General Music News

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 3/23/2006, 9:14 pm

Hope wrote:"all"? i thought it only happened once!

Yeah, it happened once, but I thought that there were a bunch of pictures. I don't know for sure though because I closed the window as soon as one came up.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/24/2006, 2:12 am

top ten Saturday Night Live musical moments:

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/46061

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 3/24/2006, 6:38 am

pit_girl1 wrote:
Hope wrote:"all"? i thought it only happened once!

Yeah, it happened once, but I thought that there were a bunch of pictures. I don't know for sure though because I closed the window as soon as one came up.

Yup, it was like 4 pics taken from his sidekick. Though only the last one was X-rated. :lol:

I saw someone make a colourbar out of it!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 3/24/2006, 6:57 am

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 3/24/2006, 7:15 am

I agree.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 3/24/2006, 12:33 pm

haha. i have those pictures on my computer.

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 3/24/2006, 1:38 pm

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Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/28/2006, 7:49 pm

NEW RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ALBUM pushed to May 9:

the new single, "Dani California", will be released April 3 (April 6 in canada).

Tracklist of the two-disc "Stadium Arcadium":

Jupiter:
# "Dani California"
# "Snow (Hey Oh)"
# "Charlie"
# "Stadium Arcadium"
# "Hump De Bump"
# "She's Only 18"
# "Slow Cheetah"
# "Torture Me"
# "Strip My Mind"
# "Especially In Michigan"
# "Warlocks"
# "C'mon Girl"
# "Wet Sand"
# "Hey"

Mars:
# "Desecration Smile"
# "Tell Me Baby"
# "Hard To Concentrate"
# "21st Century"
# "She Looks To Me"
# "Readymade"
# "If"
# "Make You Feel Better"
# "Animal Bar"
# "So Much I"
# "Storm In A Teacup"
# "We Believe"
# "Turn It Again"
# "Death Of A Martian"

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/03/2810.cfm

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 3/30/2006, 6:59 pm

hhmm... do we have a place for Chantal News? She posted a new blog with a link to studio footage :love:

http://media.nettwerk.com/mov/Chantal_A ... _Vocal.mov

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 3/30/2006, 7:17 pm

There *should* be a Chantal thread!!! If there isn't one, that makes me sad.

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 3/31/2006, 5:14 pm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F2 ... 065?n=5174

HAHAHAHA he's releasing a solo cd!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Oh man I thought he was the hottest thing ever when I was in 7th grade
:lol:

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 3/31/2006, 5:39 pm

nikki4982 wrote:There *should* be a Chantal thread!!! If there isn't one, that makes me sad.

I think we've had a couple of "Raine and Chantal babies?!! omgwtf?!" threads, and a nice couple of threads about the random musicians they've written for... but I can't recall anything for Chantal as an artist.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 3/31/2006, 6:42 pm

That's truly sad.

*hunts for one* If there's not one, I'm making one, darn it.

Oh, and I thought Brian already had an album out? Guess not. :lol:

Maybe this is just one he's been working on for years or something.

BSB 4EVER!!!

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 4/1/2006, 2:37 am

pit_girl1 wrote:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F2CBWS/002-6244458-5804065?n=5174

HAHAHAHA he's releasing a solo cd!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Oh man I thought he was the hottest thing ever when I was in 7th grade

He was my mum's favourite backstreetboy. :lol:

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 4/1/2006, 7:59 am

eeeek

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 43,00.html

Pop picker takes the hit and miss out of music making
By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent

IT COULD be the death of music or the birth of pop as science. Record companies are using a computer program to predict the mathematical properties of a hit song.
Barely one in ten songs produces a return on its recording and marketing costs. How much easier life would be if a song could be analysed and given a “hit” or “miss” verdict within 20 seconds.

That is the promise made by the creators of Platinum Blue Music Intelligence, a program that claims an 85 per cent accuracy rate, and has predicted smash hits for corporations including Sony BMG and Disney.

