Has anyone heard one of his records? I assume the 'music' is made by computers while he shouts?
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Has anyone heard one of his records? I assume the 'music' is made by computers while he shouts?
Now look Grandad, you should like him as it is him and a guitar, doesn't rely on gimics... right up your alley I would sayQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
He plays a guitar? And actually, you know, sings, you mean? I'll pop to HMV and buy his latest release.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
sc, computers do not make music.
Computers may well aid the production and arrangement of music but they don't make it.
Someone still has to arrange all these notes in an order that is easy on the ear based on harmonics and fundamental frequencies. Often a musician.
Ed Sheeran? Ginger haired, Suffolk based guitar strummer. So I hear.
He is actually rather good... the other shocking hting is that you can understand what he is singing.... no more looking on the interweb trying to work out what the hell they are warbling on aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nono: There are blokes who can't play guitars who make records. Honestly. They press buttons on computers.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Worse, there are ****s who go on stage and play records and they get called musicians. The worst of these godless fúcking infections strap torches to their heads.
I wish God would wash away the filth that walks this earth tbh.
:fishing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I have my tickets to see Leftfield :music:
A top bunch of button pushers who will, without a shadow of a doubt, stove my eardrums in with almost visible bass levels. :cloud9:
280 million downloads or streams of his new album in a week (or something like that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Remarkably popular for something so unremarkable.
No hope of a bass player being involved with that bass, I take it? :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I just looked on this 'you tube'.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Appears to be as dull as ditchwater, but, to his credit, at least he can actually play and instrument and sing a bit.
every chance of it, scQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G33kUnk8Rho
You said they were button pushers. I can see blokes playing instruments.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Do you kiss your mother with those lying lips, i?
I suppose you would class his work as being harmless radio music however at risk of sounding old they all sound the same to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Hugely popular in Ireland as you may expect, sold out stadium shows in Croke Park and his audience spanning generations. Of course he does play up to us in respect of his Irish heritage and how he loves to tell us of the summers spent in Wexford with his old granny.
His popularity I must admit to finding mind boggling.
it appears it was a smart move to get Pharrell Williams involved during his early yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I'm just relieved that the likes of him and James Blunt still sell records, because the day will come when kids aren't excited by their heroes playing guitars any more, so they won't spend their formative years locked in their bedrooms trying to master Keith Richards riffs, instead they'll be strutting backwards and forwards shouting 'bitch' into a microphone in a pianful cod-Jamaican accent while some daft **** behind them plays a record.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
And then music will die and the world won't be worth living in any more.
Irrespective of new talent kids will always have the old classics to listen to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
My kids will regularly ask for The Jam or The Clash or SFA to be put on while at the same time explaining to me that the person on the radio is this chap Drake or even that The Weekend is a person.
Take time to embrace all the types of music in the World, sc. They all involve creative and often complex processes that move our souls and enhance our lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Apart from the really shḯt stuff, of course.
This if something a bit special though :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1Hqr8Scq0
I am extremely open-minded and happily listen to both types of music, rock and roll.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
(With thanks to Jake and Elwood there.)
Oh sweet baby Jesus and all the saints. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Never have I seen a group of lads so depserately in need of a punch to the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Learn 'em a bit of respect for common decency.
Grime, the language of the streets I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
No idea how it reached fúcking Sligo mind you.
My. Word.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Well done for trying, I suppose.
That's what I mean though. Back in the day those lads would have been tucked away trying to teach themselves to become Jimmy Page. Now they're just acting like nobs, and they seem well pleased with the effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Where will the next Jimmy Page come from?
Seems a nice enough chap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Though I saw him doing a rap with an acoustic guitar and started to cringe.
he's like a bloke version of Adele imo but not exactly the same.
a bloke adele for women.
He's like Ian Harvey's better-looking brother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
:wave: I'm just waiting for my moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
There is a silly video on youtube where Jack White and the Edge sit there watching him explain and play his classics and then they join in :-(
would be alright if the Edge wasn't there.
there is a ****ing Apple laptop the geezer on the left is 'playing' (Ableton Live, no doubt) via a midi controller keyboard.
That and a number of synthesizers behind the singer. Some have knobs as well as buttons...
I'll think you'll find it's called a macbook :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
:jorge:
What a ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Him, not you.
Hahahaha. What the ****!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Which bit do you specifically disagree with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Them not playing instruments in the conventional manner or them using background recordings or …… ?
I have seen many an electronic act which has been absolutely immense in a live environment but I do concur there are times when you wonder what exactly they are doing behind their equipment.
Music is made with musical instruments of many varieties.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Computers and record players are not musical instruments.
That is all.
The electronic 'acts' you saw were utter shíte and an affront to the good Lord and his appointed representative on earth, Papa Francesco.
I've seen Orbital do an entire gig from a handful of ipads on a table. Looked weird tbh. Virtually tweaking the resonance knob on a tablet screen cannot be as fulfilling as getting your hands on Roland TB-303, shirley?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Much prefer them 'producing live' via their sequenced, analogues.
You get acts who make their music electronically and then instruments are incorporated (by incorporated i mean play the guitar part that was created on a computer etc...) in live gigs. What's your view on that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Ed Sheeran uses a Looper pedal a lot. I quite like this as it's not an easy thing to do. I have one it's good for practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Indeed, I saw Richie Hawtin play a full 5 hours in The End from a laptop, not a vinyl record in sight. Was maybe 15 years ago now so he was quite ahead of others in that respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
When I saw The Orb in December Fehlmann just stood the entire time behind a Mac, **** only knows what **** he was doing all the same.
My view is that music is made my musical instruments. 'Music' made electronically is an offence to nature, like leprosy or hairs on a minge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Shirley, a musical instrument is any object that can be used make a musical sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Including electronic circuitry.
It was never about making music though; it was always about making money. Good music was a coincidence, a means to an end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C