MUSC 2018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psycho Killer, Rock Lobster
16 Jan 2016
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Disdain for dance music: use of irregular rhythms and meters, focus on serious listening, not physical response. Music that encourages close study, formal analytic techniques. Has many different sections, contrasting sections and different rifts or the book or the main idea in a chorus of a song. A bit of classical guitar sounding stuff mixed in. This kind of music is a bit over the top - drummers use a huge amount of equipment and the keyboard player has five keyboards. First recording was fade away : one of the successful rolling stone covers, originally a buddy halle song, used covers as a launching point into music. The language they are using, very intricate and tight sounding. language. Term overlaps with/derived from punk, but more pop oriented. Difficult to peg down musically, considerable diversity in new wave music. Opposed to romantic ideas of artist, fame, authenticity. Bass player tina waymeth female bass player.
