a candid moment
for shame.my latest guilty pleasure is listening to 'all a cappella' on wers radio as i laze about on sunday afternoons.
this, in spite of two rather significant pet peeves i have about a cappella music:
1) most of the people singing a cappella sound like dorks. i don't mean to suggest that the matter of whether they're actually dorks or not somehow enters the equation -- they're singing a cappella, and we can safely assume that they ARE dorks as it is -- but that the tone and suggestion of their voices -- so often whimsical, fancy-free, tongue-in-cheek, insincere -- is dorky. and grating.
and
2) a cappella's responsible for the group rockapella*.
still, i find myself really enjoying listening to certain popular tunes get reinterpreted via a patchwork of human voices. hearing arrangements that have been essentially condensed down to one instrument helps me better appreciate the original for how different rhythmic and melodic roles function as pieces of the same puzzle. nowhere is this more apparent than in tunes where bass, guitar, vocals and drums are all doing radically different things (rhcp's 'fortune faded' is my current a cappella favorite. 'a cappela favorite' -- boy, maybe I'M the big dork).
* nightmare scenario i envisioned while writing this post: going to the rockapella website to find pictures of the dorks in the group, only to have the page automatically cue up their music, sending a torrent of rockapella roaring over the walls of my cubicle.
on that note, th
ank you, wikipedia!:
posted by jomilkman @ 9:16 AM
6 Comments:
kate and i occassionally listen. there's definitely a point where I can't listen to it anymore. my family loves the kids songs they play on ers during the weekend.
no need to be ashamed. or maybe it's just that we both should be ashamed. i too have discovered in the past month just how nice sunday afternoons with wers all a capella can be. i even let my roommate in on the fun this week. and yes, i cringe every time they play the compulsory rockapella.
-briana
I remember enjoying the a capella "singing valentines" in high school. Then again, it could have just been the matching black tops, mini-skirts, and stockings. To this day, it still makes me horny... I mean WISTFUL! It makes me wistful!
I can enjoy listening to anything as long as it makes me think about the music. I enjoy listening to acapella to hear the arrangements and gives me ideas for vocal harmonies (not that I'm singing anything). check out http://aurgasm.us it doesn't have any acapella on there now, but its got interesting music (an audio blog if you will). its not updated very frequently, but there's some really cool music.
I auditioned for an a cappella group my freshman year of college. If ever a friend is losing an argument with me, they only need to bring that up and I am neutralized.
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