Dmitrii Aleksandrov

    Music

    About

    This page lists every band that I’ve liked since I created the first version of this list many years ago.

    I find it more compact and reliable than keeping track on a streaming service. None of the streaming services have my entire collection, anyway.

    Here, I don’t make any distinction between my “absolute favorites” and the bands that I’ve listened to a few times, enjoyed it, and then moved on. My favorites change all the time, anyway. It’s very hard to categorize like that.

    I give my favorite albums, where I have any. But sometimes, those are just the albums that I happened to listen to. I don’t always listen to the entire discography (who does, lol). I use a 💿 emoji where I’ve listened to the band’s discography and can confidently say which albums are my favorites. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that these are my favorite bands.

    The bands are ordered roughly by similarity.

    Rock / pop / groovy

    Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From The Universe

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor (barely listened to them at all)

    Nevermind The Name

    American Football (mostly the meme debut, but I like some songs from the third too)

    The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (haven’t listened to the others)

    King Crimson (especially the debut, but I haven’t listened to everything yet)

    Nirvana (especially Nevermind, but I haven’t listened much to the rest yet)

    The Misfits - American Psycho

    Styx (barely listened at all, but the shows seem very good and I love Todd Sucherman)

    Van Halen (barely listened to them, but they slap)

    Black Sabbath (I’ve only listened to the first two yet)

    AC/DC (I’ve only heard the hits)

    Led Zeppelin (my favorites are the first two, but I haven’t listened to the others in a long while)

    💿 The Beatles (my favorites start with Rubber Soul)

    Electric Moon

    Doom Side of the Moon – Doom Side of the Moon

    💿 Pink Floyd (mostly, the 70s and the debut)

    Roger Waters - Amused To Death (barely listened to the other ones)

    David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock (barely listened to the other ones)

    Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (the earlier ones are good too, haven’t listened to the later ones yet)

    Jeff Beck (live shows)

    Benny Greb (live videos on YouTube)

    Matt McGuire (drumming videos on YouTube)

    Max Sansalone (drumming videos on YouTube)

    Carter McLean (drumming videos on YouTube)

    Simon Phillips (I’ve only really listened to Protocol II)

    The Mountain Goats - Goths (I went through the discography once, the others didn’t get me like this one)

    Band Of Skulls (I’ve only listened to a few songs, but they slap)

    Morphine

    Portishead - Dummy (but I haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    DJ Krush - Krush (I’ve barely listened to the other stuff)

    Red Hot Chili Peppers (mostly as a live band)

    Сергей Шнуров (haven’t listened much)

    Ленинград (haven’t listened much)

    Алла Пугачева - Зеркало Души (haven’t listened much)

    The Police (haven’t listened much)

    Bruno Mars (haven’t listened much, but it’s a relatively good pop)

    ABBA

    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

    ELO - Time (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (I’ve only really listened to that one)

    Hiromi Uehara (live videos on YouTube)

    Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

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    Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here

    MDM - Sugar Dynamite

    Mac DeMarco (haven’t listened much after This Old Dog)

    Лиза Матрёшка

    Vulfpeck (get started on YouTube)

    Mario DiSanto (get started on YouTube)

    Louis Cole (get started on YouTube)

    KNOWER (get started on YouTube)

    ClownC0re (get started on YouTube)

    Owane (music videos on YouTube)

    First of October (“Album In A Day” series on YouTube)

    Jacob Collier (get started on YouTube)

    Charlie Hunter (get started on YouTube)

    Roosevelt

    Crumb

    Melody’s Echo Chamber - Melody’s Echo Chamber

    💿 Tame Impala (my favorites are until Currents, inclusively)

    Temples (haven’t listened much)

    Caligulas Guns - I

    💿 MGMT - Little Dark Age (the others are hit-or-miss for me)

    Запрещенные Барабанщики (haven’t listened much yet)

    Жанна Агузарова

    Секрет - Секрет (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

    Альянс - Альянс

    Peter Gabriel - So (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

    Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

    💿 Tears For Fears (my favorites are the first two, especially the second)

    Кино (selected songs)

    💿 The Cure (their main gold is in the 80s, but the entire discography is good)

    Skeletal Family

    Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

    Glaze - Wasted Mind

    OVER - Vacant Daydream

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    Blind Seagull - Filth

    💿 My Bloody Valentine (start with Loveless)

    Slowdive (those are my favorites, but I haven’t listened to the other ones enough):

    Увула (I heard them when I was already done with shoegaze, but they seem good for the genre)

    Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    Wolf Alice

    Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    Lovesliescrushing - Blowyelashwish (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    Ride - Going Blank Again (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    💿 Постоянные (until 2021, inclusively)

    💿 Foo Fighters (mostly the first three albums, selected hits after that)

    ПТВП (haven’t listened to them much, but the music is good, feels alive)

    Blink-182 (the hits)

    There For Tomorrow

    Placebo (mostly the first 5, especially Without You I’m Nothing, and their earlier years in general)

    .and sex in the mini country. - В память вечным романтикам (the other ones don’t do that for me)

    состояние птиц (haven’t listened much)

    Base Ball Bear (haven’t listened much)

