why? - alopeciaDicko recommended this album to me and while it's pretty good, I just can't seem to really get into it. I'll give it another try.
what about NON-RAP, steel?
I didn't get anywhere near as many new records this year as I did in 2007, so compiling a best of list is a little futile. I spent most of my time this year listening to The Beatles. Nonetheless...
tv on the radio - dear science
el guincho - alegranza!
dodos - visiter
why? - alopecia
deerhunter - microcastle/weird era cont.
no age - nouns
spiritualized - songs in a&e
four tet - ringer
animal collective - water curses ep
fleet foxes - fleet foxes
I didn't even think of a single rap release DS listed. the best album was the Elzhi one. there was also Steinski, Subtle (ds check this out its more your kind of rap), Cadence Weapon (also this), Gaslamp Killer, Snoop Dogg, fucking SATELLITE HIGH (heh im a goon), Statik Selektah, Jake One, Nicolay and Kay, Rhymefest, Epik High, Re Up Gang had a mixtape, Ghostface, Nas, Onra, CRACKnuckles, and Time Machine. there were also good releases by Shad and Panacea that I think came out late 2007, and half the net's stanning for Black Milk so I'm sure he dropped an album I ain't heard. not all these are the best albums but I'd put most of them above Carter 3 yeah.Thankkkkks. I haven't even heard most of that list. I have Yell & Ice by Subtle and it's pretty good so I'll check out that and Cadence Weapon. I have also seen you guys talking about Time Machine so I think I'll try that too, and I have been meaning to check out Ghostface for some time so I'll probably get that one too once I have heard the other ones.
also I'm writing a best of 08 list for the mainsite.
yeah honestly i dont know what it is but i hardly listened to any music from 08 at all! some one tell me what to get.no screamo or prog thoughNot really sure what you listen to but you could try Snowman, Anathallo, Portishead, Deerhunter and Fleet Foxes.
i think the problem is there is too much fucking music.Yeah, way too much. I remember in 2006 and 2007 I would read a lot of random sites and music blogs and discover some cool sounding new albums. I'd get like 250-300 new albums in a year and while most of it is could even be pretty good or at least decent, most albums end up being really forgettable and I just never really get back to them. And even if you do this, there's still always some good shit you are going to miss. I realized this and decided to fuck it because seriously, there's just no point. Lately I have been getting more older bands and as far as new releases go, I pretty much download the albums I have been looking forward to and whatever my friends really recommend to me. Plus sometimes I'll get something which sounds good based on song previews or which sounds like I could really like it. I'm still constantly getting new music but not to the extent I used to.
vampireweekend b*tches
also its not too hard to keep up with new music when you know where to look.that's not the hard part. the hard part is having time for this. And interest to look up for stuff.
which part of that was a joke
also its not too hard to keep up with new music when you know where to look.
vivian girlsdamn good. DAMN good year. *reads indie magazine*
tv on the radio
m83
no age
portishead
fleetfoxes
walkmen
crystal castles
santogold
nick cave
crystal stilts
beach house
goddamn, I feel like a fucking pitchfork list, but 2008 was damn good.
there were probably more, I don't want to check it now though.
its an autotune album made of just 808 beats all about how kanye is rich but lonely.read: he has no friends because he's a prick
come on man most people can use that excuse of "it's just best of this year" but you specifically said 08 was ONE HELL OF A YEAR. he's saying it wasn't!
I thought you would like vivian girls I wasn't being mean (based off Marine Girls). also you liked vampire weekend didn't you? I don't think fp was 100% off basewait, how are vivian girls similar to marine girls at all beyond the world GIRLS being in both bands. my problem with one is my problem with both tho; the entire cd sounds almost like it is the same song, except where in mg's case i thought they had some pretty decent/catchy riffs and more importantly, good vocals, vg's songwriting is amateurish imo and comes off as very JAMBAND and their vocals are just practically not there. idk it could be a good band if they were better at writing songs and had actual vocals. also i kinda like vampire weekend but i do not listen to them ever. i just like that someone integrated AFROSHIT into their music and it sets it apart from the rest of indie pop but it is very brainless and saccharine so i rarely listen.
