Friday Day Music Thread
by Matthew on Dec 16, 2011 10:59 AM PST
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PrintI cannot remember all the prompts Jeff has used, sooooo, favorite musical instrument?
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I must be missing something.
Either that or I’m a dummy.
イチロー!
by Slow Country on Dec 16, 2011 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
Your signature line is Japanese and you just declared that you think pianos, inanimate objects, are sexy.
So I linked to a comment joking about how a suitcase, inanimate object, being rolled by a Japanese person might be his actual wife.
That is the sort of tenuous connection my brain makes all the time instead of learning how to talk to girls.
by Matthew on Dec 16, 2011 2:07 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
You should try talking to women
Don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of hearing ‘Stranger Danger’ at ear-splitting volumes.
Two tips
1. Wear earplugs
2. Try the college instead of the local high school
I made those same two changes a while back and it made a world of difference!
Sax-a-mo-phone
The Lounge Lizards – The Voice of Chunk (live on Night Music) (bonus points for Marc Ribot on guitar)
The Lounge Lizards – The Hanging
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I'll stick to honesty and say the grand piano.
It has resonance and percussive qualities unavailable to electronic varieties of the instrument, convenient as these may be. Ornette Coleman once said something which I can’t quote precisely to the effect that if the sound of a clarinet is 4 inches wide, the sound of an electric guitar is 25 inches, and I get what he means, but a solo electric guitar is not for me as interesting or “full” as a solo piano.
I first had the desire to play the piano after hearing, when I was 12, theVelvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting for the Man.” This led me to extended sessions of pounding on an old upright, eventually to piano lessons from 75 yr old Mrs Grosvenor, to the music of Bela Bartok and my own partly-improvised recitals, then synthesizers in a band.
Favorite solo piano pieces: Alban Berg Piano Sonata #1,performed by Glenn Gould, or Serge Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata #7,also performed by Gould (other pianists I’ve heard tend not to pound as hard in the final movement, a movement which reminds me of “I’m Waiting for the Man.”)
Or “Dream,” by John Cage,simple and slow, which you can play with one hand.
ignacio
Fiddle
As long as it’s not playing Devil Went Down to Georgia
The voice.
A capella is stunningly beautiful when it’s done right.
"Satisfaction is the enemy of success." SanFranPreps
Drums all day long.
Whenever I go to shows, I will tend to watch the drummer.
by seattle_since_81 on Dec 16, 2011 12:25 PM PST reply actions
The first hipster to come in here and say the theremin gets a punch in the throat
I’ve always loved the piano, myself. I envy people that can play the piano well almost more than I envy people that can play a professional sport well. It’s an incredibly hard instrument to learn, much less to master, and when it’s played well it’s otherworldly.
by pdb on Dec 16, 2011 12:25 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Well then, you will have to punch RunningFool in the throat next time you see him.
by seattle_since_81 on Dec 16, 2011 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
Would a mention of the Armonica get a throat punch too?
But no, I’m going with piano, for basically all your reasons. I feel like I could figure out a guitar, and have played woodwinds. A piano to me is like Chopin in front of an internet machine, “What is this, how do I work it, holy shit it’s complex but awesome when someone else uses it”
by Craptastic-J on Dec 16, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
What the hell is a thermin?
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot
by beastwarking on Dec 16, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
It's a musical instrument that uses electrical current to make noise
You don’t even have to touch it. You control the pitch by moving your hands around it.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion used to use a theremin a lot. I don’t have access to YouTube at work but look up Jon Spencer or “very rare” (a song off their first album) to get a sense for what it sounds like.
It was a very early precursor to the synthesizer, used in some 1940s-50s films
to make an “otherworldly” sound. Olivier Messiaen kind of ruined a couple of his pieces for orchestra by utilizing it a few times. It sounds corny or kitschy now. Jon Spencer used it just here and there as a kind of joke.
ignacio
There is not much better in life than the sound that comes out of a Stratocaster when in the hands of David Gilmour.
"All I saw was purple. No jerseys, no numbers, just purple." - Todd Marinovich
by bmxnw on Dec 16, 2011 12:31 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Piano.
Love playing on it, even if I can’t even read musical notes to save my life.
by Aaroniero Arruruerie on Dec 16, 2011 12:33 PM PST reply actions
Tenor saxophone.
I think the word “cool” gets misappropriated a lot, to mean “good” or “alright” or whatnot. Stop using it like that! It has its own meaning!
