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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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There are only 12 notes, and only so many combinations that make musical sense. If you start changing a few notes here and there to a song, before long the melody is going to start to sound a little like another, and another.
I have a theory that 60s pop music is regarded so highly because those songwriters were like prospectors at the gold rush, laying claim to all the good pop melody note combinations, once pop music finally broke away from essentially the same chord structure and melody it chained itself to from Rock Around the Clock and Johnny B Goode through to 1963.
Take a random Top 30 chart from 1966, and I can guarantee you'll know the melodies of many/most of those songs. You probably can't do this with a chart from 2002.
Original note combinations are scarce. We're after the gold rush. |
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tweeterdj
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Location: Gwangju
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
There are only 12 notes, and only so many combinations that make musical sense. If you start changing a few notes here and there to a song, before long the melody is going to start to sound a little like another, and another.
I have a theory that 60s pop music is regarded so highly because those songwriters were like prospectors at the gold rush, laying claim to all the good pop melody note combinations, once pop music finally broke away from essentially the same chord structure and melody it chained itself to from Rock Around the Clock and Johnny B Goode through to 1963.
Take a random Top 30 chart from 1966, and I can guarantee you'll know the melodies of many/most of those songs. You probably can't do this with a chart from 2002.
Original note combinations are scarce. We're after the gold rush. |
this is mostly true. music is all mathematical, and mathematically, there are only so many combinations of numbers. i heard someone say once, "pop music sucks now because the beatles took all the good melodies", and you know it is almost true. beatles songs are SOOO catchy it's scary.
as for the chart from 66, there were a LOT fewer genres in the 60s, and therefore people just generally like everything. now there are so many that if there was (for instance) a country song on the 2002 chart, yeah i wouldn't know it.
the lack of original melodies left in the world is made up for by style and original arrangement. if you ask me. which you didn't.  |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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The start of the bridge(?) to Radiohead's Myxomatosis (I. Don't. Know. Why...) sounds exactly like a Chris Knox song that I've forgotten the name of, but which goes "I. Don't. Want. Anything...". I was shocked the first time I heard it.
Oh well. |
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DJTwoTone
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: Yangsan - I'm not sure where it is either
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| The Simpsons' theme song and the basic musical theme of West Side Story use the same 3 notes as a basis. |
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