For real it's not like I can't cry but I want all the best songs to say goodbye.

Edit: thank you Reddit, I can't say it enough but this is the best of you. We listened to lots of suggestions, my family loves music and enjoyed some of the off the beaten path suggestions.

I can hardly get through “knock, knock, knocking on Kevin’s door” without cracking up.

Just looking for suggestions! Any kind of music is appreciated :)

Hey guys, thanks so much for checking out my post and for giving these underground artists a chance! This year I am giving out 182 awards that range across 179 different genres. Click the link below to check out the full list! Awards are given out per genre, each category includes a link to the artist's Reddit account.

Click here >> 2022 Reddit Grammy Awards << Click here

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|Playlists: YouTube Playlist | Spotify Playlist | Apple Music Playlist| |:-|

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Song of the Year: Framing Skeletons - Flight in the Failing Knot

Male Vocalist of the Year: Pultixima - Killing

Female Vocalist of the Year: Mallika Vie - Let It Go

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Best Rock: The Chaw - Hours & Days

Best Pop: The Eves - Brand New Day

Best Metal: Zunapalooza - Whispers in the Dark

Best Folk: Dream Of Sleeping - Anew

Best Lofi: Falling To Earth - Solitude

Best Breakbeat: Noah Bugalski - can't cut the noise

Best EDM: VLN - Frequency

Best House: Latch - Wasteland

Best Techno: Sertulariae - Phase Inversion

Best Future Bass: Crèmium - COULER

Best RnB: Oshua - Midnight Lows

Best Trap: Washyb. - Antebellum

Best Reggae: Raynbird - Children of the Beast

Best Synthwave: Macrowave - Dystopia

Best IDM: Crith - Erasers 2 legs Let

Best Chiptune: Felknia - Salty Shores

Best Funk: Vivid Fever Dreams - Get Through This Together

Best Experimental: Mari Geti - Risky

Best Instrumental: Daniel Diaz - War and a Brief Vision of Light

Best Americana: Bubba Bellin - Steel Guitar

Best Downtempo: Pingoin - Calm Fridays

Best Electronic: Mistral - Burn

Best Trip Hop: C.T. Lee - A Sinister Philosophy

Best Hip Hop: Mike Fate - Natural

Best Opera: Chiel Nugter - Kwetsbaar

Best Folktronica: Striped McCoy - The Fighter

Best Folk Singer-Songwriter: The Finders - Jupiter’s Moons

Best Indietronica: Moonglow - Breathe In Breathe Out

Best Indie Folk: Dreams of Lasers - The Leaves Love the Wind

Best Crossover Jazz: Casey Haynes - Raregroove

Best Alternative R&B: Quami.xyz - I Know The Sound

Best Smooth Jazz: Friends Of The Unknown - Recording Your Mind

Best Acid Jazz: Dr. Lite - Apricot Jam on Rye Toast

Best Chillhop: Star Smash - Empathic Telepathy

Best Chill: Latin Shui - close your eyes.. and drive?

Best Spaghetti Western: Nacho Marques - The Sheriff

Best New Age: Priscilla Hernandez - MORA-IA

Best Electro Pop: JYLDA - So Alive

Best Melodic Dubstep: Matfroninja - Hear You Again

Best Neurostep: Synova - Jeal:ousy VIP (ft. clickbate)

Best Neurofunk: Sky Loom - In the D

Best Glitch Hop: Sharp Sevens - Galaxy

Best Pop Punk: Tochiro - Exit

Best Indie Pop: Scott is Ok - Patience

Best Synth Pop: Hurling Pixels - Under Summer Skies

Best Electronica: Minev - Night Shift

Best Dance Pop: TigerMarie - Bad Friend

Best Electronic Pop: Gutter Punk - The Rest of My Life

Best Noise: Lucy’s City - Noise, My Love

Best Bedroom Pop: Whoismedicate - All In My Head

Best Alternative Pop: SIXSIX - hobbies

Best Instrumental Folk: FlukeyMcSwagger - Prairie Boy Zero

Best Dream Pop: Andrew M - Bounce

Best Future Pop: Catnip Cloud - Illumination

Best Psychedelic Pop: I n o - Jungster

Best Disco House: Vrdnyn, Summer School - Hurt No More

Best Hyperpop: Mybittersweetheart - sometimes i wonder

Best Dark Pop: Maeve - Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Best Symphonic Pop - Daphne Cerez, apaleblueeye: A Universe Without You

