What kind of music did cavemen make?

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NO SERIOUSLY GUYS. What kind?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Country and western?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Some kind of throat singing?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

DRONE?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

The Saga of the Aging White Dude Continues

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

If they were in caves, echoy music.

(there is actually a booming academic subdiscipline on the acoustics of prehistoric ritual structures, you know)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Probably like the street bucket drumming, but minus the pan-handlers.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Rock music.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Do you think they ever made saxophones out of wooly mammoth horns and just, like, WILDED THE FUCK OUT? Or was that the Flinstones?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

haha yes and double basses out of long necked birds.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

"It's a living"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

NO OK GUYS BUT SERIOUSLY. What kind of music?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Groovy Grunting

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Drumming. Sticks on logs, dawg.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I would say at best they would do a lot of shouting, I'm talking about *really* early man here though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, a lot of people have been researching stuff like the resonant frequencies of megalithic graves, and so on.

(although with that sort of period you're talking about people who were biologically indistinguishable from us, of course)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Drumming. Sticks on logs, dawg.
-- Jordan (jordan...), November 9th, 2005 10:42 AM. (Jordan) (later)

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I would say at best they would do a lot of shouting, I'm talking about *really* early man here though.
-- Ste (ste.foste...), November 9th, 2005 10:43 AM. (Fuzzy) (later)

We're getting contradictory here, people. Primarily rhythmic or primarily vocal? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

ever see that scene in History of the World Part 1

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Why can't we discuss both?

Music is just harmonic sounds, does it matter how they are constructed?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Both!

Have you heard any recordings of pygmy music? I envision it sounding like that, only more basic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

stoner rock, obviously

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Music is just harmonic sounds, does it matter how they are constructed?

You're right. Delete ILM, pls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

psychotropic-fueled solstice raves

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

ROCK MUSIC

― Jdubz (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

xylophones made of rotting corpses ribs, etc

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

alternately, wild polyharmonic funereal wailing

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Blue-eyed soul.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Wild Thing...I think I love you.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/billy-bobs/gallery/cavemen.jpg

Pictured: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

9,000 yr old flute

http://www.shakuhachi.com/K-9KChineseFlutes-Articles.html

― steve ketchup, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

grindcore

― d-90 (D-90), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Modern music, Caveman music, it's all just music like stop pigeonholeing people maaaaaaan
It is an interesting question, though. Linguists have a way of working backwards with language (there's a term for it, I can't remember) to try to figure out how ancient peoples spoke. I wonder if any musical historians have tried something similar.

― Sengai, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

"egaugnal"?

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

This thread is cavemanist.

― discus (dr g), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Backwards in time, that is. xpost

― iagneS, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE CAVEMEN GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? BEAT ME WITH A CLUB AND DRAG ME AROUND BY MY HAIR? OH WAIT, THEY'RE ALL DEAD.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Anyways, I think most caveman music probably sounded like "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" or "White Room."

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what early man did musically when he discovered psychotropic plants. Invented woodwinds?

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

He invented the drum solo.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

And the 20-minute guitar solo. Thin and noodling, of course.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

ooga shaka ooga ooga ooga shaka

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

WHY DOES PILTDOWN MAN NEVER WANT TO ROCK?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000067USN.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

OH THE PUNS

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

It's rumored that Genesis stole all their songs from cave paintings by Orrorin tugenensis. So I guess symphonic prog is the answer.

― Oh enough already (Øystein), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

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