Introduce me to good rock music

[MikeH]

Beat you to it on Cowboys From Hell.

[dannubis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XScq7NLRnYU

A terrific life band

[Al B. Sure!]

You basically described everything I look out for in music.

PANTERA FTMFW

Yeah I'm seeing the disconnect is too great. This stuff you like is, like the rock Cockney and Thoth like, painful for me.

This is great rock music, to me... 3 songs of different styles...

[MikeH]

Here's a couple of my old band's old songs for you, bound to convert you.

Find more Sonic Undermind songs at Myspace Music

Find more Sonic Undermind songs at Myspace Music

[OzzyKP]

What the hell? This ******* makes the page take forever to load by putting seven non-spoilered videos in one post and I can't even ignore him?

Suck it.

[OzzyKP]

Maybe this is more your speed:

[Al B. Sure!]

Here's a couple of my old band's old songs for you, bound to convert you.

Find more Sonic Undermind songs at Myspace Music

Find more Sonic Undermind songs at Myspace Music

Don't want to make you feel bad, but this is really not my thing. The beginning to Magic Helmet is actually the exact sort of instrumentation that I hate in rock music. Why do people think that is aesthetically pleasing? It's like angry kill people music.

[Al B. Sure!]

Maybe this is more your speed:

One of my favorite rappers, Phonte from Little Brother, covered "Africa".



Belle and Sebastian is good, too. It reminds me of Jason Mraz

That is good rock music

[Lorizael]

Things I find abhorrent:

Lengthy musical interludes...

So... music?

[Al B. Sure!]

So... music?

I mean instrumentation. Without lyrics. There's only a certain length a break-beat/bridge/whatever should be and it should be in a specific place (after the second verse).

The repetition of a verse, hook, verse, (maybe a hook) is effectively flipped on its head by the break-beat. That's why it's there in that specific spot on most popular songs.

The rock instrumentation just sounds obnoxious for various reasons. The distorted guitars are 'violent'. The bridge is in the wrong place. There's multiple such interludes. There's a bunch of things but mostly those distorted guitar riffs sound terrible to me.

[Lorizael]

I mean instrumentation.

So... music?

[Al B. Sure!]

So... music?

I'm not going to get into another debate about the primacy of lyrics over instrumentation. Let's just say the communicative power of words, which possesses the power to express ideas as well as emotion, exceeds that of instrumentation which can only express emotion.

[Lorizael]

...exceeds that of instrumentation which can only express emotion.

Uh. No.

[OzzyKP]

That is good rock music

[giblets]

He likes rap. He can't relate to anything that isn't spelled out in words I guess.