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Originally Posted by jackhammer
You really do not know a lot about music do you? Do you know what the original purpose of music is?
Virtually all modern music owes itself to the blues. The Blues was originally a form of communication and a bringing together of communities over something as simple as a camp fire. The roots can be traced further to Folk, but I shall stay with the Blues. It's musical shape gave birth to Jazz, Funk and soul. Rock music was born out of these genres by taking the arrangements and distorting the chords.
WAIT! Blues is also about Emotion (lyrically) and Ambience (creating an atmosphere), but the listeners cannot understand it?
I am so glad you have reviewed 20th century music in a short paragraph.
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Even though it was recently used in this forum, I'm going to re-use it as it fits perfectly here: "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants".
Much of what I listen to is built off of the Blues, if you trace it all the way back, however, that does not mean that the music I listen to follows the rules or prescriptions of that old style. Much more of what I listen to is built of off Western Art Music, better known as Classical (although the Classical period was but a part of the movement). WAM emphasised both creativity and composition within a set of parameters defined with near mathmatical precision. As time has gone on certain bands have completely redefined what composition is (Gorguts' album Obscura being the most visceral example) and it's in these artists that I put my respect and admiration.
Anyone can learn a few pentatonic scales and sing in a forlorn voice about how they lost their love or whatnot. It takes much more talent to study hundreds of years of musical theory and experimentation and apply that to crafting art.
Granted, not everything I listen to is groundbreaking, but if I always immersed myself in sheer genius, I'd be more depressed than I already am!
EDIT: H.I.M. for the last time, stop talking about music. Hardcore was around before most of what is considered "metal" today and Linkin Park is rap-rock with the occasional half assed scream thrown in.