Describe the Perfect Record

demonrail666 · 03.17.2007, 07:38 PM

Desscribe a record that doesn't exist but gets closest to what you imagine perfection to be.

Mine would be about 2 - 2 1/2 mins long. open up with lots of trebly feedback and then straight into a kind of walking bass-line but played on guitar. Female Poly-Styrene-like vocals really hidden in the mix behind wall of Spray Paint-era Greg Ginn style multiple-guitar riffs. No solos. Drums have that sloppy Pussy Galore style oil drum sound. Lyrics make tons of references to drugs and prostitution. The song doesn't so much end as finally fall apart as each member loses where they are.

[Edit] Hang on, I think I might've just described the Action Swingers.

terminal pharmacy · 03.17.2007, 08:21 PM

good luck with that

HECKLER SPRAY · 03.17.2007, 08:39 PM

I don't like perfection. Sister is good enough for me.

pantophobia · 03.17.2007, 08:43 PM

cohesiveness

that; all I to say

demonrail666 · 03.17.2007, 08:45 PM

Lack of cohesion is my sole reply

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.17.2007, 10:41 PM

Daydream Nation

nomowish · 03.18.2007, 01:07 AM

This is a fun idea.

It would be a fusion of pop and experimental elements. Both melodic and so out-there that you can't tell where many of the sounds are coming from. But it succeeds at expressing certain identifiable feelings through music and not so much through words. There's a female and male vocalist with totally unique singing styles and sometimes they perform together. Each song is moving towards the next and is connected like a skeleton bone. Every sound is replicable live, so none of that studio trickery. The whole record sounds like a statement, like something new, with few if any identifable influences.

If I were to continue, I wouldn't stop.

ZEROpumpkins · 03.18.2007, 01:40 AM

Every song is solid and good, and sticks to one genre. If I want variety, i'll buy another album.

fluxequalsrad · 03.18.2007, 01:55 AM

Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellencollie and the Infinate Sadness
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine

I love plenty of other albums 100% through and through, but albums either have to have ::
1. Kick your ass so hard after the first song you can't wait to hear that first song again and the the second song owns the first song

2. Be moderately good on first listen and then slowly eek its way into your nostalgia of the time and become some super-human album type thing.

k-krack · 03.18.2007, 02:04 AM

Lots of incredibly fucking weird sounds, confusing and mind-blowing.
Cool-sounding vocals, lots of "YEEAOWOA" and yelps and yips and moans and whatnot... Cool lyrics (be they fucked up or emotive or just neutral and cooool)...(same as Flux's #2, a kind of time-release love... that creeps up on you)...A balance of hook and awesome fucking twisting, confusing time signature'd insane guitar lines... (Picture the Flying Luttenbachers with Pavement... WEIRD!)

It would be fucked up.

something · 03.18.2007, 02:05 AM

eels electro shock blues
radiohead ok computer
dropkick murphys do or die
sonic youth a thousand leaves

fishmonkey · 03.18.2007, 06:10 AM

wowee zowee.

_slavo_ · 03.18.2007, 07:32 AM

- rythmic pulse like in "The World Looks Red"
- Liars-style vocals
- long, fast and angry

that's about it.

03.17.2007, 07:38 PM	#1
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	Desscribe a record that doesn't exist but gets closest to what you imagine perfection to be. Mine would be about 2 - 2 1/2 mins long. open up with lots of trebly feedback and then straight into a kind of walking bass-line but played on guitar. Female Poly-Styrene-like vocals really hidden in the mix behind wall of Spray Paint-era Greg Ginn style multiple-guitar riffs. No solos. Drums have that sloppy Pussy Galore style oil drum sound. Lyrics make tons of references to drugs and prostitution. The song doesn't so much end as finally fall apart as each member loses where they are. [Edit] Hang on, I think I might've just described the Action Swingers.
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03.17.2007, 08:39 PM	#3
HECKLER SPRAY invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Near Paris, France Posts: 3,762	I don't like perfection. Sister is good enough for me. __________________
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03.17.2007, 08:43 PM	#4
pantophobia expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,349	cohesiveness that; all I to say
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	Lack of cohesion is my sole reply
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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	Daydream Nation __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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terminal pharmacy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,358	good luck with that
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nomowish children of satan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 373	This is a fun idea. It would be a fusion of pop and experimental elements. Both melodic and so out-there that you can't tell where many of the sounds are coming from. But it succeeds at expressing certain identifiable feelings through music and not so much through words. There's a female and male vocalist with totally unique singing styles and sometimes they perform together. Each song is moving towards the next and is connected like a skeleton bone. Every sound is replicable live, so none of that studio trickery. The whole record sounds like a statement, like something new, with few if any identifable influences. If I were to continue, I wouldn't stop.
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03.18.2007, 01:40 AM	#8
ZEROpumpkins invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 6,157	Every song is solid and good, and sticks to one genre. If I want variety, i'll buy another album. __________________
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03.18.2007, 01:55 AM	#9
fluxequalsrad stalker Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 442	Pavement - Wowee Zowee Smashing Pumpkins - Mellencollie and the Infinate Sadness Sonic Youth - Murray Street Sonic Youth - Washing Machine I love plenty of other albums 100% through and through, but albums either have to have :: 1. Kick your ass so hard after the first song you can't wait to hear that first song again and the the second song owns the first song 2. Be moderately good on first listen and then slowly eek its way into your nostalgia of the time and become some super-human album type thing.
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03.18.2007, 02:04 AM	#10
k-krack invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: On Posts: 7,380	Lots of incredibly fucking weird sounds, confusing and mind-blowing. Cool-sounding vocals, lots of "YEEAOWOA" and yelps and yips and moans and whatnot... Cool lyrics (be they fucked up or emotive or just neutral and cooool)...(same as Flux's #2, a kind of time-release love... that creeps up on you)...A balance of hook and awesome fucking twisting, confusing time signature'd insane guitar lines... (Picture the Flying Luttenbachers with Pavement... WEIRD!) It would be fucked up. __________________ sandwich klub 4 men. Danny is a C.H.U.D.
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03.18.2007, 02:05 AM	#11
something bad moon rising Join Date: May 2006 Location: i live in the desert where nobody goes Posts: 234	eels electro shock blues radiohead ok computer dropkick murphys do or die sonic youth a thousand leaves __________________ i'll ride off into the sunset of yr colour T.V. http://www.myspace.com/usedtoaster
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03.18.2007, 06:10 AM	#12
fishmonkey invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 2,670	wowee zowee. __________________ "Pescescimmia ha grandi bulbi oculari blu, ognuno attaccato su un lato della sua testa, in modo tale da risucire a guardare indietro senza girare la sua testa pesciosa"
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_slavo_ invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ðîññèÿ Posts: 10,908	- rythmic pulse like in "The World Looks Red" - Liars-style vocals - long, fast and angry that's about it. __________________ you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility
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