The <off topic> thread

[Wilson]

Yeah, it's a new good signature, Kemaru. Loving it!

[Wilson]

Yeah, it's a new good signature, Kemaru. Loving it!

[theonlychad]

I prefer Add Noise -> Median to Clouds. Looks nicer.

funny thing is i use that a lot too

[Blooper]

Neither really look like clouds. Or at least not sky clouds.

[007 Nab]

That's not the argument any one of us is making - I think the general thing we're going for is that clouds are versatile as an effect.

[theonlychad]

if you are looking for realistic clouds search for the clouds plugin by sepcot. You can achieve realistic clouds with that plugin.

[usedHONDA]

I must now declare that I despise Green Day. It's not just their political/religious beliefs that I don't support, though. From an artistic point of view, they're an empty void composed of a repeating four chord progression.

Why do I mention this now? I'm learning the chords for Yesterday by the Beatles. I'm going to die, twice; once out of awe, and again out of frustration. The series of chords are so intricate and complex... I'm using chords I never thought I'd have to use!

It goes something like F, Em7, A7, Dm, Dm7, Bm, C, C7, F, C, Dm7, G7, Bb, F.... for the first three lines! For Green Day's Good Riddance/Time of Your Life? G, C, D, repeat two times, Em, D C,G, repeat. That's 90% of the song.

[LJXD]

They're an empty void composed of a repeating four chord progression.

The Beatles can be held accountable for attrocities like that aswell dont forget . But Green Day do have innovative idea's and can still be extremely popular. How many progressive punk bands do you hear in a top 10 Countdown? I've never heard anyone except for Billie-Joe Armstrong that uses 20 chords strung together as a solo, tis cool. I do see where your coming from though sort of. It's just a bazillion chords doesn't make a song any better than a 3 or 4 chord progression, just less tedious for the bass player.

[Zwicky]

Chords are my friend And I totally agree! But unfortunately many of today's listeners don't want technically awesome songs, they want ultra-catchy and repetitive songs.

[theonlychad]

green day is alright but i only like their stuff from the 90's their newer stuff just isn't as good and it is too emo for my taste.

[LJXD]

Their 90's stuff was good. But they just could not have kept that same old sound that 1000000's of bands had now adopted. The direction they went was good, really developing unique concept music, which not enough popular artists do. Emo? They have political and religious messages in them, no emoism .

[theonlychad]

I'm not saying their emo but they attract emo kids by the millions lol. Also they dress sort of emo.

[LJXD]

You got me

[Kemaru]

There's this girl in our class who wears emo clothes, has emo hair and listens to emo music. but she's "NOT EMO!!!!!!!!!!oneoneoneleven everyonecallsmeemobuti'mnotnobodygetsmewhydotheycallmeemo crysobcry"

[Sozo]

Lol, it's funny how there are no emo people once you get into college.

[Wilson]

Really? I thought it would have continued all the way up.

Random: How cool is will.i.am?

[Blooper]

...aaaaand no one knows what emo means here.

http://www.myspace.com/mossiconofficial

Emo is punk with emotional lyrics. It's not necessarily sad. It doesn't involve razorblades or hair dye.

[007 Nab]

...today's listeners don't want technically awesome songs, they want ultra-catchy and repetitive songs.

QFT - most people don't play the instruments they listen to, and have a hard time distinguishing between quality and lack thereof.

Lol, it's funny how there are no emo people once you get into college.

Haha - first thing I noticed - no strange band people in the corners making out or rednecks kicking stuff around - just students trying to get to class!

[Blooper]

I disagree, a repetitive song is boring. And I listen to pop.

Besides, successful pop songs can be very technical too.

As an electronica producer, I can guarantee this isn't easy to make.

[007 Nab]

I was saying that most mainstream music (at least what I am hit with on the radio) is, as Zwicky put it, repetitive, and as uH said, basic, to say the most.

I agree with you that repetitive music is boring - I listen music to play it, so technical is good!

While I tend to stick within Alternative rock genres, I'm sure electronica has a lot to offer as far as technical skill goes.

[pyrochild]

Woah. Chrome is fast. Also, I'm up way too early.

[Frontcannon]

@ Blooper

Though I never listen to Pop, this song is kind of... nice. Weird.

[MattBlackLamb]

To me most of the music I hear on the radio sound like it fits into one of about 2 or 3 genres. You get the dance-pop kind of stuff, like blooper linked to above, you get the pop-punk / pop-metal kind of thing which is generally fair tedious & then you get the "alternative" which can be anything from bands like Coldplay (dull in my book) to slightly more up-tempo stuff like, perhaps, Kings of Leon.

"Popular" music isn't something I know that much about as I try to pay as little attention to it as possible.

For me, music gets more interesting if you dig deeper. For those of you that liked the video that Blooper posted, check out Imogen Heap, her music is waaaay more involved on the production side than most poppy dance music & she pretty much did the whole thing herself, Speak for Yourself and Ellipse are two excellent albums.

For anyone who likes rock music, check out Transatlantic, they have just released a new album called The Whirlwind which, again, is excellent.

[Blooper]

For me, music gets more interesting if you dig deeper. For those of you that liked the video that Blooper posted, check out Imogen Heap, her music is waaaay more involved on the production side than most poppy dance music & she pretty much did the whole thing herself, Speak for Yourself and Ellipse are two excellent albums.

3OH!3 are electronica producers, they're the ones doing the mixing/production/etc. Or at least they are in the version without Katy Perry.

[Kemaru]

I just a saw a graphics tablet in my local electronics store!! :O

http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=16447