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2 years ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)5 children
So as a big music guy you don't have any fondness for the composition of Strawberry Fields Forever, appreciation for the ambitiousness of A Day in the Life given the state of music at the time, or interest in genre-busting songs like Helter Skelter?
A lot can be said about whether the Beatles rise to fame was organic (it almost certainly wasn't) their image can be criticized, and questions can be asked about whether or not they even actually wrote their own music, but the music has been incredibly influential throughout the world and this is why many who don't personally enjoy the music still have an appreciation for it
2 years ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
It's not just my opinion, most musicians whether they personally enjoy the music or not appreciate it on a technical level. But you seem angry and are making up scenarios to justify your anger so I hope you master your emotions soon
2 years ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
So you admit your opinion is based off what (((musicians))) think about the song. There's nothing technical about it. The song is discordant garbage, and anybody capable of forming their own opinion can see that.
Did you know that led zeppelin also ripped off most of their songs? To a greater degree than the beatles, they have stolen guitar licks and even entire sections in almost every song.
Fairly novel is really not doing justice to what they did with their music. A lot of it was very novel at the time.
But hey, it doesn't really matter, there are way more important things to discuss than the music of a 60 year old band who may or may not have even written said music. Honestly, the heuristic of antipathy toward anything heavily mainstream is probably the best you can have in this society in terms of efficiency. So that said, this is not even something I necessarily want to debate over, in this case I will just say have a good evening friend!
2 years ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
It's not really the biggest deal in their catalogue but I chose that one because it's likely to be familiar. To answer your question I just relistened a couple times to it because it's been awhile and I want to try to answer your question.
To begin with in this song the lyrics are open to interpretation but most if not all interpretations will agree on the general "thesis" of the song, that we're going on a journey and that even if this journey become difficult or unnerving there's not much to worry and everything will work out in the end. This is emphasized throughout the song through it's use of cross rhythms which contribute to a laid back sort of quality in the music. This is not an accident or something they stumbled into, based on the lyrics. The time signatures also change throughout the song which help to project this quality of going on an uncertain journey to the listener. The lyrics are intertwined with the technical elements (rhythms, melody), the instrumentation, and performance which all coalesce into a musical piece that serves the thesis. Few songs in pop culture at that time (and I'd argue fewer now) had that kind of harmony which brought every aspect of the music together in a way that was so ambitious and successful.
There are numerous instances of backwards instrumentation in the song but it's not apparent immediately when you hear the music altogether, but this too contributes to the unnerving quality of the music with sounds that are both strange yet familiar at the same time. This contributed greatly to the phenomenon of people listening to records backwards.
Lest it seem like this is some improv piece as I talk about cross rhythms and changing time signatures, before the music meanders too far from structure you will have an instrument come in and reimpose it, such as the cello about midway through the song.
The drums serve the music greatly, not trying to dictate the pace or tempo as a metronome (which was primarily what drums did in popular music at that time) but serving the rest of the music, even adjusting tempo throughout the song in a way that must have been difficult to pull off.
Bringing all of these layers together was almost unheard of at the time partially due to it being very difficult to pull off. We don't think about it now with computers but there wasn't too much "guess and check" work going on back then, so for this to come from someone's head was rare. It became so influential it was a primary catalyst for psychadelic rock such as Pink Floyd and many others.
Is it Chopin? No, but for contemporary music it was a ground breaking composition.
This is by far the most pretentious thing I've ever written and quite honestly I don't find understanding history or technicals makes me enjoy a song more (although I do enjoy this one) so I doubt it will change whether or not you enjoy it. But there's some context which hopefully you didn't hate reading lol
2 years ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
I will never forgive hipster faggots for ruining vinyl for me. And I feel like a bit of a hypocrite saying this because it amounts to "I was into it before it was cool" but so be it...it is the truth.
My father had a huge vinyl collection and in the mid 2000s was looking to save some space (since he also had a huge CD collection) so he gave me most of his albums and a beautiful Thorens turntable with a great set of speakers. The sound quality is definitely better than anything digital, and it was a fun hobby for a while because you could find records for dirt cheap at Goodwills and the handful of used record stores around. And at the time the only other people in those stores were geezers that were pleasant company.
But starting in the early 2010s the shitlib hipster community started showing up in those stores, faggotty articles from shitholes like buzzfeed and vox started promoting a "revival of vinyl" so the rest of the soy horde started flooding in. As a result, the prices for records started going up, but more importantly being in the presence of these creatures and hearing them talk became something I could no longer endure.
So now the turntable and records have returned to the role they had before coming to me: taking up space in a spare room. I'll listen to them once in a blue moon but mostly use my generation 5 80gb ipod I also got in the mid 00s for pretty much everything. BTW whoever designed those ipods must've been fired from apple, they very much go against their corporate policy of planned obsolescence, small storage capacity, and inability to interface with non-apple products.
