In all fairness to hudson (hudson, mark this on your calendar, because I'm defending you!), he did specify country within the last fifteen years, so I'm assuming he's referring to the Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Shania Twain variety, and he's a little more okay with the classic stuff. I tend to agree with him on that.
Yeah. And you are referring to country radio of the last fifteen years. So an entire genre of music has not spawned anything. Not one good record in fifteen years. I know you don't believe that so why are you arguing for it. That just makes you sound naive. Listen to anything Guy Clark has ever done. Even a mainstream artist like Dwight Yoakam. Mixing rockabilly with Buck Owens. How many other country artists cover songs by the fucking Clash? There is lots of talent out there in any genre, and when you say there is none, all it means is that you're not looking. Don't make yourself sound lazy cause I doubt you are.
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Originally posted by smileyface: Meat Loaf or Alice Cooper that exaggerated that and made it bombastic. Or Freddie Mercury. Perhaps the greatest example of a rock star trying to be a rock star, while kicking ass.
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Posts: 422 | Location: Lots of different places | Registered: 12 October 2007
Originally posted by smileyface: Not one good record in fifteen years.
I won't say 100% of anything is good or bad. I'm sure I can dig up a handful of decent modern country records, and as much as I dislike metal, I can probably find a couple of metal songs I like, if I try really hard. In general, I dislike modern country music. If we're talking alt-country, that's a bit of a different story, but the pop country stuff coming out of Nashville, I'm not too keen on.
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I believe that even MC put up super high ratings for a recent country artist who had his most recent album(s) nominated for a Best Album Grammy. I know that's supposed to be a joke, but if it is, it's a joke on MC (or not).
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Posts: 12874 | Location: Behind the Orange Curtain | Registered: 14 May 2004
Yeah, but you could say the same for modern rap and rock. Both genres are thriving in my opinion, but the crap on the radio makes me want to vomit and then eat my vomit so I can continue vomiting and forget about what I just heard because my vomit eating and regurgitating can hopefully distract me. The state of music today is fantastic. You just have to look harder. Which I think is way cool. I can't stand it when people condemn modern music of any sort. I know that's not what you were doing, I'm just saying. Like how a great band like the Constantines can fly so under the radar. Bands like that, hold the beauty of music, the indie appeal. I can go see great artists once a year for 10 measly dollars, just because they love what they do so much they don't wanna put themselves in the limelight and ruin it all. You can connect with artists like this, they become "your band". Fuck, I'm just getting more and more off topic today....
Posts: 115 | Location: winnipeg | Registered: 03 November 2007
I don’t listen to the Radio, so I never experience said vomiting escapade.
I don’t mind to be honest, famous, not famous, I don’t judge an artist by their success although I do think it does say something for their music, either way I’m not saying that you do judge artists like that.
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Posts: 422 | Location: Lots of different places | Registered: 12 October 2007
Baas, What do you use as a beat-maker? I'm trying to get into making music (I could never play an instrument, but I think in beat-making there is hope for me).
I don't know what I should get, like what the best program is or whatever. I just play with Audacity right now. Lol.
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Originally posted by ScotttheStorm: Baas, What do you use as a beat-maker? I'm trying to get into making music (I could never play an instrument, but I think in beat-making there is hope for me).
I don't know what I should get, like what the best program is or whatever. I just play with Audacity right now. Lol.
I use FL Studio right now, with a bunch of vst instruments. But there are better programs out there and I wouldnt be using fl studio if i took the time to learn one of these other ones, its just that i started out on it and now im comfortable with it. I think the best out there are Reason and Ableton Live, and Cubase if you wanna get more advanced. I think u can get demos or *cough* alternate versions of them...
I've used Ableton Live, and, honestly, find it to be somewhat cumbersome. Especially if you want a lot of variety or fill. Right now, most of my "drums" come from our Yamaha keyboard synth. Very nice, very natural sound.
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Posts: 1426 | Location: State of Disarray | Registered: 10 January 2007
Well its more likely the person who told u that just wasnt very good at using it Hahah, a lot of the top line dnb artists that im a big fan of use reason and they make some really amazing tracks.
Actually I use FL Studio 7 right now and I think the FL series has grown in potential quite a bit. I would consider it a fairly advanced and intuitive music program. Sure most of the presets sound bad, but the infrastructure just meshes with me logically. Have you experimented with some of the advanced effects on FL? I'm speaking about the Waveshaper (very powerful tool!) and stuff like the Buzz Effect Adapter, Delay Bank, Fruity Squeeze etc. I find that messing around with the more "conventional" sounds using these effects produces some surprising results.
Well it is definitely not a bad program, and I am using it to make my music, its just that it doesnt give you as much flexibility and potential to make production quality music. Most the built in synths are too cheesy, but the sampler is pretty good in it. If you use it with 3rd party vsts like i do, then it can be a great program.
The loops either need to be amazingly strong (The Field) or the drums and bass have to be kicking(Spank Rock), or at least well structured (Burial).
It sounds good right now, but a bit generic. You just have to keep trying to find what make your music stand-out from others, and its awfully hard to do in the world of techno.
Kudos for posting your music on metacritic, you are more ballsy than I.
And as for this rest of this thread...sigh. This always seems to happen in critiquing threads.
Posts: 294 | Location: AVA | Registered: 24 June 2006
it's alright right now.. very alright. it certainly doesn't justify its length and there's some pretty iffy parts but just keep working, keep mixing it up, doing some unexpected things and you might be able to improve
