The Official Music Thread

[GalacticPetey]

Just watched Bruce Springsteen performing at the grammys. Very good.

 

[Mario4Ever]

Wasnt Charles manson that guy who murdered people

No. The murders were committed by members of Manson's "Family," and Manson himself, seen according to the media as someone who wanted to incite a race war known as "Helter Skelter," emerging as the head of those left behind after the ensuing apocalypse, was persecuted and imprisoned (nothing's been directly attributed to him AFAIK other than the fact that he had a less-than-pleasant upbringing and once wanted to be a musician).

Ironically, I started up Windows Media Player, and this song played:

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

Wasnt Charles manson that guy who murdered people

No. The murders were committed by members of Manson's "Family," and Manson himself, seen according to the media as someone who wanted to incite a race war known as "Helter Skelter," emerging as the head of those left behind after the ensuing apocalypse, was persecuted and imprisoned (nothing's been directly attributed to him AFAIK other than the fact that he had a less-than-pleasant upbringing and once wanted to be a musician).

Oh joy. You're completely insane. Great.

 

[Mario4Ever]

Wasnt Charles manson that guy who murdered people

No. The murders were committed by members of Manson's "Family," and Manson himself, seen according to the media as someone who wanted to incite a race war known as "Helter Skelter," emerging as the head of those left behind after the ensuing apocalypse, was persecuted and imprisoned (nothing's been directly attributed to him AFAIK other than the fact that he had a less-than-pleasant upbringing and once wanted to be a musician).

Oh joy. You're completely insane. Great.

Don't blame me. Blame Bugliosi's (prosecutor in the case) book on the subject, Helter Skelter (I haven't been able to find objective info on the case). In any case, the only reason I mentioned him is because I consider him a decent musician despite his reputation.

 

[Mariorules25]

I really want to see a band live

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

I really want to see a band live

when you get a chance, you should

it's absolutely amazing

who do you want to see?

 

[Mario4Ever]

I really want to see a band live

when you get a chance, you should

it's absolutely amazing

And totally worth the temporary hoarseness and deafness you'll experience immediately afterward.

 

[Lily x]

I almost hit a girl in English for saying that she hated blur because they sucked and cut Adele short at the Brit awards . Kids these days.

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

I almost hit a girl in English for saying that she hated blur because they sucked

Bitches don't know 'bout good music.




Boards of Canada should do a song with Bon Iver. They really have a quite similar style (nostalgic, broken-sounding music played with old instruments in a lonely place far away from society), just in different genres.

 

[Lily x]

You talkin to me?
JK, I'm the girl who has rolling stones as their TIMJ.

 

[Rise Up Above It]

TIMJ? Recently, while I'm not too keen on techno, I've started listening to Renard/FIAB/Mayhem/The Queenstons/whatever-alias-you-know-him-as's songs and find them pretty cool.

 

[Lily x]

This is my jam= TIMJ

 

[Verbal Rhythm]

TIMJ?

This is My Jam

Speaking of which, my current jam is by Baasik. He makes good electronic (Dubstep?) music, free to download.

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/baasik

Tindeck (Look for Baasik): http://tindeck.com/users/BlackGryph0n

 

[Lily x]

So, Jamie and Damon have fallen out... Gorillaz might split/end. Plus Blur might to as the members other than Damon are not full time musicians, ALL OF MY FAVORITE BANDS WILL BE OVER!
My reaction

 

[Quickie-la]

Fortunately, Thom Yorke is too good a musician to let the band fall into music hell. Punk rock is entirely about a rebellious lo-fi, do-it-yourself approach, so I lapse into a fit of rage whenever I see bands like Sum 41, Green Day and Blink 182 playing glammed up cock-rock and calling it "punk". Seriously, punk is near-completely dead; what, you have Gogol Bordello, TV on the Radio and Jack White's projects keeping it real, and that's it?

Don't you hate it when you're exposed to the worst of the worst? The mainstream sure loves cramming the lowest music down our throats. Yup, when done RIGHT, aggressive vocals can serve a song unbelievably well by adding so much raw emotion. I have a particularly strong hatred for emocore for being a huge part in punk rock's demise. Can't say I blame them; the internet is a cruel, twisted place, after all. Stooben's been gone everywhere for the past few days; wonder what happened to him? Actually, no, I haven't checked out Rain Machine yet; but anything attached to TVOTR has to be inherently good.