Thank you, though the truth is I avoid reddit whenever possible. When I was a kid I'd use my dad's old record player but that was the extent of my vinyl experience, never really got into the vinyl comeback
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a gay nigger. I'm an Aryan god and you're pathetic slave shackled to the zeitgeist of everyone around you. If I can disagree with everyone on this site, a site I come to and contribute to every day, I can disagree with anyone. I bow to no one. You'll always be a weak willed subhuman thrall.
A lot can be said about whether the Beatles rise to fame was organic (it almost certainly wasn't) their image can be criticized, and questions can be asked about whether or not they even actually wrote their own music, but the music has been incredibly influential throughout the world and this is why many who don't personally enjoy the music still have an appreciation for it
The fuck outta here with that gay ass shit.
shitty music is shitty and your artsy faggy opinion of it has no bearing on the horrible sound of it.
Just because you dropped acid and tasted colors while listening to it doesn't make it listenable.
"MUh fReNCh HoRn! MuH cOmPoSiTiOn!!1"
Did you know that led zeppelin also ripped off most of their songs? To a greater degree than the beatles, they have stolen guitar licks and even entire sections in almost every song.
But hey, it doesn't really matter, there are way more important things to discuss than the music of a 60 year old band who may or may not have even written said music. Honestly, the heuristic of antipathy toward anything heavily mainstream is probably the best you can have in this society in terms of efficiency. So that said, this is not even something I necessarily want to debate over, in this case I will just say have a good evening friend!
I've heard it, but I don't get the hype.
To begin with in this song the lyrics are open to interpretation but most if not all interpretations will agree on the general "thesis" of the song, that we're going on a journey and that even if this journey become difficult or unnerving there's not much to worry and everything will work out in the end. This is emphasized throughout the song through it's use of cross rhythms which contribute to a laid back sort of quality in the music. This is not an accident or something they stumbled into, based on the lyrics. The time signatures also change throughout the song which help to project this quality of going on an uncertain journey to the listener. The lyrics are intertwined with the technical elements (rhythms, melody), the instrumentation, and performance which all coalesce into a musical piece that serves the thesis. Few songs in pop culture at that time (and I'd argue fewer now) had that kind of harmony which brought every aspect of the music together in a way that was so ambitious and successful.
There are numerous instances of backwards instrumentation in the song but it's not apparent immediately when you hear the music altogether, but this too contributes to the unnerving quality of the music with sounds that are both strange yet familiar at the same time. This contributed greatly to the phenomenon of people listening to records backwards.
Lest it seem like this is some improv piece as I talk about cross rhythms and changing time signatures, before the music meanders too far from structure you will have an instrument come in and reimpose it, such as the cello about midway through the song.
The drums serve the music greatly, not trying to dictate the pace or tempo as a metronome (which was primarily what drums did in popular music at that time) but serving the rest of the music, even adjusting tempo throughout the song in a way that must have been difficult to pull off.
Bringing all of these layers together was almost unheard of at the time partially due to it being very difficult to pull off. We don't think about it now with computers but there wasn't too much "guess and check" work going on back then, so for this to come from someone's head was rare. It became so influential it was a primary catalyst for psychadelic rock such as Pink Floyd and many others.
Is it Chopin? No, but for contemporary music it was a ground breaking composition.
This is by far the most pretentious thing I've ever written and quite honestly I don't find understanding history or technicals makes me enjoy a song more (although I do enjoy this one) so I doubt it will change whether or not you enjoy it. But there's some context which hopefully you didn't hate reading lol
My father had a huge vinyl collection and in the mid 2000s was looking to save some space (since he also had a huge CD collection) so he gave me most of his albums and a beautiful Thorens turntable with a great set of speakers. The sound quality is definitely better than anything digital, and it was a fun hobby for a while because you could find records for dirt cheap at Goodwills and the handful of used record stores around. And at the time the only other people in those stores were geezers that were pleasant company.
But starting in the early 2010s the shitlib hipster community started showing up in those stores, faggotty articles from shitholes like buzzfeed and vox started promoting a "revival of vinyl" so the rest of the soy horde started flooding in. As a result, the prices for records started going up, but more importantly being in the presence of these creatures and hearing them talk became something I could no longer endure.
So now the turntable and records have returned to the role they had before coming to me: taking up space in a spare room. I'll listen to them once in a blue moon but mostly use my generation 5 80gb ipod I also got in the mid 00s for pretty much everything. BTW whoever designed those ipods must've been fired from apple, they very much go against their corporate policy of planned obsolescence, small storage capacity, and inability to interface with non-apple products.
I have a lot of flac audio however