also I listen to the new shit but I continue to find great old stuff too. I probably just listen to more music than you (still less than a lot of people) and pidge listens to fucking TONS more than me and everyone else here
yeah Octave Doctor, I want someone here to explain why it's on their top 10!! actually I liked their EP as relaxing and falling asleep music but now it's annoying
i guess that's true. sorry, but for me it was pretty good! i guess i just have a SHITTASTE :fogetshrug:
wait, how are vivian girls similar to marine girls at all beyond the world GIRLS being in both bands. my problem with one is my problem with both tho; the entire cd sounds almost like it is the same song, except where in mg's case i thought they had some pretty decent/catchy riffs and more importantly, good vocals, vg's songwriting is amateurish imo and comes off as very JAMBAND and their vocals are just practically not there. idk it could be a good band if they were better at writing songs and had actual vocals. also i kinda like vampire weekend but i do not listen to them ever. i just like that someone integrated AFROSHIT into their music and it sets it apart from the rest of indie pop but it is very brainless and saccharine so i rarely listen.because you said you don't have the desire to listen to new shit when there's much better stuff our there to listen to. I said that I, like you, still try to find GREAT OLD SHIT but I look into new releases as well, so I probably listen to more previously unheard music than you. for this same reason you probably found more obscure shit since about 80% of the new albums I listened to this year pitchfork picked up on too.
also why do you say you listen to more music than me? maybe you do i would not know but i am curious about how you came to this conclusion
FlowerPower, everyone here has a LastFM. There was like a trend two/three years back where everyone had their mp3 scrobbles in their sigs so everyone got it then.this only happened because you retagged all your linkin park songs LOL
I'm kinda embarassed Pink Floyd are in my top 10, even if Piper at the gates of dawn is such an awesome album.
I feel like being a dick and burnin you and pointing out I felt like I saw your list before. here is where every single band fell on pitchfork's list:
vivian girls-16
tv on the radio-6
m83-8
no age-3
portishead-2
fleetfoxes-1
walkmen-19
crystal castles-15
santogold-22
nick cave-32
crystal stilts-49
beach house-46
not one wasn't on it, and 8 of the 12 you listed were in the top 20! I know you said FEEL PFORKY but damn son.
i try to maintain fairly open-minded to music
the-there's... som-something wrong with th-that?
no, really, what's great about this band? it is another NME band.Idk if you know this yet but Animal Collective's new album leaked a few days ago.
To be honest, I heard too little 2008 stuff.
And yes, 2007 RULED.
2007 was an enormous year for music. I think just mentioning Kala, Person Pitch and Strawberry Jam is more than enough. Brilliant records. Fantastic shit.
Idk if you know this yet but Animal Collective's new album leaked a few days ago.yeah MPP has been leaked the 25th. Not getting it till a couple days after Jan 12th (its release date).
And yeah 2007 is pretty much my favorite year in music.
if you're only listing pfork stuff not sure how valid an open minded claim is.
edit: this may come as a huge shock but there are vast swaths and entire genres of music pitchfork only cursorily mentions and usually ignores. hell even NON WHITE GUY MADE music is usually absent.
the claim is false: he hates rap metal
ALSO how come i never even heard of fleet foxes until a couple of days ago when everyone is suddenly talking about them. are they the new black kids?People have been talking about them non-stop since Spring or Summer or whenever their s/t was released or leaked.
does animal collective's album count as a 2008 record or 2009? it's pretty awesome.2009.
FOR EXAMPLE i listened to fucking מתן ממן which is an israeli dude who does MONGOLIAN THROAT SINGING or some shit and although i didn't particularily LOVE IT i still thought it was cool and unique and something that's possible to listen to once in a while.
also, i don't see what's so evil about pulling up a pitchfork list of 2008 albums?? okay so i like a lot of the stuff they like, is that really such a crime? and to use it to refresh my memory, i don't see how that's so awful, either. seeing as how i liked a majority of their picks and its ALL CONVENIENTLY there (i don't know any sites that list all 2008 albums) it was the quicket resource. sorry.
a lot of the shit i listen to got horrible reviews on pfork and guess what, i still listen to them!!
i'm not one of those I LUV ALL MUSIC EXCEPT COUNTRY AND RAP. i listened to your hip-hop mixtape and i liked it. i really don't know how to justify OPEN-MINDED to you?? unless i list all my OBSCURE WEIRD ARTISTS and only then may i get Steel's Stamp of Approval.
being open minded has more to do with being readily available to listen to any kind of music more than actually liking music outside your safe genre.
