The Circle of Sound (np: K.O.D. by Tech N9ne)

I have a friend that does that actually. I suppose it comes naturally to some, like he typically likes music the first time he hears it somehow, so whatever works I suppose.

Ooh, I should try that sometime. I tried that once, it sounded pretty good. It takes a while to find music that flows into each other naturally, and most of the time the artist (if the album is good enough) has already done that for you.

Captain Beefheart

He’s an artist that is impossible to like. He plays bad on purpose, like, a lot of flats and sharps, and is just painful and exhausting to hear. I’ve had a lot of patience with the guy, but it’s just not working. I should give him another shot one of these days though…maybe someday I’ll like his stuff.

Well, I don’t get tired of music, I just get tired of the artist, or the album really quick, and generally I find I get a lot more out of it by listening to it a maximum of once per day than if I were to listen to it twice per day instead. Like, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, a really really good album, I listened to it twice per day for a long time, and I got burnt out from it. That was too bad, because it’s really, really good.

hahaha, I play this one a bit looser than most of the other ones. If I feel like listening to something, usually I do, just I find when an artist is “out of season” per se, I don’t enjoy it as much as I would if it were the “right” season.

Interesting. I found that with sports, like European Football or American Football, that if I knew what one team was trying to accomplish by using a particular tactic, I enjoyed it a lot more than if I was just watching it clueless. I never would have thought that this idea might carry over to music…

Hehehe, it’s less of a routine and more of a code of law :tongue:

Mother, by the Police Some songs are just unlistenable. Never is a strong word, which is why I used it, but there are songs which deserve to be skipped.

Meh, do what you like, I’ll do it mine. I get a lot more out of listening to full albums than I ever will with single songs. I find the “hits” that people tend to like upon the first listen are usually my least favourite track by the time I get around to the later stations in my listening, and that the album tracks that radio stations overlook are much better songs.

Well, unless you were listening to their 80’s stuff, what I am about to say is completely void, I completely understand. The Rolling Stones were very crappy in the 80’s, quite frankly, they stopped trying, and they sucked. However, to brush aside Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet, Exile On Main Street and Let It Bleed as “filler” shows that you really need to listen to them more than twice to “get” them. Because Exile On Main Street is certainly not filler, neither are any of the albums that I’ve mentioned. All of them, at worst, are very solid works, and at best are straight up masterpieces. They may not be the Beatles, but they are certainly pretty close.

Music snobs :razz:

Fair enough, they tend to get old pretty quick that way though, for me at least.

What are you, one of ‘em creationists! Not likin’ Science? aheeh heeh heeh!

Fair enough, my style isn’t to your liking. I do have it down as a science, it is true. Still, under this science of mine, I’ve enjoyed music more in the past 1-2 years under it than I have away from it.

But, anyway, why is this science wrong? Other than calling it that, you didn’t really give any reason as to why you dislike it.

It’s good that you like the way your doing things and that it’s working for you, I wasn’t challenging you. That what makes music great, it works different for everybody.

Oh, and mother, I couldn’t stop laughing.

can i revive this with some obscure tunes?

Choose an album. Torrents are legal in Brazil for another couple of months for sure (then the guys upstate vote on this bill to make it illegal, which will probably not pass on the grounds of being unconstitutional, but that’s another story), we have time. :cool:

well listen to this first. this is for bruno and jon

youtube.com/watch?v=dbpOoTEFD_g

and the album i would choose would be Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. it is one of my favorite albums ever.

from wiki

Pitchfork review of the 2005 reissue

Ahh some good ol’ fashioned ld4all elitism, alive and well!

Daniel. When I think I’ve seen weird music, you bring me, you always bring it to a whole new level. I’m in.

wow i’m glad to see other people like Neutral Milk Hotel.
i love them so, :content:
check out some of these bands:
The Decemberists
Brand New
Minus the Bear
Emery
Copeland (not the pianist, the band)
if you guys ever want something fresh to listen to just PM me w/ your interests, im sure i can find something

garret

i wouldnt call neutral milk hotel elitist…

youtube.com/watch?v=DDP0rlg5 … F4211EA0F8 4EF&index=16

youtube.com/watch?v=VLmYAJns … F4211EA0F8 4EF&index=21

Well, it’s not like it’s folk, pop or something otherwise widespread, right? But yeah, you’re right, “elitist” is quite too strong and to specific, I don’t think it applies to NMH. What were you thinking, James? (Grab by the shoulders, shake, yell and slap in the face: what were you thinking! :lol:). What did you mean?

jeez, I wish I’d known about this topic sooner!

it would be neat to check out loads of albums, to expand my musical spectrum, although I may not get around to it :tongue:

Just got the album. Really cool to listen to, which is surprising because it was first listen…some of these folk albums take a while to get into. Groovy choice man.

