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Originally Posted by Mucha na Dziko
And in popular music I often feel like the „complex” bands are doing it usualy for complexity’s sake, and not to actually enhance the experience. The Beach Boys or the Beatles are the oposite of that. The song/melody comes first, complexity later.
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Thank you for enlivening this piece of tired man-on-the-street wisdom with something as funny as the "enhance the experience" bit.
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But the Beach Boys? Come on. Brian Wilson was writing truly complex music for his time and even for any other really for that matter. It’s just that his songs are made in such a manner that at first, second, third listen you don’t hear what’s actually happening, because the melodies/harmonies are so captivating.
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The definition of "complexity" on which you operate is "stuff I like"
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Also, I believe we’re not Talking about classical music, so comparisons to Bach or Mahler do not apply. It’s a discussion about popular music, right?
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Does the work of one Miles Davis belong to "popular music"? Or Don Van Vliet? Or Irmin Schmidt? Or did they all do "complexity for complexity's sake" instead of "enhancing our experience" as they should have?