Allmusic.com Puns

What to do? An adblocker is useless if websites can tell you're using it.

Allmusic.com: Type in your favorite artist in the search bar. You'll see a grey tab with the options: Overview, Biography, Discography, Songs, Credits, Awards and Related. Click on the Related tab. There will be 3 lists of other artists: Ones who inspired your favorite artist, ones who were inspired BY your favorite artist, and ones who are just similar to your favorite artist. Pop open a Youtube album, give these artists a listen and see if any of them click with you. Chances are you'll dig something! (And you'll be amazed how many artists are Beatles fans). The album reviews tab may provide a hint on the best albums to check out first, but it isn't always accurate; they gave some of my favorite albums 3-stars!

Setlist.fm: Type in your favorite artist in the search bar and hit enter. On their page, on the left hand side, there will be a small link that says "Artist Statistics". Click on it. On the new page, you'll see a new set of links across the top: Songs, Albums, Avg Setlist, Covers, With, and Concert Map. Click on the Covers link. You can see all the artists your favorite artist covered live throughout their career. Check some of these out on YouTube because chances are they have something in common with your favorite artist. Next, look at the top of that page and you'll see 3 links: Song Statistics, Tour Statistics, and Other Statistics. Click on Other Statistics. Now you get a list of all the other artists who loved your favorite artist enough to cover them live. This means, chances are you'll like some of them, so pop em into Youtube and check em out!.

RYM.com: The forum is infested with snobby people, though there are plenty of good people here who are willing to answer questions and offer recommendations. We're not here for the forum, though, we're here for the album database. Type in your favorite band in the search bar. Look at the album list and select your favorite album by your artist. Now go to where it says Genres. The bolded genres are the album's main genres that can be heard throughout the album, and the unbolded genres beneath those are ones that the artist merely dabbled in for a few tracks, but do not feature in most of the album's tracks. Click on one of the bolded genres, then look to your right for a link that says Top Releases (See Genre Chart). It will show you the highest-ranked albums of that artist's genre! Pop open Youtube and c

Several years ago, Bryan Adams entry on allmusic.com was deleted, all you get now are links to karaoke stuff. What's the story?

allmusic.com has changed their website, probably a long time ago as I am super out of the loop. On allmusic.com it used to be easy to look up an artist/band and see a list of their complete discography, read a bio of the band, see ratings, find similar artists, see what genre a certain band is described as, etc. Now I can't do any of that on this site.

I'm not sure how popular this website is among the music community but I used to use Allmusic.com very frequently. It was a great source of discovering new artists, choosing which albums are best to start with, reading the reviews for albums, etc.

But recently they blocked the use of their website if you have adblock/ublock enabled. Wanting to use their website, and support them by showing ads anyway I decided to turn off my adblock. HOLY SHIT is that website impossible to use with ads turned on. Between pop-up ads, sound ads, ads covering links, and just general clunkiness of the ads, the ease of navigating through this website is impossible.

Anybody else feel the same way?

My goal is to get the month and year of the list together with artist name, album title, and genre in a tab- or comma-delimited file. I'd like to make this ongoing, executing the script to rip each month's list into the future.

Here's the current month: http://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/editorschoice

Thank you!

Edit: typos worship me

If you're like me, you love the content on Allmusic but just can't stand their website. Until recently their website wouldn't even show up in Google results. Once they updated their website to get rid of all the flash navigation and javascript search garbage you could finally type "allmusic bandname" into Google and get results, but the results were usually bizarre things (like giving results for Charts & Awards instead of artist overview). Today, however, I've discovered they took it a step further and updated their search engine to have friendly URLs!

http://allmusic.com/search/artist/%s

You can add that URL as a custom search in Chrome, Firefox, etc and if you type the band name in correctly it'll take you right to it! Hooray for it only taking 25 years for AMG to properly transition from print to web!

Phil

I think this is an interesting topic, I'm not sure if I worded the prompt that well.

