Not Level 42. Dunno too much about Kajagoogoo, but I have the impression they got more musically complex after Limahl went solo.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sqwurl puhlise (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 7 April 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Meet the 80s....
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Good melody - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"so perfect that any change kills it for me (see Joan Baez). Still, the arrangement and performanceare vital icing on the cake; any rendition by pro-tooling sessionsists would sound awful.
Bad melody - 75% of all Jim Morrison vocal melodies. TheDoors still kick ass, of course, but for different reasons.
Re: "Meet the 80s..." true, but it _was_ the decade of Firehose, Talking Heads, and _Skylarking_, all of which had organicproduction. It was a tough decade, though, and a lot of great songwriters produced sonically shitty product.
― skwirl plise (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Adrian Langston (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
awaiting return of mark s.....
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Revive! Ain't nothing like the good old days...
― Embarchie, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't see the point in clubs for indie fans at all. At least clubs where you are supposed to dance. Indie fans don't dance.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:18 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
he meant 'can't' - these language barriers...
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Indie fans don't dance, they just pull up their pants and do the rockaway
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it is just yet another evidence that (melodic) pop will always remain better than rock.― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:41 (eighteen years ago)
Correct, but English melodies are about a hundred times inferior to the Arabesk pop of müslüm gürses. Listen to Tanri istemezse and you will realise that the entire corpus of white pop music is not nearly melodic enough. and that is just one song. Key changes mask a lack of talent.
― RobbiePires, Thursday, 14 October 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
12 tones are too mathematically limited. To have absolute melodic supremacy you need complete resolution, and 12 tones do not fully resolve.
― RobbiePires, Thursday, 14 October 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link