Monday, October 24, 2011
"Lost in the Sound of Separation" Underoath Podcast
Here's the link to my podcast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gapk2Fl456E
Peer Comment
Curtis,
I really liked your review of Kraftwerk’s history. I especially liked the section where you were talking about their specific albums and the story or concept behind them. They were definitely an innovative band that was very experimental in their music. It was good that you pointed out that each album had it’s own concept behind them. I felt that that was very important to their style. The last section where you talked about how you felt about the band was a great response. I, as well, feel that they were well ahead of their time. It would be very interesting to see what they could do if they were alive today with our technology. Great job overall.
Kyle Ballard
I really liked your review of Kraftwerk’s history. I especially liked the section where you were talking about their specific albums and the story or concept behind them. They were definitely an innovative band that was very experimental in their music. It was good that you pointed out that each album had it’s own concept behind them. I felt that that was very important to their style. The last section where you talked about how you felt about the band was a great response. I, as well, feel that they were well ahead of their time. It would be very interesting to see what they could do if they were alive today with our technology. Great job overall.
Kyle Ballard
"Lost in the Sound of Separation" Underoath
"Lost in the Sound of Separation"- Underoath
Underoath, the metalcore band, was originally a high school band that started in Ocala, Florida. As of April, 5, 2010, Underoath is now a completely different band then when it started. It’s last original member, Aaron Gillespie, left the band in April to focus on a different project. The last album Aaron was a part of was Lost in the Sound of Separation and that is why I am focusing on it.
One of my favorite things about Underoath is the drumming. Aaron Gillespie is a drummer that doesn’t play just straight 4/4 beats all the time. He constantly is changing up the fills and off beats throughout the song but it is done so perfectly. The engineer that was mostly in charge of tracking the drums for this album is Matt Goldman. One of the cool things they talked about in the documentary “The Making of Lost in the Sound of Separation” was how most drummers that come into Matt’s studio don’t usually end up using much if any of the drums that they are endorsed by to record. For this album though, Matt was extremely excited to use Aaron’s new set that Truth drums made for him. The set was more of a vintage looking set with a small kick drum. This was very big because it allowed him to play it a bit faster as well as it just plain sounded better.
Underoath is high dynamic, in your face type of band with a very unique style of vocals. There are two main vocalist for the band. The frontman for the band, Spencer Chamberlain, is the screamer vocalist. He does do a little singer here and there, but the clean singing voice is primarily sung by Aaron Gillespie who is also the drummer for the band. They do a intertwined vocal arrangement where they complement each other very well. One of the other great things about this band is their ability to connect their songs together within an album. There will be times where you don’t even realize that it has changed songs on you. There are way too many bands that put albums out of just singles that have nothing to do with each other, but Underoath puts them all together very well.
Underoath is probably my favorite band to listen to and that’s why I decided to write this blog on them. Anytime I’m in a bad mood, I know I can put one of their albums on really loud and just jam it out until I don’t care about what I was upset about before. “They’re Only Chasing Safety” was the first album I owned by them. I would fall asleep to it at least once a week for a lot of my middle school and high school years along with their other albums as they came out. I listen to them in my bad moods, but I also just love listening to them on my good days. Needless to say, they became my go to band to listen to at any time. The first two albums they put out were not that great at all, but when they put out “They’re Only Chasing Safety”, they found their sound and just perfected it after that.
Underoath, the metalcore band, was originally a high school band that started in Ocala, Florida. As of April, 5, 2010, Underoath is now a completely different band then when it started. It’s last original member, Aaron Gillespie, left the band in April to focus on a different project. The last album Aaron was a part of was Lost in the Sound of Separation and that is why I am focusing on it.
One of my favorite things about Underoath is the drumming. Aaron Gillespie is a drummer that doesn’t play just straight 4/4 beats all the time. He constantly is changing up the fills and off beats throughout the song but it is done so perfectly. The engineer that was mostly in charge of tracking the drums for this album is Matt Goldman. One of the cool things they talked about in the documentary “The Making of Lost in the Sound of Separation” was how most drummers that come into Matt’s studio don’t usually end up using much if any of the drums that they are endorsed by to record. For this album though, Matt was extremely excited to use Aaron’s new set that Truth drums made for him. The set was more of a vintage looking set with a small kick drum. This was very big because it allowed him to play it a bit faster as well as it just plain sounded better.
Underoath is high dynamic, in your face type of band with a very unique style of vocals. There are two main vocalist for the band. The frontman for the band, Spencer Chamberlain, is the screamer vocalist. He does do a little singer here and there, but the clean singing voice is primarily sung by Aaron Gillespie who is also the drummer for the band. They do a intertwined vocal arrangement where they complement each other very well. One of the other great things about this band is their ability to connect their songs together within an album. There will be times where you don’t even realize that it has changed songs on you. There are way too many bands that put albums out of just singles that have nothing to do with each other, but Underoath puts them all together very well.