Liking a broad array of genres, that's having a wide taste.
And yeah 2007 is pretty much my favorite year in music.
why does everyone do this. its like when indie kids listen to mastodon and like metal. it's always a specific supposedly obtuse example.
none of those are perfect (one puts Mellencamp in the top 10) but don't even play like this man, you're ignoring the more damning point; you went to Pitchfork first to remind yourself of what YOUR favorite albums were. you didn't look in your own library for this, you went STRAIGHT TO PFORK. what the hell man? why would you ever do this? how can you say "2008 was a great year for music" and need a reminder to what came out? that doesn't make any sense at all. do you expect anyone to believe this:
when you couldn't remember a single artist that wasn't on Pitchfork's list? no one's asking for obscure, but there's a reason people keep saying "listened to the stuff in FP's list, man it's just the same indie shit we've been hearing for years", and it's not because they want my Stamp of Approval (if anything I'd get the feeling a GW member would take great glee in spearing me on some obscure musical point as I am probably the biggest nerd on this forum). it's because it is kind of boring and you ain't fooling anyone by claiming openmindedness.
i don't see anyone saying "listened to the stuff in FP's list, man it's just the same indie shit we've been hearing for years"
Heard Fleet Foxes... what's so special about them?
It leans towards easy listening to me..
damn good. DAMN good year. *reads indie magazine*
What's all the fuss about fleetfoxes? I see them on all the music blogs being raved as geniuses and whatnot, but I don't catch it myself.
most of the rest of the list i felt was very mediocre/forgettable though.
Man I just listened to most songs Flower Power posted and.. well you should really
come to my hometown cause it's full of that kind of music here. Not my kind of balls
though, but yeah.
It is a huge number. I don't really mean 20-30 flawless, totally awesome blah blah albums but albums I really liked in any case. I can't think of another year like that. Anyway, if you really want a list I'll try to remember all the best albums and post it later. Lists... heh.
for this same reason you probably found more obscure shit since about 80% of the new albums I listened to this year pitchfork picked up on too.
what. crystal castles weren't even in my mixtape, dude. i thought we were talking about that!!! i wouldn't include crystal castles in that because i know no one here would like it. good post!!!why are you talking about people's opinions of your mixtape here? this seems irrelevant. i assumed you meant people's impressions of, you know, the list you actually posted in this topic. the list of music we've been talking about all topic. anyway ya im talkin about your TOP08 albums which surprise surprise mostly seemed pretty predictably INDIE in one way or another.
because two of the posts he used were from that threadno they were from this thread.
hmmmm i wonderthis is seriously the most mediocre song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56E8yYgLNHE
good post guy. good post
You guys download and listen to so much music each year I do wonder if you actually take enough time to properly digest it and appreciate it. This question is particularly aimed at DS (who I think I have asked before) and Steel.
Who knows how Neon Bible or Animal Collective or whatever will be regarded in 30 years, if they'll even be remembered at all?i barely remember neon bible now
i barely remember neon bible now
but that is only in certain circles of music.
samplerdelica style.
won't even bother to answer.
just note how you're the one who's attacking another guy and I'm the one who doesn't care.
saw that generator, posted what I thought about it in its corresponding thread.
hahahaha awesome response guys :^D
I am actually grinning a lot right now, we sure sound that way don't we? haha
:D awesome
hey steel have you ever listened to a rapper named Edan?yeah man, he had a joint drop in 2005, Beauty and the Beat. also a song named after voltron...
vivian girls
tv on the radio
m83
no age
portishead
fleetfoxes
walkmen
crystal castles
santogold
nick cave
crystal stilts
beach house
goddamn, I feel like a fucking pitchfork list, but 2008 was damn good.
there were probably more, I don't want to check it now though.
haha, we put alopecia on stone and the record label was all :(yeah anticon have NUKED THE INTERNET and asked like everyone to remove their stuff.
