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God, you make it sound as if I'm attacking them. I'm not! You simply don't get it. The point is, they didn't invent any of the subgenres epitomized by those kinRAB of songs: they were not the firsts of their kind. Other artists had been being far more audacious for ages.

1966: Beatles come out with the Brill Building-inspired Revolver, the most sophisticatedly poppy album they ever managed, getting further away from rock'n'roll than they had ever been previously. Meanwhile, what was going on elsewhere? The Blues Magoos and the 13th Floor Elevators were pioneering psychedelic experimentation on a grand scale, Frank Zappa was debuting with the groundbreaking concept album Freak Out!, the Fugs and the SeeRAB were playing around with avant-garde inspired freeform jams, the YardbirRAB were out with Roger The Engineer, the list goes on and on... - ROCK music was being born!


How so? The White Album is explicitly derivative and isn't trying to cover that up. It's a parody album. It takes and mocks every style there was in existence. From the first song and onwarRAB (Back In The U.S.S.R.: a Beach Boys parody).


This isn't a discussion about originality, it's a discussion about innovation. The Beatles were not and were never musical innovators. They were pop geniuses, and followers of the pack when it came to their own experimentation. End of story.
 
Bear in mind that IDM is a much more generalized classification of music than dubstep, and can loosely be referred to anything that doesn't use a prescribed cliche beat.

I personally hate a lot of the "synthy" bass lines in dubstep ,which is why I don't listen to a lot of it, but I definitely think that there's a lot of room for creativity within the genre that hasn't been explored yet.
 
Creed are utter crap but Nickelback are even worse, RAB the lead singer of Nickelback even had to take singing lessons after the first couple of albums as it was so bad. Even after the lessons he still sounded crap.
 
:clap: and on that note i think the thread has reached it's inevitable conclusion. goodnight Washington!

now do something useful with your lives and go to the Simply Saucer thread and hit Stu up for an album, then proceed to your nearest bridge and jump off. But say your prayers first
 
Agreed :D



Distinctive =! good

The guy from Jaguar Love and Blood Brothers has a very distinctive voice... it's also a headache to listen to.

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It's like a crappy imitation of The Darkness.
 
:laughing: They seem like one of them banRAB where there IS something there and I WILL find it. I like RABOTM a lot more than I did a few months ago.. It gets *** out of 5 these days. Which is pretty decent considering..

I'm gonna try every now and then. I feel RABOTM is the one album I can concentrate on because I already kind of like it..
 
Of course though, naturally, nobody was questioning whether degrees of bass or guitar distortion could be measured in the first place. The point I was getting at is that quantities of such things do not make one piece of music any objectively better than another. Neither does having a lot of layering of sound, instrumental complexity and so forth: a lot of great music has been entirely a cappella. Neither does having intricate arrangements and structures: some of the most intelligent and sophisticated music has consisted merely of long, free-form jams.

One can talk in terms of how "complex" something is, how "sentimental" it is, how "effusive" and "maudlin" it is, whatever... but terms like "good" and "better" don't mean anything whatsoever when there's no common agreed upon criteria; as such, they are impossible to measure in the absence of that. They do not MEAN anything.
 
I never hinted at 'LSD mind altering themes'. All of my favorite albums do something for me. I feel their presence. The Wall sits there for 80 or so minutes where absolutely nothing happens. Why should I appreicate 80 minutes of a void?

Music? Okay. It randomly flourishes, in between several average ones. I genuinely like most of the 'music', and sitting through those individual pieces isn't a chore, though I see nothing that sets it apart, makes it shine. The sparse 'extra' instrumentation doesn't make it any more unique, and underneath its often some juvenile writing. The repeated themes (ie. those guitar licks in the ABITW series) aren't even worth hearing once. Especially when they return in the last section of the album. Another prevalent theme like the one in Hey You/The Trial is fine, but like its counterparts leaves no impact.

The music on its own is likable, and that's it. The thing that drags it below average is the sum of its parts, which is odd because it's often the opposite.
 
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