Following Juice WRLD's death, his label (Bibby's Grade A) and family released a statement saying that to honor Juice, they planned on sharing "unreleased music and other projects that he was passionately in the process of developing":

>From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank each and every one of you for your undivided adoration and love for Juice. You guys meant the entire world to Juice and by listening to his music, watching his videos and sharing your stories about him, you are keeping his memory alive forever. We plan to honor Juice's talents, his spirit, and the love he felt for his fans by sharing unreleased music and other projects that he was passionately in the process of developing.

It was reported that at least two thousand songs were recorded before the rapper's passing. Lil Bibby recently announced a new Juice Wrld album and there was some discussion in the thread differentiating this from "milking a dead artist" and someone bought up XXXTentacion, who's posthumous music includes some very noticeably unfinished work.

One way to look at this is that the family of the artist just suffered the death of their child and the unreleased material is now theirs and the artist would want them to be provided for off of it, even if the material isn't something they would have released when they were alive. They aren't here to finish it. This would also apply for collaborations with artists they didn't have a prior relationship with.

Or maybe the artist wouldn't want their unreleased work to come out, that's personal to many artists.

Some examples of instances I've seen this sort of discussion:

1. People often point to Pimp C's posthumous inclusion on Views. They speculate that Bun B should've have authorized the collab because Pimp C wouldn't have fucked with Drake.
2. On Loyal to the Game, which was executive produced by Eminem, Pac vocals are manipulated to say "Drop That Em", "2005" and "G-Unit"
3. Drake was planning on executive producing an Aaliyah album on Blackground Records – a label run by Aaliyah’s uncle and cousin. Following the negative public reception after the announcement the revelation that Timbaland and Missy Elliott would not b

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

Sudden Lee

#Group Therapy Turns 10

##Evolution

A few months ago, Above & Beyond's debut album turned 15.

After the release, Above & Beyond continued to evolve their sound and propel themselves forward, including release of their first OceanLab artist album in 2008.

But it would take a full five years before Above & Beyond released their second artist album on June 6th, 2011: Group Therapy.

If Tri-State was Above & Beyond's entrance into melodic and progressive trance, Group Therapy was their grand entrance into the "Trance 2.0", weaving trance, pop-vocals, and elements of house music while still retaining their signature elements and style. While Group Therapy did not contain as diverse of supporting vocalists as Tri-State, the album continued to use the vocal prowess from the first album of Zoe Johnston and Richard Bedford, with supporting vocals of Tony McGuinness.

In the Tri-State 15 Year Discussion, I noted that Above & Beyond's first album was a hit across the trance scene, and arguably their magnum opus for those that have been invested in the trance scene for decades. But on a larger scale, Group Therapy has to be the defining album for Above & Beyond. It is the album that propelled them to the heights of electronic music fame. It is the album that arguably gave a massive boost to the worldwide "Anjunafamily." It is the album that pushed Above & Beyond to abandon their "Trance Around The World" podcast name in lieu for "Group Therapy", which will hit 450 episodes this year and surpass the total number of TATW episodes the episode after that.

##Accolades

The album peaked on a few sales charts worldwide, hitting #163 on the US Billboard 200, #56 on the Australian Albums Chart, and #49 on the UK Albums Chart.

"Sun & Moon" would reach #3 on A State of Trance's annual Top 20 in 2011, was nominated for Best Trance Track at the 2012 IDMAs, and 10 years later, would reach #11 on ASOT's Top 1000 List.

AllMusic described the album as:

> "often hypnotic and uplifting listen that proves the trance genre is capable of transcending its super-club roots."

The Untz:

> "Group Therapy is an emotionally driven and thoughtfully produced album that captures the essence of human frailty and desire. Each track has its own distinctive sound and each ly

Well, toucan play at that game.

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

Windows

With uBlock enabled, you can't see the user ratings on albums. For example: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-petty-mn0000612716/discography

and read user reviews: https://www.allmusic.com/album/mojo-mw0001993735

Disable it and see the difference in both cases.