24 Jun
2011
24 Jun
'11
9:58 p.m.
While I agree that good music (or any art for that matter) should
communicate something, I think that such a discussion, however fun, is
pretty pointless, since it's all subjective. Communication of emotions?
Certainly, but certain forms of virtuosic musical styles can take one on
an intellectual trip so far and out that it rivals any gut-wrenching
experience in terms of intensity. I love highly intellectual music and I
love highly emotional music too, yet some high-flown music is just
inaccessible to me, and some obviously emotional music can sound to me
like useless whining. Talent also doen't have that much to do with it. A
talentless musician with a vision is probably beter off than a
visionless virtuoso (unless he is teamed up with the right people, of
course). Same with auto-tune: I agree that it can sound extremely
egregious in modern pop music, but it can also be used to good effect in
achieving a certain "feel" and I certainly wouldn't discount someone
just because they were using it.
Anyway, this is just a verbose way to say that we could discuss what
constitutes a legitimate fusion of classic and pop all day and all night,
and, most likely, everyone on this list would still have a unique
answer. In the end, isn't it why we choose to make music: because it
wants to be wild, free, and hopefully unique to who we are as
individuals?
Cheers,
S.M.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:46:22PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:33 +0200, Julien Claassen
wrote:
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Me Kong Delta
Wow, I'm an old school dino and like(d?) Me Kong Delta, but IMO it can't
be called fusion of classic and popular music, for me it's heavy metal
and I guess the last time I listened to Me Kong Delta was ... *wiki
search* ... The Music of Erich Zann (1988) ... wow, even my last
Skateboard is from 1989.
do you have the talent and means in your
repertoire to pull it off
I can't remember, but perhaps it were the guys from "The Acc??sed" who
were completely untalented regarding to playing instruments and singing,
but they communicated emotions to the point. I might be mistaken, but
there was a well known 80's punk band, perhaps it was anther band. Punk
isn't my genre, but I like some 80's punk, also older punk, but I'm not
sure if the term punk is correct. E.g, what is the term for the music
the MC5 made? Hard rock? Or was it punk?
We give music genre names, but it's very hard to sort bands to a genre.
What kind of music did The Beatles play?
Beatnik stuff? Isn't Helter Scelter punk?
That reminds me to industrial music, e.g. Laibach's interpretation of
Across the Universe ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5mlb3Bjzs does
it sound like a typical industrial song?
Btw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAPXWNthDg a satire to the words of
a queen song ... fascist? Are/were the musicians of the band Queen
fascist? I like this irony :D. Listening to the music I see Albert Speer
and others ;). This is communications, the composition and arrangement
is week, but it communicates an emotion.
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