Musical math
 

Sheryl Crow + penis = Jimmy Buffet

The Darkness - irony = A.F.I.

The Beatles/Yoko = mediocre solo artist x 4

Phil + Rex + Vinnie + Dimebag = Pantera

Phil = Down

Phil + Rex = Down

Down = Pantera

Vinnie + Dimebag = Damage Plan

Damage Plan <<<< Pantera
therefore,

Pantera = Phil

Beatles - talent = Rolling Stones

maybe it's just me, but i think darrell's guitar adds much more to pantera than phil's vocals... that, and guitarists tend to be primary song-writers in bands (though pantera claims song-writing credits as a collective)

and on topic:

rush + the strokes + rod stewart = sonic torture

Korn - Jonathan Davis = something actually listenable.

(Rick Astley + Charles Bukowski)*((3 * 20 * Lucky Strikes) + Jack Daniels) = Tom Waits = AC/DC + Isaac Hayes

Sqrt(Talent(Justin Timberlake)) = Talent * <i>i</i>

Tom Jones + U2 = Creed

Ray Charles + Sight - Melanin + LSD - 2*talent/5 = Steve Winwood

Bob Dylan + Blonde Wig - 60%*lyrics = Tom Petty

Tom Petty + Marc Ribot = Mark Knopfler

Greatful Dead - Jerry Garcia = The Doors - Jim Morrison = 0^10

Tom Lehrer + Radiohead/3 + Weird Al Yankovic/10 = They Might Be Giants

Frank Zappa - King Crimson = Tom Lehrer + Lenny Bruce = 1/The Villiage People

2*(David Bowie - 2*David Bowie's Brain/3) + 6 * bottles of black hair dye + 3 * chords = The Strokes

R =1 = A Perfect Circle

Limp Bizkit - Wes Borland = 0
Wesley Willis + Estrogen = BJ Snowden

The Kinks - Talent = The White Stripes

Korn - Jonathan Davis = 0 !!! what are u saying mystmarimatt
Jonathan davis is a great singer.. well was he is a bit fucked up now but still has a few yearsleft in music :D

Dream Theatre - suck + Phillip Glass = Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Rush+talent+luck+deal with the devil=Still worst band ever.

Roger Waters - Pink Floyd = David Gilmour - Pink Floyd.

The Strokes' "Is This It" = The Strokes "Room on Fire" (i.e. they are EXACTLY THE SAME)

AC/DC + Lynrd Skynrd + a case of Jack Daniels = Nashville Pussy

Carl Perkins + The Ramones = Reverend Horton Heat

Michael Jackson + Catholic Priests = Scared Little Boys

Therefore:
Roger Waters = David Gilmour - Pink Floyd + Pink Floyd
Roger Waters = David Gilmour :p
So they're the same person :eek:

i agree though, both equally talented :)

by the by, i think it should be Pink Floyd - the members?

No. I meant Gilmour w/o the rest of Floyd is equal to Waters w/o the rest of Floyd. The solo material isn't horrible, but the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Or, to put it mathematically, Pink Floyd > David Gilmour+Roger Waters+Richard Wright+Nick Mason

Nu + Metal = all sorts of terrible

Couldn't have put it better myself.

The world - John Lennon = A sad world

Aerosmith = Shit

Disco - falsetto singers = techno

I think you might need to brush up on your math.

if Korn - Jonathan Davis = 0, then Korn = Jonathan Davis.
In other words, he is the band. Most probably a compliment to him, not a dis...


Sort of like NiN - Trent Reznor = 0.

You have no idea how hilarious that was to me.

Brittney Spears = Madonna - originality

David Lee Roth > Sammy Hagar > Gary Cherone

The Sex Pistols - Any and all things that punk music stands for (i.e. revolution, social inequity, damning the establishment) + the lyrical talent of your average 10 year old boy = Good Charlotte, Starting Line, Newfound Glory, Sum 41, AFI, The Get Up Kids

Need I go on?

Yes, perhaps you should go on about why the hell AFI is included in there. They don't really claim to be punk as far as I know, and I met the guys.

come on the get up kids are kinda cool and i'm an indie music snob.

Glad to make your day.

