General Music Discussion II

[Corrian]

I didn't even follow Grammy's, but I heard that Black Sabbath's God Is Dead? won best metal performance. So that makes me happy.

Oh yeah, I forgot that they were nominated.

I don't follow them, either, I just saw some nominations on a Spotify advertisement.

I think the Grammy's is a good example of how worthless Award's Ceremonies are overall, though.

Yeah, this. Also, the new Led Zeppelin album won something, too. So yeah.

Led Zeppelin still exists?

[Jermerica]

The Grammys inspired me to buy that Lorde album. Somehow I didn't get this before. Wow. This is amazing stuff.

Only real good thing nominated at the Grammy's...

It's rare for the Grammy's to be worthwhile, anyway. They just nominate the latest "Big hits", not technically stuff that is the highest of quality.

I'm jut glad daft punk was the big winner. They deserved it

[Corrian]

List of artists I like at the moment

-Birdy
-Bon Iver
-Arcade Fire
-Malik(Inuit-Greenlander musician)
-Simon and Garfunkel
-The Bee Gees
-Led Zeppelin
-Westlife
-Drake
-Swings(Korean rapper)
-Mad Clown(Korean rapper)

Lots of varieties, eh?

Only ones I really know on here is Birdy and Arcade Fire.

Hardwell man. Good stuff. Saw him at tomorrowland, he was amazing. I also like onerepublic and the fray. I love it all.

Don't know Hardwell, but don't really care for the last 2 from what I have heard...

OneRepublic seems to be getting slowly worse, though.

I'm jut glad daft punk was the big winner. They deserved it

I thought it was the worst album I listened to last year. Gave it a 5/10. Love like 3 songs and the rest bored me to death.

I just don't get the love for it. I can see what they're going for but it doesn't do anything for me, and was probably the most hyped album that disappointed me the most. Though, to be honest, I didn't expect much out of it from the beginning...

I think the 2nd worse, which has also been hugely hyped, was Queens of the Stone Age' new album, which I bumped up from a 5 to a 6 after a re-listen...

I didn't listen to anything absolutely terrible last year. Never do, because I prefer not to listen to something terrible through an entire album of terribleness.

[Ancient Magmia]

Only real good thing nominated at the Grammy's...

It's rare for the Grammy's to be worthwhile, anyway. They just nominate the latest "Big hits", not technically stuff that is the highest of quality.

I'm jut glad daft punk was the big winner. They deserved it

Meh, I thought Kendrick Lamar should have won album of the year, or at least best rap album (Drake won it instead ).
I liked Random Access Memories but there's no way it should have won over GKMC.

I'm glad I accidentally missed them by not getting up from my nap, that would have been a waste.

[Volmachtia]

I didn't even follow Grammy's, but I heard that Black Sabbath's God Is Dead? won best metal performance. So that makes me happy.

Oh yeah, I forgot that they were nominated.

I don't follow them, either, I just saw some nominations on a Spotify advertisement.

I think the Grammy's is a good example of how worthless Award's Ceremonies are overall, though.

Yeah, this. Also, the new Led Zeppelin album won something, too. So yeah.

Led Zeppelin still exists?

Sabbath's still kicking, new album and whatnot. Led Zeppelin did a one-off reunion in '07 that got taped and made into a concert DVD released last year or so, which won the grammy.

Macklemore winning an award of any sort denies the event validity in my eyes, however (amongst numerous other reasons).

[Fasdokl]

Anyway, I'm gonna make a list of stuff I've been liking recently, too.

• Lorde - Pure Heroine
• Nas - Illmatic
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
• Kanye West - Yeezus (i'm sorry, i really really love this album)
• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (my favorite album of all time. easily.)
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
• Childish Gambino - Camp
• The Neighbourhood - I Love You
• KOAN Sound & Asa - Sanctuary EP (beautiful EDM stuff. not generic at all)

[Corrian]

• Lorde - Pure Heroine
• Nas - Illmatic
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
• Kanye West - Yeezus (i'm sorry, i really really love this album)
• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (my favorite album of all time. easily.)
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
• Childish Gambino - Camp
• The Neighbourhood - I Love You
• KOAN Sound & Asa - Sanctuary EP (beautiful EDM stuff. not generic at all)

I've never been able to figure out what EDM is supposed to be musically.

IDM I can kinda see. It also seems to vary a lot. But EDM I haven't figured out yet...

Also, Boards of Canada is great.

[Azrael]

I've never been able to figure out what EDM is supposed to be musically.

IDM I can kinda see. It also seems to vary a lot. But EDM I haven't figured out yet...

Also, Boards of Canada is great.

How is EDM harder to figure out than IDM? EDM is electronic dance music i.e. danceable electronic music. That's really all there is to it.

[Volmachtia]

I've never been able to figure out what EDM is supposed to be musically.

IDM I can kinda see. It also seems to vary a lot. But EDM I haven't figured out yet...

Also, Boards of Canada is great.

How is EDM harder to figure out than IDM? EDM is electronic dance music i.e. danceable electronic music. That's really all there is to it.

