Holy shit
exactly
Just listened to this for the first time after being impressed af with Melodrama. TBQH this is so much better, in the lyricism, songwriting, instrumentals, and even theme. I don't get how /mu/ hasn't talked about this the same way as Melodrama. For anyone else who brushed it off but listened to Melodrama after /mu/ kept going on about it, I seriously recommend giving this a listen because it's so astounding (and more dream poppy) compared to MD.
Painfully front loaded album, Ribs is the best track
Richard Hell
Rivers Cuomo
>8 minute song is mediocre as fuck
>last 30 seconds are God-tier
>best song I've ever heard is only 45 seconds long
>>73435333
Nice trips
>see an intro to a show
>it's really fucking good
>get kind of tired of it
>decide to find the full song
>the intro was actually just a snippet of a 4 minute song
>and that snippet was the only time it sounded good
>and the intro sound has more parts than what was put in the intro
>tfw too tired of the intro part but I like the rest of this sound
>now best song is 5 seconds long.
every pink floyd song
FACT: hip hop artist are shit at mixing
Pretty much any other genre of electronic is superior and doesn't feature a black man rapping about fucking white girls so you dont have to feel like a fuckin cuck (sorry to use this word but its honestly true in this situation.. white boys listening to rap is gay as fuck)
>go to a thrash metal concert
>there was this chick who thrashed like a maniac
>go to talk to her after the gig about how she was fucking crazy
>she shoves a notebook and a pencil to you
>she was deaf
it's real
>review uses tumblr as a pejorative adjective.
>>73434837
>review uses instagram as a pejorative adjective
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE WALRUS AND MEME MAN
Coo Coo Coochoe
more like this
Kim Taeyeon
looks like excuse me is still soty
I can't believe this store is selling a record that has such a damaged sleeve
Why does the high-quality analysis of popular music (e.g., pop rock, techno, soul) pale so much compared to the exhaustive criticism one can find in the realms of art music and even jazz?
Most rock music journalism seems to focus its reviews almost exclusively on the lyrics and the cultural impact of the album at hand rather than the music itself, which is at best described in vague terms such as "complex", "eerie" or "upbeat". The majority of the music theory textbooks dedicate entire chapters to classical and jazz (understandably so), yet rock music barely gets a spot beyond some footnotes and the mention of the twelve-bar blues.
Why is this? Is rock music not taken seriously?
because pop (using this as an umbrella for the music genres you mentioned just for the sake of clarity) music is commercially oriented and not even close to being as theoretically complex as jazz, classical, some types of "art" music
the reviews focus on the lyricism and the historical impact because lol, it's pop music. while classical/jazz has their obvious cultural impact they generally do not have as much as a widespread sociological impact as popular music does (accessibility and the emergence of reproducible sound being reasons for this)
most of our popular music has very direct roots in blues (and surf rock, which is heavily influenced by arabic classical music) so it's no wonder that the closer you get to the blues chronologically (be it the album or the genre's general time frame, this also applies to "revival" genres) the more of an observable blues influence there is. rock stems from R&B most directly with some traditional blues trappings
also a lot of the reviewers who know what they're talking about theoretically are either making music themselves, in academia (ethnomusicology) or elsewhere, most p4k reviewers are mac demarco types. the typical p4k demographic does not care about theory anyways
Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to riiiiiiise
>tfw Roger's solo career is a failure compared to your Pink Floyd
i feel that dubstep has completely died id like to hear some opinions on this subject
the same drop shit is still on every mainstage with djs so did it die, no. its just trap and dub n house n bounce n step all mixed together now
spinnin records, dim mak and owsla are still big
its only dead to you maybe that doesnt mean the community stops listening
>>73434769
dubstep reached its peak in 2009-2012 during the so called post dubstep era, then it died.
Musical ideas never really die. They just go back to the underground.
What kinda music do they play at lesbian discos and house parties?
>>73434707
street vincent
beyonce, lauryn hill, madonna, the list goes on
not sure if you realize this but these look like the type of people who would browse this board