SouthernWhiteGentile said:
13th_Wolf said:
If the bass farts above a song on it's own, it'll be more likely to carry a shittier mood which is great for sad music, angry music or judeified pop bullshit.
Like this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0Wejod4fs
Bass is an afterthought for many bands it seems.
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The bass does sound farty on that track. Is it Punk? I have never really been a fan of it. Punk is just noise to me like banging pots and pans around. I know you will disagree since you seem to be a big fan of Johnny rotten. Maybe you can enlighten me with some decent punk because I haven’t heard any that I like.
That's what I was trying to convey. Bass is more at the fore in punk than in standard classic rock and after the mid 70's era with AC/DC and the opening up of the more Satanic type rock into the mainstream. It's not really an afterthought with a lot of punk because the songs often are so simple and a repetition of a similar set of chords. With that (especially in the American 'hardcore' punk bands) they make really short songs under 2 minutes on that pattern, where the bass is a heavy focus as the goal of the song is FAST and Oomf, not particularly with a sick guitar solo or anything technical as they were noobs, but just oomf. Bass becomes important then for punk.
The best punk songs in my opinion are songs that sound like you could skate to them (or surf). There's a cleanness about them that isn't too technical but isn't too farty and crap either. Striking a balance between lightness and heaviness, and maintaining a steady tempo that you could also go nuts too at the same time.
I think you'll like this song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR8UcVruNgE
You've probably heard it before. It's been on one of the Tony Hawk skateboard games before and also some things like adverts I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshtM17A4jg
This song by the early Ultravox has really great use of bass in the punk vein. It's the live version though they do this, and on the studio version it sounds a bit crappier the song. If you hear how the lyrics intersect and flows to the beat and rhyme, to me it sounds like an early hip hop influence. "Are you spea-king! Or did-I say".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo
Fugazi are a decent punk band in the same light as Agent Orange. The song starts off with a bass solo. Bit different to N.I.B's bass solo though lol. The bass carries all the way through this song and after the initial pause (The waiting room) it jumps right back in and gives it life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9C8XuoJBo
This is a bass cover of a song by Gang of Four. This is considered one of the first 'post-punk' genre songs. The guitar works with the bass in this which is really the dominant instrument for the first part of the song other than the drums and vocals later. The guitar plays the same 2 notes over and over again with the bass carrying the pattern. It works if sounding quite raw and barebones. Another song that's sort of similar to this is Politicians In My Eyes by Death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47_qIoXE-Lw
The Wipers are a more guitar heavy band and do 'surf-punk' music. In this song you can hear the bass though and it sort of dances about at parts of the song and gives the song a rabid kind of character which works for the lyrics and point of the song. Other good songs by them are D-7, No Fair and Nothing Left to Lose. They are pretty much similar in terms of the bass, and they balance it in the same cool way. With a lot of their songs they're more on the depressive side once again though, the trait of bass-heavy music is either this or toned down pop.
It's a very recent thing for me as well. Previously I was into the older Hip hop or proper mainstream bands like Muse :lol:
Then it was Slipknot and KoRn, then it was Grunge, then it was punk rock. Now it's people who sound punk-y in the 1950's-60's and did heavier stuff back then like Bo Diddley, Vince Taylor and Louis Prima. The Stooges and other bands of the same time (whom most are still unknown to me) were the breakout for that kind of feel of some music that wasn't accepted I'm pretty sure; the explosion of that Bohemian culture that lingered into Blues and Jazz dating from the 1800's and probably earlier. It had a very sexual nature that nowadays the forms of music that descend from it channel into like political stuff or otherwise just shit so-called "sexual" pump and dump pop like Nikki minaj crap. That song that goes "FIRE! I'll take you to burrn" that Cobra likes is the best example for what it should really be about. Those people who were doing corpse paint before the Black Metal people lol.
Bands like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd got the money because they were drugged out hippies and the supposed "counterculture" the enemy went on about to stifle people into a different group of marginalised crap. "Punk" as a label is stupid for that reason as well but it will linger as long as people are uncomfortable with what it implies which originally was thinking for yourself. On the other hand it implies violence and degeneracy so the enemy want to keep that meaning of it going as well. People aren't uncomfortable with ideas of universal love and spiritualism being spoken about anymore so "hippie" isn't really a word in use anymore. Now we have "light worker" and all related shite :lol:
Really all this stuff is is natal polarities people have in their souls that make them concern themselves with higher concepts than the herd can manage. So the herd have to give it a name to match their shit level of seeing things. Sometimes these people also feel they have to justify themselves to the dumb cattle herd this way too. All 'punk' is just music with more energy, awareness and thus aggression to
potentially a Satanic way, with some of the bands especially. The next time a band like Nirvana or whatever comes to change music they'll come up with new words to escape, delude and detract others from the fact that the jig is almost up for being a complacent moron. Also in the effort to encourage the frontmen to ruination like they have done. Really by now we ought to have these types of artists singing in Sanskrit and not being called "punks" but some Sanskrit and Satanic equivalent of a musician who has high energy and/or intense sexual undertones about them. Currently this would be the equivalent of war music though as the enemy would not like that one bit if it obtained relevance in the culture their goyim horde was exposed to.
People who had felt this way about things (that there is much untruth and the world is in some odd state, a spiritual war) before certain "punk" characters had to justify it through the trappings laid by the enemy like the hippie meme, or otherwise were not taken seriously or seen like trash.
https://youtu.be/eP7tURQX1xc?t=120
At 4:08 Iggy Pop says in this interview the difference between Dionysic and Apollonian art, and it really can be said that Dionysic music is that offensive and energetic type of music what a portion of people are most jolted and intrigued by, the pushing of extremes. Others would fall more on the Apollonian side, preferring classical musical beauty and calmer, tolerable and more relaxing themes. That was actually the 'tolerable' feel of classical music which undermined the church in the first place; it was Apollonian, about the beauty of Satan and the Gods. Really you deal with both on different days, everyone should enjoy both at their own individual likes and they do merge into one another anyway. It's not something to really take too seriously, the "punk" thing like he says it comes from youthful frustration at the current state of a person's existence. He just abused himself in various ways and shocked people on top of it. That's all it is and all music invariably has that force. It's just up to now been a more baser and naive expression of it which is dumb and oft dangerous.
Ol argedco luciftias said:
13th_Wolf said:
SouthernWhiteGentile said:
A bass only has 12 notes that a guitar doesn't have. And the other 28 or 26 notes (depending if the bass has either 24 or 22 frets) are the same as on a guitar. So a big amount of what the bass is playing could be mistaken for guitar.
This is my favorite bass song. Victor Wooten's song The Lesson. Just one guy with one bass, but he's able to make it sound like a whole band.
http://Www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve37F3Ee9Ow
That is pretty phenomenal bass skill. I also see his name 'Wooten' sounds like Wotan
He clearly has a very good understanding of rhythm and pattern. Sounds like it could be developed into a hit.