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I've discovered that this is one of the most tell-tale signs that the songs of some music group are no longer worth listening to. Generally it means that the lyrics are no longer engaging or provocative, the overall energy has been drained, the variety of moods has narrowed, the melody has been cut out of the song's guts, and there are no more ornamental motifs. And it is no longer danceable at all, in the sense of taking over your body and making you tap your feet, drum your fingers, or want to get up out of your seat and move around.

What's left is basically a sonic recording of a heroin ride -- the lyrics are ponderously self-indulgent, a hazy space-out replaces a driving feeling, the mood is monotonously melancholy, the over-emphasis on harmony with hardly any melody heightens this spacey time-come-to-a-standstill quality, and so do the motifs, which are more like slowly surfacing kaleidoscopic flickerings, not catchy riffs or whatever that help you place a song in long-term memory. ("Oh yeah, that song that starts off -- " and cue the opening riff of "Satisfaction".)

No surprise that a good deal of this kind of music tends to be done under the influence of heroin itself, like the varieties of jazz that followed the Jazz Age (such as bebop), or the strains of rock that followed the Rock 'n' Roll Age (such as indie or "post-rock" -- what a faggot name).

The function of this kind of music seems to be to allow the performers and listeners of music to go through the motions of performing and listening to what should be a socially and emotionally engaging experience, but isolating everyone into their own little spaced-out worlds. Thus the link to periods of cocooning (falling-crime times). They don't want to feel like there's a real interaction or shared experience going on, just a room or a hive full of closed-off individuals shooting up opiates through their earbuds.

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Anonymous 2017-06-04 07:58:21 Post No.73176169
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3 > 4 > 1 > 2

Anonymous 2017-06-04 07:59:23 Post No.73176207
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Anonymous 2017-06-04 07:59:23 Post No.73176207 [Report]

ur prolly rite

Anonymous 2017-06-04 07:59:45 Post No.73176217
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Anonymous 2017-06-04 07:59:45 Post No.73176217 [Report]

I tend to agree occasionally but there's no need to be this pretentious about it

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Lets play guess the blank or maul. Guess the black Is like Russian roulette but with a blank.... Sometimes. And maul is when everyone gets under a blanket and u go around clockwise for the maulin order then one random person that you chose as the beatin bag leaves the room. (basically the beatin bag leaves the room and then u choose someone to maul him/her. Then after he/she is mauled they have to guess who mauled them and if they guess the right person everyone mauls the person who beat the cr

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