My music theory prof wants everyone to bring in a song for the class to analyze...

My music theory prof wants everyone to bring in a song for the class to analyze. What's the most patrician song I could choose that won't make me seem like too much of a retard? Preferably something complex and varying in structure.

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4' 33

Dubs and this confirm

Boris - Flood II

Grimes - Kill V. Maim

What have you been learning specifically lately?

Yo, bring in come King Crimson.

Frownland

youtube.com/watch?v=ArQCkbP07Ao

Mostly shoegaze, post rock, and a lot of AC

Merzbow - Woodpecker No. 1

Or really any song off TMR.

I meant what your class has been covering lately unless you intend for this to be completely open-ended and unrelated

Oh fuck you meant in the class. It's just general intro to theory.

Dubs for Bobby Shmurda-Hot Nigga

Try Everything in it's right place by Radiohead, very interesting from a harmonic and rhythmic standpoint and most people probably won't think you're a complete and utter autist (Not that you are for liking any of those things you mentioned but normies gonna norm)

If you want to make friends, play this one: youtube.com/watch?v=dTF_NyJuBAo

In the aeroplane over the sea

Depending on how far you're through the course, some of this might have stuff you have not learned yet.

>Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Frownland or Veteran's Day Poppy
More easily digestible than say...Ella Guru off that album. There's that popular analysis of Frownland of that one YouTube guy.

>The Beach Boys - Any track works from Pet Sounds but God Only Knows might be the most impressive
Go to their wiki page or countless other places that have laid out the brilliance on this record. Beatles stuff works as well.

>King Crimson - Red
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Don't be that cunt who goes full tryhard and brings in something super complicated. You won't look cool/patrician if it's something not even you can analyze, or if it has shit in it that you all haven't even learned yet as a class. Just pick a song with simple enough chords and changes that you and your classmates will actually be able to analyze it. Pretty much any pop song should do really well for what I'm assuming the prof wants you to get out of the exercise

Runaway by kanye west

Just do a simple but good sounding song...

Maybe NMH, Strokes, Tomorrow Never knows, or anything off Pet Sounds

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Zappa's Little House I Used to Live In is the only rock composition - yes, composition - that you can bring in without looking like a knuckle-dragger.

Good Vibrations. There's a lot going and it's a relatively well known song.

Ode To Sleep by twenty one pilots

>he wastes his daddy's money on useless course

Really makes me think

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KC is good as hell, but if we're talking about complex prog Close to the Edge is the most patrician yet not retarded you can get:
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Play this song OP and people will instantly respect your superior taste.

or just play lumpy gravy to be a true music connoisseur

Oh boy.
It's a novelty record guys.
That's about it. Other wise its a scam, a spook, a Rothko if you will. Which bares no substance yet you buy into it.

Let's remind ourselves that that Don was mentally ill, never had the discipline to learn an instrument himself and physically & mentally tortured his band. Not to mention, he kept all the money himself and was deeply paranoid when reporters would ask about his Trout Mask band and whether they got payed or not.

The drummer who transcribed all of Dons work was mentally & physically abused so much that he had a problem coping with the outside world after TMR and turned full Jesus freak. Too many acid spiking and beatings.
Don is a hack, most of his life is a fabricated lie and you take that to the bank.

Go ahead and play TMR in your class, see if they don't look at you like a disgusting freak.

OP is going to bring in something way beyond his or his class's understanding, they won't be able to analyze it decently at all and he'll look like an asshat. B-b-but at least he's ""patrician"" in the eyes of his fellow high school students who probably don't listen to much outside the top 40

That's why I said I don't want to look like a retard. I want something accessible but still patrician. BTW it's a college course, I'm not some underage faggot.

Why is Sup Forums so unnecessarily hostile?

>God Only Knows
this to be honest friend
not pretentious, not autistic, and still plenty of things to analyze

christ, just pick a beach boys song

just bring in a song you like you fucking sperglord and stop trying to seem cool, that's the least cool thing you could possibly do

I mean it's not like it's an amazing record, but there was some intent behind TMR.

Honestly one of the more accessible songs might be fun to analyze OP.

Race: In by Battles

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No. 2 is better

dubs confirm!

You are in a intro to music theory course, bring in a simple and short song.

this OP play Starless and you will be the coolest kid in class

Nice one, dude!

Red is shorter than Starless, people will hate OP if he brings in that long of a song. Either are good choices though.

Sleep - dopesmoker

Just to clarify, I mean long by pleb standards.

>this

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Bring chainsmokers duh
so straightforward you crush the presentation
Class dismissed early
You take the cute girl who loves chainsmokers and thinks youre a genius to coffee

This is how you make friends
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Red is a repetitive snorefest compared to Starless even considering that Starless is twice as long
but is right honestly

^^
you'll seem cool if you do this and you'll probably get bonus cool kid points with your professor for having edgy taste

I'm not trying to attack him, but I think OP is an awkward teenager going through his Sup Forums phase. No way he could pull this off. Maybe if he plays something truly patrician he will get the respect of the weird but decent looking art major.

