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I was talking to my sister about music the other day, and she said that when she hears a song for the first time, it's usually the beat she listens to, and she uses that to decide if she likes it, despite the lyrics. But her friend listens to the lyrics, and uses those to decide if she likes a song. So, I was just curious, what do you listen for when you hear a new song for the first time? | |||||
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See, that's what I listen out for too. Which is pointless when I listen to foreign bands. Aha. ----- Why not put some jam in your shoes & invite your trousers for tea? | |||||
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Great lyrics can make me listen to a song I might not otherwise like, so it would have to be lyrics for me. Great music WITH those lyrics is a bonus. Great music WITHOUT great lyrics is ok in many circumstances too [ie - much NYHC]- but I almost always need the lyrics. ----- Work Makes Us Free | |||||
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On September 12, 2009, 10:44PM, Shaved.For.Battle said: I think you listened to "The Age of Quarrel" and Sheer Terror wrong. NYHC is supposed to be tough and real. Granted, some of that stuff can be looked at as far from PC (early Agnostic Front and YDL come to mind), but that's part of the charm. Those two examples are examples of GREAT lyrics and music. I was thinking of other stuff. One example that immediately comes to mind would be YOT. ----- Work Makes Us Free | |||||
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On September 12, 2009, 11:15PM, Shaved.For.Battle said: They were from Connecticut. YOT is still solid musically, and I can't help but want to mosh when I hear "Positive Outlook". Judge was better, though. Yeah but they thrived in the NY scene - there wasn't really any CT scene to speak of. But anyways - hated that band, Judge also. I was more of a Cro-Mags, Sheer Terror, Breakdown kinda cat. ----- Work Makes Us Free | |||||
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for me i always lisen to the music part of it, i mean does it sound good? lyrics are not too important to me, but they cant be a dumb ass song either ----- | |||||
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for me the music takes precedence over lyrics (providing the band even has lyircs), hell even vocals are more important to me than the lyrics themselves, certainly on initial impresion anyway. (analysing the lyrics is only something I do after first familiarising myself with the rest of the music, finding expressive and meaningful lyrics adds a whole new depth to the song) first thing I look for is overall sound I guess... mood/dynamic - is it depressing as fuck? does it sound like the apocalypse? lots of minor tones and bleak textures to convey a dark atmosphere? how heavy is the music, are the riffs slow, heavy and sustained. is there lots of distortion or clean tones. are there softer parts, sombre guitar melodies and/or noise ambience. whats the tempo like throughout. whats the overall feeling of the music. structure and composition - how does the music develop and flow, standard or unconventional structure, how repetitive is it. how many and what kind of instruments are involved. are there lots of intricate melodies or just simple riffs. how long is the song and how many different parts are played. is there a sense of progression and building atmosphere throughout, possibly ending in an epic climax of sound. or is the structure quite flat. ----- ~we are a part of the process not instigators of its progress~ | |||||
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I was HUGE into Warzone when the LES crew 7" came out and then the subsequent full-length. Didn't care for anything they did after that. But later in life, a couple years ago or so I was in the band that played a Raybeez tribute and we had to do a Warzone cover - so I went back and listened to it again and sort of said "wow, this band really sucked" - which doesn't occur when I listen to the Cro Mags, Sheer Terror, etc. So that says something. We wound up covering "Will You Ever Come Back" by the way. ----- Work Makes Us Free | |||||
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Black Flag, nuff said. | |||||
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I used to have a nice list of three words that defined most of what I listened to... I have since forgotten that list... so I listen for weird sounds and noise, mostly. | |||||
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I usually listen for the total atmosphere and technicality of the musicians. ----- "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening, I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." | |||||
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On November 5, 2009, 6:29PM, Hate said: You don't listen to technicality if you're a BM fan. Just because there isn't an emphasis on skill doesn't mean it isn't there. Sigh's Hail Horror Hail being a great example Along with Windir's Heidra. [This post was last updated on November 5, 2009, 7:14PM by BuriedUnderIce.] | |||||
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On November 6, 2009, 12:24AM, Hate said: Both of those are barely black metal. ----- DS Bureaucracy™: Working towards the uninterchangability and disaccountability abilities in the smallest unimpossiblity of time frames. | |||||
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If some kinda boundary is being pushed, raw aesthetics, melody is an afterthought, the lyrics serve their purpose, loud, great composition. |
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