Cool is the sound of a raspy tenor saxophone, dancing on top of chord changes and a lazy high hat. It’s killing it without giving a fuck that your killing it.
Hurdy Gurdy.
Cool is the sound of a shrill hurdy gurdy being played over the sound of para-religious Hungarian Chanting.
by Ballard Erik on Dec 16, 2011 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
I mostly get that feeling at renaissance street fairs anyway.
ye olde faire hurdy gurdy if you will.
by Ballard Erik on Dec 16, 2011 1:33 PM PST up reply actions
Don't remember. Probably youtube related suggestions.
Every once in awhile I trawl around for foreign music because I figure I’ll never get exposed to it otherwise
I was actually thinking of "Future's So Bright"
But that’s Timbukthree.
Electric guitar
It drives most of my favorite genres of music, and most of my favorite musicians play it.
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by lailaihei on Dec 16, 2011 1:03 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Mine too. Like David Gilmour, Alex Lifeson and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Any coincidence that these guys all prefer ‘Strats’? Maybe.
"All I saw was purple. No jerseys, no numbers, just purple." - Todd Marinovich
Acoustic guitar
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Dec 16, 2011 1:31 PM PST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
I find I most enjoy the sound of an acoustic guitar when in the hands of someone who normally plays an electric guitar.
"All I saw was purple. No jerseys, no numbers, just purple." - Todd Marinovich
Trumpet.
Stuff like this is pretty incredible. What a good artist can do with it is just amazing. Too bad horns have fallen out of favor in modern music, or have been replaced by synth-horns.
Clifford Brown and Miles Davis records are still out there.
Or Cuong Va. Dave Douglas. Tomasz Stanko. Roy Hargrove, even.
ignacio
Should've said mainstream music I guess.
Obviously people are still recording pieces with horns, but you’re not going to find much on your local top 40.
I pretty much like any song featuring strings.
Violins, Cellos, Violas. I love ’em.
Check out Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground
They have some great string usage, along with nearly every other contemporary instrument.
by Cascadian Man on Dec 16, 2011 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks.
I enjoyed that a lot. I’d never heard of them, so thanks for steering me towards it.
Everyone has heard of Sigur Ros by now, buthere is a song with a really good use of strings as well, especially towards the end.
I'm partial to the sitar myself
Something like this. Though not picking the electric guitar was a really hard choice.
The idiot formerly known as pkyankeefan! Now in Technicolour!
French horn.
As my friend put it, “Name one other instrument with a 5 octave range? Name one other instrument that is brass but plays in a woodwind quartet? Name one other instrument that when you get 4 together produces any part of any score?”
And how can you argue with this?
Oh man...
does this ever take me back. I was a DMB nerd at the end of High School and college, though since Everyday came out I just can’t muster up the appreciation I once felt. Loved what Fleck brought to Before These Crowded Streets (along with Alanis Morissette). Spoon.
Love that song.
Such great lyrics. I love the part about being on the cross wondering if Dad could be God… Pretty great. It’s really too bad about everyday. That album should have been Busted Stuff which would have been a great album.
DMB has been fantastic the last few years with Tim Reynolds touring with them.
Zanzithophone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzithophone
Used prominently in Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
Herdy Gerdy
Now that is a cool instrument…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MZ4fbfy12Q
I wish I could find better audio since I have a DVD of this song with much better audio but the Herdy Gerdy is the instrument at the very beginning.
Trombone players! We must stand united.
Also accordion is pretty cool too.
by The Awesomest on Dec 16, 2011 6:29 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I bought an accordion this summer
and then moved into a house with nine roommates. :(
Sincerely,
Nice, me too!
Do you play in a group? I still play but I don’t have anyone to play with, nor do I have the time :(
by The Awesomest on Dec 17, 2011 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
Guitar is pretty great, and I'm also a big fan of drums (the traditional 3-5 piece rock set)
but if I had to choose a favorite I’d probably say the pedal steel. In the right hands it’s absolutely gorgeous.
Never any love for the Euphonium.
Sad, so sad. Give me low brass any day.
Although I am fond of a good soprano cornet.
Outside of the brass family, baritone sax and harp. My godfather is an incredible, amazing harp player and there’s nothing quite like well played harp music for weddings, functions and quiet time after eating during a BBQ.
by Aussie Mariner on Dec 16, 2011 8:24 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Aw yeah, low brass bros for life
Let’s sit in the back and chuck spitballs at the flutes
by The Awesomest on Dec 16, 2011 8:52 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
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