GANG GANG DANCE - SAINT DYMPHNA. if you'd heard it you'd understand.
ahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahayes
that is the funniest best/worst of list I think I have ever seen. metallica, slipknot, avenged sevenfold, trivium, and ac/dc in the top 5 who visits that site a bunch of 13 year olds?
GANG GANG DANCE - SAINT DYMPHNA.
Also I was kinda disappointed this year because there was a lot of talk about how indie music was getting noisier, like bands like No Age and Sic Alps and Times New Viking are getting a lot of coverage, and I was excited for a while in the idea that there would be some big grassroots shift in indie music.Have you checked Fuck Buttons? I consider them a noise band, but their latest album is fantastic, a nicely controlled subtle noise sound, very awesome.
yeswell I guess it is called ultimate-guitar.com lol
there's a marge reading this thread!! is that you marge, do you know me?
there's a marge reading this thread!! is that you marge, do you know me?
identify yourself, marge
4 More Words: Avenged Sevenfold Fucking RockI'm sorry, but I just can't get into them... I have seen them twice live (first performance I saw was quite shit tbh, the second wasn't too shabby) and I've listened to pretty much all their albums; but I just feel they're missing a 'soul'.
Thank you thank youi like this guy already
I've only posted twice and already half way derailed a nice topic to a forum that doesn't even exist anymore, so I better stop before any of the big people get angry. If this forum is into that kind of thing I can make a this is me -topic somewhere sometime.
DS: yritys hyvä kymmenen, mutta kiitos kiitos.
I'm sorry, but I just can't get into them... I have seen them twice live (first performance I saw was quite shit tbh, the second wasn't too shabby) and I've listened to pretty much all their albums; but I just feel they're missing a 'soul'.this would be funny if you werent being serious
I will praise them on the basis that their sound is distinct and (at the least, for me) their earlier albums and all of their singles have been pretty good.
In terms of that list though, Coldplay and Fall Out Boy's latest offerings were pretty solid to be honest... Reguarding the best bands on that list, I feel ALL of those bands had their time, but none of them shine like how they used to.
Anyone saying that all the bands on both lists suck obviously don't like music. Instead I think you guys just like being pretentious snobs who want to make themselves feel more important by trying to be as niche and non-mainstream as possible.or we just like music that isnt made for the sole purpose of making money
4 Words: Grow The Fuck Up.
this would be funny if you werent being seriousI think I'm pretty right here, though.
also ramci is always really friendly to me. maybe ol render just doesnt measure up ? ? ?I believe you, I'm not trying to say he's unfriendly or anything but he was very rude to me. not to derail but this is what he said
I believe you, I'm not trying to say he's unfriendly or anything but he was very rude to me. not to derail but this is what he saidHidden content (Click to reveal)afafsashudash seriously man, what's your beef with japan?? i have noticed that you are kind of dumb but this just tops everything you have said so far! jesus this is much worse what Pidgeottoxxx (w/e) has ever said! what's with this attitude?? like do you think seriously think there can't be MANLY people in japan? hellllllllo!!! just because you have lived in the middle of idk WHITE TRASH SUBURBS doesn't mean that you couldn't try to go over and beyound your cultural limits/comprehension and just LET EVERYTHING FLOW IN. like... japan INVENTED kung-fu, samurais & katanas, yakuza (and those are fucking manly if anything) of all things, MECHAS, etc.
oh god nevermind, i shouldn't even bother arguing with a troll. for real, i think i'm seeing now why there is so much beef between G&D and GW, you people are just hopeless. go play your stupid white trash games and listen to your kanye west, i'm gone!
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Pink, i think you should Nathan Drake from Drake's Fortune! now that's a manly guy, that game sure rocked so hard!
you should definitely remove solid snake, i'm pretty sure majority here (including Psyburn) agree that game wasn't very good at all... just to make sure that you understand this.
ramci wasn't very friendly to me but I did insinuate that seifer was gay so maybe I deserved it. I don't know much about these things.yeah. i was pretty offended of your comment about seifer.
he was trying to troll
I will praise them on the basis that their sound is distinctno it isn't
yeah i know, i just didn't know there was a term for them, is all. i've always called them "too-tight jeans" or "look what that douchebag over there is wearing" loltheres a difference between skinny jeans and girl pants :ssh:
oh ok. i guess skinnies are okay then. what are the ones that look like girl pants calledgirl pants
maybe dicko will know
dom those aren't skinny jeans they are barely skinny.thats why theyre skinny jeans and not girl pants. skinny jeans still have some slack in the lower half.
avenged sevenfold 2008, esp. "a little peice of heaven" ,the only song i didn't really like is the opening track on that album . I got my socks rocked off, and there was some steel guitar stuff in there too. Oh disturbed was good too.
