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Kirbo:
You use big complicated words.

I'll be honset, I don't know of any of those bands you mentioned. All I can go by is my ears.

Revolution 9 just seems like a complete non-sequitur, put on the album to flesh it out and make it more experimental. I just think it's downright stupid. Maybe if I understood the lyrics, but I'm god awful at analysing things.

Oh, and I don't find Speech musical at all.

Patrick:

--- Quote from: Kirbo ---The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin is also overlooked.
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HOWWWW?!! God I adore that song.

Also, to E. Spaceman: Yeah, I've gotta say, a lot of Clapton's solo work is total shite. I mean, I adore his work with Cream, and I love Derek and the Dominoes, and even "Presence of the Lord" by Blind Faith is good shit. But he only has a few songs worth a damn as a solo artist.

SpacemanSpiff:

--- Quote from: Kai ---Octopus' Garden is easily the worst song they ever wrote ever.
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Say what? Son, I think you're forgetting what the song's about. It's about octopusses. You know, those squishy guys who can ask "Who wants four hugs? Simul-fucking-taneously." and actually follow through with that shit. You gotta respect that.

Oh, the song. Decent, I guess.

KharBevNor:
Okay, here's one. Skindred - Nobody. This song could have saved so many souls during the dark final days of nu-metal, but instead it languished in obscurity. For shame! For shame!

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: nescience ---
--- Quote from: Kirbo ---
--- Quote from: nescience ---Open your mind son
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Clean out your ears son. It's not musical, it may be artsy or something, but it's not a song.
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"Not Musical"?  Eh?  I'm going to have to once again respectfully disagree.  I'll give it to you that "Revolution 9" non-melodic, dissonant, and seemingly unstructured, but by your reckoning, ambient, tape-collage and musique concrète should be considered "non-musical."  "Revolution 9", as well as works by Negativland, Faust, the Tape-Beatles, Fripp & Eno, and John Cage (4′33″ being a well-known example) all use nonstandard instrumentation or recording techniques and the result is often surprising and discordant (or, in the case of 4'33", almost completely silent), but the works are ultimately unified and illuminating.  To me, saying a work like "Revolution 9" isn't musical is like saying birdsong isn't musical, or speech isn't musical, or the outside world isn't musical, and a multitude of musical composers, artists and sound-samplers remind us time and again that that is not the case.

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I'm afraid that what's musical and what's not is irrelevant, because Revolution 9 is terrible. I'm afraid there are many acts and songs that I can accept someone's like or dislike of them, but Revolution 9 is not one of them. It really is just noise. And that 'piece' by John Cage is even worse.

'course, that's just my opinion. But I hate a great deal of The Beatles anyway, and it's regularly voted 'best album ever' or some shit, so what do I know.

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