Menudo == New Kids On The Block (NKotB) == Backstreet Boys == N'Sync == The Party Posse == 97 degrees == Every Other BoyBand

OK, maybe not The Party Posse :)

Tool=A Perfect Circle

Shit = once pefectly good food that has decayed for a while

I was going to wax indignant, but now that I think about it, that's a more appropriate equation than I had initially given it credit for being, so let's do it this way:

Aerosmith - 20 years = Rolling Stones - 30 years = (The Strokes + Nickleback) * 10 + Phish

Country + Pop + Suck = Contemporary Country
Rap + Emo + Redneck = Eminem
Cover Band + Fame = P-Diddy
Good Charlotte = Rich + Famous + Complainin'

IMO,

Tool >> A Perfect Circle

But that's just me.

Music World - Faith No More = No shitty Numetal bands.

Ohh, those are fighting words, lol

You can't blame FNM for Nu-Metal. The people that deserve the blame are Rage against the Machine and the Beastie Boys. FNM never rapped.

What about Epic? I'd consider that just as much "rap" as RatM, or better yet Red Hot Chili Peppers. Somewhere between rap and funk.

Alice Cooper - talent - any hint of originality = Marilyn Manson


Music in general - talent - good writing - actual instruments = today's pop music.

Personally, I think there is a lot more to rap than just rhyming.

OK, the definition I'm using for "rapping" is "recitation of the lyrics rhythmically without singing".

I define "rap" as "a songwriting form where the artist refers to himself by name and insults other rappers by name". :D

However, I'm interested to know how you draw your line between Faith and Rage. I'd drop them in the same genre, personally.

FNM's music varies a lot from album to album. They became more diverse as time went on also. They go from typical rock songs (

Hell, with that definition you could call Cannibal Corpse rap! The Slayer's Necrophobic Born of Fire fit that also. :)

That's a nice def.! For me, rap is just as much about image and attidue as it is about music. That's why I have much less respect for a rapper than an actual musician.

Now, I only know Rage from their radio songs, but to me it seemed like all of their songs followed the same formula:
"funky" guitar sounds during verse -> "metal" guitars during chorus.

FNM was totally diverse. Their songs fell into the "traditional" catagories of straight forward rock, metal, jazzy stuff, electronic, ballads, mellow atmospheric stuff, melodic rock, rappy stuff (as some say), lounge singer type stuff, and really wierd shit.

Anyways, back on topic:

Axl + Duff + Slash = Guns N Roses
Axl + a bunch of replacemente (does not)= Guns N Roses

Faith No More + masks = Mushroomhead

Jazz - (style + originality) + (middle aged women) = Kenny G

Yanni = John Tesh

Ozzy Osborne - Black Sabbath = The Osbornes

Nirvana - Curt Cobain - Talent = Foo Fighters

Audioslave - whining = Stone temple pilots

Nirvana +15 years = Seether

Stone Sour - Bother(track 8) = Slipknot

Fuel +2 minute interludes = Alice In Chains

Tool > Downface > All

Foo Fighters generally had better lyrics. That's all I've got to explain my unexplainable preference for the Fighters over Nirvana.

The FNM thing was kinda a joke, i know that they were all over, and i love them, but i believe that they played a huge part in the creation of Numetal, but i'm an idiot, so meh.

Britney spears + 5 years = nobody

No, I'm thinking more like:
Britney Spears + 5 years = Courtney Love

the sex pistols were studio creation that existed to make money. which is not very much not punk.

Hate to revive this thread, but I just thought it was funny. Got a couple of my own:

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black = Totally Awful
The Mars Volta - Trying to be experimental = Awesome
Getty Lee + Balls = Vapor Trails
A Perfect Circle < Tool
S x SW does not equal G3
Van Halen - Sammy Hagar = Good Idea
Sammy Hagar + Music < Sammy Hagar + Restaraunts
The World - Emo = A Better Place
Music + Money = Music - Expression
Metallica - Lars Ulrich = Metallica - Being Assholes
Janis Joplin + Sudden Infant Death Syndrome = the 60s not sucking
Jimi Hendrix - Drugs - Being Black = No Spot in History

I think that Taylor Hawkins is alot better off on a drumset than Dave Grohl is. Thats why I prefer Foo Fighters. I'd much rather enjoy Dave on guitar and vocals than Cobain.

