12-07-2014, 03:38
Hey thanks evilB, I will definitely look into those when I find some time. And in response to SteveO, defining "organic".....well, in using that term I meant to say that I prefer to steer clear of the really digital sounding albums that have started cropping up from the 80's to the present. I'm not necessarily stuck in the 60's and 70's, but when I listen to truly modern music, I generally prefer the songs that have more of a tube-driven/analogue vibe and of course, old-fashioned real-life instruments help too, as opposed to electronic beats and synths. The best examples I can come up with right now are Arcade Fire's Funeral and Neon Bible albums, several times throughout them, there are nice layered arrangements of all different kinds of instruments, woodwinds, brass, violins, guitars, REAL drums, etc. Aside from the instruments, the recordings themselves sound very live and natural to me, as opposed to a lot of other rock albums that sound like they were recorded in a tin can. Anyway, it's all neither here nor there if a band/artist can't write an interesting melody. See, I started listening to music with The Beatles when I was 5 years old and I've had this life-long expectation that everyone else should be as melodic and catchy as them. That philosophy just causes me to be more dismissive, I'm working on it though 