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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.
That's a great point, I forgot about that fucking goyslop movie. I had a couple shitlib friends in college who loved it. Weaponized kike/hipster pretension and vile messaging complete with the goy main character getting cucked by his blonde blue eyed girlfriend & his (((new age guru upstairs neighbor))). He laments his cheating whore most of the movie until getting back together with her. In fact one of the college friends who loved it ended up getting cheated on by his wife, and he stayed with her till she left him.
Funny to think about a movie like that which I haven't seen in decades/before being redpilled. Without looking I'm sure the writer and director were yids.
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
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.
Funny to think about a movie like that which I haven't seen in decades/before being redpilled. Without looking I'm sure the writer and director were yids.
I have a lot of flac audio however