good music/bad music

[MyMARYJANE]

to you, what makes music good. i know the obvious, bc it sounds good. but in your opinion what makes certain music "good" and what makes certain music "bad". feel free to use examples haha

[Cassiopiea]

I like stuf with a clear emotion coming through it. Whether its like The Strokes (A kinda like a bored anger) or Anthrax (pure fun). i just like something that makes me feel. Pink Floyd gives me this feeling like im happy to be alive and hearing this beutiful sound. Whether its really sad like Hurt by the man in black, or aggresive as fuck like I'm Broken by Pantera, as long as it gives me a feeling its good.

Lately though, when im blazed ive been getting into hip hop and gangsta rap and stuff like snoop, dizzee rascall or ice cube.

My Favourite band atm is Reuben, a small british band and my alltime fave band is Coheed and Cambria, i love the prog.

Edit, while I was writing this a song by almost all of the bands I mentioned started playing on iTunes, lol.

Edit 2, I LOVE your name MyMARYJANE.

[MyMARYJANE]

thanks man :)

i know what you mean. when you say things that make you feel. but for me, like i cant really tell the diff. between "good" music and "bad" music. actually thats a lie.. i pretty much can tell. i just cant seperate the good.. from the AMAZING music. iduno why. like a lot of people can tell a good guitarist or drummer etc.. but i have some trouble really being able to tell when i hear a song (unless they are HORRIBLE). not that its really all that important bc its all opinion pretty much...

[Nochowderforyou]

Hmmm, good question. Makes you think a bit.

I like real music. Someone who plays music for the expression, not someone who relies on image to get through, or a voice synthesizer. Someone who speaks the truth. There is nothing more than I hate than seeing a 14yr old girl on TV talking about how hard life can be, or having a broken heart. Please! I shit on them, they suck.

Lyrics are a healthy expression. You can write and sing things that you couldn't normally say in real life without being considered weird. I just like lyrics that have deep thought, like Maynyrd (sp?) from Tool. He writes about the opening and closing of "doors" deep in your mind. He is a very deep writer who puts things in a different light, and makes you think "that's a neat way of looking at it."

Technique or fancy playing doesn't impress me. It all comes down again to heart of playing. The expression in their face, their movements, their playing style. You can tell someone who is really into it, and someone who isn't. I listen from simple shit from Nofx, which is fun, uplifting music, to Pantera, which is angry, hateful music, to Hatebreed, which is down right nasty, heavy music, to Pink Floyd, that explores the realms ofone inner being and mind, along with Tool.

Bands don't have to be jumping around like circus animals while playing, they can stand still for all I care, just as long as the words they speak are true, sometimes interesting, and make you think, and the music is again, real, and on time, :D then I love it.

Music is music. If you got a real drummer/percussionist and an instrument that makes a pitch note, that is real music. It can be a bongo drum and a fuckin, clarinet or something, and that is real music. It's when you get the 3 second loop programmed to play 200 times a song and an attractive person who sings off key, with help from a machine to make them sound on key...that is not real music.

I hate shit that has been layered and dubbed over and over again. If it's drummer/bass/guitar/vocals, that's what I want to hear. One guitar player, than 1 guitar sound. I don't like it when there is one guitar player in the band and it has the sound of 3 players from overdubbing on record, you hear them live, and it is completly different sound.

[make it legal]

Talent. If the band is some talentless piece of shit like the majority of the artists out today, I can't stand them. If they can't even write their own music, theres no respect.

[make it legal]

I hate shit that has been layered and dubbed over and over again. If it's drummer/bass/guitar/vocals, that's what I want to hear. One guitar player, than 1 guitar sound. I don't like it when there is one guitar player in the band and it has the sound of 3 players from overdubbing on record, you hear them live, and it is completly different sound.

lol I thought you liked Pink Floyd.

[4gan2ja0]

Talent. If the band is some talentless piece of shit like the majority of the artists out today, I can't stand them. If they can't even write their own music, theres no respect.

good call man, couldnt have said it better myself.

its all about the image nowadays, not about the musical talent

[Nochowderforyou]

lol I thought you liked Pink Floyd.

With the exception of course. ;) Floyd aren't my fav. though. I like a few choice songs, but other than that, they put me to sleep.

[skissors]

To each his own but Pink Floyd blow me away tremendously. Nothing can come close to the mastery of the music AND lyrics that the band wrote. You can tell a song is by Pink Floyd not because they all sound alike... but by how different and unique they are from any other band to ever exist. Echoes is a musical masterpiece backed up by some of the most mind blowing and beautiful lyrics I've ever heard. I'm ranting though, because my respect for this band is incredible.

I love a lot of music though, rap is good when it has a good beat and a nice feel. I agree with the "feeling" a song gives you. Bob Seger does that for me. "Turn the page" is one of my favorite songs ever written.

I'm a huge Led Zep fan as well. "How the West Was Won" is an crazy live DVD. Espesially the acoustics part in Earl's Court.

I've been listening to a lot of Dream Theater lately as well. I recently discovered how amazing some of their music is.

But, despite how much I listen to Floyd it never gets old, and "The Wall" is just an incredibly touching movie.

[Cassiopiea]

With the exception of course. ;) Floyd aren't my fav. though. I like a few choice songs, but other than that, they put me to sleep.

SACRILEDGE!!!

lol, just joking.

[Nochowderforyou]

I'm a huge Led Zep fan as well. "How the West Was Won" is an crazy live DVD. Espesially the acoustics part in Earl's Court.


Yes, it is amazing. I have the CD as well, and I play it all the time. There's something about that 18min drum solo on Moby Dick. You'd have to be on some pretty strong acid to do that. :p

[Inferius]

I hate seeing what bands loook like. I try not to find out.
But as for good music/bad music....
I'm not into angry noise shit. It's a buzz kill, and angry emotional people just waste my time.
Good music can range from innovation, lyrics, or composition. And the vibe is really important.
Some music can sound good, but the artist has no talent, so I reject them.
But really, it all comes down to whatever makes you feeeeel gooooooodddd. If you really brush aside all of that image, personality, bias bullshit, whatever you feel like dancing to, whatever massages your ears and makes you feel hungry for more, is good stuff.