Does music have to be complicated to be good?

[Anvil]

There's a trick to this you see. Its the push to find something different, that drives people's tastes in music. At this point in time, we are struggling to find new ways of creating music, and thus, we are creating more and more complexity in song and music. When The Beatles were around, no one had really done much of what they had. They were new, and they brought a new sound. Same goes for Elvis, The Ramones, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera, etc. The starting points of each genre. From each genre, we continue to grow, seeking new ways to do it as time progresses. I feel that complexity is the newest bound that sounds new and different.

Of course, this is only one little point to the big picture. It does of course consist of talent to composition, structure, etc.

 

[metalkingdom]

There's a trick to this you see. Its the push to find something different, that drives people's tastes in music. At this point in time, we are struggling to find new ways of creating music, and thus, we are creating more and more complexity in song and music.

I feel that complexity is the newest bound that sounds new and different.

Not true.

 

[EricT]

I doesn't really have to be complicated to be good, but I do enjoy the complicated freakish stylings of some composers (Frank Zappa anyone?) very much.

Frank Zappa ownz j00z!!

 

[Mike]

4 words: "More Than A Feeling"

simple and excellent!

 

[Mike]

[AGREE]

BTW - Dream Theater = gay.

[/AGREE]


haha.

 

[BlueSky]

the answer is no

 

[Mike]

and be a simpllllllllllllllllllllllllllle kiiiiind of maaaaaaaan

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

recently ive been listening to music that makes me think simpler is often better

 

[FretsAflame]

4 words: "More Than A Feeling"

simple and excellent!

MORE THAN A FEEEEELING *moooorethanafeeeeeelaaaahn*

 

[DarkNoise]

I haven't read this entire thread yet, but right away I thought of this

So many people know and really enjoy Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata, and a lot of Beethoven. But really, I can play a lot of his stuff on piano, and I'm not a very good pianist. Tchaikovsky and Rachmoninoff had more complex pieces in my mind, but they weren't better or worse.

It's all in what mood the individual is in. For instance - right now I'm listening to Krisiun cause I want something brutal and simple. Earlier today I was listening to Dream Theater (insert flames here) because I wanted something more complex.

 

[Jaymz]

I love Dream Theater, their song writing is awesome and so is there technical albility on their instruments. As a few people have said it just has to be a good song to be....well a good song! I like a nice meaty solo thats canny fast and mindblowing every so often but some of the simpliest things fit so well! You could also see "technical" as interesting i guess, when i write stuff ill change lil bits to make it more interesting but thus usually making it harder to play. Simple and technical are both good but a song dosent have to be technical to be spot on, so no