@Headly 3 dudes, a bass, a guitar, and drums, in various time signatures including 7/8 and 7/4: Ifyou listen carefully you can tell that the bass is a Rickenbacker 4001.
I'd suggest we need a "perfect album side" thread, but I am terribly afraid that too many of the kids on this forum have no idea what an album is . . .
For the first time, I feel like this site that I subbed to as a lark off (based on a link from Daring Fireball) has paid off. The short history of house music gave me some leads that I need to follow up on. (Was big into .mods back in the day...)
I get real tired of "real" and "favorite" things--except perhaps as a matter of personal commitment (I have a favorite person, my wife; I have favored forms of writing; etc.).
Language itself--in both its visual and especially, obviously, aural forms--is or at least can be music.
There's music in nature and in the undercurrents of the post-industrial world we live in. There was a belief more common in past generations that the very fabric of the universe was held together by a sort of celestial symphony. I believe this. It's just a matter of "hearing." Tolkien does a wonderful job of articulating this in the cosmogony of Silmarillion.
As far as what people explicitly call music, I like at least instances of most forms of it and have some difficulty saying that any of it is categorically not "real." Autotuned pop shit comes closest. I wouldn't say that that shit isn't real though; it's just bad.
@brhfl Aww, thanks. :-) I'm gonna believe that you don't mean that sarcastically. My perspective is not for everyone, so I'm a little paranoid about compliments.
@joelmw@lisaviolet As for it being a "legit" comeback - Funny, I pretty much thought that the Dude said this as the "I'm a pacifist and although I know you're full of shit, I'm not going to fight about it - I leave you to think the thoughts you think and believe those thoughts, no matter how fucking ridiculous they may be".
@lisaviolet Part of what I love is looking back and remembering that folks (even I, to some degree, to be honest) thought some of this stuff was so badass once upon a time. It's looks just cute now. Cute in a diminutive way.
There is no "Real or Fake" (unless you're talkin' to the jury that took Pharrel n' Thicke's millions away), just good and bad. I consider Barney the Purple Dinosaur's songs baaad. My 3 year old considers "Gates of Delerium" by Yes baaader. Neither of us can deal with Neil Diamond...
@lisaviolet@CMichaelC I remember liking Neil. And I don't totally hate his stuff now, but it just seems so . . . quaint. And not great. Sigh. I think the memory is better than the reality.
This lip synch/cover (that I just found, never saw the movie it's from) somehow says what needs to be said about what's simultaneously compelling and ridiculous about it all. Brother Love might just be my favorite Diamond track too, for a variety of reasons.
Freebird!
7/4 or gtfo
@Headly 3 dudes, a bass, a guitar, and drums, in various time signatures including 7/8 and 7/4: Ifyou listen carefully you can tell that the bass is a Rickenbacker 4001.
@Headly better:
That was surreal.
Pink Floyd!!!
@Mehrocco_Mole OO, OO, FIRST picture.
I love electronic music, as much as instrumental.
Real music to me is pretty much anything that isn't written just to reach some target focus group demographic.
Real music = live music. Bonus points if you are the one/one of the people making it.
(Simulated music (recordings) is still great, but nothing beats singing great music in a professional chorus.)
Real music = music that isn't put together with samples, or is completely made out of a few key presses.
I'd suggest we need a "perfect album side" thread, but I am terribly afraid that too many of the kids on this forum have no idea what an album is . . .
@Pavlov Remember how exciting it was when the 8-track changed tracks between songs rather than in the middle? Good times, good times.
@editorkid 8-track? That's awfully new tech there. . . I still have 4-track and reel-to-reel.
@Pavlov Manual-pump player piano here. Not sayin' I win, but...
@editorkid I've got a Tibetan singing bowl . . .
@Pavlov
@Pavlov I think back fondly of reel-to-reel. Hours and hours of listening. Would buy one now if I found it at a garage sale!
Instrument is just another word for tool (and no, not the colloquial meaning)
It should grow out of, or inspire in the listener, real emotions, memories, or aspirations.
@MSticklefeather Perfect description of my choices.
Music isn't "real" unless whenever it plays, someone dies.
There's no real or fake music, only good or bad music.
Real music is a calculated act, with personal investment of some kind of skill, like any art.
not auto-tuned
For the first time, I feel like this site that I subbed to as a lark off (based on a link from Daring Fireball) has paid off. The short history of house music gave me some leads that I need to follow up on. (Was big into .mods back in the day...)
I get real tired of "real" and "favorite" things--except perhaps as a matter of personal commitment (I have a favorite person, my wife; I have favored forms of writing; etc.).
Language itself--in both its visual and especially, obviously, aural forms--is or at least can be music.
There's music in nature and in the undercurrents of the post-industrial world we live in. There was a belief more common in past generations that the very fabric of the universe was held together by a sort of celestial symphony. I believe this. It's just a matter of "hearing." Tolkien does a wonderful job of articulating this in the cosmogony of Silmarillion.
As far as what people explicitly call music, I like at least instances of most forms of it and have some difficulty saying that any of it is categorically not "real." Autotuned pop shit comes closest. I wouldn't say that that shit isn't real though; it's just bad.
@joelmw
@joelmw
@joelmw
I knew that if I suffered through another 'what constitutes real art' discussion, eventually a breath of fresh @joelmw air would come up. Ahhhhh.
@lisaviolet So, yeah, this is what the Dude says when he really doesn't have a legitimate comeback, so mostly I'm feeling validated. ;-p
@brhfl Aww, thanks. :-) I'm gonna believe that you don't mean that sarcastically. My perspective is not for everyone, so I'm a little paranoid about compliments.
@joelmw
Off to the Safari Park to use those tickets we one....real animals there, I hear.
@joelmw @lisaviolet As for it being a "legit" comeback - Funny, I pretty much thought that the Dude said this as the "I'm a pacifist and although I know you're full of shit, I'm not going to fight about it - I leave you to think the thoughts you think and believe those thoughts, no matter how fucking ridiculous they may be".
But hey, that's just my interpretation.
@Pavlov That's probably a better interpretation. I was just talking shit. Don't tell @lisaviolet.
@joelmw
All we need is a drummer, for people who only need a beat.
@nadroj "Gimme a beat!"
@lisaviolet Part of what I love is looking back and remembering that folks (even I, to some degree, to be honest) thought some of this stuff was so badass once upon a time. It's looks just cute now. Cute in a diminutive way.
@joelmw I know, right?
There is no "Real or Fake" (unless you're talkin' to the jury that took Pharrel n' Thicke's millions away), just good and bad. I consider Barney the Purple Dinosaur's songs baaad. My 3 year old considers "Gates of Delerium" by Yes baaader. Neither of us can deal with Neil Diamond...
@CMichaelC And then there's bad:
And bad as I wanna be . . .
@CMichaelC Neil Diamond...Something Blue....if you haven't seen it, keep watching, it's freaking adorbs!...
But... But... I love purple.
@lisaviolet @CMichaelC I remember liking Neil. And I don't totally hate his stuff now, but it just seems so . . . quaint. And not great. Sigh. I think the memory is better than the reality.
This lip synch/cover (that I just found, never saw the movie it's from) somehow says what needs to be said about what's simultaneously compelling and ridiculous about it all. Brother Love might just be my favorite Diamond track too, for a variety of reasons.
That ain't music @lisaviolet, that's "puppies"! That's why they call it "Puppy Love"...
@CMichaelC But...but...but....PUPPIES! Lots and lots of PUPPIES! Knock you down and lick your face PUPPIES!