I miss on the new disturbed album how they dont make that "OOOOH AH AH AH" monkey noise anymore.i wish every disturbed song did this, it would make them the bestb and ever (more so than they are now of course)
the fall of troy's phantom on the horizon was good, but the lack of new material sort of made me feel like i was listening to something that came out forever ago.:'(
i wish every disturbed song did this, it would make them the bestb and ever (more so than they are now of course)
yesterday I found this really cool compilation album that came out last year. Basically it's foreign psychedelic stuff from india, turkey etc and it's unbelievably cool. It's called Obsession and it's out by Bully records or something.
The 808 was a nice sound that I wasn't used to hearing.
nice try trollin there budhow is that trolling?
yeah i did not really GET those lyrics or how you can be like 45 and still writing them.by trying to be 20 again. metallica's last album was a midlife crisis in album-form.
how can you even consider that a guy coming into a gw music topic and being like CHINESE DEMOCRACY....IT RULES is anything but trolling?man, you have a problem.
how about dissidence so severe it seems like parody, or you know, trolling?it is still dissidence.
like it's really funny to me someone strolled in a topic and said "I've never heard 808s used in a rap album. also Chinese Democracy, that album fuckin EVERYONE hates? it ruled". it's so wrong it seems like it's not a real dissenting opinion but more an attempt to goad other people into commenting on it.
for instance: "I really hate Person Pitch. Idk why! it is not an album I enjoy." is not a troll, it is just a dissenting opinion.
"Person Pitch? Wtf's that shit. Fallout Boy had a new album it was the best." is so weird and off that yeah, you can assume the person is goading you to reply.
this is trolling 101 man.
I personally think you guys should apologize, I'm not saying you guys should do this, I can care less.quote of the day
quote of the dayI constructed that sentence in a way similar to f'[f(x)]
you like kanye west, but would you go through this for tickets?
ps. at least you're not pretending to like music that other people like :welp: be proud of your bad taste in music! (i don't actually know what you 'bad taste' was...)
See, I don't even think I would go out to see a Kanye concert to begin with. I wouldn't even see a GNR concert. These are both atypical choices in music for me. Its not like I just sit around listening to old 80s hair bands or nu-metal or Lil' Wayne or anything. I don't listen to the radio (not that there's anything wrong with the people who do) and I don't go and look for an album just because it was on Pitchfork's or Rolling Stone's or Billboard's list of top albums.you're just kind of young and apparently have very little knowledge about music. what makes portishead horrible? can you defend your positions on music at all or are you just going to whine and play victim? pretty much everybody likes bad music at some point man.
I like indie music, but I don't like every crappy indie band I hear.
I mean, I find Portishead's music absolutely horrible, but I'm not a big name on the internet, so I can't say anything about it. I also must not understand them and have crappy taste in music because I dislike them. I guess I just can't win on the internet.
No, I'm not going to whine and play victim. I just don't get why it was such a big deal.interesting points but have you considered the feedback and velocity? I thought the cutaway in Machine Gun showed sufficient decay but the gain during the white noise didn't have enough presence and sustain. excellent splicing though, one of the best mixes of 2008.
What I don't like about portishead is mostly in mixing, composition, and structure. Certain parts of it aren't mixed to a way that is pleasing to my ears. What I hear has potential to be decent music, but there are parts in the mix that aren't brought out well. While I believe repetition in music is useful and natural, there comes a point where it can be unlistenable to the way my ears are trained. Yes, I know what you're thinking "Well, you just don't get it. You're used to what the radio feeds you as correct." Fine, its an acquired taste then. But what I hear is more generic, pretentious art music. And yeah, Chinese Democracy is considered just another generic album, but I like it for the chord structure, use of dissonance, and transitions.
