Interesting Point Gil!
Its funny that U ask this, becuz my friend just asked me that
yesturday-----. Lyrics, as others and yourself have implied, can either
help or hurt a song.......heres the thing...........
We were driving along listening to this tape that I just made for
him(then playing was Primative Painter's "Invisible Landscapes"....) We
were both quiet when I blurted out, all one can think of is positive
thoughts with music of this nature-------he agrees and asked do I still
listen to Rapp--------my look said it all but.........I responded, its
too much negativity lyrics in most rapp....
The point, lyrics many times can be distracting, because one must focus
and decipher the meaning---and this takes attention---but typically with
Ambient or IDM, and Techno-----(INSTRUMENTAL) the mind can drift down
which ever river it chooses, and its energy, in this case attention,
does not have to be cannalized.....I am not the best with words
but----it can have a positive and negative effect on an individul, and
the same for the song, per se..............
Mr. Fingers, Intro...........has lyrics---but they're, for the most
part, positive!
np: Bola---"Wholbo"
Hk!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gil Yaker [SMTP:gyaker@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 3:05 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) listening to music...
>
> Just curious here...
>
> For those of you who listen almost exclusively to techno / idm /
> etc... do you
> find you have a hard time listening to more conventional pop music and
> that
> techno that strays from a purist model (like all the progressive crap)
> is
> difficult to listen to?
>
> I ask this b/c I find myself in an odd situation sometimes. Like the
> other
> night, went out to an Elvis Costello concert, and it was great - pure
> pop
> music, but the approach to listening to it is SO different from
> listening to
> IDM it's shocking.
>
> With IDM (and techno, generic) I find myself listen for changes, for
> motion in
> the song, for progression and for contrast. But if you apply these
> criterium(?)
> to pop music, you get screwed and the music often seems empty.
>
> I get dinged by my friends when there's a pop song on the radio that I
> like.
> Usually because of the full distored guitar sounds, the mix, or
> whatever. I
> tell them i like a song and they say, yeah but the lyrics suck..."oh,
> i never
> really bothered to pay attention to what they were saying, i'm just
> listening
> to how it sounds..."
>
> comments?
>
> -Gil
> np: derrick may/innovator
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