What type of Music do you like?
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TubaRay
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type/music
I like Doc's list very much. However, I was quite disheartened to find out that I'm "not worth spitting on."
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TMurphy
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It's funny...I'm no fan of hip hop, nor do I care for the pop music around today (anything in the Britney Spears/American Idol sort of genre of music). But, unlike many people I know, it doesn't bother me. Obviously, on some level, the public clamors for this stuff, so there is a demand for it. Kudos to the people making themselves rich by doing it, they found a way to earn a great living.
What does bother me, though, is to see a great musical form with plenty of artistic potential get destroyed by this pop scene. And I'm not talking about orchestral music (another topic for another rant); I mean rock music.
I, personally, love rock music. I listen to jazz, orchestral, small chamber stuff, brass ensemble music, really just about anything. But, and I realize that as a future music educator I am "wrong" for saying this, my absolute favorite musical form has always been rock. My problem with rock today is that so few groups are putting out real albums anymore. A rock album should be much more than a collection of songs; it should present an idea, have a concept to it. That does not mean it has to be a concept album, like those of Pink Floyd, or Jethro Tull, or even Frank Zappa, but it means that there should, at least, be some unifying idea, a particular style or type of sound that's trying to be conveyed.
I'll use for an example one of my all-time favorite artists, Billy Joel. While there may be some songs that stand out from his library as singles, and get radio play, you really only get a true appreciation for his work by listening to his albums. Forget the greatest hits compilation CDs--you lose the effect. Albums like the Stranger, Turnstiles, 52nd Street, Piano Man, Storm Front, The Bridge, etc....if you're familiar enough with his work, you can know what song is on what album--not because you have track list memorized, but because it sounds like that album.
You can even bring that principle into Guns N' Roses debut album, Appetite for Destruction. It's a very well crafted work, with a cohesive concept of sound to it.
Adam.
If you don't already know them, check out the Dropkick Murphys, a punk rock band based out of Boston (no relation). They're on Hellcat records, which is a division of Epitaph (started by Lars from Rancid). Although still a punk rock band, with very little exploration in the way of harmony, they exhibit this concept of sound to their albums extremely well--each album has a unique sound, and their interesting use of traditional irish folk instrumentation has gotten better with each album.
Of course, like everyone else, sometimes I feel like listening to just a particular song, rather than an entire album. I look at that as being akin to listening to only one movement of a symphony...it's perfectly find to do that, as long as you realize you aren't getting the whole picture. Not enough groups treat their albums this way, because the pop culture doesn't have room for it. Record labels want singles they can put on MTV and the radio, not a well crafted album. This is what bothers me the most, and I think it is leading to the downfall of the genre as a whole.
Just my rather long winded opinion...
What does bother me, though, is to see a great musical form with plenty of artistic potential get destroyed by this pop scene. And I'm not talking about orchestral music (another topic for another rant); I mean rock music.
I, personally, love rock music. I listen to jazz, orchestral, small chamber stuff, brass ensemble music, really just about anything. But, and I realize that as a future music educator I am "wrong" for saying this, my absolute favorite musical form has always been rock. My problem with rock today is that so few groups are putting out real albums anymore. A rock album should be much more than a collection of songs; it should present an idea, have a concept to it. That does not mean it has to be a concept album, like those of Pink Floyd, or Jethro Tull, or even Frank Zappa, but it means that there should, at least, be some unifying idea, a particular style or type of sound that's trying to be conveyed.
I'll use for an example one of my all-time favorite artists, Billy Joel. While there may be some songs that stand out from his library as singles, and get radio play, you really only get a true appreciation for his work by listening to his albums. Forget the greatest hits compilation CDs--you lose the effect. Albums like the Stranger, Turnstiles, 52nd Street, Piano Man, Storm Front, The Bridge, etc....if you're familiar enough with his work, you can know what song is on what album--not because you have track list memorized, but because it sounds like that album.
You can even bring that principle into Guns N' Roses debut album, Appetite for Destruction. It's a very well crafted work, with a cohesive concept of sound to it.
Adam.
If you don't already know them, check out the Dropkick Murphys, a punk rock band based out of Boston (no relation). They're on Hellcat records, which is a division of Epitaph (started by Lars from Rancid). Although still a punk rock band, with very little exploration in the way of harmony, they exhibit this concept of sound to their albums extremely well--each album has a unique sound, and their interesting use of traditional irish folk instrumentation has gotten better with each album.
Of course, like everyone else, sometimes I feel like listening to just a particular song, rather than an entire album. I look at that as being akin to listening to only one movement of a symphony...it's perfectly find to do that, as long as you realize you aren't getting the whole picture. Not enough groups treat their albums this way, because the pop culture doesn't have room for it. Record labels want singles they can put on MTV and the radio, not a well crafted album. This is what bothers me the most, and I think it is leading to the downfall of the genre as a whole.
Just my rather long winded opinion...
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Kevin Hendrick
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Re: type/music
I think I'd prefer that to finding out that I was ...TubaRay wrote:I like Doc's list very much. However, I was quite disheartened to find out that I'm "not worth spitting on."
"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." -- Pogo (via Walt Kelly)
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Tubaryan12
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I like pretty much anything except opera. If done in English its ok. With that being said, I love Salsa (and no, I don't mean the red stuff you eat with tortilla chips...although salsa and chips are tasty with a cold beer). Even though I dont understand any of the lyrics the music is so good it doesn't matter. If I could only have one cd on a desert island it would be Jean Luc Ponty "Storytelling" or Michael Franks "Blue Pacific"