Super Official Tunes Thread.

What's the main sample for this song? I hear it... but can't put my finger on it.

 

I want to say Kanye West's Stronger. Do you mean like the bass hits or the piano? I'm talking bass hits.

Although I think the whole background is Ryan Lewis' part of the duo

 

I'm talking about the piano that hits at 1:13... hmmmm I also do hear the bass from Stronger in there too... god I fucking hate Hip Hop and Rap "artists", "Let's rip this song off, AND THAT SONG! YEAAAAA"

 

well in their defense, it is very hard to get something that is entirely unique and sounds good

 

So hard... and yet thousands of rock, alternative, and metal artists (although very hard to come by (which makes it that much more special)) can do it year after year. I am not going to call myself a musician, but if you have to take a track from another band or group or artist, and all your doing is laying on your own vocals and calling it your own, then I just find that laaaazy. It's a big reason why I can't listen to electronic music anymore, after the first year, all it's become are rehashes of themselves.

Now... that being said, I do find a few of Macklemore's tracks pretty good. However, he is in a handful of artists that I enjoy. I remember one night, driving around the city and flipping through radio stations and hearing a hippity hoppity song thathad a track of another hippity hoppity track and was completely confused as to what the fuck was going on. Oh well... my old man is showing, I guess I'll just never understand this generation.

Which brings me to another topic. That vid you posted of the guy mixing 20+ tracks, I consider that to be talent in the fact that he can hash that many songs into one track. Bah. Music. So trivial.

 

You sir, have won this thread!

 

On a guitar it is relatively easy because for some reason everything sounds good on a string instruments, I play violin and I know this. My comment was about the pop industry. These primarily use beeps, boops, and bops and it is just meant as a background noise to add to the lyric where as in rock or alternative, the lyrics sound like crap without the guitar.

There would probably be more originality in the background if artists actually composed their own music rather than the same people getting paid to do it over and over and they don't care if it sounds the same, it just has to sound good.

 

There are tons of people doing very unique and great sounding stuff in the pop genre:

Imogene Heap
Todd Rundgren
Fujiya & Miyagi
Phoenix (their old stuff anyway).

The difference is that you hardly hear this stuff on the radio. It's too good for the average listeners to understand. Don't let 'popular' pop music be your standard for what is judged as good and bad. Today's mainstream music sucks dick. They don't want it to sound great. They don't want to spend tons of time making it. They sample, steal and emulate what's already been done by the greats and cash in on it while all the plebs buy it up.

 

Yup. Big groups make big money while spending very little. Thats why I listen to remixes and smaller artists like Madeon

 

I just watched "Pearl Jam: Twenty", and was completely floored by the journey that doc. took me through. And they are still at it with an album coming out in October. They understand that time=money, but don't let it cloud their judgement. I still stand by that they are one of THE most influential groups to this day, not only in music, but also in comradery. These guys have stuck through the success and pain for 20 years, and at the end of the doc., I couldn't help but well up a bit. The reason I bring it up is because we will forever remember bands such as theirs, but can we say the same for pop, hip hop, rap, mainstream these days? No. It's so convoluted and is just an utter mess in today's industry. Wraithington was saying a few weeks ago to me and some guys in TS "I feel so bad for your generation musically, you have nothing to mark this gen. by that is a true influence." And yea, he's totally right. We can say, oh, but we had dubstep, we had DnB, we had this... blah blah.... but, it will never be remembered. I can honestly tell you that I can not name a band/artist/group that I feel is a break out for influence.

I already forget the song that I listened to last night which was posted on this thread that got me into all of this, that says something, right?