ITT: Talk about non-existent music

I would add to that, while I appreciated that the attempt at some kind of Leitmotif centuries before Wagner was groundbreaking, comedy trombones were inappropriate for the abomination. I mean, yes, I accept Atkinson's claim (I think it's in one of the archived posts) that they convey a sense of the abomination's blind, incomprehensible, unstoppable progress - and like him, I am reminded of Liszt's Azathoth the Idiot  ^*

, played using only the pedals of the piano, with no keys at all - but I think the trombones only convey that sense as far as they also convey an unusually large man waddling through a narrow marketplace.

Does anyone else like Philip Glass's Post-Prandia? I know many critics feel its arrangement of wind instruments is unsophisticated, but many critics are WRONG.

edited 6th Mar '11 8:44:19 AM by mmysqueeant

@darnpenguin:Yeah, I'll admit that it didn't exactly come out of NOWHERE-and it provided an excellent chance to reuse the policemens' leitmotif while parodying operatic conventions, but still... it just seemed out of place, what with being the only "fantasy" element of the show.

At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...

@mmysqueeant I liked Philip Glass's Post-Prandia. The arrangements was meant to have minimalistic qualities. I think he will take his genre in a whole new direction.

And who cares what the critics say. They hated Calliope Ourania's latest album because it was less dark and angsty than her previous work.

Seriously? That was the main selling-point for me. Sure, I love her darker work like In the Lollipop Garden, but that gets dull. The world does not consist of Black-and-Black Morality, and art that imitates this idealised world is as dull as Tastes Like Diabetes.

The lilting tones and upbeat pop stylings of For His Throne Is Frozen As Are His Lands make perfect summery dream-poppish listening.  ^*

Her sound is always so full though - I thought that Calliope Ourania had to be a band, not a single person, and this might be a little sexist...but the fact that a woman could shred like that (on Flower River Sun Son Sun) really astounded me. Thought it was a joke for a while.

Actually, I prefer Calliope Ourania's earlier work, but For His Throne Is Frozen... is excellent too. The only problems I had with it were that, apart from a few songs, guitar is a bit less prominent and there's too many instruments in the songs - if she released something which combined the best of both her albums, that would be excellent.

Also, Benny Cabala is getting married to her and they plan to release a collaboration album. Should be an interesting combination of styles.

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Oh God What. I honestly don't even know what that would sound like. I'm torn between wanting to know what it would sound like and instinctive recoil. I wasn't too keen on Benny Cabala's Baroque Snow, and from what I hear that's his best (albeit least accessible) works, and I absolutely hated his more raw effort on sound dead sound wood sound. I don't care what your guitar was made from, Benny, make it make the nice noises.

I guess I don't really appreciate what he's going for - I heard some of the theory behind it once, and it wowed me, but the practice seems to be lacking the confidence that turns experimental music into something more monolithic.

How about Shellack? I've been listening to their album Rip/Tide and it sounds like generic Britpop to me, albeit with a distinctly Russian lead singer. Why's their new album getting so much hype from the N.M.E.?

P.S. Glad to see some Lowercase People and Jes Willmorser fans in here.

Probably because said Russian lead singer only sings in Russian, about political issues. Could be interesting, but NME got them translated as lyrics akin to those of Fall Out Boy. Seriously, how do you base a whole hype campaign around bad translations?

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Damn. Reminds me of The Old, Old Stallion Band being misinterpreted in China as Nazi hate-rock in '04 (dagnabbit).

To be fair, it didn't help that their first single that year was Hitler really just needed a sandwich.

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lol. Win.

This is what happens when you half-ass the translation of your song titles, people. Spitroast the Tyrants is a lot more acceptable than Hitler really just needed a sandwich. Honestly, freetranslation.com has a lot to answer for.

The real irony is that if Hitler were alive today, he would most likely enjoy listening to emo rock like Her Dying Words and Killing Me Slowly, not that juvenile boy band pap about sandwiches.

Hitler didn't need a sandwich, he needed a bullet in the head.

That said, their other songs are okay.

Another green world.

No, Her Dying Words and Killing Me Slowly and all that emo shit fucking sucks. Panzergruber 88 is where it's at.

Don't make me angry, I'm a Super Saiyan Aryan Jedi. And I can come back from the dead!

Well, I do like the way they use tank fire and aeroplane rockets as instrumentation. I just wish that their concerts didn't kill so many people from friendly fire.

...Unless they're supposed to. Hmm...

And yes, Her Dying Words sucks. "I'm Angry And Want To Slit My Wrists" and "There's This Tortured Relationship I Probably Don't Even Have" are even worse than "Untitled"! I always thought Killing Me Slowly were a parody of emo, though.

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Her Dying Words is kind of like Eeyore, in that it's so mopey and depressed that it's kind of cute. That said, it's so mopey and depressed that for all the fucks it gives about anything, it might as well shove 10 pounds of Gorgonzola cheese up it's asshole and stuff it's sister's face in it.

Another green world.

Hopefully you don't mean 10 Pounds Of Gorganzola Cheese? Their song 'Eating me Softly (With His Wine)' was a major hit.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Goodness, no! 10 Pounds of Gorgonzola Cheese is a very good band, that's quite subtle and uses multiple genres to it's advantage. Her Dying Words is about as subtle as a bag of sand beating you to death with a baseball bat.

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Isn't that the subject of Russian Reversi's hit 'Super Smash Brothers (Home Run Hitter)'?

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Can't say I've heard that song. Is it any good?

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Most of their stuff is just 'In Soviet Russia...' jokes put to music.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

So I'll avoid it. Anyway, on the subject of Killing Me Slowly, it's stupid, stupid, stupid, and stupid. I don't know whether it's a parody or not, I won't be able to sit through a second of "Paindeathcastrationslitwrists".

Another green world.

A young, naive English person who I am regrettably related to sent me some stupid song called "Do The Jungle Bungle" that actually made it to the finals at last year's Eurovision contest (no surprise, really). It's the most annoying thing I can remember hearing since that "Crazy Frog" thing, only this makes me want to drill a hole in my head moreso.

edited 7th Mar '11 3:38:33 PM by SeanMurrayI

Oh please, 'Dutchi Eros (Song to Defeat Accordions)' is much more ear-wormy.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Thanks for reminding me. You're a pal.

Anyway, this year's Eurovision entries don't look promising. Spain have a group of people in lobster costumes, Moldova are trying their luck with Epic Sax Guy as a solo act, and of course, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy all have stripteases. I'm rooting for that death metal band Sweden entered - were they called Killmurder or something? Help me out!

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To be honest, the ones in Eurovision songs for Norway, Iceland and Ireland look really good, but I can't remember the names. Help plz?

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