I don't know a lot of bands, I'll admit that. While I'm all for listening to new music, I just don't see the point in going out and finding bands just for the sole purpose of expanding my musical taste or encyclopedic knowledge.
you're right.and you're an idiot.
you do have pretty shitty taste in music.
Well I got the impression that you did, since you've been pretty negative to the people that post "shitty" music which you don't find "enlightening" enough for yourself personally. Also I might have misunderstood the word Chord Progression cause I meant the way the song is arranged chord-wise, which is basically every song so I can't understand how you think that it has nothing to do with the esoteric (I had to google this word >_>) qualities of a song whatsoever. Unless you only listen to a single drum with no tune (yeah yeah.. even a drum has a tune but whatever >_>) whatsoever that someone hits every now and then for 5 or so minutes.
And I wasn't reffering to anything technical whatsoever by this. It's kinda hard to explain a song without using these words.
Also, can you post some bands/songs you enjoy before we stop talking, cause your confident way of talking about this has sparked my interest and who knows, maybe I'm actually listening to some of it. Basically I just think you are a tad too mean about people's tastes and even though you probably don't give a shit if they stop posting about what they're listening to, some actually do.
and you're an idiot.
In spite I agree with your point, you don't shit how to handle it.
DEATH MAGNETIC: ALBUM OF 08???????Yes lol, I know. It's been a slow year for me. You should check out Anna Ternheim though, she's pretty cool. Everything (lyrics, music, even the goddamn pictures in the booklet) about the latest album is perfectly matched with the mood she tries to portray (spelling) :P
No Jeezy (whose OMG! RECESSION! hook was almost tailor made for the pitchforkian “we like rappers who are smart but not smarter than we are” perspective) or Killer Mike (he of twelfth best single of 2006 fame) or Gucci Mane (who should’ve been this year’s Cam’Ron to people whose entire relationship with hip hop entails laughing with/at? it) or Z-Ro (who wallows in misery and self doubt better than any of the unwashed white folks who made the Pitchfork list). Not even The Fucking Roots (who put out a better album this year than all the other ones they put out in the ~eight year period when non-rap critics were fawning over them.) And yeah, The Mixtape About Nothing was cute, but not even Wale would try to tell you it was the second best rap album of the year. [2]
But none of these acts need Pitchfork love. With the exception of maybe The Roots, it’s not like pitchfork kids were actually buying these types of records or going to those artist’s concerts, apart from their one off date at the Knitting Factory. Jeezy and Gucci will survive. Street rappers will always have the streets. [3] The artists who truly suffer from this are the old guard yackpack true school hip hoppers, the type of rap artists that indie rock listeners were jamming back when they were still talking down on people who listened to Lil Wayne. The type of artists whose only source of media attention were such so-called forward thinking or alternative publications.
Thes One, of perennial indieground favorites People Under The Stairs [4], made an interesting post on soulstrut recently, the gist being that, while their new album Fun DMC [5] is well on its way to selling 10k, it hasn’t received a lick of press. Not even from XLR8R, a magazine I had just assumed covered People Under The Stairs exclusively, is returning their calls. As semi-deserved as the “hey gangsta/southern/poor people rap is smart after all” critical movement of recent years was, it’s now having something of a scorched earth effect on hip hop coverage in non-rap and half-rap publications.
most of us dwell in reality you know where if you don't say "christ dude you can't think this" and insist on some kind of hugbox where everyone's opinion is equal and knowledge, context, history, depth, none of that matters it leads to very boring discussion.I'm not saying you can't do that. I do this.
man what do you want. it's already twelve days past 2008, we've touched on most good albums (ODES ANYONE WANT TO TALK ABOUT AMADOU AND MIRIAM????)omg dats cool i didnt know they had released an album in 2008 (also its mariam) but i really like dimanche a bamako so getting their new album.
