https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/tumblr_m4d43boOrQ1rvup99o1_1280.jpg
― rob, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:10 (three days ago)
i asked a scientist and he said "smoke the herb"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2upPgBmFYOM
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:12 (three days ago)
smoking the herb would probably fuck the count, plus I don't see any evil intergalactic vampires around, so case closed, thank you The Scientist
― rob, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:16 (three days ago)
didn't notice that you'd transposed count and beat and thought this was going to be about the pinball song. tbh I'm not sure I fully understand what a downbeat is even after reading an explanation and I'm a little concerned that I'm listening to all music wrong.
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:35 (three days ago)
yeah I made this thread because I am so ignorant of rhythm theory that I don't really understand the other one
― rob, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:40 (three days ago)
Ummmm...it's very funny that you post that particular Scientist track (Plague of Zombies, I think is the actual tune), because that's seriously the other favorite track that I know I hear wrong, lol. It's very hard for me not to hear the first note of the bassline as the 1, but from the drums it's clear that the first two notes are pickups. It's one of my favorite dub tracks but the way the bass lies in the phrase always trips me up.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:08 (three days ago)
what in the world is in that bass? what you got in that bass??
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:26 (three days ago)
rolling stones are always starting songs where the downbeat is a mystery to me until the song starts properly and i have to do a little mental shuffle and reset.
― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:35 (three days ago)
I don't think I'd ever listened to Johnny Osbourne's original vocal for "Plague of Zombies" (which yeah that is the tune); it's a pretty weird riddim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I6GE8jbbo0
(I guess this was in GTA3 but I've never played those games)
― rob, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:37 (three days ago)
like i still can't reverse track and put the downbeat in the right place of the intro riff to "happy", clearly it's not on the first note of the riff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-QXotF03Yc
― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:37 (three days ago)
Ooh thank you for that Johnny Osbourne track! I've never heard it and it's much easier to feel there.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:43 (three days ago)
my pleasure
and yeah map that intro is tricky even if, see earlier post, I don't know why
― rob, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 19:52 (three days ago)