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Anyone else in love with these guys' music? Two guys and they make an awesome band that are electric live. I've seen them live twice.
First heard this on a random radio station and I was hooked:
[video=youtube;ktBMxkLUIwY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBMxkLUIwY[/video]
All these different emotions came over me.
Their other songs are amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XVwY54h5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmv8aQKO6k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCeBNwBUkcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVinQEvrU9Y
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Nothing at all with the first selection; reasonable points of contact with the last 3. Not talking talent or lack thereof but how the biz allows it to be shaped. Soul- and spirit-crushing for the truly independent, the reasonably original. If they sound good, who do you compare it to? The plastic midgets infesting pop music? Damned sad, but fortunately there's 60 years of history us geezers can fall back on. If not willing to mine history, what do you have? I'm glad I'm as old as I am, if this is what you have to look forward to. Left you an increasingly screwed-up planet too. Have a nice day.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
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jazzboCR Wrote:Nothing at all with the first selection; reasonable points of contact with the last 3.
Not sure what you mean by this.
jazzboCR Wrote:Not talking talent or lack thereof but how the biz allows it to be shaped. Soul- and spirit-crushing for the truly independent, the reasonably original. If they sound good, who do you compare it to? The plastic midgets infesting pop music?
Hmmm... I disagree with what I find to be your cynical critique/opinion. I definitely don't compare them to the "plastic midgets infecting pop music" (whatever that is hehe) because I don't see a point in generalizing like that and I don't believe one can use one band to evaluate music history (that's what you sound like you're doing with your paragraph) and either way pop music is over-rated. Finding my own music has worked better for me as I'm sure some have had success with as well.
jazzboCR Wrote:Damned sad, but fortunately there's 60 years of history us geezers can fall back on. If not willing to mine history, what do you have? I'm glad I'm as old as I am, if this is what you have to look forward to. Left you an increasingly screwed-up planet too. Have a nice day.
Are you insinuating good music is only to be found in older music? I highly disagree with that if so. Curious you went from talking about music and then the whole planet, but okay...
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I found nothing to emotionally connect with in the first tune; the other three had some interesting sections. I was a bit cynical in my critique of the state-of-the-music-biz but not overly so. I agree that originality can be over-rated--a first-rate extension of a genre/sun-genre or permissible copying is way better than a banal original. And the "plastic midgets infecting [I meant to say "infesting" but that word works too] pop music"--ask yourself how many of the top 100 artists today will even be in music in 5 years. Too many artists (and I use that word loosely) are creations of others with too little (or in some cases, too much) of themselves in it. I sound like 100 geezers talking about "These kids today...pshaw" but I'm not. I grew up in a magic era for pop music and I'm grateful for that. Maybe all my "accept and try to understand the new" circuits are fried. I find myself turning more and more to modern jazz because it's still possible to create something truly new there--actually players/writers are expected to. Even a 3rd rate but true jazz player will find something different in a tune. Most likely without AutoTune too.
Please don't take any part of my 2 posts as a personal attack--I wasn't even attacking your selection (hey, I said 75% hit rate for a band new to me...and modern.); call me on blowing off some steam too vividly--I got that one coming.
PS--I'd love it if TwentyOne Pilots conquered the world and didn't have to sell out to Beelzebub in a shiny suit to do so. Truly. A bit more seasoning, a few more lumps-and-bumps along with a stroke or two of luck, having the savvy to seek out folks with their best interests at heart...I'm being contra-cynical in saying I wish them the best and hope it happens.
We have working composer here--perhaps a convo with Jerome is in your future.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
