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#281 January 12, 2009, 11:23:46 pm

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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

To Never Be Known Is The Worst Death

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#282 January 12, 2009, 11:25:09 pm

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Quote from: Ryan on January 11, 2009, 05:18:09 pm

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

This is actually similar to a song by Clawfinger. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1c-vXf5aRL8 <--- I assume this is it because a certain M-Audio sound interface just crapped out on me.

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#283 January 12, 2009, 11:25:27 pm

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its actually pretty great especially since you know WHAT DO YOU HEAR OUT OF THAT REGION ANYWAYS.

brian chemicals

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Ryan

#284 January 12, 2009, 11:35:12 pm

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no one, not even musicians, listen to music for chord progressions. if that were true than they would find jazz terrible and repetitive because 99% of jazz is a ii-V-I. saying a GnR song is interesting because it follows an 'interesting chord progression' is bullshit and i am willing to bet it doesn't.

you know hwat does have a unique chord progression? sweet home alabama. that song rules it follows a I-VII-IV!!!!

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#285 January 12, 2009, 11:40:47 pm

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A few albums from 2008 that I really liked:
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (insane funeral doom metal)
Anathema - Hindsight (I'm an Anathema fanboy... if only they could release their album now)
Tiamat - Amanethes (a very pleasant surprise)

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#286 January 12, 2009, 11:47:22 pm

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alright i was really bored so i decided to make a list of 2008 albums that i actually enjoyed (WITHOUT PITCHFORK!!!!!).

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have a nice life
bryan scary & the shredding tears
kay kay and his weathered underground
beach house
why?
foals
vivian girls
flying lotus
the dodos
the hold steady
nick cave & the bad seeds
crystal stilts
marnie stern
santogold
erykah badu
raveonettes
she & him
the kills
the dears
the magnetic fields
shearwater
pg.lost
god is an astronaut
a silver mt zion
tagaq
woodhands
xploding plastix
does it offend you, yeah?
sun kil moon
the black keys
the long blondes
cut copy
someone still loves you boris yeltsin
m83
portishead
no age
fleet foxes
ratatat
black kids
lykke li
noah and the whale
okkervil river
fembots
tv on the radio
of montreal
ray lamontagne
frightened rabbit
drive-by truckers
deerhunter
fucked up
the gaslight anthem
atlas sound
fuck buttons
gang gang dance
the walkmen
MGMT
sons and daughters
vampire weekend
xiu xiu
broken social scene presents brendan canning
crystal castles
british sea power
Los Campesinos!

i probably forgot some shit, but you get the point.

edit: this is why i thought 2008 was good.

Last Edit: January 13, 2009, 03:22:31 am by FlowerPower

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Bonehead

#287 January 13, 2009, 12:48:08 am

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Quote from: Dada on January 12, 2009, 10:53:59 pm

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.

"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.

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)?

Also, if you like a riff you like it. Do you have to say someone has a shitty taste or doesn't know anything about music just because he/she enjoys a particular genre instrumentally (which is - in big strokes - chords added together in a specific order)? Why are you so against people actually liking particular riffs or melodies in a song? 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.

Quote from: Magical Negro on January 12, 2009, 11:21:25 pm

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 >_<

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#288 January 13, 2009, 01:32:58 am

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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.

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.

Last Edit: January 13, 2009, 01:36:43 am by Magical Negro

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#289 January 13, 2009, 01:55:08 am

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Quote from: Magical Negro on January 13, 2009, 01:32:58 am

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.

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.

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

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#290 January 13, 2009, 07:45:48 am

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Quote from: Bonehead on January 13, 2009, 12:48:08 am

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.

Quote from: Bonehead on January 13, 2009, 12:48:08 am

Why are you so against people actually liking particular riffs or melodies in a song?

Who is?

Quote from: Bonehead on January 13, 2009, 12:48:08 am

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.

Last Edit: January 13, 2009, 07:47:28 am by Dada

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#291 January 13, 2009, 04:22:36 pm

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Quote from: FlowerPower on January 12, 2009, 11:47:22 pm

marnie stern

yea man, i am listening to this right now. it's pretty dope. the cd title is pretty retarded though.

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Ryan

#292 January 13, 2009, 05:15:35 pm

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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.

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#293 January 13, 2009, 05:57:08 pm

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Quote from: Ryan on January 13, 2009, 05:15:35 pm

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.

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#294 January 13, 2009, 06:48:59 pm

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Quote from: church_gone_wild on January 13, 2009, 04:22:36 pm

yea man, i am listening to this right now. it's pretty dope. the cd title is pretty retarded though.

other than some indie band i saw two nights ago, this is the first time i've heard a non-metal artist (an indie one at that) use so much tapping on the guitar! it's pretty sweet, and yeah I hate the title.

also: i think you're all misinterpriting bonehead because he doesn't know how to talk about music, or maybe he is genuinely dumb like that

Last Edit: January 13, 2009, 06:50:33 pm by FlowerPower

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Shepperd

#295 January 13, 2009, 07:18:33 pm

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Angelo Spencer taps a lot

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dom

#296 January 13, 2009, 07:45:27 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on January 12, 2009, 04:49:10 pm

hugbox

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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.

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#297 January 13, 2009, 07:57:13 pm

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i know we're already past this stage of discussion but i just wanted to add that

if chord progressions/technicality were what mattered most to you in music, you might as well just read sheet music for the THRILL OF IT instead of actually listening to audio *snorts 19 pages of dragonforce * ahhhhhhhhh

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#298 January 13, 2009, 08:19:04 pm

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chord progressions, lamo i am in pain of laugher

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#299 January 13, 2009, 08:28:07 pm

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Quote from: dom on January 13, 2009, 07:45:27 pm

these are the same thing. discouraging negative opinions so no one gets offended and privately mocking people who dont even post. these are the EXACT SAME.

brian chemicals

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#300 January 13, 2009, 08:31:25 pm

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I love chord progressions

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