People love it because they're idiots; marketting knows that there's big money to be made by putting as little effort and money as possible into the product and then selling it to the lowest demographic at unbelievably unfair prices because the target audience don't know any better. Many indie musicians are very vocal about their visceral hatred of the auto-tune device; Neko Case's rant against it was particularly abrasive. I listened to them both; I liked the music on the Basement Jaxx song, but I just could not get past the auto-tune (it was far too much for me). The YACHT one was better; much of the vocals sounded like they played with a vocoder, but I could still hear the auto-tune sound in there which still grated on me a bit. Yes, I hate auto-tune that much. Yeah, Daft Punk really fucked up with that song, but at least I'll always have "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" to remind myself that the band are still really good. Man, it must be a real chore to have to listen to all those new songs; me, I just listen to new artists one at a time so that there's never a huge cue of songs that I need to listen to eventually.

I don't know whether I'll live in Japan or not; they have some pretty damn good noise rock, tho, so that's a big plus. I'll tell you how I like it when I eventually listen to it; I've been kinda slack with searching for new music, heh. A lot of my favourite music is from 50s-70s; Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and (of course) The Beatles are particular favourites of mine. Hmm, I'll have to give those two a listen one day; I'm always searching for bands to restore my faith in an otherwise poor region of music. Not just Nickelback; Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, 3 Inches of Blood, Celine Dion, Justin Beiber, Three Days Grace, and Finger Eleven are all destroying Canada's musical credibility. On the plus side, I just discovered Godspeed You! Black Emperor are Canadian; they're a great band. You should listen to the Specials, in that case; my God, their music is fun. ANYTHING from their self-titled debut will work; it's probably the greatest ska record ever made. I know, right? MF DOOM is probably my favourite contemporary rapper (well, he's been in the business since the 80s, but he's been most active fairly recently); he's so damn crazy and unpredictable.

Yay, that would be great; voice sampling is always fun! I'd totally buy the EP.

As a lover of the "old-school" genre of 80's punk and ska-punk, anything from the Dead Kennedys, Agent Orange[I saw them live], The Clash, Operation Ivy, etc. [I can go on]; is wondrous in my books. The Adolescents recently came out with a song about Monsanto with truthful lyrics and a chorus full of harmony.

I wouldn't exactly classify all of Green Day's work as garbage either. Whereas most of their newer albums lack the truth and raw sound of original punk-rock, you can hear them under different indie-labels/names trying to incorporate the sounds of 80's New-Wave and even garage-punk! The Network and Foxboro Hot-Tubs were side-projects of theirs to see if their fans would still appreciate them doing another style.. which obviously didn't happen.
Never thought you'd see an official Green Day video with only 100k views, huh?

Green Day's older albums from the early 90's had the raw-punk feel and stoner lyrics that everyone enjoyed in punk, before the eyeliner and glory, Billy Joe Armstrong was just a teenage kid with blond curly locks, a plain orange tee, and thirft-store jeans. "Get your philosophy from a bumper sticker"
Particular favorite; the harmonies later in the song are pretty great, the intro reminds me of Jet.

As a lover of many different genres and as a musician/producer, voice-sampling when done correctly can be a beautiful thing. Beck, one of my favorite artists, is a prime example of this, (though he is a multi-instrumentalist as well.)

Amon Tobin is another great example of an IDM(Intellectual Dance Music)/Trip-hop artist that almost purely uses electronically synthesized sound. He's done the soundtracks for various impressive gaming and movie feats. I haven't heard a single song from this man with distaste. His work gives off an "ambient" feel, similar to Boards of Canada, with an
industrial twist, and sometimes tribal drum grooves similar to David Byrne of Talking Heads.
Here are some examples of his electronic/instrumental work, with bits of voice sampling

And a favorite of mine, particularly for the use of horns.

Radiohead has IDM/Trip-Hop influences in their music, especially in songs of theirs like "Airbag" and "Idioteque"
Why else would they have an album titled "O.K. Computer"?

So yes, whereas a lot of newer music lacks the original truthful vibe that older songs gave off, there are still great musicians in the makes. Sure, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj may be puke-inducing, but Beck's latest album, Modern Guilt, was almost purely acoustic/folk jams similar to Bob Dylan (one of his primary influences)
The White Stripes recently broke up, but Jack White is still working on good jams.

