20th/21st Century Composition

@SilviaPinalFan#I I was actually born in 1964. And if any of you had read my message clearly enough, you would see that I had stated that Whitney Houston did have a good voice, but whoever wrote her songs was a bad composer, unlike Amy Whitehouse.

So I would appreciate it if people remained a b...

Led Zeppelin's first album was the first album I ever got into, and I just cannot believe that such a top video of them exists in those days. ''How many more times'' is a great track. It's an amazing album come to think of it, recorded in 36 hours. That was their best period, and that includes...

Playing acoustic bass without the faster action of an electric bass and with all the effects to cover up your mistakes really sorts out the men from the boys, and John Entwistle here has proved that he is the grandmaster of his game. Townshend was the luckiest guitarist/songwriter of his generat...

@pedrocollares "Oahh! Nobody believes me. LIAR!!!"

I gotta say, he stands for everything I'm against. But I love the fella.

@4395tjh " the ramones are british but they are from america"

Please explain.

It's ironic that the best indie band (Oasis - also Mancunian) break up, and then we are treated with the reformation of the one and only band that is even better. There is a god after all.

That's why these sort of people (and the audience) are called ''Trisha Trash" (a Viz profannisaurus definition for people that appear on, and watch these daytime chat shows like 'Trisha' and 'Jeremy Kyle'. I just hope for fuck's sake that no-one in the US sees what a small percentage of the Brit...

It seems that each of these pictures are either fake or not particularly ugly. Some of them are just gurning, and others just need a bit of a makeover. I've seen uglier people on the 'Jeremy Kyle' show to be quite honest.

fuckintastic

It was June 1984, I was 20 years old on a boat sailing North across the South Atlantic after a 4 month tour in the Falkland Islands, on my way home. On the radio, was music coming from Frankie goes to Hollywood, The Art of Noise and Simple Minds, and I thought grrrrreat!!!!! This is the music ...

@spikespielberg

"america tried to create a bunch of frankensteins. slavery on other parts of the world cant compare!!!"

Hmmm.... true. The americans were bad, but the worst? I think South Africa may well have topped them.

@hdc9468 Oh shut up, you silly boy. Did you take an apple every week to your drumming class? This is rock'n'roll we're talking about (and I'm a classical composer).

@Nationalist1912 What is a fagot? If you mean a faggot (spelled with 2 'g's), then you must bear in mind that I am English, and a faggot to me is literally a meatball made from minced beef, liver and onions and served with thick brown gravy, mushy peas and mashed potatoes.

However,as an Ameri...

This is great. Could you give me a list of all the string samples you used on EWQLSO? I've written a neo-baroque piece and I just can't it right on 'play'. Your dynamics and articulations are absolutely stunning.

I think if you stick at it, and keep practising, you've got a career ahead of you. It's quite obvious that you've put in a hell of a lot of work learning this song, just as a guitarist spends hours learning ''Stairway to Heaven" (guilty as charged), and it shows that you're willing to put the wo...

Good to see that 'the best rated singer of all time' (not my words, but hey, this is a democracy, so fair enough), recognises good song writing now and then. This is a classic.

They're all good, let's face it. There's a good one of Carl Palmer somewhere on youtube. Watch that, and it'll knock your fuckin' eyes out.

@TrueGamerX I'm not sure that's accurate. I can't see any drummer playing without a snare drum. In the video before this (Smokestack Lightning), Scott Halpin uses the snare as his "timekeeper" (which is quite unusual, as the only song that I can think of that does that is "I am the Resurrectio...

@solidearthmusic (continued). Nevertheless, whilst I am perfectly prepared to accept the my infomation might be lacking in accuracy of detalis (dates especially), you will find of the information on Wikipedia by searching for ''House of the Rising Sun"

They've improved a hell of a lot since they started in the late 70s with the BNWHM scene. That guitarist could really play.

This must the oldest recording of a song that gives me the urge to stamp my foot and shake my head.

The great thing about this song is that because nobody knows who wrote it, anyone can (and has done) release it without fear of copyright infringement.