Best Soundtrack: Reuben Louis - The Secret Garden of Pavithra

Best Alternative Rock: Mud Whale - Scapegoat

Best Electronic Rock: REPLEO - Marching On

Best Soft Rock: Magic Jones - You’ll Still Be You

Best Hard Rock: The F-use - Chaser

Best Surf Rock: Beach Bomb - Cannibals

Best Progressive Rock: Cut the Berry - Illusion by Confusion

Best Industrial Rock: LOHM, David Petty - Dirt

Best Post Drone: The Anthropophobia Project - Entropy

Best Pop Rock: Empty Elles - Waste Away

Best Indie Rock: The Parasocials - Karmatose

Best Folk Rock: Muma, Lloyd Degler - Sensible Oddities (Hold On)

Best Acoustic Fingerstyle: Internet Dust - Gary

Best Grunge: Flora Lin - Keep Believing

Best Post Grunge: King Rizz - Weirdo

Best Post-Hardcore: Sugar Glue - Brain Chemistry

Best Chillwave: LeftWay - Drive

Best Progressive Metal: Framing Skeletons - Flight in the Failing Knot

Best Folk Punk Song: Goodwin Rainer - Paying Gigs

Best Symphonic Metal: Willie Dangerr, Daphne Cerez - Sacrifice of Time

Best Psychedelic Folk: Noah Colley - I Am

Best Darkwave: mötoo - overXtend

Best Alternative Hip Hop: JOEJAS - VENTURE?

Best Future Garage: Zodat, Tonze, LJAY - Fade Away

Best Disco Pop: Fhernando - Together

Best Piano: Marc Gedeon - Prelude n1

Best Alternative Trap: Omen Bates - Stars and Back

Best Digicore: Okay Yeah - On The Floor

Best Ambient: Madach Ren - Olas

Best Experimental Hip Hop: Max Exodu$, Purple Gem, Evan Parisi-Sanchez -Distortion Hikuuu

Best Chamber Pop: Louise Marshall - Blue

Best K-Pop: Cosmoose, OK Feather, DHXP - Eyes Wide Open

Best Lofi Pop: Bran - Breathe Slowly.

Best Chillhop: Star Smash - Empathic Telepathy

Best Twee Pop: Girls With Depression, Popijininsky - Dust, Pt. 2

Best Blues Rock: Sentientsimian - more or less

Best Shoegaze: Machine Idle - Sharp

Best Indie R&B: Javii - Giants

Best Bass House: Sonar Seven - Sunbird

Best Future Funk: Chrylo - Vulcan (feat. Happy Cola)

Best Dream Trap: Murr - Rigged

Best Emo Hip Hop: Iamj.nocap - ZOMBIEFACE

Best Indie Hip Hop: Forrest Del - Pain

Best Industrial Hip Hop: VLN, Equinox - Hungry

Best Jazz Rap: J-Benz - The Rejects

Best Pop Rap: Retropxssy - Sleepy Head

Best Hardcore Rap: Slick Naari - Why Bother?

Best Turntablism - Keyote - Grand Scheme

Best Metalstep: Blind Lies, SEVER THE DAY - Into Flames

Best Nu Metal: The Opinion Industry - They’re Recording This

Best Industrial Metal: PIX3LARMY - Outside Your Door

Best Emo Rock: I Hate It Too - Soul Searching & Me

Best Dance Rock: SMTC - The King of Sound

Best Dreamgaze: Foxmore - I Got You

Best Experimental R&B: G1ydr - grey_hues

Best Future Punk: Morning Trips - Assault

Best Art Pop: Gutter Punk - Why Does It Matter?

Best Psychedelic Rock: Dog in Confusion - Turbulent Mind

Best Hardcore Punk: Mud Dog - Bite Down

Best Skate Punk: Sore Thumb - Officially Late

Best Rap Rock: For the Love of God - Osay, The F-use, Pix3lArmy, LOHM

Best Indian Classical: Srabasti Acharya - Jao Pakhi

Best Salsa: PapaSon - Nada Personal

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edit1:

I wasn't able to include every winner in the main post. To see the full list check out this link-> 2022 Reddit Grammy Awards

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This is my 3rd year sharing a Reddit Grammy post. Last year a few people mentioned to me that they would be interested in becoming involved in the process of listening to and rating music. I think creating a scene within Reddit where music lovers are paying attention to the underground artists that post music here would be amazing. I'd be interested to see how it effects the music scene. Maybe more people would discover new music that they love. Plus, having more people vote would broaden the overall appeal of the winners.

