They almost never make albums like this, anymore....

I find recently that I am more moved and inspired by music without lyrics and/or vocals.
While I do enjoy most genres, they most of the time just don't evoke the same feelings that other music does for me.

Here's a great example

Good music still exists. You just have to look beyond the mainstream stuff and sometimes even step out of your comfort zone to find it.

Here's some good music from this decade:

• Jess And The Ancient Ones ~ Prayer For Death And Fire
• Hexvessel - Woods to Conjure
• Anathema - The Lost Song part 3
• Beak> - Mono
• Savages - Shut Up
• Beastmilk - Love in a Cold World
• Nadja - Dark Circles
• Agalloch - Black Lake Niðstång
• Kontinuum - Steinrunninn Skógur
• Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn
• My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow

A whole album of cosy Christmas songs by Sufjan Stevens! - does it get any better than this?
Tenhi's Maaaet - whilst still brilliant, Tenhi may be a long way from approaching this level of condensed beauty.
Penitent's The Beauty of Pain has long been a guilty pleasure of mine. Simplistic, but so magnetic.
A Rebours by Magnus Sundström was almost as cinematographic as it was ambitious.

No, they definitely don't make albums like these any more.

Nektar - Recycled

FM - Black Noise (RIP Nash the Slash, my Steam avatar...) ("One O' Clock Tomorrow" from the album )

Todd Rundgren - Initiation ("A Treatise On Cosmic Fire" from the album...hope you have a half-hour to spare! )

This thread has a lot of the artists and music I could get into. I'm a huge fan of progressive rock, and it saddens me that the current generation views such low-talent hacks as Bieber and Beyonce as being "superior" to real artists like many of the prog bands being shared here.

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Probably the best album ever written, IMO. Its just a shame that with Hesitation Marks, NIN has jumped the shark.

i like peter green's fleetwood mac better cause peter green, bro!

Actually, 70's folk made a full comeback a few years back, so there's plenty of new music that sounds like CSNY and Pink Floyd, to a certain extent.
To name a few: Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Band of Horses, The Low Anthem, First Aid Kit, The Civil Wars, Ray LaMontagne, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Other Lives, Jonathan Wilson, Bill Callahan

Two weeks ago I've found Pink Floyd, more specific "Wish you were here" and I loved it. I started to hear more songs from then and I was just blowing my mind.
After that I started wondering why there are no more bands like that. I read the lyrics and it's pure poetry. Just loved it.

People with my age(17yo) usually can't stand songs like that, which kinda makes me sad. More people should at least get the points of view and ideals behind these songs.

Hawkwind - Hawkwind 1970
Hawkwind - In Search of Space 1971
Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido 1972

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Nirvana - Nevermind

Silverchair - Frogstomp

Roundabout by Yes

I feel progressive metal is a good genre to fit this criteria (I believe that is the mostly genre I'm going with anyway, I'm pretty lost when it comes to classifying music in such sub-genres). In any case, my tastes tend towards those artusts that sound similar to Tool (or just generally have fairly heavy instrumentation, with mostly clean vocals, some surreal and or dark undertones a bonus), which would include:

Anything by Rishloo

Anything by Karnivool

Soen

Deadsoul Tribe

Psychotic Waltz for some older stuff with the singer from Deadsoul Tribe

Some Prisma

And maybe throw some God Is An Astronaut in there as some nice instrumental stuff.

John Zorn - Mount Analogue

Mr. Bungle - California

Emilie Autumn - Fight Like a Girl (Seriously front to back I love this album. The title track becomes it's weakest link in the end.)

Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division has just turned 35 years old. Still a stunning masterpiece

Try considering the fact that there's always a favoured music genre for each generation.

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

Not even going to list individual songs, just give in to this. You won't be disappointed. How these guys got so mainstream lately is way beyond me, but it's a sign that the music industry is not entirely broken.

nice dad rock thread!!!

i like some dad rock, too

like rush, and I used to like king crimson but that just drains the life out of me and makes me feel old

anyway, there is still tons of unconventional music other there in this era, here are some examples

Papadosio,
Devin Townsend,
Mastodon,
Have A Nice Life,
Aesop Rock

just a few examples of "unconventional" music that have unique properties to them, the internet age has allowed even more accessibility to the public and new technology such as multi-track and all that shit Fripp started and got improved on just makes music possibility even more so "out there" never is there an age where no musician is there to challenge the norms, maybe you just need to find s'more new artists, hmm? I understand, yes, a lot of radio music is for mindless sheep, that is true, but it's not very fair to say all this new music is bad, catch my drift, yeah? I think both old and new music is great, everyone's taste is different but you can always satisfy that with a Fleetwood Mac album as much as the guy next to you is more of a Beatles fan, ya dig? Some prefer "proper" baroque music, some are more into that ambient stuff, edm junkies, drum & bass heads, metal heads, there's always some artist out there pushing the pin further, drone music like Sunn O))) might disgust one person, and might expand the next, some find Metallica boring, some find them the greatest metal band in the world, some like Boris for their experimental metal, others prefer Dog Fashion Disco. Music has all but devolved, and I hope you're able to see that!!

Here's some unconventional music with lyrics poetic and/or potentially too deep and full of culture and allusion for most audiences to understand. Definitely would not get produced in the 21st Century!

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

Hop Along - Get Disowned

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed (from his self-titled, which I can't find a full playlist for)

I think Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? would be a good fit - unconventional harmonies, melodies, instrumentation, lyrics, and, uh, singing

Everything now is a lot more straightforward and generic

Well, they had the balls to make a concept album, and put a 23 minute song on it:

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons

I personally compare it to a "Dark Side of the Moon" level of awesomeness and worth listening to every last millisecond of it.

Yeezus is extremely experimental, to the point where none of it is radio friendly and hardly gets any airtime. It includes a lot of social issues that many people don't pick up on

Big L

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Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Mostly, it is due to lack of ability for original thinking these days.
It is most obvious in the Television and Motion Picture industries, but can be seen in Writing, Gaming and Music too.