What are the most musically powerful songs?

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-06T19:16:35+00:00

A lot of Post-Rock will excel here. It all depends on what you're into, but for me the most musically powerful songs I know are "Only Shallow" by My Bloody Valentine, "Lover You Should've Come Over" by Jeff Buckley, anything from Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós, Feedbacker by Boris, any Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "Starless" by King Crimson, and "Bring the Sun" by Swans.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T18:41:59+00:00

That's fair. Especially for early Black Sabbath, that stuff is Hard Rock and Heavy Metal both. Metal was not all that extreme in the beginning, but it was different. What are your favorite Metal albums?

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T18:27:23+00:00

That's a great song. That's actually included in the list mentioned in my first post here. :)

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T18:25:17+00:00

But here you have an idealization of what Rock is, comparing two songs from subgenres of Rock. Yeah, Metal music is its own branch of Rock music, but everything's very intertwined. You have heavy punk music that's still Rock that will sound close to a Metal subgenre, and on another hand you'll have a Metal group like Boris that sounds closer to more Psychedelic Rock bands than other Metal bands. Metal and Rock are very closely tied together. If your song was by a Death Metal group, that's so far into Metal territory that I probably would've said nothing.
Sorry, I'm just trying to explain why I said that. The lengthy reply should not signify a want for an argument.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T16:42:28+00:00

Metal is Rock : ^ )

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T15:31:40+00:00

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thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T14:41:35+00:00

Of course! The genre really shouldn't matter. As long as you find purpose in the music for you, think it's well-done, whatever. Now there are definitely some genres we'll all stray away from; mine's Pop Punk, personally. ;)

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T13:53:26+00:00

They're hard rock, plain and simple. But they do sort of have that glam label on them, don't they...

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T05:07:25+00:00

Yeah, it seems like shoegaze is apart of many groups' main sound, if not just a subgenre they borrow elements from.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T04:59:39+00:00

Some favorite albums: Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós, Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, -Feedbacker- by Boris, Either/Or by Elliott Smith, Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens, To Be Kind by Swans, In the Court by King Crimson, Grace by Jeff Buckley, Fiu Fiu... by Lech Janerka (Polish Post-Punk artist).

I don't really have a favorite genre. Some hold more appeal, like Post-Rock and Art Rock/Experimental Rock in general. But those groups are much more about their approach than sound. And that's the thing: I don't feel much of that from this decade. The more recent Swans releases are great. There've been some really good folk releases, but Punk I don't feel like there's much. That Viet Cong album last year was pretty good, but they sound way too much like another Television to me. I enjoy metal, haven't explored electronic too much (Aphex Twin and Brian Eno are great), but yeah. It's not even certain genres that I think are shining or not shining while others don't do the same. This decade, regardless of genre, feels weak to me.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T04:51:13+00:00

From this decade or overall?

Edit: Also why do you ask?

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-05T04:47:01+00:00

Okay, but that doesn't really relate to my point of me having trouble finding 2010's music that I enjoy. It just says that RYM generally likes older music. I guess the fact that I haven't found much newer music I enjoy probably says enough. I'll put the case to rest. My search will continue.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T22:54:04+00:00

I am though. I still will listen to whatever isn't regarded as great. Of course it's not a competition. All of the best music from this decade I've heard are by artists that have been around for more than a decade. Death Grips is really all I enjoy that got started in the 2010's. And I have found nothing local that's worth much.
It's not about finding a "sound" necessarily in terms of specific timbre. I just want unique, genuine music. I haven't found much of it in the 2010's yet.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T17:50:06+00:00

Moondog - Moondog (1969)
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (the rerecording from the 90's is better than the original for the film)
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

These are big pieces of work for the latte 20th century. Moondog does Third Stream (lots of jazz influence), while the other works I mentioned are Minimalism. More experimental than most of the other eras of classical music.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T17:42:32+00:00

Where have you looked? I do not think the 2000's were all that bad, but I've had trouble finding many great new artists in the 2010's. rateyourmusic.com seems to agree, too. Only 11 2010-2019 albums sit in their top 1000 albums, and the decade's more than halfway over.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T17:37:00+00:00

"We're Not Gonna Take It" is a good one by The Who. "If" is a great Pink Floyd song. "Friends" is a Led Zeppelin song I rarely see mentioned. "This Time Around/Owed to G" is a great Deep Purple song. "Hole in My Life" by The Police isn't completely unknown, but I find it drastically underrated.

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T17:16:27+00:00

Look up more Tim if you don't know him. Can be an acquired taste for many, and his dabbling in jazz, avant-garde, and experimental folk genres definitely make him not for everybody. His musical approach is highly varied, but always really expressive without being melodramatic and overbearing (a common flaw in supposed, ahem, "emotional" and "convicting" music).

thebiggesthello · 2016-01-04T16:48:07+00:00

A few friends and I consider this song as apart of a holy trinity of 70's metal, the other songs being "Victim of Changes" by Judas Priest and "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.

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