Lizzie

Back in what day was this? my music is just to to amazing

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jackhammer

I personally liked that Cynic track but I also have to say that just because Ethan listens to different music to Rise, it does'nt make his tastes any less valid. Music IS about composition and technical prowess, but it is also about ambience, emotions, lyrics and honesty. Dissing someones tastes because they like Bob Dylan and not Cynic comes across as arrogant.

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NoiseNotMusic

new destroyer, a silver mount zion, beach house, magnetic fields and xiu xiu all leaked already this year. new music = win

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under

its weird how rock now sounds completely different than Jazz and Funk. its starting to become a lot more hardcore than it used to be. i listened to Linkin Park when i was getting into rock than i listened to some smooth jazz from my grandparents collection and i couldn't see where rock now came from that. its really odd how something so subtle came to something so ferocious.

blues went to jazz went to rock went to metal went to hardcore so on and so on....

under

people who have the time and patience to look back through all the years must have some sort of talent as you said. i just find it really odd how some simple music has evasped into something so out there that people have related music to something completely different to where it really originated.

i also find it weird how people say rock started off everything that music is. people who dont listen to blues dont know the half of where rock came from. the emotion that came from the blues pushed toward rock which is why with some bands they talk about a load of different sentiments. its much easier to understand a band if you know why there lyrics are sung the way they are.

under

i understand. i wasnt attempting to into a tangent. i was writing what i was thinking, guess i didnt know it till you noticed it first. and i wasnt considering everyone else's taste. i was a bit narrow minded in that. i apologize

but some people are easily impressed by music before they are moved by it. being impressed by the composition makes it even easier for someone to be moved by it...

sleepy jack

Wow, I barely know how to respond to that. Emotion IS an important element in music and you can't learn why someone likes something and why someone doesn't like something in a music class, hate to break that to you.

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ProggyMan

You can in a psychology class...Riseagainst, 'good music' isn't something you can explain with numbers. Because someone lacks technical skill doesn't mean they can't write a good song. You don't need extensive training in music theory to write a good melody, and you don't have to take poetry classes to write great lyrics...Music is more than just what you like, and dismissing anyone who doesn't have an associate degree in music theory's opinions is stupid.

swim

I like folk oriented music not just in the sound of folk but as an umbrella term of the same certain group of people who write, listen and enjoy folk music which well common people because it has 1/10 to do with notes and rhythms and 9/10 to do with stories, friends and actually putting out something with a little weight to it, for themselves at least. And I disrespect technical music because when you have to justify why something is good with scale degrees used in chords that make it oh so special, time signatures, accidentals, tempo changes, dissonance and what not then it must not be.

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Blain

Oi RAR or Wayfarer, reckon you could PM me a link to Focus, I can't find it