Have you ever listened to instrumental songs? Man, I'm seriously considering put a link to fucking Vivaldi's four seasons here cause it's ALL about the progression of the chords > the melodies > the lows and peaks of the song to capture the mood. IT'S WHAT MAKES THE (vivaldi) SONG TO WHAT IT IS. HOW HARD IS THIS TO UNDERSTAND?!I can't speak for Ryan (the one you're directing this to I believe), but I think the point is that the concept of chord progression is just one part of a whole. Try taking everything else away and see what's left.
omg dats cool i didnt know they had released an album in 2008 (also its mariam) but i really like dimanche a bamako so getting their new album.
haha you gaywad it was a fake post. whats funny is they hold the top position on metacritic but dr. thorpe was all "they are old blind musicians from mali and if this album doesn't do well they will return to a country where they have lived past the average death rate are you going to give them a bad review"oh well haha. that still doesnt change anything i wanna hear the album :(
i heard a song from the new metallica album on the radio today. i was lollin so hard because the lyrics are like LOVE..... LOVE... LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD.. LOVE followed by chugga chugga drums and bass
I can't speak for Ryan (the one you're directing this to I believe), but I think the point is that the concept of chord progression is just one part of a whole. Try taking everything else away and see what's left.Might have been a misunderstanding but, I meant that instrumental songs are pretty much made out of chords, melodies and tempo/beats that either give you inspiration or trigger imagination (as in movie music for example) and I couldn't understand how he could say that no one listens to those songs because of that (since the first line was apart from the rest). Or am I way wrong claiming that I like how something manages to sound creepy, while with some extra tunes it manages to spawn pictures of a colorful plain filled with flowers (cheesy example, I know lol)?
"Yeah this song is absolutely horrible in every way. The lyrics were written by a four-year-old, the musicians' instruments aren't tuned and it was recorded using the camera of a mobile phone. But those chords? Man, totally brilliant."
I can usually tell what blues standard is used in a song, but unless I want to study blues I don't see much reason in listening the music just so I can pinpoint its evolutionary roots. Saying you're doing this because "you're a musician" strikes me as an easy argument.
also I dont even remember posting about Firewater. I remember finding out about them in 2004 and then forgetting all about them till early 2009.I looked at your Listen.to thingie and found them there, man. Get updated with your own Listen.to thingie >_<
has anyone heard of MAX RICHTER he made an album of ringtones and I heard one it was the most ownage thing. got this off the best of 08 all songs considered podcast.yeah max richter makes some pretty sweet music but I had no idea that he made an album of ringtones. all I've heard is like ambient stuff that is mostly strings, piano and spoken word from him lol. I need to hear this
edit: other than toumani diabatte and this though the podcast has proved boring. SIGUR ROS! THEY HAD AN ALBUM! GUESS WHAT INSTEAD OF MAKING MUSIC FOR WHALES THEY MADE MUSIC FOR THE GAYEST WHALES ONLY, THE ONES THAT MAYBE MOVE BACK AND FORTH A BIT.
Or am I way wrong claiming that I like how something manages to sound creepy, while with some extra tunes it manages to spawn pictures of a colorful plain filled with flowers (cheesy example, I know lol)?This is the science of chord progression for you? What you're describing is how musicians can evoke emotion through composition. Which, you know, is sort of THE POINT OF MUSIC. I cannot follow your train of thought if you go "music is emotion, ERGO chords convey emotion, ERGO chords are totally where it's at Q.E.D." Saying that you're a musician and "just looking at things from a technical perspective" is a lame excuse.
Why are you so against people actually liking particular riffs or melodies in a song?Who is?
Do I really have to explain why I like some chord progressions more than others?! And sorry for making this discussion all over again, MG. This is my last discussion in this forum since clearly, people here don't want people that can get content by just listening to riffs in the music forum.Looks like it's time to clot all everybody together as "people" and then complain about "people" in general.
marnie stern
chord progressions don't even mean anything. phrasing, dynamics, and chord voicing is what actually matters. playing a I-IV-V can either result in a SLOW BLUES SONG or a DOOM SLUDGE METAL song depending on how you apply those three.Well to be doom sludge metal it would be wayyyyyy slower anyways. But what you're saying is still very true. Music is all about arrangement and interpretation man, not exactly about WHAT you're playing (ie chord progression). Hell, you can play a skank beat in pretty much anything, it just depends on HOW you play it.
yea man, i am listening to this right now. it's pretty dope. the cd title is pretty retarded though.
hugbox
how would you like it if there were just all these topics you couldn't see where people you didn't even know posted about how fucking funny it is that you can't hold a retail job or whatever you absolutely dumb motherfuckers found so entertaining about a nerd's okcupid.