South Americanastan wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nI1RIA-Y1Q
Ooh, quite an interesting. I'm not so keen on the distorted noise at the beginning—the thing that sounds like the string instruments are in pain, I think?—and the fake-out ending—I almost closed the window before seeing how much time was left on the track. But those are just two complaints in a song I otherwise thought was a cool listen. The lyrics seem to be about material (gold) and its centrality to but eventual subversion of some kind of revolutionary political movement. If I'm not misinterpreting, it's a rather dour tune—suggesting that massive social change ends up putting people back where they started. I certainly hope that kind of result isn't inevitable, though I'm certainly familiar with histories and public memories that can make it seems that way.
But my absolute favorite part of the song is the way the chorus is so on-the-beat of the tune as introduced. It feels like a pay-off!
It always seems insufficient to append numerical values to songs... but perhaps 8/10? Minor points off for minor elements that seemed to impede the listening experience. But on the whole, the atypical sound (or perhaps it is simply a genre I am unfamiliar with) was well worth it and made for a rich experience.
EDIT: Ninja'd.
Nacrad wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OuAZr4ffpI
Another interesing song, for some different reasons. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a translation of the lyrics that I could parse, so I am going to have to go without understanding the lyrics. "Catherine" had what felt like a very familiar sound. The style of music was—well, "mainstream" sounds too negative, but kind of that? In a familiar way, like it's resonating with a long contemporary musical tradition I'm used to and semi-nostalgic for. While watching the music video, I liked the moment when a lot of people came together to help plug the wall. I thought to myself, "Oh, this whole time, I assumed this was a love song, but it's actually a song about community!" But then, at the end, the music video concluded with just the boy and girl together, and I thought, "Oh wait, it is a love song after all?" It left me a little confused.
If I had to apply numbers... perhaps 7/10? I did enjoy the music experience, but it was, as I said, mostly from being good at tapping into something familiar. It seemed to lack novelty, though that may be partly because I wasn't able to tap into the lyrical experience.
"Equation" by Hans Zimmer, performed by Camille
