OT - What Makes Music Great
Your mom.
one cup? makes sweet vomit music
Opinion
or vibrations or whatever
at the same time
to most every question.
In my experience, I think threesomes are a little overrated, like they don't quite add up to the sum of their parts.
it is fucking amazing. To each their own though.
I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there.
How does it make you feel? It's like eating a great meal. While one person may enjoy a slice of New York style pepperoni pizza, another might choose a Chicago deep dish or a Detroit pan. It's up to the individual. Where we get in trouble is listening to critics tell us that Radiohead is the greatest band of all time or the Clash is the greatest band of all time or, because I mentioned him in the other thread, Eric Clapton is the greatest guitarist of all-time. Hogwash. Listen to what you like. What makes music great is what it makes YOU feel. If enough people share your tastes, we can say that the music is popular, but greatness cannot be quantified.
Hey thanks for actually answering the question.
Agree with you. I think that's what makes music so amazing. My wife enjoys pop music and frankly I want to stab my ears.
Totally correct.
As long as it isnt country.
Cowbell.
Actually, more cowbell. We have to have more cowbell. It's just better that way.
MOAR Cowbell !
Is this a sign that we have really just run out things to post about? Next week we'll be discussing why bad things happens to good people and why hot chicks prefer douchebags. Sometimes it just is.
I hypothesize that hot girls date DBs because the DBs initiate a relationship. They would rather date a good guy, but not as many good guys out themselves out there.
The babes
Abstaining from sex and drugs, obviously.
If it has a great beat and is easy to dance to.
3 more months...3 more months...3 more months
For me it could be either/or. It could be the music that gets my juices flowing, or the lyrics. My favorite songs are a combination, though.
To quote the great Johnny Depp, "Music is the fastest way to an emotion."
If it moves you and you dig it, it's good. No matter what other's opinions are.
Drugs
it's like so hard to say man
but i know when i dig a tune
and i know when i don't
mostly it's about the sounds
damn I never thought about it like that
The song, the performance, the recording process, the mixing process, and the mastering process.
There are other factors within these main categories, as well. It is all subjective, of course, but it's the combination of all these factors that allow you to connect with the finished product.
My music teacher in 12th grade humanities once mentioned that she got something different out of Beethoven's 5th symphony every time she listened to it - I think that's a pretty good measure.
The hook brings you back.
I ain't telling you no lies
"The Hook" by Stephen Malkmus.
It's always COVFEFE!
Just Sad!
Highly politically charged messages and overtones.
I noticed that my badminton club's newsletter facebook account* posted something political today. A little light went off causing me to appreciate this blog's "no politics" policy just a little bit more. Badminton and politics don't mix.
*yes, such a thing actually exists
A politically-charged Badminton Club email might be the most UM thing ever
Like pornography... can't describe it but you know when you see (hear) it. The Beatles will last another 50 years, most other pop music will be forgotten except this classic...
Handel's Messiah -especially the Phillips recording by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir -not only the best rendition, but the best recording my audiophile ears have ever heard (can't listen to any other recording, now, actually).
While I listen to all kinds of music (mostly rock) except country (with a very few exceptions) and christian contemporary (with absolutely NO exceptions), this recording is my desert island disc.
I never get sick of listening to it -ever.
It helps that it's more than just music to me.
And maybe to finish. I give you "Afternoon Delight" as an example. Sorry.
Almost any song by Earth Wind and Fire is a good example. "Got to Get You Into my Life" .....EWF and the Beatles = uplifting!
Like any movie or book or piece of art, it remembers if you remember it and how you remember it. Did it make you feel? How did it make you feel? Why did it make you feel that? Did you talk about any of that, want to share any of that?
Something is okay, good, if you like it when it's happening. But it's truly great if you like it the next day, and the week after, and long after that.
Either of my two hookahs with,Patron,Monet (black bottle) or Bombay Sapphire and my headphones.
Bewbs?
....out front.
Good music is subjective. There is no way to measure what is good or bad music. I actually had a thing at work many years ago in a small department where one person didn't like the other's style of music and vice versa. I like all styles of music (although country is pretty low on the ladder for me) so I told them figure it out or we're tossing the radio.
What was the MC5 like?
You’re standing in a Niagara Falls of sonic splendor, as five James Browns pour their hearts out onto the stage. American flags testify to our brothers and sisters dying for no reason in Viet Nam. Revolution is in the air, along with the sweet smoke of freedom. Our spirits rise in a crescendo of Trans-Love Energy, and we come together to Kick Out the Jams in a moment of truth never to be forgotten.
Later, with the echoe reverberating in our souls, a young person says softly, “For the first time in my life, I felt like it was okay to be me.”