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i’ll write some things about specific songs later…but as a whole this album is one of my favorite albums. the sounds are so hauntingly beautiful…

magnum’s lyrics combined with his amazing emotional yowling some call singing, creates wrenching, lovely things inside of me.

whenever i hear this line and TRULY LISTEN, i feel like i am atop the greatest lover ive ever known, about to crash into her body and bury my face in her hair…its not sexual either, its a very loving thing. like ive met the person i want to spend my whole life with.

this line, when combined with the awesome bending of the musical saw, makes the line real. there is nothing better to describe that feeling other than i feel like a majestic conifer, stretching and bending into the sky, like something you would see on a psychedelic trip.

i cant help but cry at this verse. this guy, creating a “radio played just for two” reminds me of my affinity for introducing girls im interested in to new music…creating these emotional atmospheres out of music, telling her things through it.

ive never wanted a child so badly in all my life

an amazing example of jeff magnum’s cryptic and surreal writing

oh…my…god…so amazing

well there’s a first time for everything …

/me tiptoes into the topic

But I will probably just listen to the music and also read all your thoughts on it.
I LIKE what I have heard so far from neutral milk hotel :music:

man, great choice for an album, it’s so great to listen to. last night when i was listening to it, i felt it kind of reminded me of the Flaming Lips’ Soft Bulletin in the way the singer pronounces the words and the musical sound as well. Kind of trippy.

Soft Bulletin — I knew I had something in my library that matched this album perfectly. Great thinking, Jon!

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Here’s an idea for June: Da Lama ao Caos [From Mud to Chaos], 1994 album by Brazilian band Chico Science & Nação Zumbi. They come from a movement called mangue bit (after mangue trees and the bit), so I’ll start by citing a line from the mangue bit manifesto (called “Caranguejos com cérebro”, Crabs with Brains): Halfway through 1991, a research and production nucleus for pop ideas was born all over the city of Pernambuco. The point was to engender an energetic circuit so as to connect the good vibes from the mangroves with the world net of pop concept circulation. Icon image: a satellite dish sticking out of the mud. Or a crab re-mixing Kraftwerk’s Anthena in the computer. [right]size=84[/size][/right] A legal stream of the whole album is available, you can click individual song names to hear them, or the last row (which reads “[size=84]OUVIR TODAS AS MÚSICAS[/size]”) to listen to the whole album through. For the test-drive prone fellows, I recommend having a taste of the second track (“Rios, pontes e overdrives”), whose lyrics I provide, original and translated, under the cuts.

Alright! Im in Paris right now, so im a little overwhelmed by things, like rudeness for instance, but whatever. I will give you some brief thoughts on Neutral Milk Hotel.

All i can say is WOW. SO GOOD. Like seriously, the musical depth on this album is above and beyond. And the diverse sounds. One song is slow, purely acoustic guitar, others are accented with trumpets and trombones, and further still, accordian and bag pipes. This album reminds me a bit of what DayLight recommended to me a while back, Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks, just for that reason, the constrasts of different instruments, and the placing of additional instruments in the middle of songs for emphasis and a bit of surprise. It’s a shame these guys only made two albums.

Initial thoughts of the album was that the guy, Magnum, had a somewhat odd voice and was hard to take seriously. But the more i’ve listened to it the more i like it. I’ve been very impressed with it. It’s become one of those albums where i look forward to listening to all day, sort of how i pretty much need to listen to For the Roses by Joni Mitchell to make a day complete. Every once and a while i listen to either of these in bed at night and i fall asleep in the middle of it.

I read up on the album on wikipedia, i think DayLight already posted this, but Comely is pretty much about Anne Frank. It’s interesting to listen to the song while thinking about this, because it seems to fit. I’d support this with evidence, but i have to get up at 6am and so i wont :razz: But today i did pick up Anne Frank’s diary, so i guess i’ll be able to compare her life and the song.

Comely is the song that i’m having the most trouble with right now. it’s a great song, it’s just a bit challenging, and perhaps harder to listen to than the rest of the songs on the album.

i have no real way to get the album for this months’ circle of sound, so i’ll most likely be silent for the most part for a while. cheers folks, happy listening.

Here’s a legal stream of it. You click individual song names to hear them in a pop-up window; or you click on the last row (“[size=84]OUVIR TODAS AS MÚSICAS[/size]”) to listen to the whole shebang. It works even on linux. :slight_smile:

lol

ill check the album out tonight bruno!