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>>1821728
Uh huh. Told you that himself, did he?
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>>1821729
pls
>>1821731
Well it usually doesn't for me, either. Take Modest Mouse for example. I can't stand even 30 seconds of any of their music before The Moon and Antarctica. They made terribly produced music because that's what they wanted to make then. That's fine, I'm glad a lot of people liked that. It felt like rusty forks in my ears. What I'm saying is that in this particular instance, the lack of pitch-perfect tones and off-timing add to the ambiance. You're right, it's rare that this sort of thing actually works for any musician, and that's why I place it above production. Anyone can hammer away at instruments and make sounds, that's self-expression and it usually bores me. Getting everything perfect, on time, and produced exactly takes a lot of time, effort, and talent, and I definitely respect that. But, if you can make "bad" music sound good because the way the music is made perfectly fits the mood and message of the song, that's even rarer and catches even more of my attention. Think of old blues music. It was, mechanically, terrible. Everything was off-timed, no one even knew what a beat scale was, and it all just kind of followed whatever the singer was horribly cawing because that's what blues music was all about back then. But, that gritty, scratched-record sound perfectly matched what the songs were usually about, because it was meant to make you sad. Being on point with tone and timing was all but out of the question. Making well-produced blues would have been like making a house electronic song without any sort of metronome. It would just be bad because it defeats the whole purpose of the music.
>>1821736
That's a really good example. I like both versions of that song, but I'm heavily preferential to Cash's because he really drives home the pain of the lyrics. It sounds like he's lived those lyrics. It's not "good" in the sense that some 20-something with the voice of an angel could sing, but that's not what the song is about.
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