Devo - the worst band from new wave/post punk scene?

Trollheart · 05-03-2017, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Texas Boy

Devo just ****ing suck! Period.
Jocko Homo is one of the crappiest tunes I ever heard. I would rather listen to any Lady Gaga song than Jocko Homo.

Devo suck periods? Ewwwww!

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Kinda redundant to say that something that is obviously opinion is an opinion though, right?

F. Ex. Orange is an ugly colour, in my opinion.

Then why is your head that colour? Sorry: color.

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Originally Posted by Exo

"It isn't music if it doesn't have lyrics. Songs need lyrics man."

I've heard that a few times. Always amuses me.

The correct usage would be "It isn't a song if it doesn't have lyrics (or rather, a lyric). Songs needs lyrics. Man." Music. on the other hand, does not of course.

Also, here's something to consider: the spelling of Devo can be rearranged to make the word dove. The dove is the symbol of the Holy Spirit, one incarnation of the Holy Trinity. So if you slag Devo off, you're basically slagging off the Holy Spirit, AKA God, also making baby Jesus cry, and you should feel bad.

**Frownland** · 05-03-2017, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

The correct usage would be "It isn't a song if it doesn't have lyrics (or rather, a lyric). Songs needs lyrics. Man." Music. on the other hand, does not of course.

Trollheart · 05-03-2017, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Pretty simple I would have thought. A song has to be able to be sung, therefore needs a lyric. Is "Moonlight sonata" a song? No, but it's still a beautiful piece of music. Well, that's how I see it anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

**Frownland** · 05-03-2017, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Pretty simple I would have thought. A song has to be able to be sung, therefore needs a lyric. Is "Moonlight sonata" a song? No, but it's still a beautiful piece of music. Well, that's how I see it anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

You're misinterpreting the convention as the rule.

**Exo** · 05-03-2017, 11:24 AM

I...don't...agree.

Trollheart · 05-03-2017, 11:32 AM

Whatever. To me, a song is something with words. Anything else is a music track or piece of music. You can't sing it, it ain't a song.

**Frownland** · 05-03-2017, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Whatever. To me, a song is something with words. Anything else is a music track or piece of music. You can't sing it, it ain't a song.

To me, the sun is a planet.

Just because music is subjective doesn't mean that the terminology is.

Trollheart · 05-03-2017, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

To me, the sun is a planet.

Just because music is subjective doesn't mean that the terminology is.

As I say, whatever. Dude.

rostasi · 05-03-2017, 11:52 AM

Trollheart · 05-03-2017, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Kind of proves my point though really: what that says is that songs usually have words, but these ones don't, and anyway, excellent as they are, they're pieces of music, just titled Songs Without Words. I actually have that album. Beautiful stuff. But not songs in the conventional sense.

There's also birdsong of course, but that's an entirely different matter.

If someone played you "Classical gas", would you consider that a song? Perhaps it's just a personal thing I've grown up with, but the various definitions below seem to bear this out.

song Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...y/english/song

Song | Define Song at Dictionary.com

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song

An actual song without words is an instrumental, or a piece of music.

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