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Originally Posted by Violent & Funky
What would you have them do? Stop the song and recite the APA citation?
Well, that would be interesting! Has anyone done it yet? Hmmm....ideas, ideas.
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Originally Posted by sidewinder
To be honest I think you are completely missing the point of how these artists are using vocal samples. There's something about a recognizeable sample from an old source (whether I recognize it or not). If you were to sing that quote yourself, there's really no connection to the movie. ... Removing the samples could make their music sound like another somewhat similar band. What would be the point in that? If one doesn't like the sound, they can listen to other bands that don't use vocal samples. But for me it adds character and sometimes shows the artists' influences for their music.
Again I just think you're missing the point and this type of music isn't for you.
It's probably true that I don't appreciate the point of the music. Maybe I'm not a big enough movie or TV buff to appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
So do you invent all your own chords when you make music or do you just steal chords that were invented by somebody else?
Yes. All of them. I have no clue what chord I'm playing most of the time. Really!
(Okay, okay, you can stop the arm hold, I'll admit it...I stole C, G, E, A, and F something...uh, and Barr chords.)
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Exactly. The connection that's made by the sample is the whole point.With a band like, say, Skinny Puppy sampling is part of a postmodern aesthetic that's evokes a sense of mass media detritus recombining into something new. Taking that away would be removing something very essential in making the music great art.
I get what you're saying about the mass media detritus combining into something new. Maybe my gripe is that the detritus wasn't appealing to me the first time around, and it just doesn't seem like musicians are using it innovatively. They play a few seconds here or there in a song and often the song seems to have nothing to do with the clips.
Also, the connection of which you speak is often lost on me, since I usually don't know where it came from or what its broader significance was. Except for The Simpsons clips or clips of the "I have a dream" speech. I don't mind Simpsons clips so much, but urg, "I have a dream" speech clips in songs drive me bonkers. And wasn't there some post 9/11 song using clips of various people talking. Ugh! History set to icky patriotic music. Here...here it is:
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan:
If a chicken was smart enough to be able to speak English and run in a geometric pattern, then I think it should be smart enough to dial 911 (999) before getting the axe, and scream to the operator, "Something must be done! Something must be done!"
10-11-2010, 05:28 PM
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