Without a doubt it is cave crystal music, soon to be a rage.
I love the sound of Pink Floyd bouncing off crystals and forming laser emissions.
I love the sound of Pink Floyd bouncing off crystals and forming laser emissions.
What is your favorite type of music?
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Fraggle Rocker
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Oh I loved that stuff in the 50s. Hank Snow, Kitty Wells, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Hank Loughlin, Webb Pierce, Don Gibson, Porter Wagoner, and of course Hank Williams. It was qualitatively different from what country & western evolved into ten years later, much less today. Life with my family was stark and sterile: no emotions could ever be expressed or discussed, so naturally the only one that ever came out at home was anger. I loved rock and roll and still do, but one day I absentmindedly turned the dial to a country station and heard these people all singing about love, betrayal, loyalty, patriotism, faith, weakness. Hell, I didn't even know those words, much less how to talk about those feelings!
What is that?
How about Patti Smith? "Radio Ethiopia" is one of my all-time favorite albums. "Poppies," "Pissin' in a River," way crazy stuff.
Or Television. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd were, perhaps, a little too accomplished to qualify as punks, but I always felt an in-your-face punk vibe from their songs, with those discordant guitar solos and nearly random chord progressions.
I never quite understood why the Clash was called a punk band. One of the defining characteristics of punk music was its raw, barely competent-sounding musicianship. Three chords, bonehead drumming, singing that sounded like the crowd screaming at a football game. The Clash wrote some really intricate songs and performed them with finesse and nuance. 23 years after being formed, Green Day still can't play as well as the Clash did on their first album, and people still dismiss Green Day as "post-punk," with good reason.
How about PiL? Eventually they became a very accomplished band, their tight music contrasting with Johnny's still-raw singing.
What is psyche? I assume you don't mean psychedelic, because acid rock was incredibly complex music.
Carcano
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Joe Strummer's voice was the punk element in The Clash.
Just look at Mick's post Clash work and you can see where the complexity, careful arrangement, and musicianship came from.
This is the song Mick Jones would have recorded if he had been born black!
http://www.mojvideo.com/video-prince-alphabet-street/da77abff6890b9804887
May the road rise with you...
spidergoat
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Yes, psychedelic. It wasn't always the Beatles kind of stuff with elaborate orchestration.
Fraggle Rocker
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It didn't necessarily have to be gotten through orchestration, but psychedelic music was defined by its edgy, slowly ebbing and flowing dynamics, particularly textural. Creedence Clearwater's breakout song, their cover of "Suzie Q," had lots of freaky textures washing through it, and it was just four guys with some primitive (by today's standards) electronics. "Gimme Shelter" was one of the most psychedlic songs ever recorded, and it got its textures primarily from Merry Clayton's spooky vocals and Keith Richards's less-than-rocket-science guitar riffs.
These songs had complexity without technology or a roomful of musicians.
I like all kinds, less screaming and most rap. I do have a penchant for the piano, violin, hammered dulcimer, guitar, and sax...ain't nothing like the wail of a sax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nX-kH0oFNI
http://www.dizzi.co.uk/dizzivideo.php
Rachmaninoff Paganini XVIII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJKVlGX7Hg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nX-kH0oFNI
http://www.dizzi.co.uk/dizzivideo.php
Rachmaninoff Paganini XVIII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJKVlGX7Hg&feature=related
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Metal!
yes. poor joe strummer. i loved the song he did that was in mr&mrs smith, i can't think of who it was with..
I checked all the boxes except country. I really dislike the sound of sappy country or anything self-rightous in a heavy southern accent - it reminds me too much of my mother in law. equally, if there had been a christian box, it also would remain unchecked.
i usually stick to indie rock, crooning skinny boys and angsty chick music works for me. i also love irish rock, classical/ or traditional jazz and blues if im sitting in traffic (i can't stand modern jazz, it sounds like the sienfeld theme/nails on chalkboard). I listen to alot of rock, pop, hip hop, for choreography, and tend to lean towards club music on the weekends, especially if im stuck at work.
rock for sure...love metal, but AFI is my fave band. check 'em out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz__wHVCNng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz__wHVCNng
AFI's ok. I like some of their stuff.
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My fave record of theirs is sing the sorrow, but what I love about them most is how they're always evolving and changing. You can't really nail them down to a particular genre.
If you're into techno synth/pop kind of stuff, a couple of the guys in the band put together a record under the name blaqk audio. Very good.
I'll try and look it up sometime.