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Started by gwyn428, January 25, 2009, 09:30:27 PM

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elon musk's net worth is $486,000,000,000. if elon spent a million dollars a day, every day of the year, it would take him 1342 years to spend all his money.

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Quote from: Icarus on February 01, 2025, 04:39:41 AM^ Neither of those vids contain anything that even faintly resembles music.
Sure, they do.

Personally, I get "annoyed" by the subset of Jazz, where the saxophones, to me, sound like someone is having violent sex with a cat. It is absolutely still music though - even if it hurts my tender ears.

I think that of the above songs, the Oz one is the best example of a melody adding a relatable dimension to the lyricism and vice versa. It's a song about looking back and seeing... Less than you thought or hoped you would, and dealing with that. Well... At least that's what my persistent-mid-life-crisis-since-the-age-of-twenty mind derives from it. Not-so-coincidentally, the Architects' song is the opposite side of much the same thing - though with broadly the same emotional and intellectual baggage.

So yeah... Not music to dance to in a classical sense, perhaps, (Though one could. I can see how it could be suitable for the more acrobatically-heavy styles) but music none the less.

As for taste, yes, mine is uncommonly (though not "rarely") broad. I think it's because I'm primarilly attracted by the poetry. I like it when the verse pokes at something in my wherever-it-is-a-soul-would-normally-be, and the accompanying melody (and/or choreography/music video/whatever else makes "the whole picture") amplifies, soothes and/or otherwise modulates that effect. I can get that from Pop, Folk, Rock, Hip-Hop, Country, the various genres of Metal and so forth. It often just depends on what I'm looking for. Am I just making my way through traffic, full of evil intent and righteous vengeance, or, smeared all over the couch, staring at the ceiling in a cloud of could-and-might-have-beens, or spending a pleasant evening with a friend, or going for a walk in a rainstrom because it suits my mood? I often use music of different genres, compositions and origins to accompany me on those journeys - sometimes to compensate for lacking any great degree of personal emotionality, sort-of vicariously having that through the sound - other times to aid in "re-freezing my cold, black heart" to proper coldness and blackness. I'd say that anything that satisfies those and some other-such needs through rhythm and verse, for me or any-one else, is music - regardless of our individual preferences.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Asmodean

Some Tobias the Owl for The Asmo today :smilenod:

Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Tom62

It is time from some weird 1980's stuff. I think these guys were responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Asmodean

Der Aschmo is in a Germanic mood today.

Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Anne D.

Love me some Tina Turner. She went to hell and back and told the tale.

Anne D.


Anne D.

Some punk rock for the weekend.

Asmodean

Quote from: Anne D. on February 08, 2025, 05:40:49 AMB.O.B.
Ooh, that takes me on a nostalgia trip! I've made some good memories to the sound of Stankonia. "So Fresh, So Clean," "Spaghetti Junction," "B.O.B..."

...Good times. :smilenod:
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.