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What are you listening to?
Thrillho:
I got Hanson's 2004 album Underneath for three quid because a YouTuber I admire said they turned out to be a pretty good band.
Their songwriting is rote. They have nothing to say. They are white boys, born of privilege.
But my God does this album just sound amazing. The guitars, the melodies, the HARMONIES.
I'm getting like, Disney nears at just how incredible this sounds, but life is challenging at the moment so I'm not really that confused by this.
Morituri:
You guys know what "easy listening" music was, right?
There used to be an "Easy listening hour" on a radio station near me every day at 6 PM. I remember it, but didn't really care a great deal. Still don't as it happens.
But I've been having "difficult listening hours" for a little while. And today's another one.
Here's a pair of things. Warning, most people won't think they're music.
https://soundcloud.com/thehumanoperators/babble
https://soundcloud.com/thehumanoperators/lgdb-quiethouse-oct18-seg-01-16bitwav-1stdiffbandpass
pwhodges:
Either of those could have been a small component of a composition by Stockhausen in the 1950s. Not really as radical as all that to my ear!
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 26 Mar 2019, 15:37 ---You guys know what "easy listening" music was, right?
There used to be an "Easy listening hour" on a radio station near me every day at 6 PM. I remember it, but didn't really care a great deal. Still don't as it happens.
But I've been having "difficult listening hours" for a little while. And today's another one.
--- End quote ---
There's a radio station in Perth, Australia, with a Difficult Listening show every Sunday. You can even listen online if you don't happen to live in Perth.
https://rtrfm.com.au/shows/difficultlistening/
--- Quote ---The second half of the 20th century saw significant innovation take place in the realm of avant-garde classical composition.
With composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis taking classical composition into realms that were previously unheard of, the foundations were laid for a tradition of experimental, exploratory and otherwise “difficult” musical forms to develop.
Difficult Listening takes in compositions from the legends of new music alongside works by lesser known composers and artists working in a range of styles that push the very barriers of sound creation and composition.
Including, but not limited to, styles such as modernism, early computer music, spectral music, noise, improvisation, drone and ambient music, Difficult Listening provides an important space for sounds that exist well outside of the realms of musical normality.
You can listen to live sets from the show on their Soundcloud.
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hedgie:
Years ago, I picked up an album entitled "Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing"[1] It is part of the noise genre.
[1] Warning: Boyd Rice, one of the artists on that one is a total prolapsed arsehole
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