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classical |
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5 | 3.21% |
rock |
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2 | 1.28% |
country |
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69 | 44.23% |
rap |
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57 | 36.54% |
dance/techo |
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23 | 14.74% |
Voters: 156. You may not vote on this poll |
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#42 (permalink) |
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If there were a "top-40 country" I would choose that, but there are too many great country artists that I love. Of course everything on country radio is complete drech. I had to go with dance/techno because so much of that is totally derivative. There are exceptions for sure: !!!, LeTigre, etc.
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Location: Canada
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and i voted for rap, cause country has some actual musicians, and techno is respectable if it actually involves mad keyboard skills(which it usually doesnt, but there is some) |
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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(C)rap!! The funny thing is that Hard Rock/Heavy Metal used to get bagged because the critics said it all sounded the the same. Well hello these same critics acclaim it as brilliant. I can't tell one rap group from a 1000 others plying the same garbage.
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#49 (permalink) | |
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so being able to use a set of turntables and a mixer doesn't count? It's harder to blend two songs perfectly together than one thinks... |
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Location: Seattle, WA
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But I agree with you on the subject of techno.
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Location: Northeast Jesusland
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Understand that I am not saying that Synthesizers and Drum Machines and Samples cannot be part of worthwhile music, or something used in addition to things that require musical talent, just that the programmers thereof are more like the lighting guys or the producers or folks who run the soundboard than they are like the musicians. They're technicians, not musicians. My beef with Dance and Techno is that a large part of it seems to me to rely entirely on these programmed devices, to the exclusion of any display of musical talent. That and I find it boring, repetitive, and unpleasant to listen to, so even if you disagree with my intellectual argument for disliking it, you cannot justly disagree that it is very much not to my taste.
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Location: Georgia
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Location: Northeast Jesusland
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I understand that it is harder than it looks. I have heard turntable played as a musical instrument - it's percussion - and mixing the percussive scratching with sampling from the records' grooves is quite impressive (if not particularly euphonius to my ear). That's not what I am talking about, not primarily in any case. That's not what I have heard on those selections of house and techno it has been my misfortune to have been obliged to tolerate. Simple 4/4 beats played very very loud, and tape loops, with the occasional snippet of movie dialog thrown in is what I heard. Turn the beat down a bit, throw in a fill once in a while, have some people who play their own instruments react to it and record that (if their reaction isn't to walk out of the studio), and then you have some music that I might be able to respect (or not - playing your own instrument is no guarantee that you play it well.) So please don't be insulted because I think you're not talented. You may well be talented, but I don't think it's a musical talent. If you want to be insulted about that, well, I am still sorry to have offended, but it doen't change my opinion. (And I am equally not saying that this technical talent for mix and production precludes musical talent, but, in the case of Moby, I would say it occludes what musical talent he may have. I am not familiar with D'n'B, so I can't competently comment on them.)
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#56 (permalink) |
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i am still confused as to what woud constitute "musical talent" for you tophat.
you have made a distinction between music and technical abilities: i am not sure where the line would fall. would you explain more directly please? does "music" have particular tonal features? is it purely technical, done exclusively on traditional instruments? what kind of music do you play? (your position seems like from someone who plays...)
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#57 (permalink) |
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Location: U of MD
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i think ~1/3 threads in the music forum wind up as arguments about semantics. maybe everyone can agree to something like this:
composition and performance are two seperate, though often connected, elements of music. a composer is necessarily concerned with all 3 facets of music: pitch, rhythm, and timbre (the quality or texture of sound). if any one is missing, a shitty or incomplete piece is the result. for example, if a composer arranged a piece for 20 oboes, he'd be ignoring timbre because lots of oboes = pure pain. rhythm and pitch are more obvious. now take a performer. a traditional instrumentalist (trumpet, piano, guitar, etc) also must be aware of pitch, rhythm, and timbre. overlook any of these and you've got a poor performance. in the gray area of electronic music, i'd argue that it's entirely possible to ignore 1 or more of the 3 musical elements i mentioned. sampling, the only possible musical thing an electronic composer might do is adjust tempos. however, writing an electronic song from scratch can be just as complex as writing for traditional instruments. performance, well thats another story. on turntables, rhythm and timbre (marginally) are the only things going on. pitch is predetermined. i could agree that turntables are a novel percussive instrument, but neither have the full-fledged complexity of a wind, reed, or string instrument. (an array of differently tuned drums excepted from that generalization) |
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#59 (permalink) | |
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so sorry try again! p.s. you're also wrong about samplers. |
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#60 (permalink) |
Natalie Portman is sexy.
Location: The Outer Rim
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Anything that's has been played on MTV in the past 24-48 hours.
