Right so rock/pop is all three chords and atonal music is crap according to this thread?! 😆

western music is mostly based around chord progressions that sound nice to our ears like DGA (tonic, sub dom, and dominant chords) and scales. Rock/pop/folk sound familiar because they are literally the same

Quite a reductionist argument, that. Even the most basic three chord dirge triggers other responses based on timbre, tempo, the voice of the singer.

And that doesn’t even begin to take into account the context in which you hear the music or the associations it creates in your mind. Imagine how a song like “Blue Velvet” would sound to someone hearing it for the first time in the 60s, versus someone who heard it for the first time on the soundtrack of the David Lynch movie…

music without melody is noise
Nah, that’s rubbish

Its a scentifi fact as i read it on the Internet

Music is just noise we like – there is no acceptable definition.

I refer to that as those who just lack taste

that’s why people can get ‘into’ pretty much any type of music, no matter how atonal or arhythmical.

It is the modern art of the musical world – yes pretentious folk can indeed get into anything no matter how empty and meaningless it is.

Tongue slightly in cheek for all responses

😀

Difficult album syndrome, innit?
The ones you like most are the ones you hated at first!
Whisky too – you can learn to enjoy and appreciate almost anything if you want to and you put the effort in.

pretentious folk can indeed get into anything no matter how empty and meaningless it is

But all music/art is essentially meaningless itself, as we can never fully understand the intentions of the artist – the only valid meaning is the meaning, or lack of it, that we bring to it.

Pretentious enough for you? 🙂

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMM28uGIjI&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALUmFYjmO2U&feature=fvwrel[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIakETsoCOo&feature=relmfu[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N_l4j6UbKs&feature=related[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKFYtUJFYVE[/video]

Ok dont understand why that’s not working ^^^^

Primal Scream – movin on up

You need to learn some more music theory

Haha I dont think so, had more than enough thanks. Just trying to say why some tracks stick in your head.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBR96Z8_e8&feature=related[/video]

EDIT- giving up now an just listening to the music.

Hmmmm. Aged well?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow[/video]

emsz – Member
Just trying to say why some tracks stick in your head.

This, Earworms on Radio 4, was excellent the other week.

Well worth a pop. 🙂

Willard, yes it has!

western music is mostly based around chord progressions that sound nice to our ears like DGA (tonic, sub dom, and dominant chords) and scales. Rock/pop/folk sound familiar because they are literally the same

to take that further most western music is based on a series of artificially altered tones that we have been exposed to for so long that it sounds ‘normal’ to us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament

Which is why traditional indian, japanese, chinese music sounds ‘a bit weird’ with microtonal intervals but is in fact much closer to being ‘in key’

But its ok if you’re Beyonce because if you yodal randomly you’ll be in tune with everyones ears for some of the time

Plum

Too much chat and not enough Vids fellas..

If it makes your feet tap and you remember where you were when you first heard it..Post it.
Don’t gass on about the technicalities.. 🙄

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyI8zwQFyU&feature=related[/video]

Don’t gass on about the technicalities..

Its the only thing I have to contribute as DezB will be all over me if I post about music he doesn’t like 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=N1tTN-b5KHg[/video]

From surroundedbyholes:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKFYtUJFYVE[/video]

Good call 🙂

Its the only thing I have to contribute as DezB will be all over me if I post about music he doesn’t like

I’d never do that dearest 😉

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN1ROySRPY[/video]

Could release this tomorrow and say it’s by the Prodigy or Pendulum and da yoof would love it.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJhyZ7lZyg&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOV_yKxw8xk&feature=related[/video]

I’m gonna post this again cos it’s ace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGGbacPEBQ8

Are people deliberately posting stuff they think nobody else will have heard of. Of the YouTubes I can only hum two from memory so far.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctKineGSP0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coTL7PZ8JiQ[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8I8mWG6HlmU[/video]

still sounds bloomin great and makes me get my goth on 😆

Good call Tazzy. This was on 6 music before and still sounds great…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ah1JM9mf60[/video]

and while we’re on the subject of the ginger nut-job

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA[/video]

😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7-q1WRaKNg[/video]

strange how a most of the stuff that has aged well, wouldn’t even get a record deal today as it’s not bland auto tuned muck.

This lot still sound fresh to me too:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqrm9Li-qwg&feature=relmfu[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cy9-epdDw9E[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RomAnBlgA&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYqmFxhzQ8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfU3N_1ugDs[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lNfNuts_gJc[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UpmX4qG1kQg[/video]

Night crawlers… Hahaha

[video]http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rSzpOUwiLkc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrSzpOUwiLkc&gl=GB[/video]

IMO, I love some of the songs listed so far, and I am not an Elvis fan, but it takes a story to really stand the test of time.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU5tXARnwhI[/video]

Written in 1677:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w&list=PL012C70E5417EC225&index=1&feature=plpp_video[/video]

How many of these are good tunes/songs and how many of these are good recordings?

Before recorded music a song had to be good song as it was distributed on paper and the first time many people would here it was when they played it themselves. Now we distribute songs as recorded performances

Roman Mars’ show makes a good point here that a lot of popular music is principally about recordings and performances, not about songs and tunes.

The measure of a good tune is whether you can get a good cover version so its suggested that Led Zep performances and recordings are great but their tunes aren’t – thats why Led Zep cover versions are crap. Conversely you can’t play Nirvana’s Lithium and make it sound bad because the song is so good

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8U[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZc4ax4tJs[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqN0qEEZnS8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzHRGoKca0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsPG0Kspxo[/video]

Just scrapes into the 15 year window

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHjFeXmnHs[/video]

Album one, track one, riff one:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0XrKF19yzE[/video]

Almost 20 years later and Trivium are making a good living out of doing second rate copies of this.

Some great tunes, but most still sound ancient. The punk ones specially

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiWIZBkAlYs&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]