The worst thing to ever come in to music ever (seriously)

The worst thing to ever come in to music ever (seriously)

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vournikas

11,683 posts

203 months

Tuesday 4th July 2017
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paulguitar said:
vournikas said:
That's lovely.
Isn't it just?

Then again, classical isn't totally immune to publishing atonal bilge. Just see what Schoenberg and other members of The Second Viennese School pumped out 70-odd years ago. Suitable only for the "Off" button.



Roofless Toothless

5,613 posts

131 months

Wednesday 5th July 2017
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Don't like rap? What would you call this, from 50 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

Rap is nothing new, just a projection into the modern era of things that have been around for a long time, perhaps for ever. And not just in popular music. What about recitative or sprechgesang in opera? It sounds to me that you don't like the way the genre is used by certain performers, and I have sympathy with that, but theirs is not a culture I share, so it's their call really. Not the fault of the genre in itself.

I don't get on too well with rap either, but I think that may well be down to me having to depend on a couple of hearing aids. I struggle to understand it. But away from the words, I think that rap is a lot like tap-dancing, a craze in the big band era, and similarly one associated with Afro-American performers. It's a rhythmic improvisation super-imposed on a steady ground beat, only with the voice rather than the feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNKRm6H-qOU


Penelope Stopit

11,209 posts

108 months

Wednesday 5th July 2017
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sleepera6 said:
Here's the link.

Vocal diarrhoea
This is so funny funny funny
Yeah I love it honey
This makes me jump and do my thing
Glad I cant sing

Shake it shake it baby
I'm gonna drive you crazy
I got a new motor
It's called a Toyota

Rap Rap Rap Rap Rap
Daddies eating a burger bap
Mum shes got ice cream
Wow i'm living the dream

Thanks for this, it's a classic

Front bottom

5,648 posts

189 months

Thursday 6th July 2017
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Yes that rap thing the OP posted is dire, but for me, the worst crimes against music were committed by Stock, Aitkin and Waterman in the late 80s.

As an 18 year old music fan in 1987, it remains a dark year for me, especially as I was working in a factory at the time which had Radio 1 piped in all day long, so there was no escaping it!

I shudder at the memory.


I breathed a sigh of relief when the indie scene finally reached the mainstream in '89/90 and booted most of the manufactured crap out.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Thursday 6th July 2017
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Just wanted to update this thread with another song that isn't bad in my opinion in my music tastes;

Scott - Porcelain.


Creating another topic would have been excessive so I stuck to this one.

https://open.spotify.com/track/79ScxBoyXW8CV8KT2ds...

NiceCupOfTea

25,280 posts

250 months

Thursday 6th July 2017
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vournikas said:
paulguitar said:
vournikas said:
That's lovely.
Isn't it just?

Then again, classical isn't totally immune to publishing atonal bilge. Just see what Schoenberg and other members of The Second Viennese School pumped out 70-odd years ago. Suitable only for the "Off" button.
At least they were pushing boundaries, and there is a certain satisfaction to a lot of it under analysis even if it's not particularly easy on the ear. The original link is just derivative badly produced (unless it's supposed to be distorted) nonsense with nothing to say and no artistic value whatsoever produced cynically to melt the brains of 12 year old girls.

dandarez

13,246 posts

282 months

Monday 10th July 2017
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You have to blame Peter Green for rap.

It's all his fault, he started it in 1969 with 'Oh Well'. hehe

rapping starts at 1 min in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yq-Fw7C26Y


TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Tuesday 11th July 2017
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Skyedriver said:
and Peters and Lee..........
Yup, Hurst & Hunt were always a better option for England up front.

vournikas

11,683 posts

203 months

Tuesday 11th July 2017
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dandarez said:
You have to blame Peter Green for rap.

rapping starts at 1 min in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yq-Fw7C26Y
Harsh hehe

But tempered by a great guitar riff, though yes



daddy cool

3,996 posts

228 months

Tuesday 11th July 2017
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dandarez said:
You have to blame Peter Green for rap.

It's all his fault, he started it in 1969 with 'Oh Well'. hehe

rapping starts at 1 min in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yq-Fw7C26Y
Heres one of the earliest rap tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8qtxts1jY

interloper

2,747 posts

254 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Front bottom said:
Yes that rap thing the OP posted is dire, but for me, the worst crimes against music were committed by Stock, Aitkin and Waterman in the late 80s.

As an 18 year old music fan in 1987, it remains a dark year for me, especially as I was working in a factory at the time which had Radio 1 piped in all day long, so there was no escaping it!

I shudder at the memory.


I breathed a sigh of relief when the indie scene finally reached the mainstream in '89/90 and booted most of the manufactured crap out.

Good post, I try and accept other musical styles even if I don't really get it, so long as it's different. But S.A.W was twee rubbish aimed at the at people who like lift music.


227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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The comments and description saved me from listening to it, however what they have recently done to Simon & Garfunkels BOTW is my all time worst record. Yes I hope it raises lots of money, yes I switch the radio off or change channel when it comes on. It was a bit of a rushed affair and I wish they'd picked another lesser track to ruin, it will sink without a trace and that can only be a good thing.

HarryFlatters

4,203 posts

211 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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The worst thing to come into music isn't a band or an artist IMO, it's Karaoke.

Stifled creativity, killed the local music scene and made every drunken harpie think they can sing like Diana Ross after 6 glasses of tart fuel.

Front bottom

5,648 posts

189 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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227bhp said:
The comments and description saved me from listening to it, however what they have recently done to Simon & Garfunkels BOTW is my all time worst record. Yes I hope it raises lots of money, yes I switch the radio off or change channel when it comes on. It was a bit of a rushed affair and I wish they'd picked another lesser track to ruin, it will sink without a trace and that can only be a good thing.
I've not heard it, but I'm guessing it's another terrible remix.

'Remixes' are another pet hate of mine. I'd say 90% of the time, they are bloody dreadful and take away all that was good about the original version.

It's annoying when you find a track you really like on a pub jukebox (One of those modern touch screen types), and when it comes on, it's a weedy, dreadful remix of it instead.

I just don't get the point of them, so yes - one of the worst things to happen to music in my eyes.


Dynamic Space Wizard

925 posts

103 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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shootAutotune

WindyCommon

3,354 posts

238 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Elimination format televised "singing" competitions.

gazza285

9,780 posts

207 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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Dynamic Space Wizard said:
shootAutotune
Before that, the sequencer.

pidsy

7,958 posts

156 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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gazza285 said:
Dynamic Space Wizard said:
shootAutotune
Before that, the sequencer.
vocoder? - the most commonly used criminal bit of voice changing kit by rappers who want to "sing" a chorus.

budgie smuggler

5,359 posts

158 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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the loudness war.

token rappers on records that don't need it. "Work from Home" is a recent example that springs to mind. It's not a great record anyway, just cheap pop but Ty Dolla or whatever his name is adds precisely nothing of note or worth to the record.



To me saying 'rap' as a whole is a bit strange, it's such a wide genre, there are diamonds to be found. I don't understand the melody comment either. Music by definition has to have singing on it?

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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pidsy said:
gazza285 said:
Dynamic Space Wizard said:
shootAutotune
Before that, the sequencer.
vocoder? - the most commonly used criminal bit of voice changing kit by rappers who want to "sing" a chorus.
The vocoder is an old bit of 60's hardware. Kraftwerk would have sounded quite different without one!

Step-Sequencers are great, don't get used as much these days as there's no need, but Georgio Moroder wouldn't have felt as much love without one.