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What non-EDM artists do you listen to? (pg. 2)
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| Kysora |
| quote: | Originally posted by RichieV
There is so much great music that makes you feel completely void of talent. |
Ugh, I hate this feeling. As much as I love discovering talented artists, I can never listen to artists like Yann Tiersen without being reminded of how disposable I am as a musician. |
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| floyd741 |
I like basically everything besides Country. I just can't stand it. Oh and new rap/hip hop. The only good hip hop is from the 80s and 90s though I will occasionally find a new song I like (Kid CuDi is pretty good). I also really like psychedelic rock so it's not a surprise the first type of trance I head was psychedelic trance (I was really into Astral Projection before I started really getting into trance). Anyway, I really like psychedelic rock, alternative rock, classic rock (though I hate that label), and indie rock. My favorite bands before I found EDM (starting with Daft Punk) were Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. I also really like The Doors and The Grateful Dead. As far as indie/alt rock I really like Bright Eyes (I actually LOVE Bright Eyes), Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples In Stereo, and other such bands. I also like death metal and stoner metal like Slayer, Electric Wizard, Orange Goblin, Dimmu Borgir, The Atomic Bitchwax, and Sleep.
I love music from the baroque/classical/romantic eras as well. Mozart is (obviously) my favorite from the classical era. Bach is definitely one of the most talented musicians to ever have existed. I never cared much for Handel. Of course, Beethoven is pretty high on the list. The rest are Chopin, Vivaldi, and Haydn. Oh and I really like Igor Stravinsky and Hector Berlioz.
Ska and Punk rock are also in my musical taste, I like Mustard Plug, Black Flag, No Doubt, Flogging Molly, etc. I also like (not punk or ska) Lily Allen, KT Tunstall, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Katy Perry, Donna Summer, and Vanessa Carlton.
That plus a bunch of other stuff. |
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| RichieV |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kysora
Ugh, I hate this feeling. As much as I love discovering talented artists, I can never listen to artists like Yann Tiersen without being reminded of how disposable I am as a musician. |
had that feeling when I started studying classical music. It is really mind blowing especially when you delve into the score and just see how everything is so connected. How every single note is there for a reason. And there is so much of it. You can start form the classical age all the way to the modern guys and just constantly bitch slapped with talent.
I do get impressed with other music but I find so much classical is just retarded. People spend years studying one piece. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kysora | quote: | Originally posted by RichieV
There is so much great music that makes you feel completely void of talent. |
Ugh, I hate this feeling. As much as I love discovering talented artists, I can never listen to artists like Yann Tiersen without being reminded of how disposable I am as a musician. |
This is out of a book I read and best illustrates my thoughts on the matter:
They did a round of unadvertised gigs in the city, letting enough word of mouth leak out to half fill the nightclubs. The Bear thought himself an inconsistent player, but the rest of the section and particularly Billy Hart kept assuring him that he was doing fine. "You mean you don't know about the three kinds of chops?" Billy asked the Bear one night when he was accusing himself of greater inconsistency than usual on the horn.
"Something to do with Goldilocks?" the Bear asked him. "There's a bear in that story, too."
Billy's face broke into a wider grin. "You're a trip, Bear. Look, there are three kinds of chops and they have less to do with each other than you think: The kind of chops you have when you're practicing alone, the kind when you play with other people, and then there's the kind of chops when you play with other people in front of an audience. They're three different things. The way I understand it, you've been sittin' home for a long time. Of course you're gonna have some off nights. There's no possible way you can expect to know how to road."
"No?"
"How could you know how to road? The tension you're feeling? That's one of the things that puts cats on booze and drugs just to take the edge off. You've got to lay back, you've got to let yourself develop. Otherwise how are you gonna get ahead? I got to tell you, you're doing better than I expected, the first time I heard you. I think you've got the talent to take it as far as you want to."
"So, I need more chops, type three?"
"There you go." Billy had such a winning smile and so positive a spirit that the Bear lost track of whether he thought the guy was conning him or not. "Lay back, Bear, take your time, learn how to road and you'll be fine."
vThis is the part I think applies but it needed a bit of contextv
But the Bear, an expert in giving himself a hard time, felt sure there was more to it than that. Even accepting what Billy said, because until now he hadn't been out there performing night after night there were large areas in his music that were blurred, insufficiently realized in conception and execution both. It might be that when he practiced he had gravitated to his strengths and left the rest unconfronted. Now that he was out there palpably exposed, and especially since Billy was raising the level of play, it showed, it showed. He heard the absences and unworked areas, the dead transitions, the insufficiently attended lifeless notes and the wholesale acres of unfinished business-heard it every set, every night, heard it without shelter or mercy, and felt that whatever guilty rush of practice he attempted now was too little, too late.
He said some of this to Billy Hart.
Billy told him it was always like that. "The music's like that, B. Whatever level you get to, there's always something further to reach for, something you haven't seen and didn't know was there. Once you stop feeling that, you're finished, basically."
"Really?" asked the Bear.
"Yeah. Once that happens it might look like you can play but the light's gone out. The thing is dead. It may feel uncomfortable now, but that's because you're alive and kickin'. Trust me on this," Billy said. "Trust me on this one. It's true."
The bear nodded yes and tried to believe it but something in the pit of his belly said no and tightened its grip on his innards. Some stupid self-will demanding doom. Or a case of nerves most likely.
Excerpted from The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor - Excellent book about an alto saxophone playing bear.
I'd say there is a tremendous value to knowing how much I suck and that the people who have truly professed themselves to be guitar (or any instrument) gods have absolutely, without a doubt, 100% of the time, sucked the most. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceLover007
80's - Yello |
Why doesn't that surprise me? ;)
I can never make my mind up which is their best album, Stella or One Second.......
Amazing production and imagination.
I can't really narrow down what I listen to most but I tend to be wowed most these days by the music posted by forum users. One that springs to mind is mUSER (google him, just stunning) |
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| Ry Thomas |
| I can listen to almost anything and if it's half decent i'll enjoy it |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
One that springs to mind is mUSER (google him, just stunning) |
Yeah. That guy has talent. I haven't heard him in a while. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
Yeah. That guy has talent. I haven't heard him in a while. |
Other commintements etc
Sad really
some mind blowing stuff tbh |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by RichieV
5 % is metal or punk for when I go to the gym.
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The gym is the one place where I listen to EDM almost exclusively. I spend a half-hour on the elliptical trainer every day and I keep my tempo perfectly sync'ed to EDM, usually faster trance. |
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| Nightshift |
Dave listens to Britney Spears in his spare time.
dont hate. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nightshift
Dave listens to Britney Spears in his spare time.
dont hate. |
So do I
I'm quite partial to the backstreet boys too.
and you probably think i'm joking |
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| TranceLover007 |
| What about Pet Shop Boys? |
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