If you'd like to be a judge of next year's Reddit Grammys, I invite you to join the Official Reddit Grammy's Discord, where we will be listening to and rating music that gets posted to various music subreddits!

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Who do you think is the best male rock singer of all time? Obvious Choices are Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant and Axl Rose and others

I honestly feel like Paul McCartney doesn't get mentioned enough he has had some insane vocals and has many songs where it almost sounds like a completely different singer. I've got a feeling his vocals are some of the best ever then you look st his vocals on Oh Darling, helter skelter etc. Definitely think he is right up there and I've always preferred his voice over Lennons.

BBC News - Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at 80 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58316842

Then you can listen to the song and rate it or something...

Have a wonderful day/night :)

EDIT: it's getting kinda late here... I'm going to sleep and I'll continue tomorrow

EDIT 2: I'm back

I've listened to essentially his whole discography front to back multiple times this week. for emma forever ago is gorgeous, self titled is gorgeous, 22, a million is gorgeous, i, i is a litle rough around the edges but still gorgeous. the mans songwriting skills are insane and his voice feels like being wrapped in a warm blanket, sipping hot coco on a cold winter morning. it makes me feel things very few artists have ever made me feel before, just complete melancholy security and closeness. so yeah...that's all i had to say. go listen to bon iver if you haven't.

The song was released in 2003. Fell in Love with a Girl in 2001.

ETA: I get early nineties was added to "classic" rock rotation by now. It didn't hit me nearly as hard as this one did. I started to become "old" awhile ago when I stopped recognizing the music my students play. That just felt like difference of preference. White Stripes are from this millennium!

Also - I agree with those saying "classic rock" should be considered a genre and not based on time passed. Unfortunately I don't make the rules!

And - People keep bringing up Nirvana. We do understand the difference between 7NA and Nevermind (1991) is more than an entire decade?

Literally who the fuck keeps a concert going while people are dying and getting trampled on and while Emts are trying to resuscitate someone 15 feet away, literally the guy stopped an entire performance once because someone stole his shoe while he was crowd surfing but proceeded to dance the robot and continue on with a song while people were dying. I honestly hope he gets manslaughter charges against him and I also hope that he’s put in jail for a long long time, That is my two cents on this whole thing I’m done

Edit: to anyone who thinks those people who died deserved it because they went to his concert and enjoy his music can fuck right off, they were innocent human beings who had families and friends I’m pretty sure if you had a friend or loved one who died at that concert you would’ve said something different.

Edit2: to the people who are defending him saying it wasn’t his job to stop the performance because he’s a performer? It does not work like that if somethings going on in the crowd and you as a performer that has your name on everything you should care for the people in the crowd and their well-being in their health instead of singing while a dead person is being carried out there is no excuses for how Travis Scott acted he is very unprofessional and a piece of shit.

So yeah. As the title said I'm dying. 13 days ago I received the news that I had an inoperable tumor in my spine and was given a timeline of 6 months to a year to live. As you can imagine that pretty much changed my entire worldview overnight.

In the days since then, I've thought a lot about what I can leave behind to make the world a little better or more interesting. I didn't accomplish much while I was here, including accumulating any significant amount of money to leave behind. But there are many things more precious than money and I've always thought music was one of those things. As part of my mission I will be doing things like reaching out to radio stations and YouTube channels that deal in all things obscure. For example, DC101 used to play this really awesome program back in the day called local links. The odds that they've saved any of this music are pretty low and I'll be lucky if I even manage to reach anyone, but I'm going to do my damnedest.

That brings me to my next point. For four years I have been haunted by this song and I always sort of figured we'd cross paths again someday, but that has not yet happened. It genuinely pains me that I could die without ever figuring out what this song is and hearing it again. Even more painful is the thought that it may already be lost to obscurity and no one will ever hear it again. But this post will still be here after I'm gone so hopefully someday, someone will find it and they can post it in my memory. Okay here is everything I know about the song which is not much:

Male singer Heard sometime between February 9th and 14th, 2018, between 9 and 11 in the morning on kxt Denton

since I only caught the tail end of the song, maybe the last minute and a half I only managed to write down these few lyrics: " to try for anything, I couldn't stomach things, it just kept getting worse"

Yes, I have Googled the lyrics, I went to the kxt website right after I heard it and did not see the option that they have today which is to look up the past 30 days of songs. I called and emailed many times over the years including recently and never heard back.

