MUS 2304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Short Songs, Nine Inch Nails, Concept Album
7 Apr 2016
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Lyrics: gen x disenfranchisement, social criticism of the 80s and 90s: eg: soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains. Grunge: alice in chains, rooster album: dirt 1992, nirvana, you know you"re right: nirvana 2002. Vocal: blurring words, gritty, sounds as if in pain. Drumming: intense style: pearl jam, jeremy: ten, 1991. Melodic gestures in guitar, repeated gestures coming in occasionally. Cleanest dounding one out of the examples, more mainstream appeal, not as gritty. Post grunge: grunge hitting the main stream: silverchair, emotion sickness album: neon ballroom, 1999. Focused on the vocal, reverb, intensity, falsetto: foo ghters, everlong: the colour and the shape 1997. Stoner rock/metal: blues based heavy metal, doom and psychedelia w alternative grunge aesthetics: kyuss, green machina album: blues for the red sun, 1992. Muddy, hevay distortion, down tuned guitar and heavy kit. Fast and heavy sound: queens of the stone age, regular john album: queens of the stone age, 1998.
