Noise of Doubling-Step Attributes

#1

[indent]God I fucking hate dubstep… I mean, “I like good dubstep”[/indent]so the audience heard and agreed.

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The lead-singer/songwriter made the comment after tweaking the tuning on his guitar (which, by some chord strum, created an atrocious feedback with electronic interference).

Personally, I have tried to listen to some. Tried. Desperately. Attempted to listen to a multitude of links, even with videos to distract from them… more than enough to compose a full album (after listening to which you’d say “This artist can’t do a single decent song”).

There are glimmers of hope in the genre, in the form of samples. It turns out people who enjoy and produce dubstep can also enjoy music which I find pleasing, so the taste of listeners is not exclusively bad; dubstep’s horror is not commutative. Music that all listeners are inclined to appreciate is what I term “objectively good”.

Portions of objectively good music may be brought into the genre, but I argue that additions and modifications native to dubstep only detract from the source.

If there is any redemption by a piece of music called dubstep, I have observed that the greatness of its sampling outweighs the liberty it took with it. As dubstep’s disgust-per-second is usually higher than the enjoyment-per-second of other music, I argue that preferred songs of dubstep are oft greater-composed of samples from other, better, music genres.

What is your opinion?

#2

I need to listen to more dubstep. I haven’t heard enough to form an opinion.

#3

My personal opinion: Dubstep is painful to listen to, and should only be played at low volume to stress oneself out when you are too relaxed, or as an alarm sound if ordinary alarms don’t wake you up.

My public opinion: OMG DUBSTEP SQUEEEE

My internet opinion:

#4

I heard dubstep, Thought it was atrocious, but didn’t quite write it off as hopeless incase it was just “bad dubstep”.

I then heard numerous dubstep “remixes” of good songs which amount to basically:

Good song, good song, WRRZZZ KT KT KZRPT ZCKT - WUB WUB WUB WUB WUUUUB WUUUUB

and so forth. I have no love for the genre.

#5

Rebuttal.

#6

Where do you draw the line between dubstep and other genres of electronica?

That has a followable, musical path, is not a cacophony of random electronic noise loosly patched together by rythmn and therefore is arguably not dubstep.

#7

This is pretty good stuff.
This is also pretty good stuff.

#8

I like when electronic music isn’t made by some dork sitting at his computer using software to generate beeps and boops for him.

Examples of what I’d call good electric music include Emerson Lake & Palmer, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Tubeway Army, pretty much everything that involves creating a sound and then ruining it with a synthesizer

#9

And Amon Tobin. Not dubstep but damned respectable electronic.

#10

i love dubstep

though there is a lot of crap

which you can say about any genre

#11

excellent rebuttal, just re-listened to it while high, it’s like my ears just had several orgasms

#12

I only like dubstep when it’s combined with drum 'n bass. But that’s just me.

#13

I haven’t heard any dubstep that I actually liked.

#14

i love it but i understand not liking it
its not exactly accessible

#15

The thing with dubstep is, in my opinion, the only dubstep I like is more $otherElectronicGenre (DnB, Neurofunk, Breakbeat…) than dubstep.

And here, for example, I only like the non-dubstep sounding parts.

#16

I love the wub-wub-wub parts of dub step, but sadly a lot of the songs I’ve heard also contain the typical crappy vocals and typical its-its-its annoyance that comes with techno and consorts (like that Rebuttal and Deadmau5 stuff posted here).

#17

That guy in the first picture has a borderline epic beard. And two of the three dubstep songs I’ve listened to the whole way through have been acceptable, while the third was very meh.

I think that says something about my tastes that I’ve only heard three songs in their entirety. I do like some electronic music, but most of the dubstep I’ve heard didn’t seem worth listening to the whole song.

#18

Well, I like dubstep, but apparently there is a lot of internet backlash against it, making it similar to Nicolas Cage in yet another way. Seriously, the similarities between dubstep and Nicolas Cage are seemingly unending. Think about it. Actor. Musical style. Bad Lieutenant. Skrillex. Doctor Fu Manchu. The BEAT Doctor. Drops. Raising Arizona/Adaptation/Leaving Las Vegas/The Rock. Wigs. Saline solution. Sixteen. Sixteen-forty. Flashbulb democracy. Chopstickers chopstickers blood and pain and cruoric matter knee deep in cruoric matter and the slick wet mushroom feel of brains under your bare toes

#19

Me, I just don’t like the style of music that comes from dubstep. I don’t dislike dubstep because it’s popular to dislike it. I don’t let others do my thinking for me. If I like something others don’t like, then so be it. If I dislike something others like, so be it. If I dislike something others dislike, so be it. If I like something others like, so be it.

That said, I love Nic Cage movies (Wicker Man excluded) because Nic Cage is such a fun actor and seems to have a ball with his roles. I just don’t like dubstep. Not even what you linked.

#20

jeez daniel, can you ever make a point without patronizing everyone?

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