The hivemind has some excellent taste in music

Hmmmmm. Okay, if you can manage to actually discuss music and not just post a lot of youtube vid cuz we have threads for that.

It's hard to discuss music beyond "I like it" or "I don't like it" without musical education.

Yes, and I appreciate both you and Wulfstand actually Brofist my threads instead of throwing them away like the poor, unloved Trolls that need to be set on fire.

I am.

Carly-Rae Jepson is the greatest musical genius of any era.

Discuss.

Obviously, she is not. There, i just won the argument. No, i'm not being sarcastic here.

I like music with guitar being the primary sound. I can listen to a band with a vocalist I hate as long as the guitar work is good enough. The rhythm section is very important also, without them the guitar cannot shine.

Bad vocalist usually ruins it for me. Melody is most important. That's why I enjoy everything from 80s pop to melodeath, and dislike hiphop and most dance shit. I also have a hard time listening to ambiance stuff (as music, that is).
I love experimental stuff. Cool instruments, prog, symphonic stuff.

I still don't know what melody is.

I don't really know the exact definition... So I looked it up!

1.
musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement.
2.
Music .
a.
the succession of single tones in musical compositions, as distinguished from harmony and rhythm.
b.
the principal part in a harmonic composition; the air.
c.
a rhythmical succession of single tones producing a distinct musical phrase or idea.
3.
a poem suitable for singing.
4.
intonation, as of a segment of connected speech.

So... I guess it could be anything really. I mostly agree with the first definition: "musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement." For instance, something like the A-Team theme has a strong melody. It's catchy, memorable, etc. As an example, rappers that tend to use orchestras and female vocal choruses etc., would make more melodic music than other rappers.

Rhythm is king of music. Melody is for pop music.

The sheer number of financially and musically destitute bands never ceases to amaze me. Everybody and their down syndrome brother wants to be a musician/artist/slacker. Then again there are also a lot of talented(men) who make some neat shit.

Google says that there are no truly great female musicians. Maybe they are not 'great' because they don't OD on heroin when they are 27? I guess women get away with mostly being singers and playing music arranged/produced by 50 year old Jewish guys from Hollywood. Exceptions are well within the 6 sigma/99.99966%(Janis Joplin, etc)

The least I can do is hook you up with the last song you'll ever need to hear because it is 200 songs in one


Music is to teh Codex as books are to the USA. What the fuck, flabbyjack? srsly

Bleh, i was expecting to elicit a bit of drama with that, but nein.

One thing i find curious though is that even people who try to improve their taste in art and literature (or at any rate have that kind of pretension, as the case may be) still have a very low opinion of music and consider it a simple form of "entertainment". Its like at some point music has been demoted from ever being considered "Art" in an higher sense, for no particular reason.

I blame radio.

Geniuses nowadays probably either don't receive proper education or play music in some obscure genres and no one has heard of them.

It is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody

It's not difficult at all, I do it all the time, with people who don't even listen to so much music too. It doesn't necessarily have to be any deep analysis either, just getting familiar what someone's into, recommending stuff that they might like, sharing experiences and stories... And playing records while you talk about it too, of course.

But in a way it sucks over the internet alot of the time, probably because people don't often have much incentive to reach out for anything unfamiliar based on what a stranger says - it's piss easy to look up new songs in whatever style you want, why trust some turdslurper on what to try? Of course if you want help in looking up something you can get it too if needed, but frankly Codex is not a good place for that - people might not just listen to Nickelback or whatever, but there's not that many people with sufficiently wide knowledge or even if there are, it's hard to distinguish the monocle poster from amongst the 20 others who post walls of utube links.
Then again I find Codex a decent source for movies, for example (on top of the obvious game knowledge) - but might just have to do with me being much less knowledgeable of movies than music.

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Implying that nickleback is :monocle: music?
And you're completely wrong on second one. Codex is surprisingly good place for that and it's quite easy to distinguish few guys who's 'melomania' reach far beyond trendy hipster turds ala nickleback or yet another generic metal band. From the top of my head Jason, Suchy, feiippipe (or whatwashisname) , Lyric Suite and quite a bunch of others. Of course you'd get even vaster barrage of interesting stuff wading through threads in places like rateyourmusic, but it takes a lot of time.

I blame huge corporations. Anything they touch becomes soulless after a while. Music changed from art to product.

Read again.