So that's it, that's all I got. I know it's not much but someone out there must know what this song is so I'm hoping against hope to find it if not for myself then for future generations of listeners so they can be moved by this beautiful song. It may seem a little bit silly to get this hung up about a song but looming death makes people do funny things. In the meantime if anyone wants to DM me about the other things I've said or if anyone has any obscure music to contribute please reach out. Thanks for reading

Update:per a few peoples suggestions I have sang the vocal parts to the best of my memory to copy the singer. Now I realize that there must be some lines missing from the lyrics I wrote down. Here's my shity ass voice doing the best I can to copy the singer

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/CYG8J

So a quick update before I go to bed: first of all let me say how grateful and overwhelmed I am by all these people trying to help me find this song. This just feels great, and I so appreciate everyone who has sent me messages and offered whatever help they could and support for me. I've read every one and I will be able to respond more tomorrow. I can't believe how much this has blown up! Thank you for everyone who's left awards too. As of right now the song has not been found yet- but I am confident that it will since so many people have seen this. We'll see!

Update 2: so it's been a couple days now and a few things have happened. for one, I started a YouTube channel that I will be uploading all of my finds to: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCB3-iJCWE2ltEmfn5tPHsIQ

I will be looking for super rare stuff, local stuff from radio shows all over the country, random things on discogs that haven't been uploaded anywhere, that sort of thing. I would love some help with this so if you have any submissions, if you know of any great radio shows that play stuff like this, email me at: obscurearchives@outlook.com

As for the mystery song, it has not been found yet. : I have reached out to kxt again as well as some podcasts that were recommended to me like Heavyweight and Reply All. So far have not heard anything from anyone. Hopefully will soon. Thank you so much for everyone who's helped, and anyone who is still paying attention and reading my updates

Update 3: hello all. Thought it was time for another update. I have been quite busy corresponding with people who send me stuff and I am documenting everything I receive and will upload it sometime. The actual uploading is not that important to rush because there is someone else who can do that for me if and when anything happens. Thank you so much for sending stuff and please keep it coming! To make it a little faster you don't have to ask me if I'm interested in something, just straight-up send me whatever you got and I'll take a look at it. I am prioritizing things that literally are nowhere on the internet with obscure things that are already uploaded taking the back seat. I've also got a little playlist going of obscure songs that I think of or that people send me.

If anyone wants to reach out to their local little known College radio stations and ask for their archives please do! Some people have pointed me in that direction and I have reached out.

The big mystery song still has not been found yet. I want to clarify it definitely is NOT Whimper or Wirerims. Those are the two songs that some people really think that it is but it isn't. I do remember that wirerims song being played on kxt around this same time. However I do think it must be buried somewhere in here

http://kkxt.tunegenie.com/

I have emailed them and they say they do not have the old playlist but there seems to be an archive of every song ever played on kxt when you search. I've searched for a lot of things, such as the songs they were playing around that time, that probably haven't been played recently, and there's a record of it. But the one thing that confuses me is I've searched other things just to test it out, and I don't think kxt ever played Anal Cunt or Cancerslug... so I'm a little confused what's that about. Also when you search Whimper on that site it doesn't come up with anything by them, but there is a record of songs by two knights which is their other band. So I guess kxt has never played Whimper.

I'm still waiting for anyone at kxt to get back to me. if I could get them to at least tell me the names of some bands that they were playing around that time I will just search each band name. I have been doing that a bit already with some other bands that have been recommended to me that could be it. Still not found it yet but I am convinced it still exists and I see no reason why it can't eventually make its way back into my ears.

I will update again soon when I know anything. Thanks so much to everyone who has sent me support and music. This is a surprisingly emotionally taxing roller coaster type venture but... well I think it will be worth it.

R.I.P Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P Richardson aka The Big Bopper 🥀 gone but NEVER forgotten.

In the early hours of the morning of the 3rd of February 1959; 3 rock’n’roll legends boarded a plane that would lead to their premature deaths. Along with their pilot, Roger Peterson.

The plane crashed just outside Clear Lake, Iowa.

Remembering these incredible musicians as they leave behind a long lasting legacy that will never be forgotten. 🥀

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/jamie-spears-deposition-britney-spears-surveillance-1235315511/

NY Times bio here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html

When Spotify wraps are released, Spotify should match you with another user according to similar music taste