Can music be innovative and still listenable?
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there are lots people taking music in all kinds of directions. \nwhile you can consider it a odd media ploy the gorillaz is the first band that isn't really a band.  this has freed them from neatly fitting in any sub group and allowed them to work with talented artists from all over the world.  the voice of noodle alone has been at least 1/2 dozen people.   currently mashing is taking off -- layering song on top of song -- many you wouldn't expect.  one of the biggest feats of mashing is danger mouse's gray ablum -- he merged the beatles white album with jay z's black album.  He is also 1/2 of Gnarls Barkley that did the radio hit "crazy" which samples music from spaghetti westerns.  if you haven't heard it check out crazy on youtube.  you can also find danger mouses' gray video there.  you can also check out dj earworm at djearworm.com he has mashed up to 22 songs together to get a final result.  my favorite would have to be the video version of stairway to bootleg heaven (also on youtube)  which mixes dolly parton's stairway to heaven with the eurthmics, beatles, beastie boys, art of noise,  pat benetar, and laurie anderson all to the beat of skateboards hitting the top of a ramp.  \nthere are also groups like sigur ros pushing boundaries of pure aesthicism.  they invented a language to record vocals in based on the sound.  \nwhile none is the next prokofiev its all worth a listen.
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equal temperment was definitely a great stride . . . but looked at from a physics standpoint, everything we hear as "normal" is from a physics standpoint, wrong.\n\nI expect as computers become more and more involved in the making of new music, the avant-garde musical movement of the last century will expand to cover different tonalities, including systems not used in any indiginous music.  However, this will still sound "wrong" to most people used to the Western tuning system, so it probably won't catch on :-)\n\nMuch about modern popular music can be commended.  Jazz pushed our understanding about cognition and music forward substantially - improvisation can now be done in performance, and people approve of it!  Songs like the Beatles' "Blackbird," which use a complicated harmonic structure in combination with modern lyrics, will stick around for a long time.  I predict anything with a I-IV-V-I chordal structure (and nothing else) will only be around as long as it has cultural value, though.\n\nIf anything, we're in a phase where music is valued for emotional expression instead of for mathematical precision.  Absolute music may make a comeback eventually, but probably not any time soon.
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Most musicians (at least the ones who are serious about music) listen to as many different kinds of music as possible.  It keeps them fresh and current with what's going on and expands their own musical range.
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Agreed.  Life does have it's own background music.  Unique for each person, but only audible if one is wise enough to stop and listen to it.  My life music for today would be "The Scientist" followed by "Don't Panic" both by Coldplay.
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Personally my taste in music is pretty versatile.  Sometimes it's the vocals, sometimes the lyrics, an instrument, or the beat. So it would be impossible to choose only one style of music.  But I can't imagine life without it.
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it's good enough!so it is worth listening!
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A true music lover can accept that genre should not dictate taste. It's perfectly okay to listen to Johnny Cash, Pavement, and The Black Keys in one sitting. What makes someone a true music lover is that they don't just hear a song, they analyze a song to find out why they like it or don't like it. A true music lover seeks out musical experiences. And a true music lover buys albums. That's right, Internet, I said albums. The ipod is killing music.
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beacuse they accually "listen" to it, and they may not "listen" to people, but they listen to music beacuse they like it.
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All cultures on this planet, past, present, and future do or will value music to at least some degree, and people always have and always will need music to express themselves in unique ways.\nI try to listen to music every day, even when I'm busy, for relaxation, expression, catharsis, and a number of other good reasons, so yes, I would be lost without it.
615209
great fun\nmusic and lot of noise\ncheers
948917
when the body knows to rhyme with the music...& ever innovative
5825
Absolutely - great music is great music forever. We still listen to Mozart don't we?
374655
No, but then again the answer would be very subjective depending on the music and who is listening.
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Technical proficiency, innovation and originality, discipline, influence on other musicians, array of styles that they are able to play and how cool their overall sound is.
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Sure, it will happen... it always does. Sometimes things take time and sometimes things seem to explode like Nirvana did. Just think back to a few years ago when the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC ruled the charts and airwaves. Music is slowly returning to rock... Even Rap and Hip Hop is loosing hold in the music scene. Once one band emerges the record labels will always counter with clones but things are already getting better... the bands that you mentioned...  Panic!At the Disco, Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, they all pretty much have no real talent but at least they are borrowing sounds from bands that we can all respect. I think that the Internet and downloading music like we do now is destroying the big record companies... things are going to revert back to the early days of rock. There are going to be less and less AOR releases and more singles... just like bands used to put out 45's with a B-track. Artists will put their own sounds out there and market themselves. Somewhere out in the world there is a hotbed of new sounds and we all wait for something fresh. Remember this though, there are not too many of us out there that would say no to a big fat record deal, everyone likes a roof that doesn't leak.
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True,it is hard to find good music nowadays,I usually listen to soundtracks of movies and games which is far better than these \nhowling people who say nothing smart.And they are not original either,they all sound the same.