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Does a genre describe an artist, a song, or both?
I've seen the term genre being used to refer to a specific song and other times to refer to an artist or their album. While typical there isn't much difference, many artists write songs of different styles or their overall style changes over…
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Web resource with different genres as a graph (and samples)
I remember a page (flash based?, it was like 7 years ago i visited it) where the genres were displayed as a graph, with edges between related genres, and I think you could listen to samples on each of the nodes (or maybe it was only artist…
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In which of his works did Mussorgsky include features of human speech?
The wiki page on Speech-to-song illusion says:
Many composers, including Gesualdo, Monteverdi, and Mussorgsky, have
argued that expressivity in music can be derived from inflections in
speech, and they have included features of speech in their…
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Material for rock history
I have been listening to rock songs for a couple of years now. I read several wiki articles, lyrics interpretation sites and so on. I have so many questions in my mind like:
The 'inheritance' relation between different genres e.g 'Sabbath Bloody…
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Who brought the Bluegrass influence into the Grateful Dead?
When Workingman's Dead was released, it was a 180 degree turn into Bluegrass. how could they make such a jarring change like that so quickly?
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Does the jazz standard "Lament" by J.J. Johnson have lyrics?
Does the jazz standard "Lament" by J.J. Johnson have lyrics? My Google searches have turned up empty.
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What country music might I be most inclined to like?
My fiance listens mostly to modern American country music and I'd like to make more of an effort to find more music that we could enjoy together.
I like a pretty wide variety of music, but in the end, I like music with deep lyrics, music with lovely…
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Lyrics: "But they die just the same in your video game"
I have been looking for an answer to this. I am not sure if I can ask this here but I really don't know where else to ask this question. From which artist or song are these lyrics?
"Ain't no kind of glory in killing.
People you can't even see
But…
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Search by full release date, not just year
Is there an effective resource to search for a cd by its release date? Being able to just input the exact date would be ideal, but even just a list of albums released for a given month/year would be helpful.
I've found a couple places to search by…
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Who is the person referred to in the song "What One Man Can Do"?
The song "What One Man Can Do" (by John Denver) was sung about a person.
Who is that person?
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Albums that focus on storytelling
One of my most looked forward to albums of the year is Muse’s Drones, which has all of its songs progress through a story based on this central motif of World War III. In Psycho, a drill sergeant takes advantage of the protagonist after Dead Inside.…
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I want to know more artists/musics instrumental like a song "Call of Ktulu" (Metallica)
I want to listen more instrumental metal, like The Call of Ktulu and Orion) (Metallica), or Into the Lungs of Hell (Megadeth).
Can anyone help me?
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How is/was this guitar vocoder effect achieved?
In Funkify Your Life by the Meters (and many other Funk tracks I've heard), the guitar line blends with a vocoder effect. You can hear it in the first 30 seconds here on YouTube.
How was this achieved back then and has anything changed with modern…
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Is the guitar riff from the chorus of The Rover used in any other songs?
Listening to Led Zeppelin's The Rover for the first time, I thought I recognized the guitar riff from the chorus, but I don't know where else I could have heard it. Are there any songs that sample that particular riff, or which have very similar…
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Is there a service that tags songs based on the subject matter of the lyrics?
Today we are improving tagging a song/album/artist a lot with music streaming applications where music search is pivotal. I'm looking for a certain type of music which concerns the lyrics, so I'm wondering - is there an online service where I can…
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