Just remembered another hate Classic.
Agadoo... Black Lace.
Least Favourite Song Page 5
Quote: Leevil @ November 3 2011, 5:45 PM GMTIn regards to looping in particular, I still don't agree with you completely. I myself, can't see much difference in using loops instead of notes from an instrument. It may not take as much talent but it's just about creating new sounds, experimenting and having fun. Music would never evolve if nobody did that and it would suck. Suck hard.
This is sufficient excuse for me to repost the full title of one of Chumbawamba's more recent albums:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
Chumbawamba's fan-base seems to be dwindling as they go further from shouty anarcho-punk to sweet, soft melodious folk songs (commenting as much on the music industry as politics). Hugely underrated band, whose best work was a Peel Sessions performance where they covered Agadoo, the Chicken Dance song and other songs totally at odds with their image.
Quote: walt @ November 5 2011, 12:58 AM GMTJust remembered another hate Classic.
Agadoo... Black Lace.
This is a wonderful song, adapted from a French song, which was adapted from a Moroccan song (if I recall correctly). Black Lace even released a lewd innuendo-laden version titled 'Have a Screw'.
Sampling isn't all just about pressing a button at the start of a breakbeat, then pressing it again at the end. There are many other techniques, such as "chopping", "filtering", "layering" and "stretching" etc. Also, you can create a whole song, using just a fraction of a second of, say a guitar or bass, by loading it up to a keyboard and playing different notes with it on there. Actually, there's a new DJ mixer that's about to be released some time soon that will allow you to do the same thing with vinyl and a turntable.
Check out this clip, which I think I've posted before. Watch how this guy, who invented it, moves the crossfader up and down the mixer to create different notes, using the synth tone that's coming from the vinyl. He's opened up a whole new chapter in DJing, and music in general by inventing this, because DJs, or maybe they should now be referred to as Turntablists, will be able to get any instrument sound on vinyl, and use it to create brand new music. I'm buying one of these things as soon as they become available.
Quote: Oldrocker @ November 4 2011, 11:34 PM GMTDon't like Reggae, Rap, Garage, House, Conservatory, Shed, Urban or whatever !
Rock is the only true way !
Awesome, my arse !
How dare you shove reggae in with all that other bollocks
How dare you sir
I'm a punk/metal person, but reggae and ska is great music
Quote: Oldrocker @ November 4 2011, 11:34 PM GMTDon't like Reggae, Rap, Garage, House, Conservatory, Shed, Urban or whatever !
Rock is the only true way !
Awesome, my arse !
What if a rock track has rapping on it? Would that make it not rock? Or maybe get termed industrial? What if a garage or house track takes a meh rock song and puts some heavy bass or a rhythm guitar loop on it, making it even more rock? What about more chilled rock songs, how do you distinguish that it's not got a reggae or blues or other feel to it?
Quote: AJGO @ November 5 2011, 6:20 PM GMTWhat if a rock track has rapping on it? Would that make it not rock? Or maybe get termed industrial? What if a garage or house track takes a meh rock song and puts some heavy bass or a rhythm guitar loop on it, making it even more rock? What about more chilled rock songs, how do you distinguish that it's not got a reggae or blues or other feel to it?
Quote: catskillz @ November 5 2011, 5:33 PM GMTSampling isn't all just about pressing a button at the start of a breakbeat, then pressing it again at the end. There are many other techniques, such as "chopping", "filtering", "layering" and "stretching" etc. Also, you can create a whole song, using just a fraction of a second of, say a guitar or bass, by loading it up to a keyboard and playing different notes with it on there. Actually, there's a new DJ mixer that's about to be released sometime soon that will allow you to do the same thing with vinyl and a turntable.
Check out this clip, which I think I've posted before. Watch how this guy, who invented it, moves the crossfader up and down the mixer to create different notes, using the synth tone that's coming from the vinyl. He's opened up a whole new chapter DJing, and music in general by inventing this, because DJs, or maybe they should be referred to as Turntablist, will be able to get any instrument sound on vinyl, and use it to create brand new music. I'm buying one of these things as soon as they become available.
Doh!! I got a phonecall just after I'd typed this, and didn't notice that I'd forgotten to post the link. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJyvkL2q8uk
This thread would have been more entertaining if it had been entitled;
What song would you kill someone for singing ...?
Or for the less violent;
What song causes you to break electronic equipement?
It's gotta be the UK National Anthem.. not so much the music, but the lyrics..
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ November 6 2011, 1:05 PM GMTIt's gotta be the UK National Anthem.. not so much the music, but the lyrics..
Both - it's like a funeral dirge, and don't start me on the lyrics.
Deviating from thread title, but...
I've always thought a remix of Pictures of Matchstick Men with the bass cranked up and the whirly bits more hyper would be amazing.
I wish I had any musical/technological ability
Quote: AJGO @ November 6 2011, 9:35 PM GMTDeviating from thread title, but...I've always thought a remix of Pictures of Matchstick Men with the bass cranked up and the whirly bits more hyper would be amazing.
Try LSD..
Quote: keewik @ November 6 2011, 4:32 PM GMT..don't start me on the lyrics.
You would have to say that, wouldn't you..
"God save our Re-pub-lic,
Long live our Re-pub-lic,
Our Re-pub-lic..
Send them vainglorious,
Off on an omnibus,
No mo-ore to reign over us,
Our Re-pub-lic.."
Aaaaaaaaah.. that's better.
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ November 6 2011, 1:05 PM GMTIt's gotta be the UK National Anthem.. not so much the music, but the lyrics..
I wouldn't consider it the UK National Anthem. We have our own thanks. And yes, you're welcome to it. It's bloody awful. Go for Rule Britannia or Land of Hope and Glory or even Jerusalem if I were you boys and girls.
(And yes I know it's played at the Olympics for all British athletes and so on but I'm afraid I would rather sing my own instead of that drivel.)
I think there have been enough good songs mentioned in this thread for me to make a decent show playlist...and I might risk the wrath of BCG and do just that! 
Quote: Tuumble @ November 7 2011, 4:37 PM GMTI think there have been enough good songs mentioned in this thread for me to make a decent show playlist...and I might risk the wrath of BCG and do just that!
Might be an idea for a feature on the show, Smash Hits. They write in and say what and why, you play it followed by crashing smashing noises and you say 'There, every copy smashed, you won't be hearing that again !'