Platinum Blue isolates the musical characteristics or “optimal mathematical properties” that are most often found in three million hit songs. Using 30 variables such as tempo, melody and harmony, the program compares a song’s characteristics with those of the hits, and places a song in a “hit cluster”.

Ben Novak, a songwriter from New Zealand, submitted his song Turn Your Car Around to the program and received a hit rating of 761 out of 1,000, similar to Outkast’s award-winning Hey Ya!. It was rated by the program to be similar musically to hits by R Kelly, Jay-Z and Kelly Clarkson. Sony BMG chose the song as a single for Lee Ryan, a former singer with the band Blue. It became a UK Top 20 hit and has reached the Top Five in seven countries.

Producers submit songs to the program before the final mix, and receive feedback, then the song is tweaked accordingly. Singles are sometimes dropped because of the results.

Mike McCready, the chief executive of Platinum Blue, said: “A record company wanted to promote a smooth, British jazz singer to the Norah Jones audience. But the analysis found that the single’s underlying features were closer to the rock bands Aerosmith and Maroon 5. It was not a hit because it confused the target audience.”

Novak credits the program with starting his career but thinks that it could remove individuality from songwriting. He said: “I think if it started telling people to speed things up, or put more ‘E’ and ‘A’ notes in their melodies, then we’d end up with a bunch of music that sounded the same.”

But Mr McCready insists that the program, originally called Hit Song Science, will not result in homogenous music. “It reveals that hit songs don’t have to all sound the same,” he said. “A song can be in the same ‘hit cluster’ as a metal, rap or pop track or even a Beethoven symphony. The program detects deep-lying patterns not apparent to the human ear and says ‘this must be what humans like’.”

Record companies pay £3,500 for analysis of an album.

LIGHT PROGRAM

The hit song program analyses variables such as melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm, pitch, chord progression, fullness of sound, cadence, frequency ranges, texture and timbre of voice

The program will compare songs and rate them; it cannot (as yet) give composers the necessary ingredients to write a hit

According to Platinum Blue, the British charts have a more diverse range of music than their American counterparts. Analysis of 50 years of hits show 62 different British “hit clusters”, compared with 55 in the US

Hit songs demonstrate eternal qualities: the Beatles and Elvis Presley score higher than most contemporary songs

Platinum Blue is not the only company promising to uncover the “DNA” of music. The US Music Genome Project has produced Pandora, a program that can, it claims, provide users with personalised playlists by matching song choices with “genetically” similar tracks

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 4/1/2006, 8:07 am

Soozy wrote:eeeek

my thoughts exactly

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/1/2006, 8:11 am

Noooooo.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 4/1/2006, 8:26 pm

Kathy14 wrote:hhmm... do we have a place for Chantal News? She posted a new blog with a link to studio footage

http://media.nettwerk.com/mov/Chantal_A ... _Vocal.mov

this is awesome. thank you

and... brian making a solo cd is just too funny. :lol:

his album is titled "welcome home"... how tragicallyl cliche, haha.

aaaand about that platinum blue music intelligence thing ... ugh.

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 4/1/2006, 10:05 pm

Soozy wrote:eeeek
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 43,00.html

I find it rather ridiculous that a record company would need a computer program to tell them what is good music and what is not.

magicseamonkey · Post by **magicseamonkey** » 4/7/2006, 1:25 pm

Not sure who here cares about The Black Keys, but this just came up on their website:

Chulahoma is a brand new 6 song ep from the Akron, OH two-piece The Black Keys. Produced and recorded by The Black Keys the songs on Chulahoma were originally written by the late Junior Kimbrough. Dan Auerbach (guitar/vox) and Patrick Carney (drums) have an impressive ability to re-work Kimbrough’s material without sacrificing any of the song’s character. Their music has been described by Rolling Stone as, “…woozy and sometimes warm, the type of emotions you’d expect from frontman, Dan Auerbach, who modulates his cynicism with folkiness…” And Pitchfork said, “The Black Keys may be just a couple of white dudes from Akron, but they seem closer in spirit to something that Muddy Waters himself might’ve considered ‘the blues’ than to any midwestern bar-band’s approximation of it.”