lurch70 said:
look .... I don't give two shits if you guys listen to the "message" a band has to offer through their lyrics ... but when you have an Agalloch avatar and tell me that their music is happy go lucky ... and then confess that you don't pay attention to lyrics ... and + you are a music reviewer .. .and this is a band you obviously like.
what am I supposed to think about your journalistic integrity?
Dude, you apparently STILL don't understand where I'm coming from. Mood and atmosphere come from what the music conveys. Listen to the beginning of In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion. That is uplifting and beautiful to me. I never said Agalloch is happy-go-lucky, talk about misquoting.
That would be some of the rollicking folk metal bands like I assume Finntroll is. Anyway, I'm saying that the mood of the music and what it makes me feel is what is coming through my speakers/headphones, not what I read in a little booklet. The lyrics here have ABSOLUTELY no bearing on whether or not the music makes me feel a certain way and it is as simple as that.
Agalloch could write about gay man love, that isn't going to make me not be uplifted by the beauty of the music which conveys a tone that to me represents nature put down to music. So what if they sing about suicide? That means nothing in the musical experience, they are just words, not the music. Really, lyrics are obsolete because the musical experience is capable of conveying a mood and then letting the listener intepret what it means to them. But of course, bands need something to say or it would sound ridiculous. Really, I don't know if you understand the concept of atmosphere in music, but by now I'm beginning to wonder. Agalloch is an uplifting band because their music contributes to the re-affirmation of life, whether or not their lyrics do, ok?
I am honestly baffled that to you the tone of the music itself and its very integrity comes from what the band wrote in a little book, or at least that is what you are showing me. Sorry, but there is a very simple difference here and it is that music conveys the story, the feeling, the mood and atmosphere to me, not the lyrics and if it is the opposite for you, then I can't help that. If lyrics mean THAT much to you that the music has apparently no bearing on your opinion, then I don't even know what else to say.