Ask & Receive: All about our music. - Music

Anonymous · 2014-01-02T12:09:25-05:00

In this thread we ask questions about music. Questions are asked in other threads related to music. The difference with this thread is it is all about asking the questions. This way we may learn a lot about someone in a much quicker time than elsewhere. :lol: If you want to receive questions then you must make a post saying that you wish to participate. From then on you must answer every question which is directed at you by another user in this thread. So yeah, be sure you want to participate before putting yourself forward. You're going to be asked questions until the thread drifts away and you are letting the side down if you do not answer some. [-X Have I explained the idea well? Remember it is questions about music. Use your imagination or simply ask what you have always wanted to know. Just ask questions related to music to the people who are participating! You can also ask questions to other people participating even if you are participating. HOW IT WORKS: People who are participating get asked questions about music. Questions can be asked by people who are participating and those who are not participating. By participating you must answer every question which is directed at you. People who are participating are free to ask questions to others who are participating. People who are not participating do not get asked questions. They may choose to join at any time but until they do we will leave them alone. People partcipating: an_outlaw Defago Antonio-Pedro drakonium Precedent revolver94 Cymro2011 Dingerbell Norman Bates RockyRaccoon Necharsian lethalnezzle benpaco 19loveless91 meccalecca Trendall Patman360 Romanelli sp4cetiger IrishMusichead MrFrogger joshtraina Mercury SilverWalrus Facetious SquishypuffDave alelsupreme BrandonMeow Kool Keith Sweat SuedeSwede

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Cymro2011 wrote:

@BrandonMeow What is the most whimsical album ever?

There aren't as many whimsical albums as there should be. I need whimsical album recs.

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Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? by The Unicorns is pretty whimsical, even though I don't enjoy it all that much.

Viva La Woman by Cibo Matto
is another contestant, and this one I actually enjoy.
Oh, oh, and of course:

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Nanda Collection by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

So...you get three.

sp4cetiger

BrandonMeow wrote:

@Sp4cetiger - What do you think is more essential in music you enjoy - for it to be comforting and relatable, or for it to be adventurous and evocative? Not to say it can't be both, just which do you tend to gravitate towards?

That's a really great question, Brandon, and one I've been thinking a lot about lately. It's hard to deny that the adventure aspect of music listening is huge for me; in fact, I sometimes refer to my history project as a "journey" and it's always exciting for me to explore new sounds and styles. When it comes to adventurous music lovers, I immediately think of The Poe, whose musical tastes are so obscure and diverse that listening to one of his charts really would be a "Poeventure," as you once put it.

Ultimately, however, I think all of that is just a means to an end for me. Part of the reason I seek out novelty is because I want new ways to express and understand myself. I want to have more albums that can indulge one of my moods or, if I'm lucky, give me an eargasm. I don't want to build up my chart with obscure and different albums just because they're different, I want to find new music that can become a part of my life.

I have little doubt that albums like Illmatic and Birth of the Cool (both of which are on my chart) have opened new doors for me, but when all is said and done, if I'm being honest, I think most of my favorite albums will still tend to be white men with guitars. That is, after all, what I am.

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@sp4cetiger - What's the point in music?
@BrandonMeow - What music albums have you ever listened to on an airplane?
@saoirse - Where is the furthest music can take you?
@SquishypuffDave - What is the longest a song can be before it crosses the line of nonsense?
@camsh - How often do you think you will devote time to listening to albums in the next decade?
@Jhereko - You asked a question to me which I had no clue what you were talking about. What is your answer to the question? The question being:

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If judgement was removed from listening to music would it actually be possible to enjoy it or would it just become a meaningless mush of sounds?

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an_outlaw wrote:

@19loveless91 - You are locked in a room with no windows. Where are you going to find music in here?

In my head. It's like when I'm away from home without headphones. I start humming melodies, singing random songs... If I can do it in public, I could do it in a locked room. I would eventually go insane though.

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an_outlaw wrote:

@SquishypuffDave - What is the longest a song can be before it crosses the line of nonsense?

I'd say roughly an album length. Past that point, no-one's probably going to be paying any attention. Of course, it all comes down to the structure of the song itself. It'd need to be an album length's worth of material. I find that even most of my favourite "long songs" could be improved with a bit of trimming. Verse/chorus repetitions would get ridiculous pretty fast, and if it's something heavily lyrical then I reckon an hour would be pushing it. Actually, an ambient track could go on pretty much forever and fulfill its purpose.

JMan

SquishypuffDave wrote:

I'd say roughly an album length. Past that point, no-one's probably going to be paying any attention. Of course, it all comes down to the structure of the song itself. It'd need to be an album length's worth of material. I find that even most of my favourite "long songs" could be improved with a bit of trimming. Verse/chorus repetitions would get ridiculous pretty fast, and if it's something heavily lyrical then I reckon an hour would be pushing it. Actually, an ambient track could go on pretty much forever and fulfill its purpose.

Six Degrees is darn good Dream Theater at forty-two minutes.

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sp4cetiger wrote:

That's a really great question, Brandon, and one I've been thinking a lot about lately. It's hard to deny that the adventure aspect of music listening is huge for me; in fact, I sometimes refer to my history project as a "journey" and it's always exciting for me to explore new sounds and styles. When it comes to adventurous music lovers, I immediately think of The Poe, whose musical tastes are so obscure and diverse that listening to one of his charts really would be a "Poeventure," as you once put it.

Ultimately, however, I think all of that is just a means to an end for me. Part of the reason I seek out novelty is because I want new ways to express and understand myself. I want to have more albums that can indulge one of my moods or, if I'm lucky, give me an eargasm. I don't want to build up my chart with obscure and different albums just because they're different, I want to find new music that can become a part of my life.

I have little doubt that albums like Illmatic and Birth of the Cool (both of which are on my chart) have opened new doors for me, but when all is said and done, if I'm being honest, I think most of my favorite albums will still tend to be white men with guitars. That is, after all, what I am.

Nice response, I feel similarly. 😄

an_outlaw wrote:

@BrandonMeow - What music albums have you ever listened to on an airplane?

Only been on an airplane once and that was when I was smaller, way before I was into music.

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an_outlaw wrote:

@camsh - How often do you think you will devote time to listening to albums in the next decade?

Dunno. Never really crosses my mind. I always listen to albums whenever I feel like doing so, so I can see that continuing throughout the next decade 😄
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an_outlaw wrote:

@Jhereko - You asked a question to me which I had no clue what you were talking about. What is your answer to the question? The question being:

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If judgement was removed from listening to music would it actually be possible to enjoy it or would it just become a meaningless mush of sounds?

It's actually an impossible question to answer, I'm sorry 😜 There's arguments for both yes and no but it's ultimately impossible as we cant control the fact that we judge everything constantly. We can't help it. It was just in reference to a post you made a while back (could be a long time back) that asked something along the lines of why people had to judge music and couldn't just enjoy it. I was just interested in what you had to say about it.