I’m vibecoding a music discovery and information app that does exactly what I want it to do and nothing else.
Before practical AI I never would’ve attempted this. It would’ve taken me 2,000 hours. I’m a terrible developer, so a good one probably could’ve done it in 400-500 without AI. That is still a very long time.
So it’s something I never would’ve even begun in the pre-AI era. But now I have it and it’s amazing.
My music app rocks the mic like a vandal.
I need a 10 trillion parameter LLM model just to manage all the music video tabs I have open. Someone get on that please. I’ll be waiting.
Is 2026 the fakest year in music?
I see this person is way too young to remember the 1980s hair metal band trend, the 1990s boy band craze and Milli Vanilli.
That was all much faker. And worse.
She doesn’t do much actually dance as she does choreography routines that seem largely disconnected from the music. Which whatever, go for it, but there’s still a disconnect, but what precisely that is can be hard to articulate.
— Analytic Valley Girl Chris (@ChrisExpTheNews) October 19, 2026
Tate is just completely graceless; what she is doing has nothing to do with the music and it looks mechanical. Doing the moves is not the same as dancing and with her it really shows.
And I say that as a terribly hopeless dancer — so I know exactly what it looks like. She’s as fun to watch as a wind-up doll, and not even as gracile as that.
More songs should have bassoons in them.
“She is like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness” from Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” might be the best and most poetic line in all of pop music.
Talking about saying so much with so little. I’m in awe of the economy of those lyrics that manage to build an entire world ex nihilo.
Stevie Nicks wrote those words and though she was never a horrid lyricist, those lines so far exceed anything else she ever penned that the lightning of pure genius must have struck full force that day.
The sound design in that video below is amazing. The sound engineer and technicians who did that are world class. They understood the acoustics of the space, the performer’s voice, what a lot of strings would do there, and how they’d all interact. Then they built out an ideal mic and capture setup for it.
It’s perfect. And I rarely say that.
I found 24 new (to me) songs I enjoyed in the music mines tonight from listening to all or part of 382 songs. That’s a hit rate of 6.7%. Not bad.
One of my friends messaged me about my “First Ten” playlists, saying that I sometimes have songs on there she cannot find anywhere1.
Welcome to me ganking stuff from the fast-disappearing internet. If you don’t get it ‘fore it’s gone, it often is gone soon enough, leaving no trace at all.
This is the best cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight.”
There used to be a great live video of the band playing the song. Now lost, like most things on the internet. Sarah has great enunciation and her voice is single-tracked and unprocessed (very rare now and then). Just such a great cover with more heart than the original, and a far better voice.
“Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” by Lou Bega.
If that’s not the most annoying song in the world, I can’t think of what is. Aliens will probably destroy the planet once this song makes it to their solar system. And they’d be right to do so.
The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs.
I clicked this thinking it’d be just an empty list. Which is what it should be.
I think on average that music now is noticeably better than when I was 14-23 (the age most people seem to get stuck at musically). Production is easier and there are more people out there just trying things.
But it’s pretty clear that major label music was better in the 1986-1999-ish period because the record labels were at their peak financially and creatively. They had enough money to experiment creatively — and did so.
This is not any kind of point about, “All the music was better then!” I don’t think that, at all. Ninajirachi and Renee Christine (and many others) are just as good as anything released in that period. And mary in the junkyard is now one of my favorite bands though not a one of them was even alive in the 20th Century.
Change with the times because the times are gonna change whether or not you do. And there’s tons of good music out there. I find 11.6 new good songs a day, every day. You could do the same.
The US modern rock chart 30 years ago.
Some of those songs I don’t remember at all.
Of course, in August 1996 I was quite occupied being a paratrooper in the army. I believe I had just arrived in Egypt then so I was a bit disconnected from the music scene to be fair.
Best song on the list: “Angry Johnny” by Poe.
Worst song: “6th Avenue Heartache” by The Wallflowers.
I think “Tonight, Tonight” is the best-written song there, but I can no longer stand Billy Corgan’s voice so I could not choose that one. There are some great, great covers of that one, though.
I don’t think I have good taste in music, but just like what the fuck I like and don’t give a flying fuck who knows it.
That radio station that’s showing the tracks in the sidebar? That’s the music I actually listen to. It’s not curated (for the station). It’s just whatever semi-randomly1 pulls from the 11,000+ tracks I have in my main music directory. I don’t edit or block or even pick anything.
Simple as that. Woo-Hah!