What is the point in human race's music?

orbsycli · 04-19-2005

yeah and it's very true. i was amazed the day i realized how much music is really out there, compared to what i was exposed to.

i'm doing to upload that dredg song up to my server and post it here in a few minutes because it's such a good song i want you to hear it.

i know you weren't trying to lecture, i was just proving your point by showing how limited my knowledge was as well.

orbsycli · 04-19-2005

dredg - brushstroke: an elephant in delta waves

http://www.mediapimp.net/jason/dredg-elcielo-13.mp3

Turtle · 04-19-2005

Music hath charms that soothe the savage beast. Music is about sex inasmuch as sex is about cooperation; music is about social agreement. No matter what form, culture, time or other subjective restriction one wishes to posit, humans pause en masse for music.
___The point if you will, at least in terms of a social/survival advantage of some kind, is perhaps that the brain alters its wave state in response to music in such a way as to allow clearer thinking and therefore more logical decisions relating to survival. That people experience this together, minding their taste in music, compounds the response in such a way that everyone sees how many other people actually agree with something they believe.
___In a world full of so much contrary behavior, it almost seems natural that music is universal.

orbsycli · 04-19-2005

beautifully put.

ledbassest · 04-20-2005

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Originally Posted by ledbassest

But why do we still obey the ordinary laws of it; and when others do manage to change it, major countries (coff coff America) oppress it?

What I was referring to was the way that Americans try to keep music at a steady altering rate so that it will not alter to something as beautiful as Rammstein (slightly-heavy)or to another Queen (even though something like that wouldn't be permitted any ways, because America is extremely homophobic). We like to worship only what we know not the unseen.

orbsycli · 04-20-2005

well, rammstein probably would scare a lot of people in america. i saw them a few years ago with mudvayne, you know- typical metal show. (broke my toe at that concert) i saw the singer of that band shoot fire 20 feet into the air from some type of mask he was wearing.
yes, their music is good, and slightly different. but the typical closed-minded american wants nothing to do with creepy hard music like that.
and i thought queen was really big for their time? i've never heard of anybody disliking queen just because the singer was gay.

it's sad but true but MOST people stick to their culture and whatever is "cool" or "in" they listen to.
i remember all those stereotypes from middle school.
and then it comes down to listening to what others don't, and claiming that band, and getting pissed off when others listen to them.
it's this disgusting social immature cycle.

mtv (horrible corporation) plays a huge part in this. they really say what's cool and what's not. most people don't realize it at all. i actually think mtv used to play that ramstein song "du hast" occasionally.

orbsycli · 04-20-2005

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We like to worship only what we know not the unseen.

yes. i think we both well know most people are afraid of change.

queens of the stoneage has a nice quote:
"the more you know, the less you've been around."

Fishteacher73 · 04-20-2005

If Rammstien floats your boat, go check out the granddaddies of real German noise, Laibach or Einsturzende Neubauten. This is what Trent Reznor wants to be when he grows up...