Whipped Cream and Other Delights
The album, “Whipped Cream and Other Delights” by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass was published in 1965 to wide acclaim however, the album does not stand the test of time. This album is considered their most successful album out of the four they have created. The album is a prime example of the jazz-pop music trend that was big in the 1960’s. The music on the album seems upbeat, but does not appeal to the average college student, due to a lack of lyrical content and an archaic style of music. This album consists of 12 songs that are unique, and branch out from their previous style and albums. A majority of the songs consist of accented trumpets and maracas, making the genre of this album a jazz-pop mix. Carefree and smooth, contrary to many modern groups, this group performed songs purely instrumentally . The songs on the album differ greatly from anything in the contemporary because of the time period it was created in. Their music is very mellow and soothing
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Most of the songs on the album does not fit the archetype of modern music, that I enjoy, and get a bit mundane as the album continues. The music seems repetitive and similar to each other. However, one of the songs, “Lollipop and Roses” sounds like a game show theme song or the introduction music of a contestant in a game show, which gave my ears a pleasant surprise. Another song that seemed happy and enjoyable was “Butterball,” which sounds like something in a candy store or a movie. The theme of the music seems friendly and old-fashion. The rest of the songs seem identical, but back then they were probably very popular. Many of the tracks on the album don’t appeal to kids in college, but might attract an older
1. Wide-ranging, dynamically expressive tonal melodies are played in equal temperament and generated from logical tonal harmonic progressions. 2. A simple, isometric, and restricted rhythmic range is used. 3. The texture is homophonic, that is, a principal melody line with accompaniment. 4. Clear periodic formal structure is favored. 5. The instrumentarium is restricted and standardized.
This album has a bit of each of the necessary elements to becoming a hit. In fact, it has
This is probably one of my favourite CD’s of all time. It has so many of Nirvana’s greatest hits. I think (and I’m probably the only one) that Nirvana is a lot like Marilyn Manson in many ways. They completely created a new genre, and have the largest modern cult followings. Nirvana totally brought grunge to the world, and Manson brought us Alternative Music.
The album was created in less than a year. They gained inspiration from the music of many rock bands, such as Kerry King from Slayer. While listening to the album, the lyrics are mostly about women, drugs, rebelling against parents and partying. The sound of the album from song to song is very different, yet each song has a similar base cord. Each song in the album has a consistent beat while they rap, with small bursts of sound that transitions the lyrics to a faster or slower pace.... ...
Listening then, I just thought it sounded nice, but analyzing it today I can truly appreciate the care that went into their work. There aren’t many songs that give me chills, but every time I hear their rendition of Landslide (written by Stevie Nicks), I can feel it head to toe. The pacing of the instrumentation and harmony coming in is simply perfect.
Track 1 (“Excursion”): This song began with the bass guitar. The vocals started at 0:14, which intrigued me. The words seemed to have deep meaning to the vocalist. In particular, “get in the zone of positivity” was uplifting because of the area in which these people might have grown up. The only thing I disliked about this track was the monotone voice of the vocalist. Starting at 3:26 there was what sounded like a saxophone group imitating each other. At 3:46 there
Like stated before, the older version had older songs that are not as popular as they are now.
The 12th track on the album is “The Document Speaks For Itself,” this song embodies everything that A Day To Remember is and it blends everything they’ve done with previous records, it is musical genius. Being a hardcore band, the instrumentation includes two guitars, a lead and a rhythm, a bass guitar, drums, and two kinds of vocals, clean singing and a “death growl” scream. What makes this particular song so unique is that it is a balance of everything the band tries to do with making songs, it mixes their heavy side with a melodic chorus. When analyzing the form, it was difficult to classify the song with some of the basic forms like binary or ternary, because of the uniqueness of the style of music how it repeats and changes, the form ...
A couple of other songs they played were “Bothered,” “Cruel and Pretty” and “Changes Come.” If you had never heard the band before tonight, this is where you would probably think all the songs sounded very similar. Slow, piano and sad. The variety lies in the songwriting, if you start paying attention to the lyrics now, you’d have a different opinion. I almost think what they say is so poignant sometimes it should be in a book or poem by itself. But on the other hand, if you took away the way Barquist sings it, or the accompanying instrumentation, I doubt you would get the same idea. They can even make an acoustic guitar sound like it’s in pain and crying.
My impressions of this song is that it’s a good remix of their African roots and more modern pop. The whole song has a nice melody effected by African rhythms which really match Nico and Vinz’s voices. I have heard the song far to often but I still think it’s a good song.
The first song played was from a genre that I had previously taken a test on, Sonata. The musicians played the song by the book. There were three movements and polyphonic texture. It was even fast and jerky. Nonetheless, this is the part where my rollercoaster was going down. In my opinion it was boring. Although very well played, the song itself did not interest me. I did not like the roadrunner, coyote essence of the song. The piano accompaniment would sometimes play the melody and let the clarinet follow and then they would switch. This to me seemed force instead of like the Sonatas that I listened to in class. However, apart from the musical aspect of the first piece there was a certain intensity expressed by the performers. I had never seen a
...e it incorporated the use of rattles and percussion at much faster pace. There was a solo singer, and he did repeat a lot of the phrases, but it was one- hundred percent redundant. Song number twenty-four brought the listener into the more contemporary trends of Native American music. The song was a capella, and in a more strophic form than other pieces. It was similar to many songs on the radio, just without accompaniment. The last three tracks contained a bigger variety of musical instruments, from flutes to guitars and strings, to percussion. The last song was really neat because it sounded like a country western tune, yet it was done in Spainish. I don't agree with Nettl in his opinion that a lot of the music sounds the same because every song I listened to on the track was completely different from the other whether by instrumentation or vocal aspects.
Other artist that were a landmark in 1959 when Ritchie Valens Album was released, were Elvis Presley with A Date with Elvis, Jonny Cash with Greatest and Art & The Jazz Messenger with At the Jazz Corner of the World to name a few. I personally don’t know how to base the order of an album, but if I would have had to choose the order I would had picked differently. I think as “Donna” his greatest hit and fallowing “La Bamba” I would put “Donna” in side 1 as the first song and “La Bamba” as the first song in side 2 in which it is. The remaining of the song I would alternate with ballads and the dancing rhythms songs. For example, side 1 “Donna”, “Ooh, My Head”, “In a Turkish Town”, “Boney-Moronie”, That’s My Little Suzie”, Framed” Side 2 “La Bamba”, “We Belong Together”, “Hi Tone”, “Dooby Dooby Wah”, “Bluebirds Over The Mountain”, “Come On, Let’s Go”. In this album I think I be-lieve Ritchie Valens album has variety of music as it has songs for those that likes to dance and romantic more meaningful and for people that like the traditional rock and roll. The whole album is consistent as he uses basic rock and roll instrumentation with the emphasis on the
This assignment introduced me to the sound and message of the rapping duo: Black Sheep. The group consist of New York natives Dres and Mista Lawnge. My search for the album to review started with skimming through the table of context of Brian Coleman’s Check the Technique Volume 2 and listening to snippets of each album. I initially was going to review a 3rd bass album because of the familiar samples; however, one song from the Black Sheep album stood out and made this album a clear choice. In this assignment, I hope to examine most tracks on the album and analyze the collective message of this twenty-two track project.
I like this style of music the best because it best represents who I am and what I enjoy. The lyrics to the songs during these times were mainly fun and easily understood compared to other genres of earlier music that seemed were very dark, depressing, or hard for me to understand or relate to.