RJDG14

His song Life is great, everything else he does just comes and goes in my opinion. So I ticked "don't care".

Chula Vista

Fixed.

All hail Christophe's superior musical tastes and sensibilities.

Another great track from Ocean Machine:



And I fully agree that the dude loves a really full and thick production with most of his stuff. Small computer speakers or satellites (or even lower cost monitors) can't handle it well. Same goes with what MP3 compression does to the tracks.

Try listening to a CD or FLAC files through high end monitors or headphones and you can appreciate his production a lot more.

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Frownland

Good song from Ocean Machine is an oxymoron. It's pretty clear how much work he puts into his production, it's just the way that he fails to put some of that effort into the other parts of his music that makes his music so lame.

Now, check out my new song and tell me in extreme detail how much of a meanie hypocrite I am for ****ting on Townsend.

https://m.soundcloud.com/frownland/j...arpenter-atmos

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MicShazam

Hmm... Not very into that Townsend track above. For what I personally look for in music, that track seems like 8 minutes of not a whole lot. Some big washes of multilayered chords that move slowly forward with slowly pulsating bass in the background. Not really any melody going on on top of it, except for his voice, but it follows the chord progression a lot in a very straight forward manner. It strikes me that this way of writing a track isn't uncommon with his music. I guess I find his arrangements to be generally pretty sparse and dull, despite how full and busy it all sounds at first because of the production.

The Frownland track brings out nostalgic feelings. Reminds me of when I first started practicing guitar.

Chula Vista

Like, in your opinion man. The guy has been recording and touring for the past 24 years so he's obviously doing something that pleases a bunch of fans. And don't come back with the typical "just cause it's popular doesn't make it good".

First off I'm not a fan in the slightest of your stuff. I can respect how you approach music and composition, but it's not my cup of tea.

I got through about 2 minutes of that and to be honest, I think you could hand out some instruments to a group of first graders, and ask them to jam, and they'd come up with someone very similar.

Oh, and just because something isn't popular doesn't make it good.

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Chula Vista

How about this version?

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

I'm nert tryin tuh convince anywun here I'm juss statin opinions man

I can respect that.

This I can't respect unless you know some outright amazing first graders. I don't think you could play it either, Chula.

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Chula Vista

Says the guy who keeps posting negative comments whenever someone else posts something positive. You crack me up sometimes.

Why would I want to? And I don't think you could play it again 3 days from now.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

It's almost like I said that ironically or something based on posts made by other members here...

Ha! No need to cop out, we all know that you're not capable of playing it. And you call yourself a real musician?

And you would be wrong. It wouldn't be exactly the same because I'm not a square who puts songs in boxes, but I could very easily play a rendition of it that is very similar. The difficulty would be in finding the right tuning again.

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Anteater

Frowny, you need a big sexy hook or it just isn't worth my time. If I want tuneless avant-noodlage I'll turn up some Thinking Plague and eat Jello.

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