DISCLAIMER: While writing this, I was lit.
So, welcome everybody to a landmark in music history: we here in this thread will be making the first style of music that is indisputably perfect. Daunting? Impossible? No waaaaay, man? Well, maybe so. But if we work at it, we just might be able to do it. It is an added plus that we have the best real critics and semi-real critics anybody could gather from a bunch of Pitchfork-addicted Internet junkies.
Now, the ways we can tackle this milestoned size task of CYHSY-hype sized proportions:
1 Name the aspect of a particular band's sound that you feel stands out as the most prominent feature of it
2 Give reasons why
3 React with righteous indignation at other people's ideas
4 Settle on a single idea, which I will keep track of (revisions expected)
5 When we all agree on the final product, we may then proceed to think of something else
6 As the last 2,045 think-of-something-else comes to a close, I will submit the finished product to my record exec friend.
7 Become billionaires
Okay, to start it all off: I like the in-your-face lyrics of Bob Dylan because he gives it to you straight and doesn't care about an answer back (that is, in his pre-Self Portrait, post-Planet Waves pre-Street Legal post-World Gone Wrong stage). I would combine that with the catchiness of every Beatles song that rattle around your head all day until you hear the next one. Throw in the improvisation of Can, such as on Pinch off of
Ege Bamyasi , where the drum snare is constantly changing patterns, Damo's crazed, unintelligible voicework yelps and whines, and Michael Karoli switches from rhythm to lead and back with distorted grace; all of this together would be gravy. Or maybe not, what do you think?
