R&P: What type of music is not music?

BQ: Song of the day?
BQ2: What albums are on your wish-list?
BQ3: Last thing you ate?

2010-08-05T07:59:40Z

@Black Napkins: Ever hear of Bach?

2010-08-05T08:19:17Z

@Fred
Tell me about it. I think China sucks worse than New Zealand (that's where you're from right?), you can't find albums from any other artists besides the most mainstream ones. They didn't have Roxy Music anywhere I checked, let alone Van der Graaf Generator.

Anonymous2010-08-05T07:56:10Z

Favorite Answer

Crunkcore.

Or if you want a serious answer, there's lots of avant-garde that I'm not sure about whether or not it counts as music.

BQ: Umm... Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
BQ2: I never have albums on my wishlist since I get an album as soon as I want it. Hooray for P2P file-sharing.
BQ3: This Greek chocolate pastry thing my mom bought. It was good.

Lucy2010-08-05T08:00:18Z

Hm, do Jedward count? They have an album out and i'm not sure if they actually had anything to do with writing or picking the songs, I think they are all covers?

BQ: Root - Deftones
BQ2: I'm fine with albums at the moment.
BQ3: Oreos! In fact I had a deformed one, it was inside out if that makes sense, the biscuit bits were the wrong way round.

Josalyn2010-08-05T08:01:35Z

Music is something that is pleasing to the ears, meaning crunkcore can NOT be music

BA: Descend The Shades of Night - Machine Head
BA: Avril's new album, maybe when 2011 rolls around Megadeth's new album, and I'm waiting on September for Maroon 5's new album
BA: A jelly filled honeybun.

GIND2010-08-05T11:10:30Z

If it is a type of music, it is music by definition. It is inherently music to be music. And if you a sound (or lack there of) is music, it's music. To say anything else is to be stuck. 20th century composers radically and successfully challenged the nature of music, and to define music as tonal or natural or anything else is reactionary.

Wire and String: It's 4'33" not 3'14" and I would argue that it is indeed music. The music is the sounds of the audience and of the environment. It's certainly controversial, though.

BA2: Big Freedia's various albums, and a comp. of the earliest recordings of Moravian folk music.

Drop Dead Fred2010-08-05T07:58:47Z

Sorry, but I'm of the opinion that all sound has the potential to be music, it's all about how we listen to it...

BQ: Psalm - Roxy Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7ANbHuBVM
BQ2: Waiting to get my copy of Butterfly House by The Coral. God I hate living on the other end of the planet, it takes ages to get things imported...
BQ3: Potato Chips

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