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I'm principally perturbed by pretty people performing a pastiche of popular puppet performances to placate the plebian peasantry.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I'm sick of ****ing fiends ferociously fracking for fossil fuels endangering earths' ever elegant essence probably procuring pretty petty profits of crappy computer coded credit card currencies.
I just realize how absolutely annoying alliteration can be.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
I'm sick of ****ing fiends ferociously fracking for fossil fuels endangering earths' ever elegant essence probably procuring pretty petty profits of crappy computer coded credit card currencies.
Already, all bears being born caress carefully dear darling elders for fear gregarious gruesome giants hunt inside joyous kennels looking more maliciously, nightly, narrow-mindedly or orifices possibly perturb purchasers; quietly, quivering, reach radius said to tell tales under unlikely variants, variably vomiting wherever wormly Xavier xenophobically zippered zzzzzzzly.
I'll check that dictionary, but in the meantime I'm impressed - as is everyone else in the world - by your eloquence, obvious accomplishments and success, and the evidence of your blazingly high intelligence.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
He just doesn't have a mind so closed that it rivals Blockbuster.
Just a little poll I wanted to post purely out of curiosity. It'd be interesting to see how the results are distributed among users on the site.
The question is: If you had to pick one of the two general categories, which kind of qualities would you say has the most probability to put you off towards a given piece of music?:
a) Banality, contrivance, cliché or sentimentality (etc.) b) Abstraction, dissonance, "cacophony" or abrasiveness (etc.)
edit: Or differently put; which one annoys you most, if at all? /edit
Feel free to explain your preference, but no there's no obligation to do so. The poll choices will be public.
As much as I hate the lack of musical notes being employed in modern pop music. I still have to go with option A over option B
I like my music to have melody even if it's cliche sounding revival genres. You can go a long ways with simple sentimental, or melancholy sounding tracks. Oasis was a good example of this. They were average and ordinary, almost banal, but they knew how to make good use of sad sounding melodies.
As for the dissonant, I can listen to Skinny Puppy on a good day, but I'll take a pass on mathcore, and most progressive rock.
Option A is more of a turnoff to me I guess. Not that there isn't some music I like that's a little cliched or sentimental, but overall, though I may not always be in the mood for an Albert Ayler or a Throbbing Gristle, the Whitney Houstons and Tim McGraws of the world consistently make me want to punch something.
Option A is more of a turnoff to me I guess. Not that there isn't some music I like that's a little cliched or sentimental, but overall, though I may not always be in the mood for an Albert Ayler or a Throbbing Gristle, the Whitney Houstons and Tim McGraws of the world consistently make me want to punch something.
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel too. Certainly there are days where I don't have the energy to listen to something really challenging, but I do whenever I'm in the mood.
Towards the "a)"-stuff, there are some clichés I find more tolerable than others, I can even enjoy some of it at times, but I would definitely say that, for me personally, both Pop balladry and a good chunk of certain Metal sub-genres are among the worst offenders in this category, though a lot of modern "indie" is guilty as well.
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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
As much as I hate the lack of musical notes being employed in modern pop music. I still have to go with option A over option B
I like my music to have melody even if it's cliche sounding revival genres. You can go a long ways with simple sentimental, or melancholy sounding tracks. Oasis was a good example of this. They were average and ordinary, almost banal, but they knew how to make good use of sad sounding melodies.
As for the dissonant, I can listen to Skinny Puppy on a good day, but I'll take a pass on mathcore, and most progressive rock.
Thanks for your perspective. It's interesting to hear from the other point of view as well. (Oh, and btw I'm not saying that sentimentality, or at least a strong presence of sentiment necessarily denotes cliché.)
Just curious, how do you feel about something like this, for instance?:
Allow anyone to annoy you accordingly with alliteration as absolute as they are allowed.
Ki warely welies on whimsical writings without wesorting to waging whetoric.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
Already, all bears being born caress carefully dear darling elders for fear gregarious gruesome giants hunt inside joyous kennels looking more maliciously, nightly, narrow-mindedly or orifices possibly perturb purchasers; quietly, quivering, reach radius said to tell tales under unlikely variants, variably vomiting wherever wormly Xavier xenophobically zippered zzzzzzzly.
No love
This took quite some time to do and I wish I had that time back now.
I'll check that dictionary, but in the meantime I'm impressed - as is everyone else in the world - by your eloquence, obvious accomplishments and success, and the evidence of your blazingly high intelligence.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
He just doesn't have a mind so closed that it rivals Blockbuster.
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