I love how music still has the power to surprise and catch you off guard occasionally, bypassing your well-maintained emotion filters putting an instictive and unstoppable smile on your face. The other night, while performing my domestic duties (the washing up as it happens … in case that comes across like some form of euphemism) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Punk’
Surprise
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Punk on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Literalism Humour
Posted in My Music, Other's Music, tagged Classical, Folk, Jazz, Lyrics, Music Theory, Politics In Music, Pop, Punk on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The final of the four humours of music. The literalism humour like, the impressionism humour, defines what a piece of music says and how it says it. Unlike the impressionism humour, the meaning of music with a high level of the literalism humour comes directly from the creator rather than the listener. The most obvious [...]
The Neurophysiology Humour
Posted in My Music, Other's Music, tagged Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Lyrics, Music Theory, Prog Rock, Punk on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aspect of music that affects the subconscious. The aspect of music that makes you tap you feet despite your best efforts not to, makes you want to dance, makes you want to fuck, makes you play air guitar although you really, really know you shouldn’t, makes you smile, makes you cry without being able [...]
The Leader For Tomorrow Is Your’s Today
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Dead Kennedys, Influences, Lyrics, Politics In Music, Punk on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Leader For Tomorrow Is Your’s Today Finally Gotcha Psyched for a police state – Full Metal Jackoff by Jello Biafra with D.O.A. Jello Biafra is another who has written many unbelievably good lyrics through the years, although again most would require more than two lines to demonstrate (and there was a max two lines [...]
I’m Seriously considering leaving home
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Influences, Lyrics, Punk on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m Seriously considering leaving home -Dad by NoMeansNo Progressive punk? Jazz punk? However you try and describe their music it shouldn’t work. But it does. Nomeansno are, musically, one of the coolest bands ever to walk the planet. I know next to nothing about them extra-musically to comment on whether they are also one of [...]
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Dead Kennedys, Desert Island Discs, Influences, Politics In Music, Punk on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Almost had second thoughts as to whether I should have put this record in this list as I am struggling a bit as to what I should say about it. The Dead Kennedys are probably the most important band ever. Although there is a touch of chicken and egg, cause and effect here … do [...]
Fugazi – Red Medicine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desert Island Discs, Fugazi, Hardcore, Influences, Punk on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have so much to say on this one, it isn’t “the first” anything in my musical journey (well, it was the first Fugazi album I bought/heard and it is one of the few albums that came close to the “Wow, what is this” feeling I described in my Rust In Peace post … [...]
Constrain Yourself
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Bad Analogies, Blues, Constraints, Hardcore, Martin Taylor, Musical Direction, Noodling, Pop, Prog Rock, Punk, Yes on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Making great music is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman digitial electronics … if you constrain your design correctly beautiful things can happen, constrain your design badly and you’re doomed to failure. When it comes to music suitable constraints could be the choice and number of instruments involved … I much prefer [...]
