I mean, it's a lot less clear cut than I made it look lie up there, but i'd generally stand by the idea that there are some kinds of music that are more accessible and less good than others
You're gonna imply to me with a straight face that Esoteric is better than Yelawolf.
but apparently hip-hop has different subgenres based solely on where it comes from
Scenes are not genres.
That's why people say "chopped & screwed" instead of "Southern rap" nowadays. A$AP Rocky makes music heavily influenced by screw but he's from New York.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
because it's more accessible to the layperson than other similar music, so people will start with it and then hopefully move on to the really good stuff
I'm not trying to troll here man but this has got to be one of the most pretentious things I've ever heard
I've had people review 11.975MHz and call it "avant-garde" and a bunch of other bullshit but it's just a comic that I hope people enjoy. I'm pretty sure that most musicians across every genre are trying to accomplish the same thing, but I'm also sure there's more than a few who put out unpleasant noise and push it as transcendental and only discriminating tastes will "get" it. The people who "get it" are, I am sure of, cut from the same cloth who think that they can hear the difference between $5 and $5000 speaker cables.
Years ago I listened to Nine Inch Nails and you probably already know this, but Trent's second album was Broken and they released a remix counterpart album of it labeled Fixed. Broken by itself is a decent album if you're into Nails or whatever. Fixed is a CD with one remix that's almost passable as a song, and the rest sounds like a malfunctioning washing machine being raped by a runaway subway train. It's pure fucking noise, and I said so one day on a forum which raised the ire of a few who were telling me what a musical masterpiece Fixed was and I'm just too much of a layman to appreciate it. Whatever, I guess my tastes aren't distinguished enough to enjoy what amounts to TV static at full volume with a chorus of jackhammers going at it in the background.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I generally do not enjoy music that other people enjoy.
This is not because other people enjoy it and I feel some need to be a spehshul snowflake, but because I generally dislike many of the elements that make music easily accessible to most people, and enjoy things that many people find really terrible.
While I will gladly proselytize the stuff I listen to, and i do in fact think it is better, I will have to admit that enjoyment of music, like all art, is subjective.
Except BrokeNcyde.
If you like BrokeNcyde you are wrong.
same goes for Nickelback.
Fixed is a CD with one remix that's almost passable as a song
you see, i have never listened to Fixed
buuuut
two of the remixes were done by J.G. Thirlwell
Thirlwell is in fact god and is literally incapable of doing anything wrong.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I generally do not enjoy music that other people enjoy.
This is not because other people enjoy it and I feel some need to be a spehshul snowflake, but because I generally dislike many of the elements that make music easily accessible to most people, and enjoy things that many people find really terrible.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Sometimes I worry that I enjoy watered-down stuff.
A good chunk of the music I listen to is created for television newscasts, which is not meant for recreational listening to begin with. My favorite of these companies is Stephen Arnold Music, who I believe not to have been as good since about 2008 as they were in the '90s and in most of the 2000s.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I generally do not enjoy music that other people enjoy.
This is not because other people enjoy it and I feel some need to be a spehshul snowflake, but because I generally dislike many of the elements that make music easily accessible to most people, and enjoy things that many people find really terrible.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I generally do not enjoy music that other people enjoy.
This is not because other people enjoy it and I feel some need to be a spehshul snowflake, but because I generally dislike many of the elements that make music easily accessible to most people, and enjoy things that many people find really terrible.
And there's nothing wrong with that. The whole bit about "entry-level" in music is just pretentious and laughably elitist. Either you enjoy a form of art or you don't, there's no degrees of separation like a belt is in a martial art.
you see, i have never listened to Fixed
buuuut
two of the remixes were done by J.G. Thirlwell
Thirlwell is in fact god and is literally incapable of doing anything wrong.
Uh huh
Like I said, the entire album is one track that almost passes as a tune and the rest is just noise. Fixed is a pretty old album, maybe that's what he cut his teeth on and only later learned to stop making ears bleed
Sometimes I worry that I enjoy watered-down stuff.