I think he means listening to EDM recreationally as opposed to actually dancing to it.

[Corrian]

New Iamamiwhoami single

How is EDM harder to figure out than IDM? EDM is electronic dance music i.e. danceable electronic music. That's really all there is to it.

I'm saying I don't see what's definably different with electronic dance music over intelligent dance music. I just haven't explored the genre enough to figure out what exactly is the difference.

[The REAL Glasers]

IDM is aimed to be more thought-provoking, hence the somewhat pretentious name.

[Volmachtia]

IDM is aimed to be more thought-provoking, hence the somewhat pretentious name.

Or to be more specific, complex. Hence why it sounds like a million buttons being pushed at once.

[Meryuma]

Hey, new thread.



I like Lorde. Owl City is just a really saccharine version of the Postal Service though.

Lorde is meh....Imo. I like some of her songs, and despise the rest(in particular Royals). She certainly has the talent though

The lyrics to Royals aren't very good but the melody and the vocal layering are frankly amazing.

Only real good thing nominated at the Grammy's...

It's rare for the Grammy's to be worthwhile, anyway. They just nominate the latest "Big hits", not technically stuff that is the highest of quality.

Well, I'm an Imagine Dragons fan, and I quite enjoyed Daft Punk's album.

Daft Punk are great. Imagine Dragons is the blandest shit around.

Anyway, I'm gonna make a list of stuff I've been liking recently, too.

• Lorde - Pure Heroine
• Nas - Illmatic
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
• Kanye West - Yeezus (i'm sorry, i really really love this album)
• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (my favorite album of all time. easily.)
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
• Childish Gambino - Camp
• The Neighbourhood - I Love You
• KOAN Sound & Asa - Sanctuary EP (beautiful EDM stuff. not generic at all)

No reason to apologize for loving Yeezus. Boards of Canada are really cool too. I need to get into more IDM.

New Iamamiwhoami single

How is EDM harder to figure out than IDM? EDM is electronic dance music i.e. danceable electronic music. That's really all there is to it.

I'm saying I don't see what's definably different with electronic dance music over intelligent dance music. I just haven't explored the genre enough to figure out what exactly is the difference.

IDM is basically an "avant-garde" version of EDM that uses similar musical building blocks without necessarily being intended for the actual dancefloor. For instance, drum n bass/jungle is a genre of EDM based around fast-paced breakbeats, but IDM artists such as Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares twist fast-paced breakbeats into skittering, irregular and frequently abrasive new shapes.

[Chetssaland]

Oh yeah, I forgot that they were nominated.

I don't follow them, either, I just saw some nominations on a Spotify advertisement.

I think the Grammy's is a good example of how worthless Award's Ceremonies are overall, though.


Led Zeppelin still exists?

Sabbath's still kicking, new album and whatnot. Led Zeppelin did a one-off reunion in '07 that got taped and made into a concert DVD released last year or so, which won the grammy.

Macklemore winning an award of any sort denies the event validity in my eyes, however (amongst numerous other reasons).

What's with all the Macklemore hate lately? Around this time last year they were the internet's darling, but now that he's popular the internet hates him. Also, what songs from The Heist have you heard? Just Thrift Shop, Same Love, and Can't Hold Us? (FYI: I still don't think he should've won rap album of the year, but people act like he's garbage when he really isn't that bad).

[Volmachtia]

Sabbath's still kicking, new album and whatnot. Led Zeppelin did a one-off reunion in '07 that got taped and made into a concert DVD released last year or so, which won the grammy.

Macklemore winning an award of any sort denies the event validity in my eyes, however (amongst numerous other reasons).

What's with all the Macklemore hate lately? Around this time last year they were the internet's darling, but now that he's popular the internet hates him. Also, what songs from The Heist have you heard? Just Thrift Shop, Same Love, and Can't Hold Us? (FYI: I still don't think he should've won rap album of the year, but people act like he's garbage when he really isn't that bad).

He's a face for yet another bland, commercial product, and pretty much everything he's done gives me a headache. I don't like rap and I make no pretensions that other people shouldn't, but I can tell when something's manufactured for radio. Besides, I've always thought he sucked.
Hipsters latch onto rappers to seem "current", anyways. Why people adore Kanye now, I shall never understand.

[The Royal Kingdom of Quebec]

List of artists I like at the moment

-Birdy
-Bon Iver
-Arcade Fire
-Malik(Inuit-Greenlander musician)
-Simon and Garfunkel
-The Bee Gees
-Led Zeppelin
-Westlife
-Drake
-Swings(Korean rapper)
-Mad Clown(Korean rapper)

Lots of varieties, eh?

Only ones I really know on here is Birdy and Arcade Fire.

I am surprised that you don't know some big timers back in the old days, namely The Bee Gees and Led Zeppelin.....*faints*

Here is Bon Iver's album though. Enjoy!

