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I've gone 'outside' a few times when soloing. People just looked at me weird.
Posted on 02/04/2021 8:45:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
“... perhaps we should make a point of listening to music we don’t like if we want to understand life better.”
Is this some academician’s ploy to get me to listen to SloJo, Camela, and the rest of the Dims?
Good point! That’s very annoying! ;D
Maybe Nickelback is the Hawaiian Pizza of music— easy to ridicule, and yet it has a following.
lol
The lonely hearts club band told me that years ago
Yeah, it’s almost like NB is the anti-Led Zeppelin; I’ve heard others riff on ‘em elsewhere.
I seriously almost started hating LZ ‘cuz SO many gushing drones were all, “I wanna learn guitar, man! I wanna be able to play ‘Stairway To Heaven’!” And very often that was the ONLY Led Zep tune they could name, which just made it all that much MORE annoying.
It realty did get to the place where, if you were asked “Who’s the greatest rock band of all?” the textbook answer was “Oh, Led Zeppelin, man; hands down.” Never mind that a follow-up question about John Bonham would likely elicit a quizzical, “Who?” from most.
So, yeah, I’m feelin that lament about Nickleback.
I’ve always wondered where the Beatles would have ended up if Yoko Oh No never happened?
I liked the concept of a group singing that song. Gregorian didn’t quite cut it. I would like to see what a full choir could do with it.
LOL - that was awful. And it has a million and a half views since 2011.
I jumped around a bit on the linked “ear test.” It’s just a collection of sounds of the sort that one might encounter on a movie soundtrack, not music but rather background ambient noises to create or reinforce a mood. This is useful enough in movies, but I’d be a hard sell on the idea that we should call any of this “music.” Such an assertion, I suppose, is consistent with the modernist tendency to want to be so “inclusive” that one refuses to draw any lines at all, which leads to the view that anything we hear is “music.” That’s a familiar enough metaphor, usually used with ironic intent; the phrase “music to my ears” can be applied to just about anything, from car crashes and explosions to babies crying to the whistling of the wind. But what’s the point of playing this kind of game other than as ironic metaphor?
And 'The Goodbye Look' is from Donald Fagen's solo album 'The Nightfly'. One of my favourites.
Thanks for those.
Yes. It’s like a virtue signal of some sort. A way to purchase the illusion of intelligence and sophistication.
Thumbs up to infinity.
I've gone 'outside' a few times when soloing. People just looked at me weird.
Mmmmm-kayyyyyy........
Orphic Oxtra - Skeletons Having Sex on a Tin Roof
The girl in the video is the band's clarinet player.
Please don't try to force me to listen to noises just because you like them. I don't. Over the years I have been able to understand most speaking. It takes significant concentration, so it's usually not fun. It is worst when there is background noise. Most of the times this 'background noise' is what others call 'music'.
What people call 'singing' is ALL noise to me. In my entire life, I have never understood more than one or two words in any song over the radio, and most of the time it's zero words. The thing that few people understand is that I hear things best when the volume is as low as possible.
I don't need to have the speaking turned up, I need to have the background turned down. That's the reason for this rant. I am typical of many people, especially older ones. What you call pleasing, I call NOISE.
If music is being played, I find the lack of Bach annoying.
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