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the perfect combination of accessible yet still complex and nuanced

us & them

GOOD point

Honestly might work. There's a lot of substance in this song but it's accessible. Only risk is that OP will end up being known as the college freshman who just discovered Pink Floyd.

Zach Hill's album Face Tat.

ever heard of an elective faggot

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just to fuck with people

Put some Prospect Hummer since you like AnCo.
Or either In Flowers or Bluish if you want to go MPP.

God Only Knows.

Master and servant

Mindless Self Indulgence - Song Where They Scream FAGOOT

Kek XD sry had 2 post dis

But I like it so that means you are wrong and also gay.

Anything deathgrips
maybe cross eagle cross the block

I would bring in some metal because fuck everyone else

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God Only Knows

The Cure -- Pictures of You

Patrician, but pop enough and accessible to not look like an autist

plus qts will be intrigued

"no"
this would be chill

I agree with what you're saying but who the fuck are you

Comus - Drip Drip (Prog Folk song about necrophilia with a 5 minute drum intermezzo and some great fiddling, 12 minutes)
Godspeed... - Sleep (just great all around, but ~20 minutes long)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells pt. 1 (Minimalist new age prog rock, the opening piano portion was in The Exorcist, 20 minutes)
Magma - Hortz Fur Dehn Stekehn West (shorter operatic zeuhl song, 9 minutes)
John Fahey - What The Sun Said (complex country blues guitar piece with a cool chord progression, 10 minutes)
Fracture (or FraKCtured) is the best KC song for analyzation, probably. Some crazy fuckery going on there.

My Sup Forums phase was awhile ago, I haven't been on this board in months. It's just the first thing that came to mind when we talked about bringing music to class. Not a teenager, but definitely awkward.

>reccing long as shit tracks
Nigga what is wrong with you?

Just try the chainsmokers thing what do you have to lose?

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While Any Colour You Like is instrumental, it has been speculated that the song ties to The Dark Side of the Moon concept by considering the lack of choice one has in human society, while being deluded into thinking one does. It is also speculated that the song is about the fear of making choices. The origin of the title is unclear.

The first half of the song repeats the same few notes on the keyboard except they play it faster, slower, backwards. and forwards to create the illusion of listening to different things. It cleverly shows how people are mislead into thinking they are deciding how their life will run, but that is not the case as society forces you to take a certain path. Note its position on the album, too. "Us and Them" is about paranoia, immediately following this is "Any Colour You Like" and then "Brain Damage", finally Eclipse. Any Colour is the nervous breakdown that comes in between the onset of paranoia and the "brain damage."

The song used advanced effects for the time both in the keyboard and the guitar. The VCS 3 synthesizer was fed through a long tape loop to create the rising and falling keyboard solo. David Gilmour used two guitars with the Uni-Vibe guitar effect to create the harmonizing guitar solo for the rest of the song. "Any Colour You Like" is also known (and is even listed on the Dark Side guitar tablature book) as "Breathe (Second Reprise)" because the song shares the same beat (albeit somewhat funkier and uptempo) as the album's first song "Breathe". It has also nearly the same chord sequence just transposed a whole step lower from E minor to D minor.

The reason why I have fallen in monogamic love with this tune is due to its perfection. The production behind it is unmatchable by any standard. The synthesizers take front row for most of the production, and the guitar/bass/drum combo serve as a base. In my mind, this is what a song should try to achieve if it wants to be perfect.

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You must be fun at parties

Nothing really. I was just looking to share something different/experimental with people who probably wouldn't hear it otherwise.

But not at the expense of looking like an idiot

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literally nothing in this post is about the music

music teachers really like the beatles, pick any of their popular songs help and beyond

fine
just show them anything from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, as it's the best album of all time
revolution 9 is the patrician choice, not even memeing

not really, it's a sound collage so you can't analyze it with music theory, except possibly analyzing its form

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Download a bunch of chainsmokers songs
Beatmatch, match key, overlay in your DAW of choice
Play this for your class
Best of both worlds

LOVE GUN

A Robbie Basho piece

God I wanna take a class where we analyze a lot of AC

how bout a lil elvis OP

why would you read youtube comments

but people might be offended if you analyzed Anal Cunt in class

Lil Pump - D Rose

something from Have You in My Wilderness

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"Track C- Group Dancers" by Charles Mingus
seriously
this is the best and coolest shit
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As others have said, I would pick God Only Knows. It's short, digestible but still immensely clever and beautiful.

If not this I would pick California by Joanna Newsom.

I'm sure all the partygoers love TMR

So What by Anti-Nowhere League