>-My life / my self / look at me / only in second-person.
Seems to qualify, rare.
That's kind of my point, vocals in music are damned stupid.
Remove intelligibility / words from vocals and use the human voice as an instrument and you have something solid. It's the linguistic message that's the problem.
I should have named the thread lyric-driven instead in hindsight.
This is possible an example, though it does seem awfully identityish with the whole California thing. I'll mark it as an edge case.
You have to really dig to find this shit. 99.99% of lyric-driven music is as I described.
Aaron Cox
>Vocal-driven Nah, all vocals in music are cancerous and could easily be replaced with a superior instrument.
Cooper White
>have to dig to find OTC ................
Michael Cook
>You have to really dig to find this shit. 99.99% of lyric-driven music is as I described. >my posts were all within 20 minutes Maybe you just don't listen to enough music
If your problem was with voice as an instrument, you would've said you hated its timbral/ tonal limitations. What you actually said you hate are the things people sing about, which is a reflection of how shallow and dysfunctional our society is, not a case against vocal performance.
The most popular and iconic album on this board, the one in the sticky, makes a strong case in favor of vocal music. I'm sure you "get" the beauty of Jeff's singing and what he sings about , and I use that example specifically because ITAOTS is pop, the music you're criticizing. Compositionally barebones, ineptly played, but moving nonetheless.
Parker Richardson
>not liking the only instrument universally used worldwide You're limiting your music tastes severely, but that's just my opinion
Hunter Parker
>-Identity / kiddie culture crap You don't have a personal identity? >-My life / my self / look at me / You don't have a story to tell? >-Political spew You don't feel passionately about polotics? >-Sappy romantic/sexual crap Have you never been in love? >-Party / inna cluhb / da beech Have you ever been to a party?
So you're against vocal jazz? What'd Frankie boy do to you
Leo Kelly
>music that talks about life is bad
Evan Williams
to be honest, I do feel more or less the same way - aesthetically, lyics when taken individually more often than not come across as amateurish poetry that go about in ham fisted way to get their message across, unless its very sincere (i.e Charlie McAllister - Darla Come Down From Jackson - a sappy love song). Now whether we should even be looking at lyrics outside the sounds they are packaged in is another question, and I'd lean towards no.
SO how about these relatively well known songs as outside your 5 pillars?