I was watching videos of some bands. I discovered this song by the Talking Heads. I've never heard it before but I thought the song was beautiful. Kind of a hippie song though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNdMc6wGtU&feature=related
Hey Bud-D, have you ever heard of King Crimson? Jake recently discovered them and is totally in to their music. I think it is ok but I can only take so much.
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I re-read my post. I sound kind of gay when I said "beautiful". I meant that it sounded good.
ReplyDeleteI can't listen to this at work, but Talking Heads do have some beautiful stuff. Remain In Light is an awesome album in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI own four King Crimson albums. King Crimson were one of the leaders of what was known as Progressive Rock in the '70's, which also included Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (ELP). Their album 'Red' is a masterpiece, but it, and most Prog Rock is an acquired taste, certainly true for younger people used to short songs and little soloing. You better have patience with the songs, they're all long!
Interesting. I can definitely hear cool stuff in their music. I can see how it would be an acquired taste. There is a King Crimson/Tool song on youtube so they are cool in my book.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Talking Heads, that is beautiful. Check this:
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This Talking Heads song shows how simple drumming can be effective.
ReplyDeleteI listened to a Youtube of Tool and King Crimson doing King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man, and it sounded real good.
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The drummer and the bass player are married.
The song sounds sad too me. I like the music but the lyrics I don't know about. I think only an alcoholic would equate a bar with heaven.
ReplyDeleteYour statement about the music being an acquired taste is revealing. I heard Ayn Rand talk about it in her book about art, "The Romantic Manifesto". The book goes deep into music and art like you seem to want to. I will paste what I had saved in my notes. I am not saying that this applies to this song.
"But a word of warning in regard to the vocabulary of the perpetrators of such 'innovations' is in order: they spout a great deal about the necessity of ' conditioning your ear to an appreciation of their 'music'."Their notion of conditioning is unlimited by reality and by the law of identity; man, in their view, is infinitely conditionable. But, in fact, you can condition a human ear to different types of music (it is not the ear, but the mind that you have to condition in such cases); you cannot condition it to hear noise as if it were music ; it is not personal training or social conventions that make it impossible, but the physiological nature , the identity, of the human ear and brain."
"Helmholtz has demonstrated that the essence of musical perception is mathematical: the consonance or dissonance of harmonies depends on the ratios of the frequencies of their tones. The brain can integrate a ratio of one to two, for instance, but not of eight to nine. (This does not mean that dissonances cannot be integrated: they can, in the proper musical context.) A composition may demand the acticve alertness needed to resolve complex mathematical relationships--or it may deaden the brain by means of monotonous simplicity. It may demand a process of building an integrated sum--or it may break up that process of integration into an arbitrary series of random bits--or it may obliterate the process by a jumble of sounds mathematically-physiologically impossible to integrate, and thus turn into noise. The listener becomes aware of this process in the form of a sense of efficacy , or of strain, or of boredom, or of frustration.[...]a man who has an active mind regards mental effort as an exciting challenge[...]A man of mixed cognitive habits has, epistemologically, a limited interest in mental effort and, metaphysically, tolerates a great deal of fog in his field of awareness. He will feel strain when listening to the more demanding type of music, but will enjoy the simpler types of music, but will enjoy the simpler types. He may enjoy the broken, random kind of music ...and may even become conditioned to accept the jumbled music (if he is sufficiently lethargic)."
The deadly monotony of primitive music--the endless repetition of a few notes and of a rhythmic pattern that beats against the brain with the regularity of the ancient torture of water drops falling on a man's skull--paralyzes cognitive processes, obliterates awareness and disintegrates the mind. Such music produces a state of sensory deprivation... A man's psycho-epistemological method of functioning is developed and automatized in his early childhood; it is influenced by the dominant philosophy of the culture in which he grows up.[...]The products of America's anti-rational , anti-cognitive 'Progressive' education, the hippies, are reverting to the music and the drumbeat of the jungle."
"Art is man's metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification--even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem."
The above mentioned book and "The Closing of The American Mind" are both good books to take a deeper look at music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-io-kZKl_BI&p=7FE905AF63B52B3C&playnext=1&index=82
ReplyDeleteKing Crimson's Starless off Red. Nothing jungle-beat-y about this.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksFNU05W1U