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When I listen to music I like to appreciate artistic merit and some damn fine chops. Mashups do absolutely nothing for me because they remove everything that makes music enjoyable.

I'm not going to be an over-analytical weirdo about it, but it just makes me feel alienated when nearly my entire facebook newsfeed is in love with the new Girl Talk album and I don't see a shred of appeal in it. Usually I'm able to find something, but mashups just smack of a lack of real creativity and skill in making music.

Fathom Zero

Nov 16th, 2010 07:27 PM

Shit, post-post edits suck ass.

Anyway, I'll disagree with you, since most of the music I like involves sampling in some way.

What would you have to say to the Young Punx and Phonat, whom make the samples they use? Are they terrible artists? Or is it only terrible if someone uses someone else's sound IN AN IMAGINATIVE WAY? Actually, that's why I like Kanye West's Power. Fucking King Crimson samples in there, yeh.

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When I listen to music I like to appreciate artistic merit

Douchechills

Do those people you know also like Asher Roth? Girl Talk is as pop as this subversive stuff can get. It's all fucking antiseptic. There are a bajillion better DJs and musicians out there. Dig into some older bootlegs, stuff like Frenchbloke & Son, Soundhog, the Freelance Hellraiser, Dsico, etc.

Esuohlim

Nov 16th, 2010 08:06 PM

I mean, obviously I don't know enough about this stuff to really pass judgment upon it, but isn't the point of music to not think about it and just enjoy it? And that's the problem. For some reason I can't just enjoy it. I have to break it down like it's a science.

So for Girl Talk, when I hear ELO's Mr. Blue Sky over some hip hop beat, or Blue Oyster Cult and The Cars at the same time, it just feels soulless. Like, I know the dude put these two songs together on purpose and as a result it feels lacking in true inspiration. I sort of have the same problem with cover songs.

So I guess I don't really have a problem with artists making their own samples? I don't have to like it but I can understand the appeal a bit better.

I don't know, man, the more I talk about music the gayer I sound. It's like some weird-ass autistic personality disorder characteristic.

At least we have Oingo Boingo in common :hat

Fathom Zero

Nov 16th, 2010 08:17 PM

Everyone's too worried about being too cool for the room. I don't pay too much attention to that part of my brain, since it screams at me all day for being too much anything. Obviously, I'd appreciate the intricacies of country if it was my favorite. I could tell you where the artist that made a mashup is from by listening to it, at this point. This music scene is where I'm at. But bootlegs and bastard pop and mashups are what got me into every other genre of music because half of the fun is making songs out of more and more disparate elements.

But yeah, just fucking like what you like and say something sucks if you think it sucks. People don't need to qualify their opinions! ENJOY IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL! BOINGO!