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Lazy songwriting techniques

Started by alan nagsworth, April 21, 2013, 11:08:45 PM

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Kane Jones

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on April 25, 2013, 03:48:45 PM
The Kiss video game was amazing as well

I'm not a gamer, but I heard it was excellent.

checkoutgirl

Quote from: Kane Jones on April 25, 2013, 03:45:30 PM
He's apparently had sex with over 4,000 women, so I guess money and power are a big aphrodisiac to some visually impaired people.

There.

Kane Jones

Quote from: checkoutgirl on April 25, 2013, 03:57:55 PM
There.

He's an ugly bastard, sure.  He's still got more money, sold more albums (100 million worldwide) and had more sex than you or I will ever have.  So I would imagine he's having the last laugh.

I can fully understand why you hate him though.  He's horrible.

Johnny Yesno

He should stop wearing that freaky make-up when he's not playing, though.

Brundle-Fly

Is that a wig Gene's wearing? Can I spy a tiny trace of gauze there?


My old pet hate was the usage of the twinkly mark tree percussive instrument on saccharine 1980's soul ballads to imply that romance is in the air.

Don_Preston

Quote from: Kane Jones on April 25, 2013, 09:49:33 AM
I love Kiss and although this is probably one of their worst/naffest songs, the hooks and pop songwriting sensibilities are there in spades. Paul Stanley is very competent at writing sing-along anthems, whether they're your thing or not.

You are Julian Cope, and I love your books.

The Roofdog

Quote from: Neville Chamberlain on April 23, 2013, 04:30:18 PM
Yes, I get the whole metaphor thing, but my point is you can't even begin to build anything in the sky!!! The metaphor would have more credibility if it was something about building castles on, say, a flood plain. You could still build something, but it wouldn't last long.

Why do we persist in using prestressed concrete lintels when our main support beam should be the rolled steel joist?

Oh tell me why.

Kane Jones

Quote from: Don_Preston on April 26, 2013, 04:30:00 PM
You are Julian Cope, and I love your books.

I'm incredibly flattered, although I'm sad to say you are incorrect on this occasion.

Kane Jones

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 25, 2013, 07:41:55 PM
Is that a wig Gene's wearing? Can I spy a tiny trace of gauze there?

I think Gene's been wearing a syrup since the late eighties, to be honest.

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: The Roofdog on April 26, 2013, 05:20:11 PM
Why do we persist in using prestressed concrete lintels when our main support beam should be the rolled steel joist?

Oh tell me why.

I would definitely buy that record.

McFlymo

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on April 26, 2013, 06:51:48 PM
I would definitely buy that record.

Me too.

We just need a few more lines, then I can fire up a suitably fucked up backing track to sing over.

NoSleep

Sounds like a natural candidate for a blues.

holyzombiejesus

quietquietquiet*treadonpedal*LOUDLOUDLOUD

It was great when Slint did it but around the time of Mogwai's 2nd album it became so tedious.

The Roofdog

Mogwai's 2nd album is nearly all quiet bits!

holyzombiejesus

You need to turn it up a bit.

easytarget

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on May 01, 2013, 12:33:32 PM
quietquietquiet*treadonpedal*LOUDLOUDLOUD

<hangs head in shame, leaves thread>

On the other hand, there are no good songs that don't use this technique.
Not. A. Single. One.

The fake ending.

Everything stops. Silence. Then ANOTHER CHORUS!!!

See 3.50 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFPU--vvf0

Common for live versions[nb]by cheesy stadium/arena rockers[/nb].

Subtle Mocking

Quote from: thecuriousorange on May 02, 2013, 03:20:18 PM
The fake ending.

Everything stops. Silence. Then ANOTHER CHORUS!!!

Not a fan of 'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)' then?

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on May 01, 2013, 12:33:32 PM
quietquietquiet*treadonpedal*LOUDLOUDLOUD

It was great when Slint did it but around the time of Mogwai's 2nd album it became so tedious.

Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwujU8nra2o

NoSleep

Slint were (decades) late bandwagon jumpers:

The Stooges

Family

...and pick virtually any Pere Ubu album you care to (the first 5 + Terminal Tower anyways).

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: NoSleep on May 02, 2013, 03:57:23 PM
Slint were (decades) late bandwagon jumpers:

The Stooges

Family

...and pick virtually any Pere Ubu album you care to (the first 5 + Terminal Tower anyways).

Blimey, NoSleep! Is there anyone who's taken an influence from an earlier artist that isn't a bandwagon jumper, in your opinion?

I mean, is it even possible to be a '(decades) late bandwagon jumper'? Surely that kind of lateness goes against the very definition of bandwagon jumping.

NoSleep

So it's ok to say Mogwai are tedious, following in the shoes of Slint, but not that Slint were latecomers themselves? (I was joking whilst, hopefully, enlightening these youngsters who think Slint are veterans of dynamics).

NoSleep

Most of this thread, including the Mogwai/Slint comment, is discussion of song arrangement, rather than songwriting techniques.

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: NoSleep on May 02, 2013, 04:24:48 PM
So it's ok to say Mogwai are tedious, following in the shoes of Slint, but not that Slint were latecomers themselves? (I was joking whilst, hopefully, enlightening these youngsters who think Slint are veterans of dynamics).

Fair enough. I thought Slint and Mogwai's work was, at least in part, contemporaneous (which, to my mind, is necessary for a proper bandwagon jump) but it wasn't.

Quote from: NoSleep on May 02, 2013, 04:35:15 PM
Most of this thread, including the Mogwai/Slint comment, is discussion of song arrangement, rather than songwriting techniques.

It's still part of the songwriting process, though, isn't it?

gabrielconroy

The Stooges were copying Beethoven's dynamics.

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: gabrielconroy on May 02, 2013, 04:57:45 PM
The Stooges were copying Beethoven's dynamics.

Yes, that was my first thought too, but then I realised that Slint and Mogwai weren't contemporaries. So I guess that means that it's logically consistent to say that if Mogwai were jumping on Slint's bandwagon then Slint were jumping on The Stooges' bandwagon and The Stooges were jumping on Beethoven's bandwagon. Which was NoSleep's point, I believe.


Famous Mortimer

I went to see Mogwai a few years back, and the wind-downs to their songs took so bloody long that even their fans were shouting "for fuck's sake get on with it!"

Petey Pate

Quote from: thecuriousorange on May 02, 2013, 03:20:18 PM
The fake ending.

Everything stops. Silence. Then ANOTHER CHORUS!!!

Electric big band jazz man Don Ellis loved fake endings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1VLVRRz4uM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

daf

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on May 01, 2013, 12:33:32 PM
quietquietquiet*treadonpedal*LOUDLOUDLOUD

Something the brickwall re-mastering technique has done it's best to eradicate :

Smells like teen spirit - 1991 top, 2011 remaster bottom :


Idiots.