    Ling tosite sigure

    TK from Ling tosite sigure

    Sonic Youth

    Autolux

    Blur (the 90s, ofc)

    Oasis (mostly the first two albums, ofc)

    Garbage - Version 2.0 (haven’t listened to the other ones much)

    💿 Radiohead (nowadays, I mostly listen to The Bends, as it’s the most “casual” one, lol)

    Конец солнечных дней (barely listened to them)

    SUMMER COMA / САММЕР КОМА (selectively)

    Дикие Цветы

    💿 Валентин Стрыкало (everything)

    Дом Престарелых Аутистов

    The XX (I’ve only listened to the first two albums)

    Bulldog Eyes (barely listened to them)

    Electronic

    Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (barely listened to)

    Kontakte - We Move Through Negative Spaces (barely listened to the other stuff)

    t.A.T.u - 200 km/h in the wrong lane

    Electric Youth

    Space (I’ve only listened to Magic Fly and Just Blue)

    💿 Mass Gothic - Sup Goth (the other ones don’t do that for me)

    Lady Gaga

    💿 Drab Majesty - The Demonstration (starting with it, but especially that album)

    Brandy Kills (I’ve only listened to a few songs)

    Dance With The Dead

    Donovans (I’ve only listened to a few songs)

    Lady Waks (live DJ sets)

    Colombo - Abandoned Factory

    Numb - Wasted Sky (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Noisia

    B-Complex

    Pendulum

    💿 The Prodigy (selectively across the entire discography)

    Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way Baby

    💿 Jojo Mayer & Nerve (live videos on YouTube, starting from around 2015)

    Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem

    Die Antwoord (music videos)

    💿 DenDerty (my favorites start with “Иди и смотри”)

    💿 100 gecs (everything)

    Пошлая Молли (selected songs)

    Horse The Band - R. Borlax (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Bondage Fairies (I’ve only listened to the debut a few times)

    💿 Crystal Castles (everything)

    Pogo (remixes of old movies on YouTube)

    Fearofdark - Motorway (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

    Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (haven’t really listened to the other ones yet)

    Shortparis - Так закалялась сталь (haven’t really listened to the other ones yet)

    Ночные Грузчики

    Макулатура

    слушай экзорцист (I’m not sure if it’s even uploaded anywhere other than vk.com)

    Metal

    Tool (haven’t listened to the other ones much, although I’ve tried a few times):

    💿 Dream Theater (from “Images And Words” until “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”. My favorites start from “Scenes From A Memory”)

    Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve (so groovy, unlike the later ones)

    Fredrik Thordendal’s Special Defects - Sol Niger Within (I think, I’ve only listened to it one time 🙈)

    Incubus - Fungus Amongus (similarly)

    Rage Against the Machine

    Kyuss (I’ve only really listened to “Blues for the Red Sun” and “Welcome To The Sly Walley”)

    💿 Korn (mostly the 90s)

    💿 Limp Bizkit:

    Linkin Park (mostly the first two, but the rest of the 2000s is good too)

    Skillet (based cringe. Comatose and Awake hits slap)

    Breaking Benjamin (selected songs)

    Evanescence (selectively)

    Slipknot (mostly, the first two albums)

    💿 Amatory (my favorite is Инстинкт Оберечённых, by a small margin)

    Bullet For My Valentine (the first three albums)

    coldrain - The Side Effects

    Passcode

    Suicide Silence

    Attila - Guilty Pleasure (haven’t listened to the other ones yet)

    💿 Bring Me The Horizon (these are my favorites, but the others are good too):

    Architects - Holy Hell (my favorite so far, but I haven’t listened to them much)

    Kadinja - Super ‘90

    💿 Northlane (especially Alien, but Obsidian and the others are good too)

    Mick Gordon (yeah, I’ve only heard a few songs from that Doom soundtrack)

    Toronto Is Broken

    💿 Invertor (every album sounds the same, I just keep listening to the first two EPs, mostly)

    Nails - Abandon All Life (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Slayer (mostly the hits)

    Alice In Chains

    Fear Factory

    Lamb Of God (until Wrath, inclusively)

    💿 Pantera (starting with Cowboys From Hell. My favorite is probably Far Beyond Driven, by a small margin)

    Cannibal Corpse

    Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Deafheaven - Sunbather (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Psychonaut 4 - Neurastenia (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    Insomnium - Winter’s Gate (haven’t listened to the other stuff)

    💿 Children Of Bodom (until Halo Of Blood inclusively, mostly the 2000s)

    💿 In Flames (mostly until Siren Charms, inclusively. But their live shows are still good)

    💿 Megadeth (only the 90s)

    💿 Metallica (mostly, the first 5 and Death Magnetic. And Justice For All is my favorite)

    💿 Ария - Генератор зла (their only consistently great album. A lot of other good songs are scattered until the 2000s, inclusively. Live shows with Беркут are the best)

    ChatGPT analysis

    Here’s a ChatGPT analysis of who I am based on my taste. Because why not, lol.

    Inspired by this post about analysing bookmarks .

    I stripped all my comments from the prompt and kept only a raw list of artists, to avoid “leaking” my writing style.

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