What first attracts you to a piece of music?
 

What first attracts you to a piece of music?

The lyrics? The beat? The melody? The timbre?

The sweet smell of pussy

timbre for me

1) title of song
2) beat or tempo
3) lyrics


in that order...

i WANT THE ACT IN THE ROOM WITH ME.
 

When I hear a piece of music that is so well recorded that it makes me feel like Im at the gig or the musicians are in the room with me then I get tingles! Then... if the lyrics are completely cool, real and saying something intelligent, observant or inspiring then I am a fan forever!

If the track actually has hooks that seduce my brain I will walk around like a free advert for that band! I will sing it everywhere. I am a music promoters dream if the track is capable of brainwashing me!

So for me..

1. Quality of production
2. Musicality
3. Hooks
4. Lyrical content

Yep.

whats timbre ???? im serious :P

A song by Pitbull and Ke$ha, duh

A bad song by Pitbull but a good feature by Ke$ha.

nah even Ke$ha can't save that piece of ****

Which is what I said. Pitbull is such a smug wet paper bag I have no idea how he ever got famous.

The sound, if it's loud enough.

Syncopation. And I love when there is an odd time signature.

Other than this, generally horns, and specifically trumpets. I still maintain San Fermin "Sonsick" was the best track of 2013. Not only did it have a great trumpet line, but she's hitting flat notes in her voice to compliment it and it was one of the best things I've ever heard in music.

So you're a ska guy, huh?

Uh, I kinda like some ska. But overall ska has a positive-to-the-point-of-cluelessness that bothers the hell out of me. Like, the tube socks and the airwalks, the "somehow dorkier than pop punk" vibe...the ****ing trilbys. Christ in heaven the trilbys.

That said, sometimes they play some darker stuff and I'm like "**** yes, play that tuba of death you checkered-cargo-shorts-wearing-mother ****er"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-1QgXjDa8

The only correct answers are Operation Ivy and Choking Victim.

Hi, it depends. I’m always attracted to the melody. That’s why I always hated metal and hard rock. But, at LT, I discovered many of these songs had fantastic lyrics and I enjoyed them a lot.

A nice hook

And thought-provoking lyrics!

as you know melody is the most important aspect towards music attraction .
Sometimes I don’t like something, then I listen it a few more times and it grows on me, and sometimes the reverse happens.