To this point, I don't really care for progressive or jazz that much, I love Discipline by King Crimson and a few prog songs here and there. I listen to a bit of classical, but I mostly like 2-7 minute songs with one to ten parts at most. Discipline is a good example, a prog record with structured songs. When Ministry went Industrial around Land of Rape and Honey that's when I started buying their records. No one is going to accuse Ministry of complex arrangements. Ignoring for a second the ridiculous talent in King Crimson, Discipline is even to this day a super layered cool sounds filled record. I realize I'm not about what sells, by a long shot my favorite Devo record is Duty Now For the Future, and again the sound of that record is just as important as the notes. Best example is The Pleasure Principal. That record is just as much a showcase of the synths as it is the writing.zerocrossing wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 8:29 pm I think this points to something that we don't talk about that much, as it's a bit embarrassing, but a lot of us, myself included, probably lean on cool sounds a bit more than we rely on good compositions.
To a degree I'm making a point to myself here, because personally I worry about the writing part more than I should, slows my output down. We at this point have all the tools we need whether we prefer hardware or software, I'm firmly in the "both" camp.
