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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Gridgm on 02 Nov 2006, 14:17
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what's the nerdiest thing you can think of in correlation with music
i just started considering creating a dnd adventure set in the bal saggoth multiverse
i think that may even top people who listen to 8-bit soundtracks
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I went through my sisters Tolkien collection reading all the backstory of Middle Earth so I could understand all the lyrics from Summoning's Dol Guldur...
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i did a complete harmonic analysis of a chopin nocturne. it made my head hurt so bad.
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what's the nerdiest thing you can think of in correlation with music
i just started considering creating a dnd adventure set in the bal saggoth multiverse
i think that may even top people who listen to 8-bit soundtracks
I have notes for an Unknown Armies (modern post-modern horror, kinda) adventure based on The Hold Steady's 'Seperation Sunday'. Its right there with the film treatment i'm working on based on the same album
I PLAYED an indie nerd in an Unknown Armies game... ended up killing Ben Lee
nothing beats Owen Pallet, who as 'Final Fantasy' recorded an album based on the 8 (or 9?) schools of magic in D&D. an indie album, not metal
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I think it would have to be my Everything2 writeups on Illinois (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1800222), The Mouse and the Mask (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1798379), The Fiery Furnaces (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1759790), Blueberry Boat (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1721425), and... hell, a shitload of other music-related things. (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1223826&orderby=createtime%20DESC&usersearch=Valrus&lastnode_id=1383159) I've probably written about 20,000 words about music for that site.
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Last night my dad mentioned a song by the band Badfinger. I proceeded to reel off this: 'Badfinger, who were previously signed to Apple and unhappy with their treatment on the label, and so Paul wrote them a single and it sold well, and they were named after Badfinger Boogie, which was the working title of With A Little Help From My Friends because John Lennon had a broken finger at the time.' Or something.
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I went through my sisters Tolkien collection reading all the backstory of Middle Earth so I could understand all the lyrics from Summoning's Dol Guldur...
:lol: :-D :-D
i think it's just impossible to understand summoning lyrics, they're too orcish for human ears :-)
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I lose in comparison to you guys, but my cousin's fiancee(now husband) is named Geddy, so when I first met him I said "Oh, like Geddy Lee of the Canadian supergroup Rush?!" I didn't even realize how stupid that sounded until he gave me a weird look.
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What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.
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p.s. first post. howdy do?
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What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.
Hurrr Pavement.
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http://nerdyshirts.com/product_info.php?gender=1&products_id=469
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p.s. first post. howdy do?
it was okay...but a WIN in comparisson to what'd just been said
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Will nobody be my fact checking cuz? :cry:
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i dunno it seems normal on the earlier albums...and then something happened
maybe some castrarted him cause they couldn't stand him being so experimental
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i did a complete harmonic analysis of a chopin nocturne. it made my head hurt so bad.
This sounds like standard music major fare.
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this reminded me of this unusually superb piece of heckling as remembered by steve albini.
The Butchershop Quartet had just finished their performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." Dylan and the others performed in heroic style. There was a murmur of confusion amid enthusiastic applause.
"Firebird!"
That indeed is nerdy. In all seriousness, though, Stravinski is totally awesome.
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i did a complete harmonic analysis of a chopin nocturne. it made my head hurt so bad.
This sounds like standard music major fare.
pretty much man. unfortunately my major is more jazz orientated so this type of thing leaves me fucked.
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i did a complete harmonic analysis of a chopin nocturne. it made my head hurt so bad.
Could you educate the masses (me) and explain exactly what a harmonic analysis is and/or does?
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the Canadian supergroup Rush
I have never heard of them referred to as a "supergroup." Oddly enough I've never heard of them being referred to as a power trio either. I'm going to start a new trend, i.e. the popularity of Canadian power trio Rush among de-pop kids.
NOMENCLATURE FTW
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My housemate insists on calling Rush a supergroup, because, by his justification: "They took my favorite drummer, my favorite bassist, and my favorite guitarist of all time and put them all in the one band, and they rocked my fucking eyeballs"
To be fair, I can't exactly fault that reasoning. They are all his favorite musicians.
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i did a complete harmonic analysis of a chopin nocturne. it made my head hurt so bad.
I tell ya, if I had to do that now I'd be quite fucked, but in the glory days of 3 year theory senior year we did stuff like this, for some orchestrated piece. Those fucking violas with their alto clef making shit difficult.
I think the most annoying/nerdy thing I've ever experienced is in one of my music classes the teacher got "angry" with us, so he played a I-V7 chord, then didn't resolve it. People actually gave a shit. And it was fucking annoying, and overtly nerdy.
Could you educate the masses (me) and explain exactly what a harmonic analysis is and/or does?
Basically, if I remember correctly, you take a piece of music bar by bar and figure out each detail of it's chord structure. You use a bunch of fun notation devices like figured bass, and it "does" absolutly nothing. Seriously. Nothing.
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I think the most annoying/nerdy thing I've ever experienced is in one of my music classes the teacher got "angry" with us, so he played a I-V7 chord, then didn't resolve it. People actually gave a shit. And it was fucking annoying, and overtly nerdy.
I could actually see that being really annoying
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Could you educate the masses (me) and explain exactly what a harmonic analysis is and/or does?
Basically, if I remember correctly, you take a piece of music bar by bar and figure out each detail of it's chord structure.? You use a bunch of fun notation devices like figured bass, and it "does" absolutly nothing.? Seriously.? Nothing.
thats the one dude. i had to write what each chord of every bar was using roman numerals(to denote what degree of the scale the chord was on),
i had to identify these horrible things called secondary dominants ( which is a chord based on the dominant(5th) degree of any chord in your key signature),
look for enharmonic modulations (which is where the music changes key on you without going through the proper channels of regular modulation-it just takes the diminished 7th of the key then re-writes it so it fits into another key and then goes to that key, regular modulation has like a billion rules and is a real headache to look for)
and i had to identify all the non-harmonic tones. there a bunch of categories of non-harmonic tones to choose from. they are notes that are not in the key you are in but it sounds pretty if you chuck a couple in every now and again.
from what i gather, the point of all of this is to see how fucking clever the composer was and how he put all this thought into the composition. also so we can prove that we've learnt something. sometimes i wonder whether the composer had no clue what they were doing and just wrote a bunch of sounds that they thought worked well together rather than thinking about what chord voicing resolves best from a half diminished 7th in 3rd inversion.
so yeah. welcome to my incredibly fucked up uni course haha
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Wondering why Spawn of Possession lists Dmitri Shostakovich as their foremost influence.? Noctambulant was VERY Baroque.? Shostakovich wrote a few operas and a bunch of semi-modern classical that didn't approach that level of technicality.? And I'm still looking for the composer that they sound most like.
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Getting angry when Jeph compared The Fiery Furnaces to Meatloaf, then looking for Meatloaf tendancies at the Fiery Furnaces show... i settled on The Great Goddess Eleanor's sash and serious expression
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well some of their lyrics make as much sense as "hot patootie bless my soul"
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There's a bit difference between a theatrical songwriter writing theatrical songs (Jim Steinmen) and a guy who has taken pages out of nautical journals and financial papers 'cause he likes being weird (Matt Friedberger, who i actually interviewed)
i will admit that "My Dog Was Lost (But Now Its Found)" (off Blueberry Boat) is as silly as "Objects In The Rearview Mirror (May Be Closer Than They Appear)" (off Bat Out Of Hell 2)
man i listen to too much Meat Loaf
how tasty would a Blueberry Bat Out of Hell be?