Favorite five ingredients for a song

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Mine:
Vocals
Synths
Guitar
Percussion
Bass

Right now. Piano is definitely in the rotation.

― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Drums
Sax
Tabasco
Gin
Titties

― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'll just have a grilled cheese. I'm into sparse shit right now.

― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Mine:
Vocals
Synths
Guitar
Percussion
Bass

so basically nearly every song ever?

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

a lot of people like instrumental music, without vocals. a lot of artists would never touch a synth and i can think of a number of songs without percussion.

so no, not nearly every song ever.

i'm big on texture so i like to think in terms of combinations. permutations of the elements i listed above sound good to me, whereas i know others, in fact, do prefer a more sparse set of sound. like guitar and voice. or percussion and rap.

me, i'm into the thickness of a blend.

― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Resolution.
Surprise.
Pandering.
Weightlessness.
Control.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Screaming fits
Producer (head in hands)
Coked-up significant other
Corrupted hard disk
Pharrell in the video

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

the coked up significant other part is so hollywood

― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

i guess it could be said that drugs on a broader scale are a key ingredient to musicianship

― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

1) Flashillion.
2) Baffling.
3) Rememberment.
4) Brain.
5) Now.

Will this do?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

baffling, rememberment, brain, now could totally be a meditation chant

flashillion huh? ; )

― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Great melody
Interesting harmony/chords
Great vocal harmonies
Great stereo effects
Detailed, clever and slick production.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

To surmounter:
Would not baffling disrupt An Meditation?

To Geir:
You're packing 8 into 5 by use of backslash and comma and and – that is cheating.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

The most common ingredient in meth is pseudoephedrine or ephedrine, commonly found in cold medicine. Through a cooking process the pseudoephedrine or ephedrine is chemically changed into meth. The ingredients that are used in the process of making meth can include: ether, paint thinner, Freon®, acetone, anhydrous ammonia, iodine crystals, red phosphorus, drain cleaner, battery acid, and lithium (taken from inside batteries).

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

no wait is not backslash is regular slash -- point still stands right.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

hehe, i dunno

maybe baffling meditation is a key ingredient for really good music.

vocal harmonies otm.

― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

my friend ben bought prescription strength cold stuff and the guy asked him if he was gonna use it to make meth

― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Rhythm
Stereo
Video
Compression
Flute

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

my friend bought bafflement and harmonies and the guy asked him if he was gonna use it to make economists and marshmallows!

Er. Sorry for derailing thread.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

ingredients: sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Secretly, you are Tep, aren't you?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

tr808
sh101
mpc3000

all you need, really

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

you also need the money to pay for it

― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

slap bass
chicken-scratch guitar
Stones piano
flinty tom-toms
Mentasm stabs

― hank (hank s), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

Great Tits
Great Bums
Wigs
Shiny Dresses
Fake guitars

queue The Pipettes

― wesley useche (electronicmaji), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

existential despair
ineffable longing
inscrutable lyrics
emotional unavailability
handclaps

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 4 February 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

808 Claps
Bridges, as many as you can justify
Hand percussion, preferrable paired with...
Way 2 Fonky bassline
An AWESOME, AWESOME, LIFE-AFFIRMING coda

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

bridges otm!

― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

stressed-out prechorus into instrumental rock-out chorus
that little triple-strum thing that pete townshend does
sprawling codas
singer really sad or insane (male) or talking about a dream she just had (female)
steward copeland or elvin jones on drums and switching it up a lot

― kyle gorman (killabee), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

1) a good beat
2) baseline
3) explosions
4) a bridge
5) no guest vocals

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

1. a wide-ranging bassline
2. glittering production
3. memorable lyrical phrases
4. lots of surprises
5. knowing when to stop

― Ismael Klata (Ismael Klata), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Paul
Ace
Gene
Peter
Me

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Surprise
Groove
Ambition
Context
Originality

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

strings
brass
woodwinds
percussion
theremins

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Screaming fits
Producer (head in hands)
Coked-up significant other
Corrupted hard disk
Pharrell in the video

I'm with Ned.

or:
overproduction using real instruments
extreme repetition
percussive synth lines
fuzzy bass sounds
Mark E Smith

― davelus (davelus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Pot
Coke
LSD
Cough Syrup
Painkillers

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Recognition of Finitude
Reach for Infinity
Fear of Death
Disregard for Social Convention
Vodka

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Vaginal Fluid
Breast Milk
Semen
Blood
Shared Needles

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Nice Sleeve
Imaginative typesetting
Retails at less than £10
Sounds like something I already like
Not many other people have heard it

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Tempo changes
Too many sections
Pinched harmonics
DX21
Guest appearance from Daryl Hall

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

You're packing 8 into 5 by use of backslash and comma

Harmony and chords are the same thing. Particularly when I have listed vocal harmonies specificly later on.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

dirt
confusion
OCD
violence
vomit

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Reverb.
Reverb.
Reverb.
Reverb.
Reverb.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Jangle
"ba ba ba"
Slap Echo
E minor
joyful sense of musicians struggling to hold the song together and almost managing but not quite

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

dirt
confusion
ODB
violence
vomit

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

fire
stars
shaman
ebow
overdrive

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

1. Bo Diddley beats
2. Tension: Buildup on verses/Release on chorus
3. Monophonic analog synthesizer (OK, duophonic's fine too)
4. A drug of some kind (caffeine counts)
5. At least one chord

This list is subject to change depending on etc.

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

(Sorry 'bout the six-into-five-via backslash, omhalck)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

only need to two: vocoder and drums. fuck it, just one: vocoder a capella

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe nobody's done this yet. I'm sorry.

Parsely
Sage
Rosemary
and
Thyme
and
Garlic

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Divorce
A great deal of alcohol
Hammer on
Hammer off
Ambient noise

― cws (cws), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

vocoder a capella otm!

thyme rules ; )

― Surmounter (rra123), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

righteous indignation
rageohol
party pants
Tron-style motorcycles
fuck-want

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

hm. everything i thought of can be used for good or evil, so here are five things that are never excusable:

sirens

extended audio clips from movies (exception: Liquid Swords)

sincere spoken interludes (exceptions: Off the Wall, Digable "The U.S. government is, like, all up in my uterus" Planets)

'chipmunk' vocals (exception..barely: "Housequake")

bono

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Lots of instruments
Lots of space
Middle eight
Coda
Too much red wine

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

Poortheatre, please excuse Mr Bungle from your list parts 1 & 2.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

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