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I heard someone once liken Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" to Pearl Jams "Jeremy", saying it was just as good. I swiftly throttled the life out of them.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
I remember someone saying that '90s punk was the greatest period in music history. I laughed. Then I realised that person may have been serious and I was sad.
@ MGS - A lot of it is down to the increasing presence of digital instrumentation in pop music, and not just that pop music which is ostensibly 'electronic' in stylistic outlook. The problem with digital musical sound is that it is often PERFECTLY in tune, and the human voice isn't - create a backing track using wholly digitised musical elements, and you'll have no choice but to tune the vocals, so that they don't sound out of tune.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh wait, do you mean vocoder-esque tuning? Yeah, I'm not a fan of that either.
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Ok you've got me pipped on the Bad Religion stuff. Really can't argue there.
Albatross wrote:I remember someone saying that '90s punk was the greatest period in music history. I laughed. Then I realised that person may have been serious and I was sad.
Ok obviously my taste in music is my own and whether or not its the greatest music ever is subjective. I was mearly playing on the opinion that alot of people hold of "my genre of music is the greatest and all others suck". I don't think like this at all. While yes i am a punk at heart, i A) listen to punk from many different eras. B) listen to other forms of music as well. Its not uncommon to hear me listening to various types of metal, rock, a little bit of rap/hiphop, and on the rare occasion techno.... Hell as long as its not jazz or Justin Beiber/Rebecca Black then i would most likely listen to it without objection.
In short I wasnt being serious when i wrote that first post. I was taking the piss out silly childish people who can't see that the many and varied styles of music are all just as (subjectively) good as each other.
MeanGreenStompa wrote:I hate autotune. I despise it. I don't understand it's popularity at all and it makes me angry and sad.
Autotune, for me, is just another tool in creating musical fusion, but it honestly isn't something to be relied upon exclusively (Black Eye Peas, Keisha are examples of this).
Also, some pretty good stuff was made available during the early 2000's, mostly around 2000-2002.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
Albatross wrote:You fail to see an issue with declaring that the 'era' of NOFX, Green Day, Blink 182 and Rancid was the greatest period in pop music?
I mean, if you like it that's up to you... But the greatest EVER?!
Do behave.
NOFX - Tbh don't know them to well.
Blink 182 - Couple of good songs. Didn't like em all the much.
Green Day - Anything before American Idiot was good. Anything after? Well.....
Rancid - Whats wrong with Rancid?
Albatross wrote:Even real punk?
What do you class as real Real punk? Stuff from the 70's/80's?
inb4: Ramones, Clash, Sex pistols, etc.
Necroshea wrote:>>Mentions 90's punk
>>Doesn't even hint at The Offspring
...wat
Yeah 90's punk WAS the greatest. I'll take it over anything.
Can't tell.... are you saying Offspring are good or bad?
Im tired of this. Maybe because i havent ever been in love or a relationship but im tired of love songs. They seem to be the default for anyone wanting to make a song fast.
Love is something im bloody sick of, it everywhere.
Sometime i would like a great song about depression, anger pain and lonliness become popular.
I work with a 20something wannabe hoodrat that claims to listen to and enjoy Rap.... then when I mentioned Coolio she said "Who's Coolio?"
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I like all punk. And Alby, arguing semantics? Why does there have to be a competition? I prefer the newer Offspring stuff that sounds like Dexter wasn't drunken slurring everything, but many like the garageness of the older, believing that it lends authenticity to it's image. It took me a while to accept it, but Green Day has managed to capture the spirit of punk (look at the lyrics) in a bit more swallowable pop-rock capsule. They started a freaking riot at Woodstock; that's way more cred than sounding amateur and unpolished. Hopefully my inebriation has not spoiled my point.
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Why does there have to be a competition? I prefer the newer Offspring stuff that sounds like Dexter wasn't drunken slurring everything, but many like the garageness of the older, believing that it lends authenticity to it's image. It took me a while to accept it, but Green Day has managed to capture the spirit of punk (look at the lyrics) in a bit more swallowable pop-rock capsule. They started a freaking riot at Woodstock; that's way more cred than sounding amateur and unpolished. Hopefully my inebriation has not spoiled my point.
