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Last good song you listened to?

I like Megadeth so I find this kinda cool.

Sidetone: A significant percentage of Aussies seem to have a cute sort of geekiness to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=159&v=j3bxMnXLQBk
 
franklin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo

Two of the best artists of our generation finally hook up. Wish Taylor would go to work full time for Yates. Musical bliss.
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So she has jumped the shark then. Every single song is about bad relationships. Yawn.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So she has jumped the shark then. Every single song is about bad relationships. Yawn.
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She has some talent as a songwriter, but she is still unable (or unwilling) to stretch herself lyrically. That's fine in a teenager, understandable as a mid-20s woman. If she's still writing the same things in a decade, she'll have very little career left, because the teenage girls she writes for now don't want to hear that same stuff from their mothers.
 
gandalfe said:
She has some talent as a songwriter, but she is still unable (or unwilling) to stretch herself lyrically. That's fine in a teenager, understandable as a mid-20s woman. If she's still writing the same things in a decade, she'll have very little career left, because the teenage girls she writes for now don't want to hear that same stuff from their mothers.
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Yeah. She is ultra-talented, but I think she is really phoning it in. In her defense, she is doing what she likes and what is making her money. As long as the money comes in why do anything different? But as you said, it lacks staying power. And really, for me at least, it lacks any kind of hook or originality. I prefer music that bucks the trends and musicians that explore the limits of their abilities. I suppose this is why Jack White is probably my favorite musician right now. He is constantly pushing and his music knows no genre boundaries really, even though his blues-influenced stuff is his best, imo.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah. She is ultra-talented, but I think she is really phoning it in. In her defense, she is doing what she likes and what is making her money. As long as the money comes in why do anything different? But as you said, it lacks staying power. And really, for me at least, it lacks any kind of hook or originality. I prefer music that bucks the trends and musicians that explore the limits of their abilities. I suppose this is why Jack White is probably my favorite musician right now. He is constantly pushing and his music knows no genre boundaries really, even though his blues-influenced stuff is his best, imo.
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You and I probably aren't her intended audience. She's writing it specifically for those teenage girls.

I've been really hitting the older songwriters lately - Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Paul Weller...
 
leftyjace said:
You're welcome. ***** mother ****ers. Trout, this is the **** you should be listening to before you jump in and do your kiddie wrestling ********. Might give you a ****ing edge and allow you to overcome your inner pop-music listening ***** *** wimpiness.
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That was weak and super pop. Tremonti especially was horrible.They should change their name to Pretendametal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoAXB_Swj-Y

Mods: please note swears edited^
 
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Anyway...

So, the last un-****ing-believable music that I've listened to was yesterday at this outside cafe. Two bands to be exact. Both by way of Salt Lake City. JP Orchestra and The Red Bennies. Maybe some of you have heard of them. I know The Red Bennies used to play regularly at the now defunct Burt's Tiki Lounge. The front men for the bands are brothers.

Anyway, JPO blew me the **** away. I don't even know how to describe their sound...I mean, it's a mixture of No Wave, Funk, Rock, Free Jazz. I don't know what else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7WjC0AAjY
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAfm6FNpaQ

Don't know where I found this but it is pretty good.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNHyyBGTLzI

This lady is Spain's best kept treasure. A never before seen talent in my home country. This is called 'cante flamenco', and a song is never performed the same way twice, determined by what the singer feels every second.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
So she has jumped the shark then. Every single song is about bad relationships. Yawn.
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It's not about her, dumb ***. It's about Kendrick's gritty style killing the song with lyrical quality and resonance that fits perfectly into some random song.

am I doing this song critique thing right, log?
 
Heathme said:
Did you get my message? - Jason Mraz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cK_yWZ58OI
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I used to really like Mr A to Z, but the more I listened the more I realized his lyrics suffer a lot from "look how fast I can talk"-itis. He fills in with small words that don't always fit well with the other lyrics just so he has a lot of syllables to say really fast. Or he uses awkward phrasing to say something so he can say it fast and cool. It really grated so I dropped him from my rotation. Otherwise I like his grooves usually.
 
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