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- There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love."

Who's coming to Synthetic Culture tonight?

And a poll, because this has been on my mind lately. Which genres of music do you like? And I mean really like, makes hairs stand up on the back of your neck or tears come to your eyes or your foot to tap uncontrollably or makes you feel all's right with the world, that sort of like.

This isn't supposed to cover all genres. My purpose will be explained shortly. (I should have put in an 'Other - please state' thingy, so please state your others in the comments.)

[Poll #387696]

Date: 2004-11-19 06:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
You missed blues as a genre. Gotta have me some blues some days...

(And I'm surprised that we haven't had a complaint about a lack of folk yet. Not my cup of tea, but I was expecting it.)

As for what makes something good - competence/excellence on instruments, I guess. Composition plays a large part as well - a good tune played badly is still better than a bad tune played well, IMO.

I'm interested to see that you put "a singer with a really good voice". I'm very into vocals, but I seemd to be thinking more and more these days that vocals are best as part of the soundscape. This probably comes from the last few gigs I've been to, where it was pretty clear that a good vocalist knows (or just subconsiously knows) when and how to use their voice to best effect. I can think of lots of singers who have good voices, but that doesn't mean that they sang well... Or were used well in the arrangement, for that matter.

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