OK song, but there is much better on that album. "Airbag", in particular, is basically the quintessential Radiohead single, and "The Tourist" is just beautiful.
i like Exit Music.
Radiohead were my favourite band for a while, during which i thought that entire album was basically perfect.
My favorite song was always "Paranoid Android", though "Exit Music" is quite good.
You know, the only albums I think I'd ever describe as perfect (at least from my perspective), are Dark Side of The Moon and A Love Supreme.
It's actually a while since i listened to one of their albums through. The Bends used to actually be my favourite, but i used to be a lot more into rock music than i am now.
The Bends has some fantastic whip-smart arena rock songs ("Planet Telex", "Dark Star") and several gorgeous transitional pieces ("Bulletproof", "(Nice Dream)"), but the first half just feels so... drawn-out, I guess. The second half makes up for this, in the end, but putting "High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees" right next to each other is unforgivable. Both are perfectly good songs, but the latter is the stronger of the two and they both are similar enough that the effect is just irksome instead of compelling. Also, "The Bends" and especially "Bones" would have been far better if they took a dirtier, sloppier production approach.
i am not a very discerning music listener, though. i don't know any of the theory, and i am easily entertained.
I wouldn't say being easily entertained is necessarily a bad thing though. Plus, for the most part, it wouldn't say it's necessary to understand music theory to be able to enjoy music. Hell, I don't understand the theory behind a lot of music that I listen to (thought I'm trying to correct that).
my reading is much like my music-listening: diverse, but sporadic and limited.
I sometimes feel like that about my music listening. I have certain artists that I know an inordinate amount about, but I sometimes feel like my greater genre knowledge is lacking.
Exception: Post-punk. I think that I am basically a human post-punk encyclopaedia now.
Replace "post-punk" with "1990s alternative", and I pretty much feel the same way.
OK song, but there is much better on that album. "Airbag", in particular, is basically the quintessential Radiohead single, and "The Tourist" is just beautiful.
i like Exit Music.
Radiohead were my favourite band for a while, during which i thought that entire album was basically perfect.
My favorite song was always "Paranoid Android", though "Exit Music" is quite good.
You know, the only albums I think I'd ever describe as perfect (at least from my perspective), are Dark Side of The Moon and A Love Supreme.
I'm not 100% sure about the former, but the latter is probably the closest thing to "perfect" in music. The playing, the composition and the production are all immaculate on that album.
For imperfect masterpieces—that is, music that is perfectly attuned to my own tastes—I think that The Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage Animation Music Volume One, Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark (both volumes), Wire's 154, Bügsküll's Snakland, Prurient's Black Vase and Swans' The Great Annihilator are up there.
the most recent album I can think of that is perfect by my standards is good kid mA.A.d city
of course it does have a single flaw (the tacked-on collab with Dr. Dre known as "Compton"), but I don't think I've ever heard any music that is totally without error.
also time for an embarrassing confession: I have been practicing rapping lately.
like out loud and stuff
this is cool though
I suppose.
I am still not sure if I ever want to record anything. I have a really weird cadence I can best liken to a deeper-voiced Doseone but I also lisp horribly and my words slur, so idk.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Which would be cheaper: installing traffic lights at an intersection that operate in stop-and-go mode during the start and end of the school day and flash at all other times, or hiring police officers to direct traffic at the start and end of the school day?
Which would be cheaper: installing traffic lights at an intersection that operate in stop-and-go mode during the start and end of the school day and flash at all other times, or hiring police officers to direct traffic at the start and end of the school day?
I sometimes feel like that about my music listening. I have certain artists that I know an inordinate amount about, but I sometimes feel like my greater genre knowledge is lacking. Exception: Post-punk. I think that I am basically a human post-punk encyclopaedia now.
Replace "post-punk" with "1990s alternative", and I pretty much feel the same way.
SO HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BECK
I think Beck is a pretty cool guy, on the whole. Odelay is a pretty solid album that's worth anyone's time.
Edit: Gah, why did the editor screw up the quote formatting so badly?
also time for an embarrassing confession: I have been practicing rapping lately.
like out loud and stuff
this is cool though
I second that. My voice is far too clumsy at high speeds to rap at a pace that I would be satisfied with right now, but if I could, I would do it in a heartbeat. If you can do it, do it.
This reminds me: dälek's debut EP/mini-LP Negro Necro Nekros is another album that I think loosely fits into my imaginary musical canon, if almost solely for the production (and "Praise Be the Man").
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Which would be cheaper: installing traffic lights at an intersection that operate in stop-and-go mode during the start and end of the school day and flash at all other times, or hiring police officers to direct traffic at the start and end of the school day?
unicorn magic, durr
You probably didn't mean it as such, but I'll take that to mean "this is a purely fantasy exercise and as such you can control the traffic however you like."
In which case, I'll just pretend that the traffic signals were never removed in the first place. Case closed! :D
I think Beck is a pretty cool guy, on the whole. Odelay is a pretty solid album that's worth anyone's time.
Indeed. I like most of his music though.
So do I, at least from what I've heard (as in, a lot of post-Odelay stuff but no whole albums so far). I also give him massive kudos for "Harry Partch".
