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StrawberryFields91 said
I think we’re due for a new question:Which part of a song do you tend to experience most? (Melody, lyrics, instruments, etc.) Does it depend on the song?
Melody and lyrics have to be in tandem for me to really enjoy a song.
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Offline Maybe I am the only person in the world who values lyrics above all else. Yes, I appreciate melodies, musicianship, etc., but to me they’re more like a vessel for the lyrics than the point of the song.
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15 November 2018
Offline I love lyrics too, but they just aren’t really a part of the music for me. I read them separately, like poetry.
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Hmmm. It’s hard to quantify. For me, it’s the overall mood of a song, which the lyrics do contribute to if I know them; words typically act as texture more than anything, though, and I go by more of a general tone than specific meaning. The music, I would say, carries outsize weight.
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10 March 2017
Offline The music for sure, lyrics are great but it’s the music under it that really matters.
A perfect way to understand this is to take a good song with bad lyrics and compare it to a bad song with good lyrics, say Sweet Lady (Queen, 1975) vs Sunflower (Post Malone, 2018). Sunflower has better lyrics but when it comes to the actual music, it doesn’t hold a candle to Sweet Lady’s with it’s brilliant 3/4 backing track and intricate weaving of guitar parts during the solo, all on top of a great vocal performance by Freddie. Compare that to Sunflower, which is a barren wasteland of basic synth parts over a drum machine, all on top of autotuned vocals.
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26 January 2017
Offline For me, I obviously like to have both, but I am more likely to enjoy great music with bad lyrics than I am bad music with great lyrics, if that makes sense.
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What’s your least favorite book you had to read in school?
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15 November 2018
Offline Ooohhhhhh that’s tough… not counting the “see Spot run” type little kiddie books from kindergarten, I’d have to say The Pearl. I can’t stand Steinbeck, I can’t stand The Pearl, and I couldn’t stand my teacher or the essays I had to write about it. (Yes, essays is plural.)
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18 December 2017
Offline i haven’t yet been forced to read anything i wasn’t at least mildly interested in yet. i like reading too much. especially classics.
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Offline What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver
I despised it so much, as did most of the class. Not fond memories
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver
I despised it so much, as did most of the class. Not fond memories
I didn’t read it in class, but I failed to appreciate it and dropped the book halfway. He did have a unique writing style, yet not my type.
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Offline The Hole Got Fixed said
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: A collection of short stories by Raymond Carver
I despised it so much, as did most of the class. Not fond memories
i think my mum has a copy of that in her library… hm.
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26 January 2017
Offline I’m doing Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles in English at the moment, and I’m not a huge fan of it. The storyline is really powerful and ahead of its time (basically it’s a very sad tale of an oppressed Victorian era farm girl who suffers a lot at the hands of the hypocritical patriarchy, and it contains some pretty shocking stuff for the 1800s including a rape), but the way it’s executed is mind-numbingly boring, since Hardy decides to spend most of every chapter describing in great deal all the details of wherever a given scene is taking place.
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Offline 50yearslate said
Ooohhhhhh that’s tough… not counting the “see Spot run” type little kiddie books from kindergarten, I’d have to say The Pearl. I can’t stand Steinbeck, I can’t stand The Pearl, and I couldn’t stand my teacher or the essays I had to write about it. (Yes, essays is plural.)
I love Steinbeck, he’s probably my favourite author. I could read The Grapes of Wrath over and over again.
QuarryMan said
I’m doing Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles in English at the moment, and I’m not a huge fan of it. The storyline is really powerful and ahead of its time (basically it’s a very sad tale of an oppressed Victorian era farm girl who suffers a lot at the hands of the hypocritical patriarchy, and it contains some pretty shocking stuff for the 1800s including a rape), but the way it’s executed is mind-numbingly boring, since Hardy decides to spend most of every chapter describing in great deal all the details of wherever a given scene is taking place.
When I was 16-17 I read Hardy’s 3 ‘big ‘uns’- Tess, Jude The Obscure, and Far From The Madding Crowd.
Madding Crowd, I can barely remember what happens in it. Jude will make you contemplate taking your own life- it is that depressing, and Tess is wonderfully written but is a tragedy as Hardy loves doing. The man’s true love was his Wessex countryside, my God !
I had to study some of his poems for my leaving cert exams and there was more wonderful bounciness and happiness that Hardy oozes.
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I’m tempted to say Amsterdam but tbh I’d need about half an hour to actually come to anything close to a conclusion.
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