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Old 05-07-2021, 05:30 PM   #1
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Default 12tone: Understanding that "Rat in a Cage" song

What's up nerds?


 
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Old 05-07-2021, 06:44 PM   #2
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Kinda cool ��

 
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Old 05-07-2021, 10:24 PM   #3
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that was really good, thanks for posting

not really feeling the left thumbnail on that guy though

 
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Old 05-07-2021, 11:54 PM   #4
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holy shit, can't believe I didn't notice that

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 12:31 AM   #5
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very cool

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 01:33 AM   #6
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big fan of long thumbnails, reprise85?

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 01:51 AM   #7
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not that part

the music part

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 02:29 AM   #8
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i dunno it would have been nice if there was something else to fixate your eyes on for 20 goddamn minutes besides this ugly ass bigfoot mongoloid arm with a giant bugger shovel tumoring out of it

and why the hell does that cunt he have to grab the pen like he's inscribing all these non related bullshit drawings onto a rock

FUCK

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 02:37 AM   #9
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and personally i fucking hate it when music theorists take a plunge up their own gastro to explain the mechanics of a piece of music like it's accounting

this is a nail freak guy who is guaranteed to never make a single cool piece of music in his life

why can't the video just be him smoking weed in a chair and talking about how the different parts mellow his feels

"THE CLAVE RHYTHM IS EXTRAVAGANTLY COMMONPLACE IN CUBAN AND BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND ITS USE HERE IS AIMED AT DISPERSING TEH ASSMILIATED NEGATIVITY PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED WITH THE LYRIC 'THE WURL IS A VAMPIRE'"

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 02:38 AM   #10
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Old 05-08-2021, 03:06 AM   #11
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Old 05-08-2021, 03:33 AM   #12
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and personally i fucking hate it when music theorists take a plunge up their own gastro to explain the mechanics of a piece of music like it's accounting

this is a nail freak guy who is guaranteed to never make a single cool piece of music in his life

why can't the video just be him smoking weed in a chair and talking about how the different parts mellow his feels

"THE CLAVE RHYTHM IS EXTRAVAGANTLY COMMONPLACE IN CUBAN AND BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND ITS USE HERE IS AIMED AT DISPERSING TEH ASSMILIATED NEGATIVITY PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED WITH THE LYRIC 'THE WURL IS A VAMPIRE'"
Some people who study music academically don't even know how to play an instrument (not that this makes their expertise any less valid, though I personally don't understand why it would be fun to learn all those sex moves if they never intend to actually make use of them), but I'm pretty sure this guy did actual music composition in school, rather than just studying the theory.

I also don't think that explaining something robs it of the effect. Sunsets aren't any less beautiful after you learn about atmospheric refraction, and flowers don't smell any worse just because you know about botany and olfactory receptors. I learned a lot from this video.

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 03:48 AM   #13
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i taught myself how to write long form



it was the hardest thing i ever had to do


 
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Old 05-08-2021, 10:23 AM   #14
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Is it like those millennials bullshit videos about Radiohead? Where they “explain” the secrets behind masterpieces they didn’t write?

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 10:38 AM   #15
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yeah overanalysing music theory is definitely a millennial thing

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 12:26 PM   #16
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Is it like those millennials bullshit videos about Radiohead? Where they “explain” the secrets behind masterpieces they didn’t write?
I mean, would you rather listen to Corgan himself explain "Bullet with Butterfly Wings?"

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 12:34 PM   #17
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"Alas, a song that is at once both my triumph against the eye-rolling so called 'critics,' and the very albatross they would tie around my neck, for they misunderstood it's message, if jagged soundwaves through a radio speaker are even a thing ever to be understood. For the industry that thought they could dress and define me used this as further evidence that I was the sullen creature of the night they tried to paint me as, for what this song was really about went over their heads: love, faith, brotherhood, god, and the frustrations that can come with trying to fully embrace these things. If one loses hope, one might feel trapped in a cage. But if you put your trust in god's plan, you will see that the devices of others can never truly entrap your soul."

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 12:36 PM   #18
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Vs.

"HERE'S HOW THE CHORD STUCTURE, VOCAL LINES, AND DRUMMING PATTERNS WORK, AND HOW THEY REINFORCE THE LYRICAL THEMES."

 
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Old 05-08-2021, 01:41 PM   #19
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Where did you get that from? LiveJournal? MCIS reissue? The amount of hopeless narcissism makes it almost unbearable to read.

 
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Old 05-10-2021, 02:21 PM   #20
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He told me. Well, dictated it to me as I transcribed.

 
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Old 05-10-2021, 04:35 PM   #21
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lol

 
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Old 05-10-2021, 04:37 PM   #22
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i want play-by-play analysis on the Leno Cash Car Star performance


 
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Old 05-10-2021, 04:39 PM   #23
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what is the fact you must attack?

you have to "get it" while you can

 
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Old 05-10-2021, 04:47 PM   #24
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chew on that

 
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Old 05-11-2021, 01:12 AM   #25
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Is it like those millennials bullshit videos about Radiohead? Where they “explain” the secrets behind masterpieces they didn’t write?
Holy FUCK I hate those videos. "Explaining In Rainbows", "Understanding Elliott Smith's Depression".

 
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Old 05-11-2021, 05:10 PM   #26
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i want play-by-play analysis on the Leno Cash Car Star performance

i unironically wish this were the case for some of these musical analysis channels even though no one would give a shit. analyze some deep cuts, show me the intimate details of widow wake my mind only a true music aficionado can see

 
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Old 05-13-2021, 07:30 PM   #27
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i unironically wish this were the case for some of these musical analysis channels even though no one would give a shit. analyze some deep cuts, show me the intimate details of widow wake my mind only a true music aficionado can see
i may have adressed that

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Old 05-13-2021, 11:53 PM   #28
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What's up nerds?


Much more people interested in someone else explaining the old "rat in a cage" song, than master Corgan himself talking about his latest songs:







 
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Old 05-14-2021, 12:35 AM   #29
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and personally i fucking hate it when music theorists take a plunge up their own gastro to explain the mechanics of a piece of music like it's accounting

this is a nail freak guy who is guaranteed to never make a single cool piece of music in his life

They say things like, "Billy Corgan dropped from the 4th to the 3rd scale degree to create a melancholy feel", but it's like...I guarantee Billy Corgan was playing entirely by feel so the fact that an "expert" analyzed it is completely irrelevant.

 
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Old 05-14-2021, 12:46 AM   #30
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It's not like a lifetime of being exposed to Western music would cause a musician who isn't a music theorist to employ techniques described in music theory without being conscious of it.

 
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