The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[blastingas10]

I feel like im trapped in a video game haha. Im pretty sure I can hear sonic collecting the gold rings in one of those

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by blastingas10

I feel like im trapped in a video game haha. Im pretty sure I can hear sonic collecting the gold rings in one of those

Why don't you try actually listening to the videos before you comment?

[blastingas10]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Why don't you try actually listening to the videos before you comment?

I listened to them all but the lecture.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by blastingas10

I listened to them all but the lecture.

If you really did, you wouldn't be comparing them to Sonic the Hedgehog. Love them or hate them, they really sound nothing like that.

[blastingas10]

The video game reference was about the first video. I am positive I have heard some of those noises in video games. I listened to them all except the lecture. The alva noto video appealed to me most. Maybe I could get into it if I had some ecstasy in my system and felt like dancing, although its doubtful. Im sorry, but none of them appeal to me. Its nothing that im going to sit in admiration of. Its nothing that is going to give me the goosebumps and inspire me. Im a big fan of poetry and non-computerized instruments, being a musician myself, and none of these except the rozart mix contain any of that, at least not that I could recognize. I suppose that explains why I dont like it. Its just not music to my ears, its a bunch of weird noises that dont make any sense and fail to get through to me. I cant make myself like it. Actually, the first one probably appealed to me the most.

Ill admit, not just anybody can do it. Not just anybody can make rap music either, but that doesnt make me like it.

[Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra]

Originally Posted by blastingas10

The video game reference was about the first video. I am positive I have heard some of those noises in video games. I listened to them all except the lecture. The alva noto video appealed to me most. Maybe I could get into it if I had some ecstasy in my system and felt like dancing, although its doubtful. Im sorry, but none of them appeal to me. Its nothing that im going to sit in admiration of. Its nothing that is going to give me the goosebumps and inspire me. Im a big fan of poetry and non-computerized instruments, being a musician myself, and none of these except the rozart mix contain any of that, at least not that I could recognize. I suppose that explains why I dont like it. Its just not music to my ears, its a bunch of weird noises that dont make any sense and fail to get through to me. I cant make myself like it. Actually, the first one probably appealed to me the most.

Ill admit, not just anybody can do it. Not just anybody can make rap music either, but that doesnt make me like it.

I'll tell you the Rolling Stones are complete **** compared to good electronic music. I mean, the art of crafting electronic music comes from the fact that you have an infinite number of timbres, and have to have just a good enough ear to hear, and assemble, the right ones. People like Pierre Schaffer, Stockhausen, Varese, etc. new this when they pushed for new radical music, which was immediately close-mindedly dismissed.

However, the Stones would take out their guitars, dredge up 40 year old blues rock rhythms, and instruments. Limiting their timbre to an extremely small range of already successful formulas, and then just piece them together. Essentially, limiting their range of failure to nothing by playing low risks.

I'm betting you're the kind of guy that will call the latter musically perfect, or legends. That's the problem, Electronic musicians deserve respect. Furthermore, they deserve to not be blindly generalized. "maybe I could get into it if I had some ecstasy in my system and felt like dancing" is an illogical statement that proves that even if you've heard these pieces, you're really not listening to them.

[Phantom Limb]

^It's pretty clear to me now that blastingas10 just doesn't groove to electronic music. It's not that he isn't listening hard enough or that he is immediately dismissing it. He gave our tunes a try and he just doesn't like them because he's not feeling it. Sometimes it takes a while to get into a new genre so you can't berate him for not liking it all at once.

[blastingas10]

I don't even like the stones that much. And no, all that it proves is that I don't like electronic music. Maybe it does take some talent to make, but that doesn't mean I like it. It doesn't sound good to me and probably never will. Probably, not definitely. I'm not going to say I'll never like it. Maybe I will some day. I'm actually a pretty open minded guy. Yall have showed me that there is more to electronic music than that new techno stuff like skrillex. Speaking of the newer stuff, there are a few songs from sts9 that I like.

[Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra]

Originally Posted by Phantom Limb

^It's pretty clear to me now that blastingas10 just doesn't groove to electronic music. It's not that he isn't listening hard enough or that he is immediately dismissing it. He gave our tunes a try and he just doesn't like them because he's not feeling it. Sometimes it takes a while to get into a new genre so you can't berate him for not liking it all at once.

Originally Posted by blastingas10

I don't even like the stones that much. And no, all that it proves is that I don't like electronic music. Maybe it does take some talent to make, but that doesn't mean I like it. It doesn't sound good to me and probably never will. Probably, not definitely. I'm not going to say I'll never like it. Maybe I will some day. I'm actually a pretty open minded guy. Yall have showed me that there is more to electronic music than that new techno stuff like skrillex. Speaking of the newer stuff, there are a few songs from sts9 that I like.

Well, the problem is the concept of generalization, though. Electronic music is very unlimited, to be honest. It can't be pigeonholed. There's no reason why somebody should 'just not like it'.

[SATCHMO]

Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Well, the problem is the concept of generalization, though. Electronic music is very unlimited, to be honest. It can't be pigeonholed. There's no reason why somebody should 'just not like it'.

I feel what he's saying. Some people just have more of an appreciation for music that is made by more conventional instruments. Non-electronic music tends to be a bit more tangible for some, especially from the perspective of performance.