10-16-2008, 11:39 PM | #41 |
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I play the spoons, is that music? (i don't actually play the spoons but it could be considered music)
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10-17-2008, 01:51 AM | #42 |
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I would like to point out, that as much as I don't care for rap, I still consider it music, hell I actually like older rap, for example pretty much all the songs on GTA: SA, which has rap from around 1992 I like, its just the tidal wave of all the new stuff that sounds the same to me that i don't like.
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10-17-2008, 02:16 AM | #43 |
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I dont even think rap is more rhythmically complex than alot of rock/metal groups out there.
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10-17-2008, 02:18 AM | #44 |
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10-17-2008, 02:33 AM | #45 |
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Rap more complex than this??? nahhh
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10-17-2008, 09:18 AM | #46 |
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I didn't say it was more complex than all rock or pop. I was making broad generalisations.
Besides, the Volta are experimental/progressive before they're "rock". Prog and experimental bands are supposed to be complex, out-there shit. |
10-17-2008, 09:21 AM | #47 |
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And for every Volta, Don Caballero, Battles, Minus the Bear, Sufjan Stevens, Architecture in Helsinki, Broken Social Scene, +/-, or other musically (melodically, rhythmically and using diverse time signatures) complex rock/pop/folk/what have you bands, there are like fifteen Nickelbacks a pop.
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10-17-2008, 10:45 AM | #48 |
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different genres bring different emphasis'. rock is all about your excellent distorted guitars. rap is about beat, atmosphere and wordplay. there are still excellent hooks in a lot of rap songs, like dre's G thang.
you have to understand electronic music in almost all shapes and forms is more about tonality than melody. if there's a bassline in a song you really like, someone has probably sat in a room for a very fucking long time making it sound like it does. anyone who takes their music seriously isn't going to sit there using preset sounds. writing electronic music is easily 10x harder than writing a song in a band. and anyone who calls it pushing buttons obviously hasn't ever tried. i've knocked out 3 songs in about 2 hours in a band setting, meanwhile every electronic song i ever put together took between 1-3 months, finding samples and tweaking sounds etc etc. |
10-17-2008, 10:47 AM | #49 |
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ps. rap has pretty much sucked balls ever since sampling meant you get bent over a barrel on the royalties front. late 80s early 90s is amazing.
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10-17-2008, 11:46 AM | #50 | |
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You should sample Incubus' "Aqueous Transmission." The notes from the stringed instrument is hard panned to right (or left) and you can individually cut them out, and then do weird shit to them on a sampler. Good times. |
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10-17-2008, 12:03 PM | #51 | ||
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What's funny to me, I got into it with a guy on an MMA board when I posted about One Day as a Lion.. After saying it was good, out of no where he starts in with how rap sucks and it takes no talent etc.. He was kinda embarassed when I told him that all those songs he like was nothing more than a drum set and a synth.. Same could be said about an album like NIN's The Downward Spiral.. Like 90% of it was electronic and I would reckon that there are some people out there who love NIN but hate "rap".. It's just a close minded way of looking at things.. |
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10-17-2008, 12:37 PM | #52 |
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Sage Francis-"Mullet"
There used to be a better video online but I can't find it everywhere.. It was better cause he didn't have a DJ so he did all the sound effects himself and you could hear the lyrics better.. |
10-17-2008, 12:38 PM | #53 |
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Also, Sage Francis has gotten mad fat since he's been making money on the underground..
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10-17-2008, 01:30 PM | #54 |
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to be fair about the "late 80s early 90s" being better than today's rap line of thinking, rap sounds much different now than it did then. so it isn't completely out of bounds to say that you don't like today's rap compared to that. it's a different ballgame, so to speak.
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10-17-2008, 01:36 PM | #55 |
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What does it even mean when to say something is "more music" or less music" than something else? Either it's music or it isn't.
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10-17-2008, 01:36 PM | #56 |
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Not really..
Groups like J5 still use oldskool breakbeats and have a general "oldskool" sound.. |
10-17-2008, 01:38 PM | #57 |
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10-17-2008, 01:41 PM | #58 |
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10-17-2008, 01:56 PM | #59 |
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I think that people who don't like rap like to try to discredit the genre by saying that its not music, takes no skill etc. I don't think it needs any pointing out that you're just being an ignorant douche.
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10-17-2008, 02:01 PM | #60 |
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10-17-2008, 03:58 PM | #61 |
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Quality Control is one of my favorite albums ever.
And to add a new video: |
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10-17-2008, 05:19 PM | #63 |
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I love that black Star song..
More Mos Def |
10-17-2008, 07:40 PM | #64 |
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I have still posted the best music in this thread.
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10-17-2008, 07:46 PM | #65 |
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It's not music cause it's just pushing buttons..
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10-17-2008, 07:47 PM | #66 |
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10-17-2008, 07:49 PM | #67 |
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Way to back up claims with such profound information.. It is an honor to post and debate with someone with such intelligence, St. Jimmy..
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10-17-2008, 07:55 PM | #68 |
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There's really no debate... It's not like it's a topic of win or lose, it's opinon. You think it's music, I think it's noise.
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10-17-2008, 08:00 PM | #69 |
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You said it's not music as I said it was.. I (and others) have posted reasons it should be considered music, while you, pretty much the only person on the other side of the conversation, have not.. I pretty much said you wouldn't back up your statements right after you originally posted.. I can tell the future..
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10-17-2008, 09:17 PM | #70 | |
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10-17-2008, 09:30 PM | #71 | |
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Beat + Rhythm + (Melody) = Music. Contrary to popular opinion, "melody" is not synonymous with "music". It is not the overarching, all-important factor. All you need is a beat - a pulse - to have the fundamental of music. Rhythm extends upon the beat, utilising different note spans within it to create a purely percussionistic form of music. Please do not try and tell me drummers and other percussionists do not count as "musicians". Yet here we have these instrumentalists creating only a beat and a rhythm, and satisfying the requirement of having made "music". So, the addition of melody later on, much like the addition of chocolate chips to a batch of muffins, while definitely an amazing and important part of the overall picture, is not crucial - at the end of the day, chocolate chips or not, you've still got muffins. You mightn't think they're very good muffins, but they're still muffins. QED. Last edited by mitchables; 10-18-2008 at 10:19 PM. |
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10-17-2008, 10:12 PM | #72 |
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Mitch, just when I think I couldn't possibly love you more, you go and post an MC Lars song. Brilliant
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10-17-2008, 10:16 PM | #73 | |
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But by the litteral definition I guess drums by them selves aren't music...which I wouldn't really argue against as that would just be noise to me. But again, I know nothing about music, does rap have melody? Last edited by Destor; 10-17-2008 at 10:18 PM. |
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10-17-2008, 10:17 PM | #74 | |
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I'd say rap has melody... |
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10-17-2008, 10:20 PM | #75 | |
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10-17-2008, 10:22 PM | #76 |
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Just occured to me that it says rhythm, melody, OR harmony. So if it has any of them then it's music. So yeah, rap wins.
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10-17-2008, 10:26 PM | #77 |
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*crotch chop*
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10-17-2008, 10:34 PM | #78 |
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Textbook definition, bitches..
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10-17-2008, 10:45 PM | #79 | |
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To be honest, I barely listen to rap these days, but I'm not going to pretend it doesn't take talent to loop shit live (And some people can be fucking SICK), or to rhyme with a degree of precision. |
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10-18-2008, 12:10 AM | #80 |
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LMFAO
His freestyle was the shit.. |