My Name Is Fallen And I Approve This!

Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

I thought it would be fun if we suggested specific songs/artists/music genres we personally listen to and see what's Fallen's opinion on them.

First off, Fallen, What do you think of movie soundtracks? :0
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Lolz, actually I can do this and moderately enjoy it.

[b]Movie Soundtracks[/b]

Are we talking musicals (Nightmare before christmas, rocky horror, spinal tap, the wedding singer, etc.) or all movie soundtracks including ones that are collections of top 40 hits played during the movie?

In the case of the former, it's entirely dependent on the quality of the movie in the first place. Some are good, some are terrible, but in almost every case they're over-the-top campy songs that are more like broadway than pop radio. As albums, though, they're usually coherent and interesting in that concept album kinda way. They tend to tell a story like a Bowie album, that can be cool.

I own a handful. The Wedding Singer, Rocky Horror [originally a play], Spinal Tap, Hedwig And The Angry Inch [also a play], Labyrinth [literally a bowie album], probably some others I'm forgetting.

On the other hand, straight soundtracks that are just background tracks are usually random and pointless, aside from reasons for bands to get a nice little check and easy single. Because they're just songs from various artists to fit a mood, they rarely function well as a CD. One of my biggest gripes with Greatest Hits collections as well is the lack of track planning, how songs flow from one to the other and relate to what's before and after it. In the case of pop hit movie soundtracks, the songs are almost always slapped together in any order, in the worst cases just the order they appear in the film, and what you get is the equivalent of a WinAmp playlist on random.

Not to mention the fact they're usually a variety of styles with no central theme or style, due to the fact each one is from a separate scene that may be completely different than everything else. They've bred some decent singles, but that's all they're good for, and it's easier to wait for the artists to release those singles on their own albums shortly after.

EDIT: :)

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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

I don't listen to this, but I think it would be fun......

[b]POP[/b]....?
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Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

Pop like Maroon 5 or pop like Spice Girls? :0
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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

Pop like N'sync OWNED.

Maroon 5 plays their own music Surprised

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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

Oh come on, do I really need to do this one?

I'll break it into three categories:

CONTENT: Written by people who are paid to come up with the most easy to digest, generic crap you could imagine. They literally study what easily brainwashed teens want to listen to and then write based on their results. It's all a formula to sell a product, as if the world needs one more empty song about "love".

TALENT/MUSICIANSHIP: Given they don't play instruments, that's out. Most of the songs don't even feature instruments, just computerized sounds and beats. The singing is average and heavily doctored for that delightful flawless "I have no balls but hey, we can sing in harmony" sound. There are [i]thousands[/i] of people who can sing just as well, it's nothing to admire except the record companies find the five with the looks they feel will most appeal to young girls who have nothing better to do. There's a reason you'll never see an ugly pop band.

ORIGINALITY: Considering you could interchange the members and songs and no one would know the difference, that pretty much says it all. Every group sounds the same, some just have facial hair or a different colored hat.

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Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

I'm just waiting for the "Fallen is indifferent" photo to come up.
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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

Should I go on with the crappy music?

Reggeaton.... or any of that crappy "Daddy Yankee Fake Latino Music" for that matter....
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theWriter · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

...I have a feeling you'll kill this one in its tracks, Fallen, but I'm going to ask anyway.

Classical.
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

[quote]Reggeaton.... or any of that crappy "Daddy Yankee Fake Latino Music" for that matter....[/quote]

I have no idea what that is.

[b]Classical[/b]

I'm actually rather indifferent to this. You couldn't pay me to listen to it willingly, nor play it for that matter as I had to for a few years, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it. Very technical, structured, boring. Takes a great amount of skill to do well, but I don't think it can be compared to pop music in any way other than that because 99% of the people who play it didn't write it, they just strive to play it to the best of their ability.

It's like instrumental karaoke with skill. However, it is quite useful when combined with pop music (used in the "popular music" sense and not the genre sense). One of the main reasons Randy Rhoads is my favorite guitarist is he was an accomplished classical player and taught lessons and brought the skills he learned doing that into his rock career. That's what gave him the precision, speed, and music theory knowledge that makes what little work he had time to do so great.

Really the only comparison to be made is in skill of the person playing. Writing it is a whole other concept than writing a pop song. It doesn't suck in any technical way, I just don't like listening to it.

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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

[quote="fallenangel (fallen)"] [quote]Reggeaton.... or any of that crappy "Daddy Yankee Fake Latino Music" for that matter....[/quote]

I have no idea what that is. [/quote]
Are you lying?

Really, it even bugs me in dish network..... <_<
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject:

I haven't had cable for like five months and even then didn't watch all that much mtv/vh1/music television, so if it isn't relative mainstream pop or something I happen to know about....

I don't actively hunt down crap, so...
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loveliesbleeding · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject:

uhm how about: skaa
i think it's not well captured in recordings
none the less....
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Hawk4444 · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

what does fallen think of soothing relaxing music. Like the trickle of a river or the wind chime's with bird chirps or the rain falling on the ground. that and other very nice sounding songs like kitaro, diane arkenstone or her father. etc.

Listening to this channel on XM radio has made me a happier, calmer driver. Spooty old people <_<

but mainly listen to opie and anthony :wub:
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

[b]Ska[/b]

Being that it isn't plastered all over the place and I don't enjoy it, I haven't listened to much. I know more about ska fans than I do ska music, most of which is not the most positive things I could say. Overall I've just never cared enough to check much of it out.

It's not the least skilled style in the world, but it's nothing to be overly impressed by either. Just a stylistic preference.

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[b]Calm....stuff[/b]

Only good for soundtracks to artsy school films. Or playing in those weird nature stores. I have a tape somewhere and have no idea how I got it, but it's mostly piano music with whale sounds overlayed in it. It's...odd. But music that is mainly those sounds.....pass. Go outside if you wanna hear birds chirp.

And easy listening is only good if you have insomnia. It'll knock ya right out. It's like those people sit around going "how could I make this song [i]more[/i] uninteresting? Hm, I think I'm using too much variety in my voice, I'll lower everything to this soothing tone guaranteed to sedate the highest speed addict."

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Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

Oh, let's ask some bands. A bit more variety because I want to "unlock" mystery emotion pictures like "Go jump off a cliff" and things to that degree. ^_^

How about Coldplay?
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Squidman · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

I'll throw in... [b]80's[/b] (and early 90's) [b]cartoon theme songs[/b].
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:

[quote]A bit more variety because I want to "unlock" mystery emotion pictures like "Go jump off a cliff" and things to that degree. [/quote]

Guh, trying to make me work, are you? I only have so many pictures of myself that are appropriate to post without censored bars, you know...

Aaaanyway, I'll be back tomorrow with my thoughts on coldplay, must continue painting now if I'm to get to bed before 4am.

I...don't really watch cartoons besides south park and family guy. Uneasy

I know [i]of[/i] 80s cartoons but can't for the life of my think of any theme songs.
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Hawk4444 · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject:

does fallen have the disco fever. W00t!

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Squidman · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

hn... I dunno... Teenage Mutat Ninja Turtles, Jem and the Holograms, Captain Planet, Transformers, Ghostbusters, He-Man, Thundercats, Samurai Pizza Cats, X-Men, it's all good....
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