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#61 (permalink) |
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Location: Pennsylvania
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I just can't stomach country music. Old school country was cool (Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams). But when I am flipping through radio channels and I hear some crap like this:
Well I might go get me a new tattoo Or take my old Harley for a three day cruise Might even grow me a Fu Man Chu... Oh Aww! it makes me think it's a bi-product of new auditory torture techniques. |
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#62 (permalink) | |
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oh wow.. I don't even know where to begin to refute this. All turntables have pitch control. It's the most basic and necessary element of mixing. Without it you get crappy mixes and trainwrecks. sampling is a whole different monster. It depends on what you actually mean by this as it has different uses and different terms. If you're doing a mixer sample then yes it isn't difficult. IF you're doing a cut sample with another rec then it becomes an art form. Recs may be meant to be played at a certain rpm but you can speed it up or slow it down for some crazy effects. On the newer turntables you have a reverse feature also. That is not really my thing but it can create some good effects. Anyone who thinks turntables aren't an art form I challenge you to get some good recs and a decent mixer... and see what you can do. While it may be easy to match beats..you'll find it's harder to make it sound good than you think ![]() |
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#63 (permalink) | |
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Location: U of MD
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essentially any object that requires the user to pick and choose the pitch, rhythm, and timbre produced qualifies as an instrument. sampling/mixing can, but doesn't necessarily. |
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#66 (permalink) | |
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Location: U of MD
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my proposition: a musical instrument has three user-controlled properties - pitch, rhythm, and timbre. my conclusion: assuming the proposition is true, traditional instruments can all be classified as "musical instruments". some sampling/mixing/scratching can also be considered "musical", but sampling/mixing/scratching present in a fair portion of pop music doesn't have all the above properties. would you consider the random scratching in a limp bizkit song representative of a musical instrument? |
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Location: Great White North
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Country.... its just bloody crap. All the songs are the same.... utter shite IMHO!!
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Location: Northeast Jesusland
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First second: There is no sharp line between musical talent and technical skill. There is a fuzzy grey line between them. Perhaps the argument I should be making is not so much between techical and musical as between composition and performance. I don't really know how to go about making that argument: I can't figure how it relates to the debate at had. So that is a given. Now, what's the difference between them: I can only define it by analogy, and I am absolutely certain I display a certain degree of ignorance when I do so (willful ignorance at that - not enjoying the style, I don't know as much about it as I would need to to argue as forcefully about it as I feel it warrants.) It is the difference between composition and montage (still a fuzzy line, but a bit sharper), between creation of a new whole and juxtaposition of exisiting pieces. Ultimately, to me, it is about the complexity of the component pieces and whether or not they are hand crafted in motion to a rhythm or machine turned piece by piece and snapped together at the end to give the illusion of rhythm. A single note on a flute you play on the one hand, a tape loop of 12 bars of drumming someone else did on the other. Play the next note and the next and the next at the right time in the right order on the one hand, repeat every 10 seconds with the pitch falling within the envelope defined by the following equation on the other. Is all techno made that second way? Of course not. Is some? Surely it is. Could I tell the one from the other? Unlikely. Hence, a reason to dislike the lot of it. (For me. Reasonable people will differ. I do feel strongly about it, though, so I find it difficult to kep to a purely intellectual argument.) Now, turntables. You and guccilvr and locobot have convinced me that turntables have evolved into an instrument. I had been beginning to lean in that direction, but I agree that all the elements, both the complexity and the simplicity, are there that one can play a turntale as more than a pure, improvised percussion instrument. To pull an analogy, though, the LP on the turntable is like the reed on a woodwind. If you have a crappy reed, you will make crappy music. For my purposes, if you have an LP of someone else's work, and you play large, recognizable chunks of it, then, IMNSHO, you have a split reed. Now, I have said it before and I will say it again: Reasonable people will disagree. At the base of it this is a matter of taste, and taste informs the argument. Guccilvr - can you throw some suggestions at me of techno that I cannot use these arguments on? Specific songs so I can P2P them and see if I would be interested in exploring further and, perhaps, even revising my opinion. (I have done so with Country and Rap over the years, and it could very well be that I have only heard crappy, insipid techno.) Feel free to PM, and you would have my thanks.
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#76 (permalink) | |
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I agree with your reed analogy somewhat. IF you play shitty records on a good turntable the music is still going to sound shitty..but this is where personal taste comes into play. A turntable has so many things that you can manipulate other than speed. For instance, the needles. You can have scratch needles or mixing needles and yes they are different and yes they accomplish different things. A mixer is vital to any part of the production. The mixer can do some amazing things.. no matter if it's a battle(scratch) mixer or a true (production) mixer. They both serve a purpose. Of course I'm sure you knew this already ![]() I'll be happy to pm you .. it's on the way. |
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#78 (permalink) |
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Location: Stormwind, The Eastern Kingdoms, Azeroth
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Country. I HATE country.
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Location: Right Behind You
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I have become a fan of some rap, not all of it, but some of it. However I would rather listen to someone disemboweling a cat with a rusty spoon than listen to country.
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