Rate the above song and post your own.

9/10 prefer hashpipe

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Not bad, but not my style at all. 6/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TXcIc7-Pc[/youtube]

I've never played this game. But this is the best quality I could find on youtube. It's a curious bit of music. I've found that it was used first, apparently, in a trailer for a terrible 1993 sci-fi movie called 'knights'. Ubisoft either bought the music or the license to use it, as it appeared in their game as well as the trailer for an assassin's creed comic. I could find no reference to the composer or recording.
 
6/10 Too many cliche drum fills and sequences, the second part was a bit better though. Good enough for ingame music, a bit too dull on its own.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQF490yyAY[/youtube]

A piece by a 19-20 century French composer Maurice Ravel. Le Gibet means "The Gallows " . This motherfucker loved to play with delicious colours (9th, 11th, 13th, altered chords) and this particular composition played by the Russian piano virtuoso S.Richter perfectly conveys the dark mood behind the name of the composition.
 
The song actually wasn't made for the game, it's really weird. I found out that it was apparantly first used in a trailer for a really crappy 1993 movie called 'knights'. Ubisoft owns the license and used it for that game and the trailer for the assassin's creed comic book. (which is great by the way.) Couldn't even find a name anywhere.

Anyway, onto the piece you posted. Although I must say, I can't say anything that would in any way be worth reading, about it. Both because I'm not as much into musical analasys as you seem to be, and because I couldn't quite get into this one.

?/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnrHf7p0jM[/youtube]

I love this one.
 
Can't argue with Schubert 9/10.

Well, you can score it however you want to, i'm not holding you as an intelectuall hostage. Though it's worth noting, at least from my experience, that a step from mainstream music into real compositions (maybe excluding mozart, bethoven, scubert etc. who come mostly from traditional harmony (of course they are very good, just pointing out that they are esier to understand because of traditional harmony)) is a pretty steep one and one that i had some trouble with too. So some familiarity and time is needed to really appreciate some of those works (ravel, stravinsky, debussy, hindemith, schoenberg end other master who were pushing the boundries of tonality at the start of the 20 century), because many of us are habituated by media outlets, as TV and Radio, to short musical structures that are easier to grasp the moment you hear them. But what the compositions of the masters offer are a deep layerd experience which you can visit many times and find something new, because many composers of note are not just muscians, but also great intellectuals and also humans not devoid of emotion as they are often portrayed, who have much to offer in compositions for those who seek it. Not to say that one can not, not like something, but often with a few visits back, the mind starts to recognize these complex musical structures and patterns with much more ease and comfort and thus you can appreciate and weigh the merits of the work much better.

Holy shit, i wrote a whole paragraph... In any case, the "Maharaja of the keyboard":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7xodWzLbCo[/youtube]
 
I know what you are saying completely. If someone had put Vivaldi's four seasons in front of me a few years ago, I'd have scoffed at it. But I found that one classical song that was my hook into that world, and it let's me know that I can always work towards a greater appreciation of a new plateau of musical works. I know I appreciate those pieces that just go on and on without losing any power whatsoever, even building upon it, are simply the best works in the world. I mean, my interpretations and tastes differ so much that I disagree with myself if I go even a few pages back.

And here is the point where I actually put your song on and realize that I shouldn't talk about a song if I had only skimmed it. I feel like such a fool. It's just that switching between a much, much quicker song in comparison in a busy place, you can't really sit down and really appreciate a song with tiny earbuds.
Which was the case the first time around.

So let me get back on Le Gibet and rate it a solid 8/10.

Now, the song you posted thereafter. .
Instant 10/10. From the first piano strokes I can tell that I love it.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnABcDg4t8[/youtube]
 
Sounds like something fit for a 28 days later type movie. Cool, but not something I'd throw on during a sunday drive.

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Dude. It's on the 28 days later soundtrack. :P

That song. . . I don't like that song. You'd put that on on a sunday drive?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6uOQEjmDc[/youtube]
 
8/10 - Not really into the mainstream bands, let alone any band.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAnky-QJwII[/youtube]
 
I'm not really into bands either. That's the only song I like by tool, but it's a good song.

That song is very unexciting. I'd recommend Amazing Grace as played with bagpipes if you want a song associated with patriotism. 5/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0WAPhf9vY[/youtube]
 
7/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBEdh51Xc8[/youtube]

After a long hiatus (that includes much "classical music") got back to some of the older stuff i used to love (and still do). Not that anyone here has a taste for this, but, it's classic Gang Starr - smooth in beats and lyrics.
 
AskWazzup said:
7/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBEdh51Xc8[/youtube]

After a long hiatus (that includes much "classical music") got back to some of the older stuff i used to love (and still do). Not that anyone here has a taste for this, but, it's classic Gang Starr - smooth in beats and lyrics.
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You give Jimi Hendrix a 7 and then post a song by a guy named "Gang Starr"?

Fuck you. Fuck this thread.
 
Akratus said:
You give Jimi Hendrix a 7 and then post a song by a guy named "Gang Starr"?

Fuck you. Fuck this thread.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU[/youtube]

Anyway, that's some simple ass blues, it's nice and all, but he has much better material than that.

Oh, and for the name thing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqJLjLuaGk[/youtube]

It has nothing to do with gangs.
 
Now that's a good song. It looks like we're back on track.

7/10

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6peNXmuY24[/youtube]
 
mobucks said:
Anyway, that's some simple ass blues
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Jimmi Hendrix said:
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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Oh for sure, the intricacies of blues go beyond notation and western tempered scale and rhythm, you can't just play blues, but having said that, you can only do so much with it. And there is nothing wrong with that, it is a folk music, it tells the story of the people, just like Hip Hop (used to be) and the world would be a much emptier place without them. So i'm not scoring the song as bad (7 is not bad), i try to leave higher scores for the things that i find have something special about them (though browsing through my history you would probably find some arguments against that, but hey, nobody is perfect... i'm trying).

So yeah, i like JH and his songs.
 
But music isn't about the lifestyle it represents. You could say that blues is mostly about the old work a day life, but how does that change the song if applied to it? I don't like Red House because it talks about some mama staying in some red house. I like it because the sounds are very well put together. Besides, it's blues played with an electric guitar and you don't hear that every day. At least I don't. So the song IS special to me, because it has a great structure and flow to it's sound.
 
How about the fucking sound that it is made up of?

I'm sorry, I really don't see the point in judging a song on anything but the song itself.
 
Akratus said:
How about the fucking sound that it is made up of?

I'm sorry, I really don't see the point in judging a song on anything but the song itself.
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To me, that sounds as if you'd judge a painting solely on the technique used to paint it, or the film on the quality of camera shots.

Music (and any other form of art for that matter) goes far beyond the simple form it takes, far beyond its aural, "tangible" elements.
If you judge music only by how the composition is made, then I feel very sorry for you.
 
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