trollz

why would you trust snox on anything

Album Rating: 1.5

proper songs are overrated

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=56712&page=2#comments

Whenever I'm feeling down, I read over page 2 of this thread think to myself "at least I'm not Michael Snoxall" - Jacquibim

It's an hour and a half of a guy who can't play a piano (literally, he just pressed random keys the whole time) and a bunch of out of tune instruments doing random jangly bangly twangs and riffs as though they're just tuning and getting ready for the proper song that never comes.

ok look i never listened to the album and probably never will but i recently came across some dude telling me that the entire album is meticulously scored and none of it is improvised

might be wrong idk just what i heard

Van Vliet used a piano—an instrument he had never played before—as his main compositional tool. Since he had no experience with the piano and no conventional musical knowledge at all, he was able to experiment with few preconceived ideas of musical form or structure. Beefheart sat at the piano until he found a rhythmic or melodic pattern that he liked. Mike Barnes compared this approach to John Cage's "maverick irreverence toward classical tradition".[11] John French then transcribed this pattern, typically only a measure or two long, into musical notation. After Beefheart was finished French would then piece these fragments together into compositions, reminiscent of the splicing together of disparate source material on Marker's tape. French decided which part would be played on which instrument and taught each player their part, although Van Vliet had final say over the ultimate shape of the product. Band member Bill Harkleroad has remarked on "how haphazardly the individual parts were done, worked on very surgically, stuck together, and then sculpted afterwards." Once completed each song was played in exactly the same way every time, eschewing the improvisation that typifies most popular music in favor of an approach more like a formal, classical composition. Guitarist Fred Frith noted that during this process "forces that usually emerge in improvisation are harnessed and made constant, repeatable."

according to wikipedia

Album Rating: 1.5

that sounds like a whole lot of work

Album Rating: 4.0

so basically this dude had no idea what he was doing.

its genius

you should probably read that quote again because that's not what it says

it's fucking hilarious

It's a landmark record in experimental music for sure

whether or not it's actually a good album is another debate though

does fred frith actually play on this album or is that a random quote of him

i jam it for a laugh

Album Rating: 4.0

it's not funny

you seem bothered

my hipster friends nvr heard of this album. i wonder what that says

if frownland doesn't make you laugh something's wrong tbh

last time i heard this i remember getting a headache