A good chunk of the music I listen to is created for television newscasts, which is not meant for recreational listening to begin with. My favorite of these companies is Stephen Arnold Music, who I believe not to have been as good since about 2008 as they were in the '90s and in most of the 2000s.
This is rambly
well, you listen to music that's associated with the things you enjoy, seems like a good reason to me.
Regarding the quality of music not intended for recreational listening, Carl Stalling was a terrific (*and very influential, albiet indirectly, in certain circles*) composer, did the music for Looney Tunes.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
He was not-for-commercial-release?
As far as news music goes I'm ambivalent on 615. They were good in the '90s and early 2000s but have a Nickelback-ish habit of regurgitating musical elements that they hit on circa 2000 and it's just so bland to me, though most of what I've heard of it is bite-sized bits in their demo reels...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Though 615 does give their clients what they want...which is more often than not shoving pieces of In-Sink V.3 or High Velocity V.2 into a photocopier and being handed a copy of a copy of a copy
Also, after careful thought, I've come to the conclusion that the flex hoses that came in the kit I got suck. I can only use one of them, on the hot side, because the cold side is so convoluted. I'm going to end up using standard adapters and copper for that side, I just know it. :P
Being serious now, I think one way that schools tend to ruin literature for kids is by making them think that looking for SYMBOLS is extremely important.
For some reason I always forget about Yes. I think they're a great band, but I always feel like I'm forgetting about them and when I listen again, it's like discovering them again.
I listened to the two Thirlwell mixes on Fixed, they were meh.
I'd chalk this up to the fact that he was having serious problems with heroin at the time.
Anyhoo, Thirlwell is a cool dude. If I were to describe his usual stuff, i'd say he sounds kinda like a cross between a junkie-er Tom Waits, Stomp, and Swans with some big band jazz and spy movie soundtrack stuff in there for good measure.
In general as time has moved on he's moved away from his more rock/industrial/punk side to focus on his more orchestral inclinations. (*I'd chalk this to his getting sober as well*)
I mean, his last album was full on contemporary classical-ish stuff
Being serious now, I think one way that schools tend to ruin literature for kids is by making them think that looking for SYMBOLS is extremely important.
I enjoy analysis of stories and looking for meaning/symbolism/subtext/etc. because that's how my brain works. But, I do agree with this. Especially in middle and high school it just really kills the experience.
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I have no clue who either of those people are
Scenes are not genres.
That's why people say "chopped & screwed" instead of "Southern rap" nowadays. A$AP Rocky makes music heavily influenced by screw but he's from New York.
A really shitty underground rapper and a really good mainstream rapper respectively.It's this for 66 minutes
Yelawolf's best song is probably "Pop The Trunk" honestly.
He's certainly atypical but he's got a really good flow when he's not wasting it on party tracks.
I can't say I like a single thing I've ever heard by Esoteric.
better than about half the stuff on anticon.
A good chunk of the music I listen to is created for television newscasts, which is not meant for recreational listening to begin with. My favorite of these companies is Stephen Arnold Music, who I believe not to have been as good since about 2008 as they were in the '90s and in most of the 2000s.
This is rambly
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
At least, the first part is. The screams from the beyond that pop up near the halfway mark are a bit creepy, yes.
As far as news music goes I'm ambivalent on 615. They were good in the '90s and early 2000s but have a Nickelback-ish habit of regurgitating musical elements that they hit on circa 2000 and it's just so bland to me, though most of what I've heard of it is bite-sized bits in their demo reels...
When will it be fully installed?
but then I didn't
magical realism
social commentary
the end
pleebs don't understand truart
Cool.
...I feel weird in pointing to In-Sink V.3 as the true birth of the modern 615 sound. Am I right about that? (It's from 2000.)
Also one of their new packages, A New Wish, is bland to the point of sounding like self-parody
For some reason I always forget about Yes. I think they're a great band, but I always feel like I'm forgetting about them and when I listen again, it's like discovering them again.
I dunno, that doesn't make any sense.