Randomly Crap Out Your Opinions Thread

[darkwinterbeast8]

I, for one, enjoy "experimental" music all across the spectrum. Experimental music is different; it challenges the listener's preconceived notions about music. The intellectual stimulation is certainly part of the appeal, much in the same way experimental literature, film, or paintings/sculptures/what have you provide an intellectual challenge. Beyond that, it's just interesting music. Since they are not constrained by any of the usual guidelines for making music, experimental musicians end up doing some really, really interesting things that, to be blunt, sound cool.

Agree with this.

How does a band go from unique cover arts to this?

Because the band is lazy and/or they hire a lazy person to design their album cover.

[FlyGuyLXI]

I'm more interested in the atmospheric, bleak type of noise that industrial music often provides rather than straight up harsh noise (often referred to as death industrial). Atrax Morgue provides a level of suspense that many other artists cannot provide.

[ULS_980]

Don't get me wrong, I like experimental music. Unconventional instruments and songwriting, stuff like Can, or even Tom Waits can make for some really cool stuff. Even noise, when used well, and in conjunction with, for lack of a better term, real music can be great. (ie: Sonic Youth)

I've been dabbling around other music discussion forums like /mu/ lately, and even here not long ago I heard someone say they've been really into Merzbow lately, and it got me thinking about that. Like, why is it that someone goes just so far off the map and out of conventional music that it's hardly music at all, and just, well, noise. White fuzz, like halfway between two radio stations. And a guy that makes 50 albums of this stuff gets heralded as a genius.

Honestly, I'm curious. This is some of the first music I've heard where I just don't get the appeal whatsoever, to anyone.

Dunno if I can tell you the appeal of Merzbow despite the fact that I do dabble and do enjoy Merzbow's "music".
Maybe because it's interesting to hear how he plays around with different noises, I dunno. It's not so much "random noise" like being between two radio stations so much as it's "controlled noise". To me, it does have a rhyme and reason despite not really having any qualities of music. And that's interesting to me I guess.

I dunno, all I really know is I enjoy some of Merzbow's work. Dunno if I could sit through 50 albums of it, but I do enjoy listening to his stuff once in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7524z0RDDk

Not that it really matters, but this is personally my favorite Merzbow track though. Has more of a drone-y quality to it I guess, something akin to Sunn O))) if you took out the doom stuff and just left the drone/noise. And it's not the type of Merzbow track that makes your ears bleed either. Kinda atmospheric. Even has a little section right at the end that resembles some form of music, ha.

[afterstasis]

If there is a god, it's probably noise.

[clashcityrocker10]

candidate for one of the greatest headlines ever.

Well, if it's going to bring tidings of doom, it might as well do so with an unintended innuendo.

[killer_roach]

Well, if it's going to bring tidings of doom, it might as well do so with an unintended innuendo.

You assume that was unintended...

[supernova1324]

I am starting to read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Kill me now.

On a musical note, making a panflute with nothing but pvc pipe, a hacksaw, and my own calculations is a pain in the ass.

[killer_roach]

I am starting to read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Kill me now.

I've likened myself to Howard Roark before. It's good to get some awkward responses and causes people to back away slowly.

[MrFruitLord]

Ayn Rand

Hahahahahaha what a dummy

[darkwinterbeast8]

Well, if it's going to bring tidings of doom, it might as well do so with an unintended innuendo.

I'm sure that there are some people voting for that politician only because of the fact that his name became an innuendo.

After all, he is intentionally running this filth as an ad.