Sounds like you haven't tried post-punk

No Ayn's tastes are good but just limited because of ignorance

What's wrong with ice? Always works wonders to keep my drinks cold.

But yeah, don't write off punk so quickly - definitely at least try some post-punk.

Here's a couple great ones:





And have you listened to The Fall before? If not, you definitely have to - if you want to be one of the cool kids, at least.

Elph is shaking cause of the dixieland disrespect.

Nah it's incredibly useful for improvisation and sight reading.

Having a perfect pitch has very little to do with one's musical ability or taste. Wagner, Schumann and Leonard Bernstein didn't have it, you and I do have it. Nuff said.

Identifying the notes helps you a lot in basic solfege, which is why it's so highly prized by music teachers who work with beginners, and it allows proud moms to fantasize that their precious darlings are musical geniuses. Being able to identify individual notes has nothing to do with the way in which these notes go together, which is where music comes in. Nothing to do with being able to compose or perform, no more than winning a spelling bee has any relation to being a talented writer.

Your preference for euphonious, bland, non-offending sonorities has to do with many factors, i.e. cultural, temperamental, generational etc. The absolute pitch is an acoustic factor, not even a musical one.

He's a snob alright in the sense that he tries to ape the tastes of those he perceive as his superiors in the hope of passing himself off as one of them. I agree that he has atrocious taste though.


In my experience it only hindered me in those things. I had a cheat code when it came to solfege/music theory, unlike those who actually had to memorize and understand chord sequences. There were kids who were so much better than me at both improvising and sight reading on the piano despite me having both the perfect pitch and higher technical facility due to starting early and studying with Soviet teachers.

In addition to everything else, the perfect album cover and the perfect album title. "Perverted by language", so Lacanian. "From the Freudian point of view, man is the subject captured and tortured by language."

naw he likes Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush

Anyway I'm hereby cleansing this thread of talk about special boys in special schools who have the special pitch and returning it to punk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brtGLeNR12g

I really want to like The Slits more cause that cover of "Heard It Through the Grapevine" and their earlier more traditional punk songs are pure fire, but I just cant really get into their album material. Maybe one day it'll click.

I think it will, it also took me longer than similar bands like the raincoats

Slits are great