I'm not 100% sure about the former, but the latter is probably the closest thing to "perfect" in music. The playing, the composition and the production are all immaculate on that album.
For imperfect masterpieces—that is, music that is perfectly attuned to my own tastes—I think that The Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage Animation Music Volume One, Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark (both volumes), Wire's 154, Bügsküll's Snakland, Prurient's Black Vase and Swans' The Great Annihilator are up there.
I suppose this is kinda redundant, but the factors you listed for why A Love Supreme is so close to perfect is also the reasons I chose Dark Side as a perfect album. Plus, I have never heard a record that flows as smoothly from one song to another as Dark Side does. I don't even perceive any of the songs as separate songs, just parts where the whole is exponentially more than the sum of the parts, which to me is what defines a perfect album.
also time for an embarrassing confession: I have been practicing rapping lately.
like out loud and stuff
this is cool though
I second that. My voice is far too clumsy at high speeds to rap at a pace that I would be satisfied with right now, but if I could, I would do it in a heartbeat. If you can do it, do it.
This reminds me: dälek's debut EP/mini-LP Negro Necro Nekros is another album that I think loosely fits into my imaginary musical canon, if almost solely for the production (and "Praise Be the Man").
On the one hand.
But on the other I'm more interested in giving other people beats to rap over, y'know?
Also I only sound good on beats that have a lot of air in them I've found. Like, late 90s/early 2000s Timbaland stuff (actually the instrumental for "Are You That Somebody?" by Aaliyah, that song I posted a bit ago, is a really good example). I can kinda worm inside those really nice.
Anything that's too full I just kinda sound clumsy. Also I have no volume at all, I basically whisper.
Do you have any albums of theirs? Even just the Cowboy Bebop OST?
No, I don't own any music. If I want to listen to music I use Youtube.
ah.
hmm.
I actually don't know what to tell you then.
I'm sorry, Kexruct. :(
So do I, at least from what I've heard (as in, a lot of post-Odelay stuff but no whole albums so far). I also give him massive kudos for "Harry Partch".
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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My favorite song was always "Paranoid Android", though "Exit Music" is quite good.
You know, the only albums I think I'd ever describe as perfect (at least from my perspective), are Dark Side of The Moon and A Love Supreme.
i am not a very discerning music listener, though. i don't know any of the theory, and i am easily entertained.
Also, "The Bends" and especially "Bones" would have been far better if they took a dirtier, sloppier production approach.
Dark Side is not actually my favourite Pink Floyd. i am not sure i could pick a favourite, but Animals stands out to me.
What's your favorite song?
re: Radiohead talk: I am the only person in the world who likes Coldplay better than Radiohead.
Yeah sure ^_^
why tho?
also time for an embarrassing confession: I have been practicing rapping lately.
like out loud and stuff
i d k
i hear people talking about how much a track sucks and i'm almost invariably like, 'but this is excellent'
the most recent album I can think of that is perfect by my standards is good kid mA.A.d city
of course it does have a single flaw (the tacked-on collab with Dr. Dre known as "Compton"), but I don't think I've ever heard any music that is totally without error.
I suppose.
I am still not sure if I ever want to record anything. I have a really weird cadence I can best liken to a deeper-voiced Doseone but I also lisp horribly and my words slur, so idk.
I sometimes feel like that about my music listening. I have certain artists that I know an inordinate amount about, but I sometimes feel like my greater genre knowledge is lacking.
Exception: Post-punk. I think that I am basically a human post-punk encyclopaedia now.
Replace "post-punk" with "1990s alternative", and I pretty much feel the same way.
SO HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BECK
I think Beck is a pretty cool guy, on the whole. Odelay is a pretty solid album that's worth anyone's time.
Also we have a quote button just fyi.
oic
sorriez
^^That wasn't me reprimanding you, I was just making sure.
Give me un momento.
Also we have a quote button just fyi.
All these people who said i said something i didn't say!Quoteblocks are funny.
hm, well The Seatbelts are loosely a jazz band.
Do you have any albums of theirs? Even just the Cowboy Bebop OST?
So do I, at least from what I've heard (as in, a lot of post-Odelay stuff but no whole albums so far). I also give him massive kudos for "Harry Partch".
I suppose this is kinda redundant, but the factors you listed for why A Love Supreme is so close to perfect is also the reasons I chose Dark Side as a perfect album. Plus, I have never heard a record that flows as smoothly from one song to another as Dark Side does. I don't even perceive any of the songs as separate songs, just parts where the whole is exponentially more than the sum of the parts, which to me is what defines a perfect album.
On the one hand.
But on the other I'm more interested in giving other people beats to rap over, y'know?
Also I only sound good on beats that have a lot of air in them I've found. Like, late 90s/early 2000s Timbaland stuff (actually the instrumental for "Are You That Somebody?" by Aaliyah, that song I posted a bit ago, is a really good example). I can kinda worm inside those really nice.
Anything that's too full I just kinda sound clumsy. Also I have no volume at all, I basically whisper.
ah.
hmm.
I actually don't know what to tell you then.
I'm sorry, Kexruct. :(
I especially like his bossa nova album.
i have... apparently 42.7GB on my laptop, plus a few copy-protected albums that i can only listen to at my parents' house.