Gwen Stefani + large breasts = Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons)

(I just finished watching the Missing Persons episode of "Hit Me Baby One More Time".)

New Signature=(The World - Emo = A Better Place)

Classical music + lyrics = Frank Sinatra
Robert Plant - falsetto = no career
System of a Down - drugs = terrorists
Papa Roach - self pity = marginal talent + tremendous hype

Can't... stop... laughing. :lol:

Punk= Punk Music + Punk ideology
The Sex Pistols = (Malcom McLaren + Selling Clothing) + Punk - Punk Ideology
The Sex Pistols = Malcom Mclaren + Selling Clothes + Punk Music

Good Charlotte = Punk - Punk ideology (see previous post) + Selling Clothes (their clothing line 'Made' Clothing)
Good Clarlotte = Selling Clothes + Punk Music

The Sex Pistols - Malcom McLaren = Good Charlotte

edit: Don't get me wrong, the Sex Pistols are much cooler than Good Charlotte. But come on, they really didn't stand for much of anything

The cast of "Hair"+Up With Peope+The Brady Bunch+multi-colored robes=The Polyphonic Spree (and I love them)

Pink Floyd reunion at Live 8 = Hell Frozen Over

Opeth-screaming vocalist=Something I would listen to. (otherwise, no)

Radiohead+Santana+The Doors=The Mars Volta

Blue Grass + LSD = Primus
Ministry + NIN = Rob Zombie

Blue Grass + Slayer + Irony=Split Lip Rayfield

HAHA that is hilarious!

Britney spears + 5 years = try to pay to be in playboy, end up in Hustler

Iced Earth - Matt Barlow = Crappy Judas Priest knockoff

Iron Maiden - talent + backwater hick crap = metallica

Audioslave < Sound Garden+RATM

The people on this board + Rolling Stones hate = Wrong

I don't listen to the Rolling Stones that much, but I can tell you for a fact that they ARE great, they just aren't as accessible at first as the Beatles. A good example of this is Midnight Rambler. The first times I heard it nothing seemed to jump out at all. It was just people playing forever. But once you actually get into it you realize that the parts you had relegated to the background were actually the point of the song, and were great. Give the Stones time and you WILL be rewarded.

And the reason I don't listen to Rolling Stones is not because I hate listening to them. I just kind of shifted away from rock.

Oh, and:

The Flaming Lips - perfection + Crazy cult hippies in white robes = The Polyphonic Spree

Cold + Chris Vrenna = Stupid Girl [My life is long Remix] = Awesomeness

Chris Vrenna + Song = Better Song

Weezer - Make Believe - Maladroit - Green Album = PHENOMENAL

Justice - noise = Daft Punk


Afroman - 'Cus I got High = who?


Jack Johnson + balls = Frank Turner

Stones + Springsteen + Skynyrd + Petty = Drive-By Truckers

Is This It? = Incredible

therefore, Incredible = Room On Fire.

AC/DC - Cred = Jet

REO Speedwagon's coolness = Any Simple Plan song (literally horrible)

Santana + Guitar solo = THE EXACT SAME SOLO EVERY TIME

Modest Mouse + Afro Beats + The Most Original Thing I've Heard In A Long Time = Vampire Weekend

I bought the cd today. I dig it a lot.

Metallica + $millions = stagnant mediocrity

Billy Corgan - (James Iha, D'Arcy, Jimmy Chamberlain) = The Smashing Pumpkins / (Flood + Billy Corgan)

(Billy Corgan - Flood) + Jimmy Chamberlain + A + B = 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins

(Aerosmith + 10 years) / new subgenre = Nickelback

I know right, I've only been saying it forever. I'd say it's like this:

Paul Simon's Graceland + All the access money can buy + Intelligence + A little Clash + A little 2002 NYC Rock and Roll + Raving Bloggers + A lead singer named Ezra = Vampire Weekend.

They are incredible.

What is up with everyone and their bitshifting? Don't you mean Tool > * > A Perfect Circle? :p

Anyways, mine goes something like:

Kate Nash = awesome ^ ∞