least melodic song on the 20th century poll

voting for "God Only Knows"

Ditto.

O Superman, obv.

"Blue Monday" could be 2 notes alternating at random intervals over a rhythm track as far as i care

Where's Geir?

Poll of the year. luv ewe crut!!!!

hate to be trolling sonic youth thread to thread but it really only has a melody for the 10seconds kim is allowed to speak

Waterloo Sunset, atonal nowave dirge BS

2 notes alternating at random intervals over a rhythm track

would listen

probly one of the rap songs (altho the sample on "The Message" is pretty catchy obv), talk-singing indie mumblers (lou reed, jonathan richman, about half of that Talking Heads song), or possibly "Maggot Brain" (harmonic but not exactly melodic)

not "bring the noise"?

I sing the organ lines in "Sister Ray" loudly and in public as often as possible

hate to be trolling sonic youth thread to thread but it really only has a melody for the 10seconds kim is allowed to speak

have you even heard the song?

strawberry fields obv

Geir or bust.

That is why I voted for "Bring The Noise" on the worst poll and it remains the least melodic of course. Not a single melody line in the vocals, thus no melody.

Not a lot of tune in "Teen Age Riot" or "I Put a Spell On You" either, but still more than on "Bring The Noise".

what about when chuck d goes "soul on a roll but you treat it like soap on a rope cuz the beats and the lines are so dope", that part's catchy

if I were to transcribe the melodies (yes, melodieS — plural) of Teenage Riot on piano it would sound pretty damn melodic.

The melodies the singers were supposed to sing maybe. Plus they'd have to be performed separately. Bitonality kills melody.

There is something going on in TR but it is not bitonality.

voted 'god only knows' obv

voted billie jean

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hey you jerks voting for o superman - you are jerks

melody is pretty obviously not the aim of O Superman — melody isn't like the only musical parameter worth consideration

It breaks my heart that there's a possibility, for some people on this board, that 'melodic' has been reduced from the magic in a sequence of notes, something unpickapartable that makes the bare notes affect us in a profound way (tone, rhythm, tempo, harmony, etc. being more amenable to figuring out) to basically mean 'whatever Geir likes, possibly honkey-like in character'.

appreciation of melody doesn't have to be completely unreflective and mysterious. analyzing it can make you appreciate the craftsmanship even more.

but reducing your basis for a value judgment of music, any music, down to "it's melodic, I like it" or "it's not melodic, I don't like it" is an ignorant approach — substitute "melodic" for "complex" or "happy" or "atmospheric", etc.

appreciation of melody doesn't have to be completely unreflective and mysterious. analyzing it can make you appreciate the craftsmanship even more.

Agree completely - din't mean to come across all "don't wanna talk to a scientist. Y'all motherfuckers lying". I just think it's harder to figure out what makes a good melody beyond "I know it when I hear it" compared to more figureoutable aspects of music.

it's not really able to be divorced from other elements of music within context — melody is never melody alone unless it's some sort of monophonic plainchant or other non-western music.

Whatabout out of context? Different cover versions etc.

I'll unbake this cake, separate out the ingredients, and put the eggs back in their shells, dammit.

there are melodic contours, phrasing that can be recognized as a gestalt signifying a particular melody, but even then, if it's a cover version that's true to the original, the other parameters are being duplicated as well. You can take a single melodic line and place completely different chord changes underneath it, but then it's essentially different due to association with the other musical material.

this has been boring, good night

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Contrariansah!

The most melodic song won.

Contrariansowanapah!

a meaningless question begets meaningless results

The question is not meaningless, however it is not a subjective question but an objective one and can easily be measured.
The runnerup is among the least melodic here actually, but not the least melodic, that would be "Bring The Noise" which has no melody at all.

"Bring the Noise" has more melody than "Like A Rolling Stone" or "Blue Monday"

listening to "bring the noise" now and waiting for the melody to come in

The question is not meaningless, however it is not a subjective question but an objective one and can easily be measured.
The runnerup is among the least melodic here actually, but not the least melodic, that would be "Bring The Noise" which has no melody at all.

Cool! What is the unit of measurement that we use to determine how much melody a specific piece of music contains?

a centigeir or a milligeir

units of measurement are usually titled after someone's SURname...
therefore most rap can be measured in millihongros (unless its nate dogg).

Genesis, however, requires a few gigahongros for proper melodic measurement.

one hongro = quantity of melody sufficient to lodge a song in a typical human brain for 24 hours

'God only knows' 11 voters to the other 35 voters who participated in this poll:

Fuck You.

Thread is obviously Geirbait but as far as I can see he is actually right here - Bring The Noise is as far as I've heard objectively less melodic than anything else on the list.

does the Anthrax version of BtN have more or less melody than the original?
(actually maybe this should be a separate poll...)

they shoulda called it Bring the Melody amirite

How many units of melody does "Bring the Noise" have, though?

i propose the Hongro Melo-Harmonic System, whereby tracks/albums/symphonic works/operas/artists/etc. are rated on a scale of 1 to 10: a perfect ten being Selling England by the Pound (are there any others?), obviously; and an amelodic, harmonically rudimentary/inferior one represented by "Bring the Noise," i suppose. ultimate arbitration of any such rating(s) resting squarely on the mighty shoulders of the great man, Geir Hongro, himself, natch.

Cool! What is the unit of measurement that we use to determine how much melody a specific piece of music contains?

It is called notation, and what i supposed to be notated in that matter is the melody line sung by the main vocalist. If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute.

tune even.

And, no, Genesis were of coures very melodic but they are not alone in being very melodic by any means.

does the Anthrax version of BtN have more or less melody than the original?

As far as I know, there is no singing by Anthrax on that version, which would have been more melodic, they just do the backing track.

It is called notation, and what i supposed to be notated in that matter is the melody line sung by the main vocalist. If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute.

So then is thing called a "notation" the unit of measurement for melody, for example, "Bring the Noise" has 1.5 notations of melody while the "Lamb Lies Down on Braodway" has 20.32 notations of melody (purely hypothetical as I do not know how many notations of melody either piece of music has), or is the notation a tool for measuring the quantity of melody in a piece of music, as in, "I can't tell how much melody is in this here Radiohead song, let me go get my notation out of the back of my truck and see if I can get a reading on it."