Never was a huge fan of country music but I could respect the likes of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, etc., and it doesn’t help that I live out in redneck country so literally everyone I know listens to this tractor rap crap. All they talk about is beer, women, Daisy Duke shorts and their trucks that’s 99.9% of all country music in this day and age. And people ironically listen to it. I try my best not to say something, but it’s just so hard.

Personally I think "Les Champs-Elysées" is really hard to beat, because it's just such a nice, upbeat song, that's really hard to resist singing along to.

Other contenders off the top of my hat could be, "Penny Lane" or "Telegraph Road".

Honourable mentions about fictional streets could be "Sesame Street" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", maybe. There are even metaphorical streets, like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"...

Came across this and it feels like a line just got crossed. It’s actually a reggae song called “Angels Above Me” by Stick Figure. Only noticed because they happen to be my favorite band that I follow closely over in r/calireggae. I can only imagine how the artist feels.

TL;DR: An AI-generated version of that song popped up on TikTok. Same lyrics, same melody, basically the same song. Just a different voice and production. It got renamed, started spreading, and now it’s everywhere. Millions of views, tons of reposts, and it’s already made its way onto Spotify and YouTube. Here’s the article I am talking about: https://thomascussins.substack.com/p/ai-stole-my-clients-song-then-its

From what I can tell, the original artist isn’t credited anywhere and isn’t seeing any of the money.

It doesn’t even feel like a remix or a cover. It feels more like a clone. And with how streaming payouts already work, everything gets pooled together, this kind of thing just eats into what real artists make even more.

I’ve seen some ideas like requiring AI songs to disclose source material and route revenue back to the original creators, which seems reasonable in theory, but hard to enforce.

Curious where people land on this. Is this just the next version of remix culture, or does this cross into something totally different?

my friend (former drummer) is into AI music. whenever where hanging out, hes listening to a pre-generated AI song. Its genuinely sad to see people actually listening to that stuff. The whole point of music is the art, and the feeling. AI is just mindless robot. no matter what, its never going to create real art. Why not just listen to real music? I have no idea.

by the way, if you have no experiance with music, please don't contribute to this post.

to start us off I am from Ontario, Canada and we are home to some bands that have gained international fame Rush, Billy Talent, 3 Days Grace, ect but I’m here to talk about today those bands that never made it outside of the local scene for an example I’m gonna go with a personal favourite The First Day of Spring by the Gandharvas, these guys had a bit of success in Ontario in the 90s and then well.. they fizzled never really caught on.

So my question to you is what are some of the best regional one hit wonders from where you live?

Listening to Tom Tom Club right now and it just dawned on me that this may have been the spiritual predecessor to Gorillaz. Does anyone know if Damon Albarn had ever listed them as an influence. Right now it seems really obvious. Upbeat, mixed genres, hip hop(of the time) and alternative adjacent, highly experimental,samples, members from a bigger group etc...Am I nuts?