not the category 'music.' I have to add it to a playlist, forget about it, and rediscover it a month later while on a walk to experience it as music.

There's rumors that there's gonna be a The Replacements biopic and that shit is gonna be so bad

I'm so down

We tried this with /c/art and it didn't really take off. @Vostok_@hexbear.net did a lot of work maintaining it and they might have some tips.

Definitely get it pinned for the first few months.

thats why I practice good cataloging by putting in the genre and release date, as well as any other information that might be relevant/ trivia. Ultimately we will probably gravitate towards what we like, but this makes it easier to parse for others!

I like this idea! I adore music and would love to see what comrades are listening to. Something I noticed a while ago is that a lot of the music I got really into listening to is western and there's so much fantastic variety and artistry to be found outside that sphere, I just don't know how or where to look.

And a discussion about songs, what they mean, and why they're so powerful would be great. As is I feel very disinterested in just posting songs on their own to the music common.

Be the change you wish to see, I'll pin it.

Music megathread is a fantastic idea and I think something at least a few people here (including me) would love.

this would kick ass

Yes! Very on board.

I agree with your analysis: just sharing links to tracks is not enough. Nobody is clickin on that. And nobody is discussing it without some prior experience or an angle of discussion.

Some kind of guided topic, or even a structure for adding new discussions with purpose and depth would go a long way.

Megathread, song/artist/etc of the month would be an easy start (tho divisive because there are so many, who picks, all that). But even just some kind of expectation or structure around why are you posting this, how does it make you feel, what do you expect others might get out of it, I think could go a long way to having some more meaningful discussion. Hell, even just starting with a review structure could be an easy start.

Posting a track is something you can see on any website, but a personal review from a comrade? That's something unique we can have here.

I've been thinking about something like this too, mostly out of the need for new music for exercising. The format is challenging, though.

I fear a standard megathread would end up mostly ignored. Something like a weekly album discussion thread might be the most realistic, that way the topic is focused enough to actually have discussion in a forum as small as this, and if people don't vibe with the album they just have to wait a week.

Another challenge is album selection. I am skeptical about it working if it's just one person choosing albums, and simply crowdsourcing them runs the risk of getting stuck with anime music or something for multiple weeks. Either it would have to be a top new album from something like Pitchfork, or we would have to form a central council (tongue in cheek, I am not a dork) to curate a varied selection from user suggestions and write a little blurb for them.

I do not have a degree in running internet forums though, I could be totally wrong about all of this.