ITT: deceptively complex pop songs
For example, This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us by Sparks has some pretty unexpected chord changes and time signature changes practically every bar, yet it was a huge hit in the mainstream and practically everyone will have heard it at some point in their lives.
>inb4 Beatles
>>48295778
Yeah Kimono My House and Sparks in general are one of the better bands of the /mu/ essentials chart. I picked up Kimono My House nearly two years ago for a fiver at my local record store.
Radiohead - Just
The chord progression consists mostly of major chords whose root notes are almost entirely derived from the C diminished scale (a Bb and G break the pattern), which is practically unheard of in rock music aside from progressive stuff like some of King Crimson's albums. To hear something like that in an alternative rock song, especially one as catchy and popular as this is quite startling.
Blur - Coffee & TV
The vocal melody in the verses clearly implies a tonality of A major with only a couple of notes outside the scale, yet all but one of the accompanying chords are incongruous with this, up until the final resolution to A at the end of the verse leading into the modulation to C# minor in the chorus. Really great pop song, one of the best of the 90s.
Also, is it just me in this thread?
/mu/ is so shit now, no-one shares albums, at least not any new finds. It's filled with shitty fucking cutesy games like "if /mu/ was a ____", "if you get dubs say a genre you like" or some shit like that.
Let's get an actual album thread
>post your favourite album
>post your most recent purchase
>post an album which is generally unknown/needs recognition on /mu/
>pic related
>Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
>Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
>>48285512
>sigur ros
>unknown
>not valtari or kveiker
Well at least you have good taste.
Also, pic related.
>Blondie - Parallel Lines
>Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
>>48285512
>purchase
lol you're fucking dumb
I've been getting into dark ambient lately, any recommendations?
Deathprod
Jacaszek
Hecq
>>48286466
Have you tried all in this chart? (Ignore the ones blanked those are ones I've heard)
>>48286495
I'm actually listening to Deathprod right now.
Anything else?
post away
>>48281123
I have a shit casio just sitting here would be cool if I could hook it up to my computer how do I go about that it has midi in and out in the back what plugs do I need do I need an audio interface I run ableton live btw
>>48282260
Punctuation, man. Use it.
http://forum.watmm.com/topic/84122-is-it-true-go-plastic-by-squarepusher-featured-no-computer-wizardry/
Battlestation thread.
come on guys
>>48275861
nice.
i like keyboard as much as the next guy but i feel that in my work that i do alot better with a mouse and some alert pills. If i have a melody or input some trills or stacattos, ill use the keyboard but most of my workstation consists of just a laptop and mouse.
how are those monitors btw? what kind are they?
>>48276499
They're not monitors, they're Audio Engine A5+'s. I listen to music as much as I record it. I usually just demo my stuff on a bunch of speakers instead of doing it all on one pair.
The AN1x is my main keyboard and the other 3 are just cheap casios. I run them all through the MFC42 to make them half legitimate synths.
Bluecore thread
post your favourite ambient LP's\EP's\songs\musicians here, i got to chill.
every track but the first and last is pure ambient gold
https://mega.co.nz/#!QU5j0DrZ!CfFtdCOq4eZkO1KHK7JLFQ73YufVnZC5BYw1pgt5zTw
Buckethead - Pike 13
Redcore thread
/thread.
Towards what direction will this thread spin? Inane shitposting? Civil contributions? A mix of the two? Nothing and the thread will 404 with no replies?
Come in and find out as it's time for /bleep/ general. Post what you've been into recently.
rip /bleep/
I'm looking for a good synth for pads for under $500
what do?
i play slacker-rock ish sorta stuff and want a synth with good ambiance behind it
my itunes crashed and i didn't back it up, so i lost 60k songs that i don't feel like sorting out again, i've been listening to a mixture of kpop kid rock and jazz.
uh ya my blog deal with it this threads dead as fuck anyway
>is vatican shadow the memeist meme artist to ever live?
he literally just copied muslimgauze in concept and partially sound, nothing wrong there but he can't help but get away from his edgy political titles where the songs literally have nothing to do with them, as he used to regularly make albums with piss fetish covers and the sort.
In this thread we discuss GOTH, INDUSTRIAL, DARK NEW WAVE/POST-PUNK, and WITCH HOUSE
/darkshit/ thread general
I'm gonna listen to some Death In June after this Disembowelment album.
Oh hey look it's the Nosferatu Man.
Been re-listening to a lot of EBM/Futurepop lately like Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, And One, Covenant etc as well as some of the harsher, weirder industrial like yelworC, 3Teeth, Youth Code and Skinny Puppy
I don't get how it's considered a "dead" genre or how the new stuff is thought of as "revival". I own a Skinny Puppy shirt and one of the most common comments I get on it is "are Skinny Puppy even still around?" (>tfw they recorded a new album just last year)
more bleeps. more production.
bleeproduction. just the best.
If anyone makes chillwave, please link me your soundcloud or w/e
>>48261943
We need to come up with cutsy Chinese cartoons to match our synthesizers like those headphone weirdos.
>>48261988
Meant to reply to OP. Whatever.
LET THE SHARING BEGIN
mutracker sharethread.
Invite.
Share.
Request.
Upload.
Download.
Seed.
Discuss.
Daily reminder that you'll never make it
Samurai Champloo Soundtrack
Departure
2004
fat jon & Nujabes
>instrumental hip hop, soundtrack
>includes OP and ED, very smooth stuff
MP3, 320 kbps
sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9hwjQBQFIo
https://mutracker.org/torrents.php?id=7510
Tycho
Dive
>electronic, chillwave
sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ih1aKeETk
MP3, 320 kbps
https://mutracker.org/torrents.php?id=1578
What music in German do you actually like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287kBg-qEVU
Die Krupps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4foIeugYl8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06AJlaW7ElE
>>48245696
II: The Final Option is their best album
/bleep/ general
New Scuba sounding good but it reminds me a bit of the tense music from Ace Ventua when he's at the boatyard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Fw_SP4a3o
Is /bleep/ dead? Anyway, first for Ripatti.
Calyx & Teebee FabricLive was really good for the first half and then pretty boring for the second half. Good mix though but not better than Elijah & Skilliam's that came out before it.
mSdoS - Oldschool Stories Part 1 came out recently and is some pretty good Jungle.
>>48233812
>implying it was ever alive
>>48233290
>New Scuba sounding good
Impossible
Let's make up genres and if one of them actually exists let people know. You know the drill.
>psychedelic grunge
>surf rap
>lo-fi funk
>reggae punk
>synth-sludge
>chiptune reggae
>blackened hip-hop
some clash songs could be classified as punk reggae. a lot of second and third wave ska, like sublime, could be seen that way as well.
I don't get it. Are you just making up "funny" genres or are you actually interested in finding a specific style of music?
there's actually a pretty big niche for dub-chiptune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBOqPDXEog