http://www.synners.co.uk/synners/images/squads/crewe-1947.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnvd1tGk9I1qe5a8io1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1329924333&Signature=pibYbCGVpRZLXhcjbYkDZz7RmCM%3D
― watercooler challenge (ledge), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
All these pictures have changed my mind. What a fool I was.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's because they want to make something real. Like a Yaz record.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
in the end, everyone gets the thread they deserve
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
i love synths. i hate washy "whaoooooooooo" synths.
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
there is a whole point here about computers and software piracy and how easy it is to make music now without leaving the house but this did not turn out to be the thread for it.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WNVCP01ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Dude asked a question, maybe not as well phrased as you would've liked, but it's a legitimate query. Perhaps some gentle guidance would've been better than image bombing his thread.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
"I try to keep up with new music, and I've noticed a trend among young bands to overuse synth washes. Is there some motivator or influence that's causing this? Is it just the ease of technology that's the cause? Where might this lead in terms of the way synths are used?"
That might've gotten a better response? Maybe?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I am reminded of an ex-roommate who said that music made electronically wasn't as authentic as music made with guitars
― tanuki, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
dull post-rock washes made with synths are just as inauthentic as dull post-rock washes made with guitars, though.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
"what's with all the percussion instruments"
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
"what's with all the vibrating strings"
"What's with all the keyboards causing a felt-covered hammer to strike steel strings, the hammers rebounding, allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency, the vibrations transmitting through a bridge to a sounding board and damper stopping the string's vibration?"
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
"What, (what), can I do when I still love you..."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Fascination with 'bad boys' even shitter than fake role models
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
other thread.
Ha!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh cut it out with all the snark. Most responses are way off the mark here - dude wasn't saying he hated synths or even synth washes as a rule. Overused production device = aesthetic laziness = legitimate complaint fodder.
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
an unfocused generic rant isn't particularly worth anyone's time
like, what exactly are we supposed to do with "[x] makes me barf" with no examples of [x] and no actual topic to converse about? my answer is "make fun of it"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
Your complaint is justified, of course. But you get to choose how to handle it - do you ignore the thread, add snark, or explore the topic in a more intelligent manner.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I added relevant images to engage the senses. This is not posting for your mind; this is posting for your brain.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
How much more focused do you want it, man? I even gave you the sound of the annoying synths. Gag me with a spoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
the real answer is the generation that grew up playing 16-bit video games is now making music
― tanuki, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtEcja0LUI
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
nintendo music was not about synth washes
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
synth music would actually be way better if people were taking cues from the sonic 3 soundtrack
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.buamai.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/swatch-700x500-700.jpg
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://gifs.gifbin.com/052009/1242926205_keyboard_cat.gif
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if Donna Haraway's thoughts on cyborgism and a "powerful infidel heteroglossia" has informed all this stuff. So many post-Silent Shout girls with technology that's almost the 10s equivalent of Lilith Fair, trying to say something new and important and using fresh, seemingly-innovative tools to produce their message.
But probably I'm over-thinking it and it's just the ease of access and familiarity of texture that informs it.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
everyone just wants to be klaus schulze in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZL0DPmlkQ
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Synthy retreads will probably give way to grungy retreads p soon fwiw. At least a handful of bands in PF's last best of 2011 sounded like Dinasaur Jr cover bands.
― Darin, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/SqNcv7lETWI/AAAAAAAAdpw/wBFZ6J-WbgY/s1600-h/tumblr_kpdqpjKiU51qzwbejo1_500.jpg
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/SqNcv7lETWI/AAAAAAAAdpw/wBFZ6J-WbgY/s400/tumblr_kpdqpjKiU51qzwbejo1_500.jpg
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
that keytar platypus is so cute
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Also the question of the title: never has a question made me prouder to be a 20-something. Now the past eight years were worth something. I had nothing to do really with all these whooshy synths but I will gladly take responsibility for them. Hanging out in a Radio Shack pressing the "demo" button on every mass-market synth, pretending to be Enya at age 10 FINALLY PAYS OFF.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
synth haters can lick my actual sac
― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
This thread, for various reasons, is why I'm going 'troll.'
fwiw, kornrulez, I'm with you. I can't wait till jazz is suddenly popular again and there are like, four bands left in the whole world, because 1) no one knows how to play anything, and 2) no one knows how to be in a band and communicate with actual human beings 'irl.'
I anticipate the customary gifs of old men complaining and whatnot, and I will preemptively say FYM ASMD. Stacy Q and Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam being referenced in reviews POSITIVELY and you're all stroking your beards and nodding in agreement? For shame. Come back, Babyshambles, all is forgiven.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
I should mention I love me some Tangerine Dream. But Tangerine Dream was a friend of mine, and this bullshit, sir, is no Tangerine Dream.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
wait, what's wrong with stacy q and lisa lisa and cult jam exactly?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, what?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
that must have been the trolling part.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
hey sixtysomethings: what's with all the synths?
― geeta, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://p2.la-img.com/586/13925/4298785_1_l.jpg
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Is that a quote from Panda Bear?
At this point, I'd be happy to go back to everybody trying to sound like Sufjan Stevens Illinois record. Come on musicians. Enough with the chillwave fer crying out loud.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
You write as if you were begging Lou Reed and Metallica to record one.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSHs6f_5TU
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
Hey 20-somethings
― buzza, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
pandas can't talk iirc
― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
2nd no, 1st sure! why not?
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's just a different garage is all
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
thing about garage proper is there's only one garage, it's not exactly the most open-minded form
― Chris S, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:55 (twelve years ago) link
i know, i've been a garage fan since milkshakes/nomads years. if the dirtbombs can cover old detroit house tracks, then synthpunk can be revisted as "garage rock". otherwise it IS stagnant bullshit, and fuck that.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:06 (twelve years ago) link
1st wave hozac shit = doing something interesting w garage rock, and i'm all in favor of that
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
synthpunk can be revisted as "garage rock". otherwise it IS stagnant bullshit, and fuck that.
uh, no, just because the garage rock umbrella doesn't cover synthpunk that sounds nothing like garage rock (punk is not garage rock) doesn't mean that garage rock is "stagnant bullshit."
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
okay, maybe not, but it does feel like it sometimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmRycdf2fs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbmG3zPqmEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed11mNu35uk
understand that this is my lonely quest. nevertheless: ride with us.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
oh i have this thing in my brain, btw, that says "garage punk" = "garage rock". understand that not all people have a similar thing.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
anywhey, back to
http://home.swipnet.se/cfmd/synths/friends/stopp/asmdream.gif
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
garage is back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLlgdtUjvw
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://music-import.ru/pic/doepfer_maq_bg.jpg
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
i accidentally saw this picture on the internet and it made me want to diehttp://cdn.synthtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/moog-synth-sofa.jpg
― bene_gesserit, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
here's some eye bleach for that last image http://www.analoguehaven.com/genoqs/octopus/totalfull.jpg
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I can't wait till jazz is suddenly popular again and there are like, four bands left in the whole world, because 1) no one knows how to play anything, and 2) no one knows how to be in a band and communicate with actual human beings 'irl.'
haha how do you go from this to dissing ppl who have been irrelevant for 20 years
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link