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Post by mightyjack on Jul 24, 2007 11:06:00 GMT -5
Now see, I don't like instrumentals. I feel ripped off when a band tacks one of those on a CD, it's like a throwaway. For example, the Breeders "Last Splash". They sound okay but damn it, I want that voice! That's not to say that great guitarist doesn't knock me out. I love watching a great guitar player. Laurence Juber does an instrumental version of Strawberry Fields that is expressive and beautiful and simply took my breath away when I saw him perform it live. But when I buy a rock album, I want the whole package. Also when I think about songs like Elinor Rigby. It has great music and great arrangement. But without those lyrics, I don't think it would be the lasting classic it is. I would be like, "Oh yeah, that's well done, sounds nice", but it's that story that goes with that great music which makes it important. The two combined made for a song that still moves me even after listening to it for most of my life. The music alone, nice, cool. The lyrics alone, a work of art, poetry. I'd grow tried of the music by itself, but I could read those lyrics time and time again. Hmmm. King Crimson? Mogwai? Man or Astroman?? Sorry, you'll have to be clearer than that. I don't get your point and I don't listen to any of those acts.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jul 24, 2007 23:19:59 GMT -5
Hmmm. King Crimson? Mogwai? Man or Astroman?? Sorry, you'll have to be clearer than that. I don't get your point and I don't listen to any of those acts. They're largely instrumental rock bands.
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Post by mightyjack on Jul 25, 2007 9:36:50 GMT -5
Ahh, so it's kind of like the ironic ending of Bloodlust, only the irony doesn't work when I applied to my post since I don't listen or care for instrumental bands. Now if at some point I said, "You'll never impale me on a rack of my own making..."
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Post by mystyfan on Jul 25, 2007 9:41:43 GMT -5
I think of songs as like a person. Your first impression of them is the music, but once you get to know them, their soul is the lyrics.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jul 25, 2007 10:02:05 GMT -5
Ahh, so it's kind of like the ironic ending of Bloodlust, only the irony doesn't work when I applied to my post since I don't listen or care for instrumental bands. Now if at some point I said, "You'll never impale me on a rack of my own making..." No, you're right. I didn't explain myself at all. I think what I was saying was that, while I know what you mean by a rock song with lyrics as "the whole package," there are other examples where they think of the package as something else. But that's a taste issue, not at all a matter of right/wrong. After all, I'm sure you'd still love a Hendrix album without him singing. The only true generalization is the one about how generalizations are always wrong.
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Post by mightyjack on Jul 25, 2007 19:38:55 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't know if I'd love a Hendrix album without him singing. Seriously, as stated before, I love to watch guitar men play, I have a tougher time with albums. It's a weird quirk. But take "Machine Gun". 15 minutes, few lyrics so it's mostly music. I think I've only sat through the entire recorded version on "Band of Gypsy's" a handful of times. I skip it outright, or midway through all the time. But I've seen it on DVD, in different venues, dozens of times. I prefer watching him play it. Even the instrumental tracks on his albums, after a while I just get tired of them and skip 'em.I know I love his solos, but even a too long solo (Voodoo Child) bores me on record after a while. Live, it's a different story. I know, I'm a freak man!
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