The Music Thread!

damon · Post by **damon** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:28 am

any genre can have talented musicians

Recently, I find myself always listening to Modest Mouse (not their newest album) Xiu Xiu and Joy Division.

Maggot · Post by **Maggot** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:48 am

Anesthesia wrote:
Maggot wrote:Jazz is pretty cool on a general level, not much there in the way of talent, but oh well.
?!

Not sure what you're listening to to get that notion, but I personally find most jazz musicians to be much more musically knowledgable and talented than rock / metal musicians. Then again, jazz is an extremely broad term and there's a ridiculous about of classifications within that, so we could be thinking of two different types of music.

Not trying to start a bickerfest, just wondering who you listened to that gave you that idea.

Well, Jazz is more of just the same music over and over. I enjoy Jazz quite a bit but, I cant deny that there is really a lack of anything that stands out in that genre. They music, its just too bad that its always the same.

Xiang Zhuang · Post by **Xiang Zhuang** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:55 am

Jazz sounds similar to people who don't listen to it a lot. Same can be said for almost any genre of music, but it happens a little more with the mostly-instrumental ones.

Galagros · Post by **Galagros** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:59 am

Ooh, Pat Metheny.

Mogwai · Post by **Mogwai** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:13 am

Xiang Zhuang wrote:Jazz sounds similar to people who don't listen to it a lot. Same can be said for almost any genre of music, but it happens a little more with the mostly-instrumental ones.

This is incredibly true. Every metal song sounds the same to me, because I don't listen to metal.

Post by **ann** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:33 am

Galagros wrote:Ooh, Pat Metheny.

Actually I like Pat Metheny sometimes - but I have to say that there is a world of difference between Pat Metheny and Miles Davis. Or between Weather Report and Monty Alexander. Or between Ornette Coleman and ... you get the point!

damon · Post by **damon** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:37 am

Does anyone else listen to any folk?

Cao Chao · Post by **Cao Chao** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:23 pm

Folk? What do you mean?

Probably the closest that I listen to da Vinci's Notebook.

damon · Post by **damon** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:28 pm

Well I listen to current folk, not too much older folk. Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains, Defiance Ohio, Bread and Roses, 1905, Mischief Brew, Evan Greer, This Bike Is A Pipebomb, stuff like that. It's pretty underground, people have lost their taste for folk I guess

TheComeback · Post by **TheComeback** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:31 pm

Maggot wrote: Well, Jazz is more of just the same music over and over. I enjoy Jazz quite a bit but, I cant deny that there is really a lack of anything that stands out in that genre. They music, its just too bad that its always the same.

No offense, man, but all those bands like Slipknot and Disturbed all sound the same. Especially compared to Jazz. It has so many ranges within it and are never the same as each other. Why? Because Jazz uses improv and it's own style of chords and progressions. You can also use much more instument combos with it, rather than just the drop B guitar and double bass. Jazz can range from many different emotions and styles, while metal really can only stay at one. Jazz in NOT all the same.