[Ancient Magmia]

What's with all the Macklemore hate lately? Around this time last year they were the internet's darling, but now that he's popular the internet hates him. Also, what songs from The Heist have you heard? Just Thrift Shop, Same Love, and Can't Hold Us? (FYI: I still don't think he should've won rap album of the year, but people act like he's garbage when he really isn't that bad).

He's a face for yet another bland, commercial product, and pretty much everything he's done gives me a headache.

^This.
It's a good album for what the production was obviously meant for; mainstream appeal and radio play. But that type of music typically lacks "substance". "Same Love" which really should have been a great song just felt horribly dull. "Can't Hold Us" is somewhat catchy but nothing is musically special about it, and "Thrift Shop" & "White Walls" are just...bad in every aspect other than catchiness. All good for radio but dull otherwise.
I think he's an OK rapper, but certainly nothing special.

Why people adore Kanye now, I shall never understand.

Kanye was good pre-Graduation (3rd album). From Graduation onward, he got...weird.

[Corvus Metallum]

The solo I have to sing for choir is driving me crazy...I can officially say I hate 2/4 as a time signature now.

[The REAL Glasers]

What's with all the Macklemore hate lately? Around this time last year they were the internet's darling, but now that he's popular the internet hates him. Also, what songs from The Heist have you heard? Just Thrift Shop, Same Love, and Can't Hold Us? (FYI: I still don't think he should've won rap album of the year, but people act like he's garbage when he really isn't that bad).

He's a face for yet another bland, commercial product, and pretty much everything he's done gives me a headache. I don't like rap and I make no pretensions that other people shouldn't, but I can tell when something's manufactured for radio. Besides, I've always thought he sucked.
Hipsters latch onto rappers to seem "current", anyways. Why people adore Kanye now, I shall never understand.

Commercial product? You realize that he's entirely independent and did all of this without any label support?

[Ancient Magmia]

Commercial product? You realize that he's entirely independent and did all of this without any label support?

But the music itself sounds like it was made for commercial appeal. Albeit not typical commercial hip hop, but made with the same intent.

[Volmachtia]

Commercial product? You realize that he's entirely independent and did all of this without any label support?

But the music itself sounds like it was made for commercial appeal. Albeit not typical commercial hip hop, but made with the same intent.

And don't forget the internet today is ridiculously powerful as a means of spreading information, so it can catch fire on Youtube (Psy) or SoundCloud (Lorde) for example, and the radio will pick it up and bing-bang-boom, you have yourself a mainstream hit. It's a potent formula.

[Ancient Magmia]

And don't forget the internet today is ridiculously powerful as a means of spreading information, so it can catch fire on Youtube (Psy) or SoundCloud (Lorde) for example, and the radio will pick it up and bing-bang-boom, you have yourself a mainstream hit. It's a potent formula.

Very true.

[The REAL Glasers]

But the music itself sounds like it was made for commercial appeal. Albeit not typical commercial hip hop, but made with the same intent.

And don't forget the internet today is ridiculously powerful as a means of spreading information, so it can catch fire on Youtube (Psy) or SoundCloud (Lorde) for example, and the radio will pick it up and bing-bang-boom, you have yourself a mainstream hit. It's a potent formula.

I don't think you understand the immense amount of difficulty and luck that this requires.

[Volmachtia]

And don't forget the internet today is ridiculously powerful as a means of spreading information, so it can catch fire on Youtube (Psy) or SoundCloud (Lorde) for example, and the radio will pick it up and bing-bang-boom, you have yourself a mainstream hit. It's a potent formula.

I don't think you understand the immense amount of difficulty and luck that this requires.

Hey, when one in a million succeeds, one WILL end up succeeding.

[Corrian]

IDM is basically an "avant-garde" version of EDM that uses similar musical building blocks without necessarily being intended for the actual dancefloor. For instance, drum n bass/jungle is a genre of EDM based around fast-paced breakbeats, but IDM artists such as Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares twist fast-paced breakbeats into skittering, irregular and frequently abrasive new shapes.

Thanks

Autechre is considered IDM half the time and they definitely don't fit into typical dance rhythms at all.

What's with all the Macklemore hate lately? Around this time last year they were the internet's darling, but now that he's popular the internet hates him. Also, what songs from The Heist have you heard? Just Thrift Shop, Same Love, and Can't Hold Us? (FYI: I still don't think he should've won rap album of the year, but people act like he's garbage when he really isn't that bad).

Never cared for him in the first place, still don't. Though I quite like the message behind all of his music I've heard so far.

I am surprised that you don't know some big timers back in the old days, namely The Bee Gees and Led Zeppelin.....*faints*

Here is Bon Iver's album though. Enjoy!

Think I've heard some The Bee Gees and I know like 2 Led Zeppelin songs.

And thanks. Might give that a listen.

And don't forget the internet today is ridiculously powerful as a means of spreading information, so it can catch fire on Youtube (Psy) or SoundCloud (Lorde) for example, and the radio will pick it up and bing-bang-boom, you have yourself a mainstream hit. It's a potent formula.

...Lorde got big on SoundCloud? Damn.