Underoath is probably my favorite band to listen to and that’s why I decided to write this blog on them. Anytime I’m in a bad mood, I know I can put one of their albums on really loud and just jam it out until I don’t care about what I was upset about before. “They’re Only Chasing Safety” was the first album I owned by them. I would fall asleep to it at least once a week for a lot of my middle school and high school years along with their other albums as they came out. I listen to them in my bad moods, but I also just love listening to them on my good days. Needless to say, they became my go to band to listen to at any time. The first two albums they put out were not that great at all, but when they put out “They’re Only Chasing Safety”, they found their sound and just perfected it after that.
References for Lost in the Sound of Separation- Underoath
For this research I used two sources. The first one was a short documentary called "The Making of Lost in the Sound of Separation" that came with the album. The other was the Wikipedia page for some dates and spellings of names. That can be found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoath
Everything else is just personal experience or opinions.
Everything else is just personal experience or opinions.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Kraftwerk
There as so many words that come to mind when you first hear some of Kraftwerk’s music. I think the best word would have to be experimental. Some of the earlier albums were extremely experimental even to the point were I could not sit there listening to it and consider it music necessarily. The later albums started to create and mold their true sound. The self titled album, Kraftwerk was an album that is considered experimental to this day in my opinion. The first time I heard one of the songs off of this album, I sat there in aw. I couldn’t believe that anyone considered it music. To me it just sounded like a lot of random noises coming from those early synthesizers.
Once the band kind of developed their sound a little better, they created the album called Autobahn. This album was made to sound like a car traveling down a road. One of the very cool things Kraftwerk did with their albums was the idea of having a concept behind each album. They said that this was necessary in order to create good albums. For instance, Autobahn was about the car driving down the road. Another good example of this would be Trans-Europe Express which had the feeling of a train as the concept for the album. Whenever they performed live, they would dress up all the same and do everything in a very robotic style. Their emotionless attitude on stage was a brand of its own.
Like I said earlier, at first Kraftwerk was a band I thought I would never listen to again after the first song I heard by them. They had this album that was basically an album of random sounds they could create with synths,tape delays and other new stuff. As the progression of their sound was perfected more and more, they started to sound a bit like music we have today. I probably won’t sit down and listen to Kraftwerks albums over and over, but I respect the fact that they were the innovators of the music I enjoy now and days. Without them, we wouldn’t have great music like dubstep or really any techno music that we have today.
Once the band kind of developed their sound a little better, they created the album called Autobahn. This album was made to sound like a car traveling down a road. One of the very cool things Kraftwerk did with their albums was the idea of having a concept behind each album. They said that this was necessary in order to create good albums. For instance, Autobahn was about the car driving down the road. Another good example of this would be Trans-Europe Express which had the feeling of a train as the concept for the album. Whenever they performed live, they would dress up all the same and do everything in a very robotic style. Their emotionless attitude on stage was a brand of its own.
Like I said earlier, at first Kraftwerk was a band I thought I would never listen to again after the first song I heard by them. They had this album that was basically an album of random sounds they could create with synths,tape delays and other new stuff. As the progression of their sound was perfected more and more, they started to sound a bit like music we have today. I probably won’t sit down and listen to Kraftwerks albums over and over, but I respect the fact that they were the innovators of the music I enjoy now and days. Without them, we wouldn’t have great music like dubstep or really any techno music that we have today.
References for Kraftwerk
Zappa, Frank. Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution. Retrieved from
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v17166226D39Jw7dc
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v17166226D39Jw7dc
Peer Comment
Devon,
I really enjoyed your take on The Velvet Underground & Nico. I agree with you that they had a sound that no one could really take in and appreciate at the time. There have been so many bands that have been influenced by their music. I also really liked how you talked about John Cale a lot. He definitely had a huge part in how the band sounded with his super unique viola. I really liked how you pointed out Andy Warhol as being a big reason The Velvet Underground & Nico were pretty successful. He definitely had a large role in the whole process. Over all, good summary of the band and what we learned.
Kyle Ballard
I really enjoyed your take on The Velvet Underground & Nico. I agree with you that they had a sound that no one could really take in and appreciate at the time. There have been so many bands that have been influenced by their music. I also really liked how you talked about John Cale a lot. He definitely had a huge part in how the band sounded with his super unique viola. I really liked how you pointed out Andy Warhol as being a big reason The Velvet Underground & Nico were pretty successful. He definitely had a large role in the whole process. Over all, good summary of the band and what we learned.
Kyle Ballard
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