I have a bunch of friends like this too. I call them "technician musicians" -- as opposed to artists. They're really incredible technically -- perfect knowledge of music theory, multi-instrumentalists, protools, etc. But sitting through their tracks is painful... they craft these perfect soundscapes without creating something I would call a song. They're like: "Yeah, but can't you hear how nice that sound is?!" and I'm like: "Yeah, but... like... I don't always like nice sounds. I also like things I don't expect, and interesting shit."kv wrote:Ya the Lowfi HiFi divide is very real thing...I had a long Convo with one of my friends about it two weeks ago...I'd made a song were we recorded a extra guitar track with speakers up to add noise...My buddy was confused by the noise...And when I told him it was on purpose he was so fucking annoyed as to why we'd intentionally muddyed it up...."it sounded too clean had to be done" just complete confusion....made me laugh
It's just tastes again I listened to too much Lowfi as a youth, it's ingrained in me
Of course my buddy is all about protooling stuff until it's sterile to me..Cut and pasteing, making everything perfect... fuck metronomes record shit live till you get it right or close enough
I think it probably tracks the lo-fi hi-fi divide, but then I was thinking about Frank Zappa v. Captain Beefheart. Frank was obsessive about musicianship (timing, composition, etc); Beefheart, not so much. But Frank made a lot of songs that didn't SOUND like they were beaten into perfection, and Beefheart often sounded like he crafted that shit.