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Say what you want about YouTube recommended political videos, but I have found some absolutely great music because it showed up in my recommended. A small Cana
by jalgos_eminator 8y ago
Say what you want about YouTube recommended political videos, but I have found some absolutely great music because it showed up in my recommended.
A small Canadian band showed up in my recommended and that first song captivated me. Then I listened to their other singles and two albums, and now I'm going to their show next month.
Also, I just found an artist from Belarus that makes fantastic synthpop. The weird thing is that all his videos use cyrillic characters, so I don't know how google even matched it. I am thankful though.
- hateful 8y agoI agree. I've found a host of new artists this way. I've taken to subscribing to a few choice channels that have live performances (mostly local radio stations). There are a few that do a thing where they have a band on and the do one original and one cover - sometimes I end up finding two new bands.
- hateful 8y agoI also recommend going to https://www.youtube.com/feed/music https://www.youtube.com/feed/music . It's a landing page that used to be behind a "Music" button on the youtube homepage, but has since been removed. But luckily the page still exists. It gives you a bunch of different playlists, including "Recommended" and "Latest Videos". I like the Latest Videos because it allows me to see what's "current" at a glance, even if I choose not to view any of them, I can see what' going on in the mainstream.
- FiveSquared 8y agoAlso, I discovered awesome electro music and house music along with the Seven nation Army Remix by Glitch Mob. That’s song is now in my main playlist.
- timmaah 8y agoThe Dead South ? They seem to be oddly popular on youtube.
- jalgos_eminator 8y ago"Men I Trust" from Quebec. This is the song that started it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZKcb3LndA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZKcb3LndA
- aasasd 8y ago> an artist from Belarus that makes fantastic synthpop Alright, I'm gonna need a link.
- jalgos_eminator 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypknY6nIDe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypknY6nIDe0 Check the comments. It looks like there were plenty of people who had the same experience as me.
- aasasd 8y agoAh, I'm not sure that this recommendation is tied to user's history of watched videos. Because I've also seen it in my ‘recommendations’―and though I tend to occasionally listen to a couple tracks of Gary Numan or a vaporwave mix, I don't think a 2018 release would follow from that dataset.
- jalgos_eminator 8y agoWell, I did watch a couple "yugowave" videos, so maybe that has something to do with it.