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Old 02-28-2016, 04:59 PM   #61 (permalink)
 
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When it comes to experimental music I can smell a phony a mile away. He was out of ideas so he gave it a try. It didn't come from the heart but it fooled a lot of people.
This doesn't make sense to me. His music isn't that experimental anyway, it's just an idiosyncratic take on Lounge Blues/Jazz stuff with a good mix of influence.
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The overuse of babe/baby, the lack of any sort of discernible originality, the melodrama and the general sense of an especially heinous sort of hardcore vapid stupidity all make me want to jab my eyes out with a drill-press and then hang myself from the CN Tower with an electrified rope that sends shocks in excess of 10,000 volts through my body as I slowly die. While listening to Dream Theater.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:00 PM   #62 (permalink)
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There's massive variety in his albums. His early work is some very pleasant lounge-esque jazz/blues type stuff, but then starting with Swordfishtrombones he starts getting extremely experimental. My favorite of his is Rain Dogs and that's in my top 10 all-time, it's not his most experimental by any means but it's fairly quirky. If I were you I'd check that one out first and then move either backward in time or forward in time depending on how you receive the weirder moments
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As for the where to start for the curious poster above I suggest Used Songs even though it's a compilation. I think Swordfishtrombones gives people the biggest boners. Mule Variations, Rain Dogs, and Frank's Wild Years all draw big praise from his fans. In his early pre-avant garde days I think you have a sincere musician who just isn't really very good but it's not phony. After he goes avant garde it's completely fraudulent. It's just a matter of what you want to discover about him.
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I'll check out Rain Dogs and Used Songs then go from there then.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:07 PM   #63 (permalink)
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He's a bad story teller.
His song structures are cliche.
The mood he goes for is painfully obvious.
The percussion tries to be big and strong but in fact it's weak like a wet paper bag.
His voice is fake and stupid like someone who only sings in falsetto but on the other end.
He can't write a good hook.
The sentimentality doesn't work because it's cheap.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:09 PM   #64 (permalink)
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This doesn't make sense to me. His music isn't that experimental anyway, it's just an idiosyncratic take on Lounge Blues/Jazz stuff with a good mix of influence.

That's fine. An idiosyncratic take on bad blues and bad jazz is still bad.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:14 PM   #65 (permalink)
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He's a bad story teller.
His song structures are cliche.
The mood he goes for is painfully obvious.
The percussion tries to be big and strong but in fact it's weak like a wet paper bag.
His voice is fake and stupid like someone who only sings in falsetto but on the other end.
He can't write a good hook.
The sentimentality doesn't work because it's cheap.
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On this one your voice is kind of weird but really intense and awesome
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That's fine. An idiosyncratic take on bad blues and bad jazz is still bad.
I respect your opinion. But you're wrong.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:20 PM   #67 (permalink)
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Alright. I don't think I've left anything out. So I guess we can wrap this one up.
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Old 02-28-2016, 05:48 PM   #68 (permalink)
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He's a bad story teller.
His song structures are cliche.
The mood he goes for is painfully obvious.
The percussion tries to be big and strong but in fact it's weak like a wet paper bag.
His voice is fake and stupid like someone who only sings in falsetto but on the other end.
He can't write a good hook.
The sentimentality doesn't work because it's cheap.
In what sense are his stories bad?

Well he uses pop song structures because he makes pop music with "a twist", he experiments on existing formulas. That's what makes him so interesting.

The "mood" should be obvious to the listener, that's the point of having a mood.

Not really sure what you're trying to get at with the percussion critique at all. As if you know the intent of the artist.

In that sense so is Bob Dylan's voice. It's part of his style to sing in that gravely tone, that's part of what makes him unique.

Well I just disagree with the hook thing. Not to mention you don't need a hook to write a great song.

Why is it cheap?
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Alright. I don't think I've left anything out. So I guess we can wrap this one up.
You lost respect when you claimed that people only like him because they think it makes them cool. I f*cking hate that notion. People like what they like. They also dislike what they dislike. You could have said you didn't like him and listed a few reasons why but instead chose to call him a phony and inferred that anybody who likes him only does so because they wanted to be on some cool bandwagon. The man rarely tours and likes to keep to himself. He;s not out there flaunting his particular taste to anybody. Who are you to say that he isn't genuine?
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