 

[Pokemon DP]

That post is archaic, mate. Not sure why you brought it back up.

 

[Quickie-la]

Haha, I guess didn't realize the date mang, my mind has been a-float, and I'm used to really active boards. I was just browsing the thread and finding posts I liked.i poked smot

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

Yeah, that post's pretty old.


But since the subject of autotune was brought back up by it, I might as well state my opinion on it:

The problem with autotune is that it allows musicians to trick others into thinking they can sing well, or allows them to make utterly lazy music without even trying to get on pitch.
When the use of autotune is for artistic effect, though, that's another thing: since the autotune makes the voice sound robotic and cold, using autotune on a song that's about that sort of thing (i.e. Radiohead's "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box") is appropriate and compliments the music.

It goes the other way around too: using the cold and synthetic autotune on a song that's supposed to be emotional and sad (i.e. Bon Iver's "Beth/Rest") can make it all the more heartrending, if it's done right. The fact that autotune makes the voice so emotionless works well in contrast to everything else about the song being so bleak. It sounds like the song is trying to be soulful but is being corrupted into (at the risk of sounding like a hipster douche) a sterile, mass-produced, radio-friendly unit shifter*- which makes it more soulful and sad than it would have been otherwise. It sounds like someone resisting "the system" and failing.

Boards of Canada do something sort of like that, but it doesn't involve autotune (except once, I think, on "1969," but I can't really tell), so I'm not going to get into it right now.

I don't know if the above paragraphs are comprehensible to anyone but me, but I'll take the chance.

So, Jamie and Damon have fallen out... Gorillaz might split/end. Plus Blur might to as the members other than Damon are not full time musicians, ALL OF MY FAVORITE BANDS WILL BE OVER!
My reaction

It's just a hiatus, though I must say I'm not really interested in Damon Albarn's non-Gorillaz projects (with the exception, of course, of Blur, but I don't think Blur have put out a really great album in a while).


*Not to be confused with the awesome Nirvana song of the same name.

 

[Red Barchetta]

So we've now lost two famous musicians today.

We've lost Greg Ham, who was the flutist for Men at Work.

And then we just lost Levon Helm, the lead vocalist and drummer for The Band.

 

[Pokemon DP]

Boards of Canada do something sort of like that, but it doesn't involve autotune (except once, I think, on "1969," but I can't really tell), so I'm not going to get into it right now.

It's not autotune, it's just audio sequencing. It does sound amazing within the context of the song, tho.

So we've now lost two famous musicians today.

We've lost Greg Ham, who was the flutist for Men at Work.

And then we just lost Levon Helm, the lead vocalist and drummer for The Band.

Me deepest respects to the both of them, they were both grand musicians.

Seems Ham passed away in Carlton North, one of the yuppie suburbs of the city; very suspicious.

 

[J-Yoshi64]

Hm. My knowledge of music doesn't come outside these 5 areas:

Spoiler

Radio(Christian), school(usually chapel), church, Lego stuff (including BIONICLE), and Video games.

My favorite band is Cryoshell. They let their songs be used in Bionicle music videos, which is how I discovered them. I can find YouTube videos for all my favorites.

Spoiler

Enjoy!

 

[Scarecrow von Steuben]

Radio(Christian), school(usually chapel), church,

Your family is very religious, I guess? I'm Christian too, but Christian rock and the like is really not the best way to get into music.


I'm not saying you shouldn't like it or w/e but maybe you should branch out a bit. You can find just about every kind of music on Youtube; it's easy, don't restrict yourself to one genre.

 

[Smashley]

So we've now lost two famous musicians today.

We've lost Greg Ham, who was the flutist for Men at Work.

And then we just lost Levon Helm, the lead vocalist and drummer for The Band.

RIP both of them, they were both fine musicians.

don't restrict yourself to one genre.

^ this. I personally enjoy almost every genre there is.

 

[Lily x]

RIP to the guys that died
Agree with Smasher, although I like alternative rock the most, there are good bits of all genres of music.

 

[Soundless Voice]

RIP to the people who died.
Basically, I've been growing up with Country Music almost my whole life. I still listen to it, (Only when my family doesn't want to listen to Teen Pop.) But now I listen to Pop like, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and the like.