After listening to Max Bruch's and Hans Rott's E major symphonies, I was disappointed with Anton Bruckner's. Bruch's and Rott's are much more enjoyable in my opinion.
Maybe it's just that I'm very sensitive to tonality in a certain meaning. Along with harmony (and from the combination of the two with melody, chromaticism), it is part of how I get musical senses of stability/instability and familiarity/foreignness etc. from a work. So I just never quite got settled into whatever Bruckner was saying and then he just kept on moving on and I lost track of what he was doing.
Contrast, say, a work by Bach -- he almost invariably starts every piece with a strong harmonic statement in the form of a complete phrase in the home key. Usually tonic, supertonic, dominant, tonic.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Cynic - Focus Naked City - Naked City Coil - Horse Rotorvator Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions John Coltrane - Giant Steps Agalloch - The Mantle Wovenhand - Blush Music The Beatles - Abbey Road Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Runner-ups: Carcass - Heartwork Megadeth - Peace Sells Swans - Swans are Dead Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul John Coltrane - A Love Supreme The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Gentle Giant - Octopus Gentle Giant -Acquiring the Taste Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite Alchemist - Jar of Kingdom Atheist - Elements Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Genesis - Wind and Wuthering John Zorn and Thurston Moore - "@" Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Marvin Gaye- What's Going On The United States Of America - The United States Of America David Bowie - Low Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan for This World Time Machines- Time Machines Cracow Klezmer Band - Bereshit Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack Various - Samurai Champloo Soundtrack John Zorn - John Zorn Filmworks series (kinda cheating with the last 3, since they're all multiple albums, but they work best when taken as a whole)
Though I will note that any album from the runner up list can end up on my favorites list depending on the mood I'm in.
Heh, knew you or JHM would call attention to that one. Such a good album.
Also, because I'm an idiot, I forgot a few albums in my runners up list, so I'll just add them here.
Om - God is Good Naked City - Leng T'che Anathema - The Silent Enigma Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans Corrupted - El Mundo Frio Boris - Flood Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version WIlson Pickett- In the Midnight Hour Sam and Dave - Soul Men Sam and Dave - Hold on I'm Coming
there's so much good stuff that i didn't get on my list im retroactively ashamed
Yeah, I tried to just limit it to my top 10 but I knew I wouldn't be able to limit myself to just my top 10, so I just said fuck it and made the runner up list. And that list was made specifically with excluding any classical albums or works from my list. If I included all my favorite classical works, there'd probably be another 20 inclusions in that list.
i cannot recite any of the lyrics to my fave metal albums because they all sound like someone gurgling while banging a trash can lid in a polyrhythmic manner
Try reading along to the lyrics while listening to any of the stuff on Imaginary Sonicscape, it really brings to the fore the fact that there's a lot of really weird things going on with them that you'd normally miss because you're focused on all the other weird shit going on
also they're really corny in the way that only overly earnest emotionally fraught metal lyrics can be
i cannot recite any of the lyrics to my fave metal albums because they all sound like someone gurgling while banging a trash can lid in a polyrhythmic manner
maybe that is for the best
Mustaine is kinda easy, since you just growl menacingly in a slightly high pitched voice. I used to be alright at 90's-esque Death growls though. I could do a halfway decent Chris Barnes imitation at one point.
also there are now at least two bands that draw on both djenty technical deathcore and that whole symphonic/blackened/death thing that Septicflesh, Behemoth and Fleshgod Apocalypse do
Will this become a trend? I hope it does because the world will be unprepared for the silliness
Really enjoyed this. Think they could have trimmed the run time down though.
Also, speaking of cool music found recently, thanks to a Dark Souls LPer I watch I found a really cool hip-hop group called Windmills. You can check them out here:
Listened to Duke Ellington & John Coltrane the other day and realized for the first time just how good it was. I've owned that album for a few years, but it feels like this was the first time I really listened to it.
- good taste in jazz - good taste in prog - likes maja ratkje/vocal experimentalism - still not inculcated into world of underground dance music - likes nickelback (??!!)
Me too. For example, I had an idea to make an EP with covers of The Damned's "Life Goes On", Killing Joke's "Eighties", and Nirvana's "Come As You Are", cause they all have the same riff.
idk how you could complain about a new kanye west song and then say that nickelback is not that bad
not that kanye is amazing, but at least he displays a level of artistic ingenuity on a regular basis and can produce a reasonably fun tune or two
whereas nickelback is almost literally everything wrong that can possibly happen with guitar based music: it is dull, incredibly repetitive, boorish, cloying, and thoughtless, postureing at a level of masculinity and grit that it sorely lacks in any way shape or form
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(The other Jane)
Contrast, say, a work by Bach -- he almost invariably starts every piece with a strong harmonic statement in the form of a complete phrase in the home key. Usually tonic, supertonic, dominant, tonic.
Cynic - Focus
Naked City - Naked City
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Agalloch - The Mantle
Wovenhand - Blush Music
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Runner-ups:
Carcass - Heartwork
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Swans - Swans are Dead
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gentle Giant -Acquiring the Taste
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite
Alchemist - Jar of Kingdom
Atheist - Elements
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
John Zorn and Thurston Moore - "@"
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
The United States Of America - The United States Of America
David Bowie - Low
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan for This World
Time Machines- Time Machines
Cracow Klezmer Band - Bereshit
Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
Various - Samurai Champloo Soundtrack
John Zorn - John Zorn Filmworks series (kinda cheating with the last 3, since they're all multiple albums, but they work best when taken as a whole)
Though I will note that any album from the runner up list can end up on my favorites list depending on the mood I'm in.
aaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy
Also, because I'm an idiot, I forgot a few albums in my runners up list, so I'll just add them here.
Om - God is Good
Naked City - Leng T'che
Anathema - The Silent Enigma
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
Boris - Flood
Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
WIlson Pickett- In the Midnight Hour
Sam and Dave - Soul Men
Sam and Dave - Hold on I'm Coming
NAIL IS STILL NUMBER ONE THOUGH
maybe that is for the best
You know how Sigh is really weird?
Try reading along to the lyrics while listening to any of the stuff on Imaginary Sonicscape, it really brings to the fore the fact that there's a lot of really weird things going on with them that you'd normally miss because you're focused on all the other weird shit going on
also they're really corny in the way that only overly earnest emotionally fraught metal lyrics can be
Will this become a trend? I hope it does because the world will be unprepared for the silliness
i did buy the dudes demo comp on itunes though
Also, speaking of cool music found recently, thanks to a Dark Souls LPer I watch I found a really cool hip-hop group called Windmills. You can check them out here:
http://windmills.bandcamp.com/
(The other Jane)
it is nice to have a cute boy who listens to good things :3
- good taste in jazz
- good taste in prog
- likes maja ratkje/vocal experimentalism
- still not inculcated into world of underground dance music
- likes nickelback (??!!)
(The other Jane)
not that kanye is amazing, but at least he displays a level of artistic ingenuity on a regular basis and can produce a reasonably fun tune or two
whereas nickelback is almost literally everything wrong that can possibly happen with guitar based music: it is dull, incredibly repetitive, boorish, cloying, and thoughtless, postureing at a level of masculinity and grit that it sorely lacks in any way shape or form