Catchy Songs

[jnoble]

I don't understand how instrumentals can be considered catchy. There is nothing to sing along to. Melody is an integral part of catchiness for me.

Dude, listen with your ears. Instrumentals are usually very melodic. Jeez.

 

Instrumentals are boring and put me to sleep. My ears don't work as well when sleeping. Sorry.

 

No, but honestly I think instrumentals are a waste of time in rock music. They are fine as a classical piece or a score for a film/show, but I have no use for them otherwise. There is never a point in my life when I actively want to put on an instrumental to listen to it. I love RUSH, but like none of their entirely instrumental compositions. I tend to hate the word "filler" that is bandied about so loosely on this board, but if I would use that word for anything it would be to describe ALL of the instrumentals on the various RUSH albums. The only thing they do for me is take up space that would otherwise be reserved for a complete song with lyrics and vocals.

 

Hand Over Fist started off as an instrumental until they found it handy to fit some lyrics to it. Headlong Flight as well.

[Alien Girl]

I don't understand how instrumentals can be considered catchy. There is nothing to sing along to. Melody is an integral part of catchiness for me.

Dude, listen with your ears. Instrumentals are usually very melodic. Jeez.

 

Instrumentals are boring and put me to sleep. My ears don't work as well when sleeping. Sorry.

 

No, but honestly I think instrumentals are a waste of time in rock music. They are fine as a classical piece or a score for a film/show, but I have no use for them otherwise. There is never a point in my life when I actively want to put on an instrumental to listen to it. I love RUSH, but like none of their entirely instrumental compositions.

Okay. The fact remains that a melody can be played on any instrument. It don't need words.

 

That is fine, but the definition of the word CATCHY in regards to ROCK MUSIC (not classical, not jazz, not other forms of primarily instrumental music) is almost exclusively used to describe the VOCAL MELODY. I'm not making this shit up. Ask anyone who is not specifically a RUSH fan, but just generally likes rock music to list you the 10 songs they find to be most catchy and they will list you a bunch of songs with vocal melodies. That is kind of what rock music, and especially popular rock music, is all about.

 

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You're one of those people who has to 'sing' to YYZ aren't you? Ugh, I hate that.

[RUSHHEAD666]

I don't understand how instrumentals can be considered catchy. There is nothing to sing along to. Melody is an integral part of catchiness for me.

Dude, listen with your ears. Instrumentals are usually very melodic. Jeez.

 

HAHAHAHA!

 

 

"La Villa" blows all of those poll songs away!!! Hell and I'm YYZ guy.

[RUSHHEAD666]

I don't understand how instrumentals can be considered catchy. There is nothing to sing along to. Melody is an integral part of catchiness for me.

Dude, listen with your ears. Instrumentals are usually very melodic. Jeez.

 

Instrumentals are boring and put me to sleep. My ears don't work as well when sleeping. Sorry.

 

No, but honestly I think instrumentals are a waste of time in rock music. They are fine as a classical piece or a score for a film/show, but I have no use for them otherwise. There is never a point in my life when I actively want to put on an instrumental to listen to it. I love RUSH, but like none of their entirely instrumental compositions.

Okay. The fact remains that a melody can be played on any instrument. It don't need words.

 

That is fine, but the definition of the word CATCHY in regards to ROCK MUSIC (not classical, not jazz, not other forms of primarily instrumental music) is almost exclusively used to describe the VOCAL MELODY. I'm not making this shit up. Ask anyone who is not specifically a RUSH fan, but just generally likes rock music to list you the 10 songs they find to be most catchy and they will list you a bunch of songs with vocal melodies. That is kind of what rock music, and especially popular rock music, is all about.

 

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You're one of those people who has to 'sing' to YYZ aren't you? Ugh, I hate that.

 

Hahaha!!!

 

i've been drumming to YYZ since I was in the 8th grade!

 

Never gets old.

 

Neither do I! LOL!

[RUSHHEAD666]

And I'm "Nobody's Hero!" Well my daughters think so.

 

"Nobody's Hero" is very catchy.

[Chicken hawk]

[diatribein]

I don't understand how instrumentals can be considered catchy. There is nothing to sing along to. Melody is an integral part of catchiness for me.

Dude, listen with your ears. Instrumentals are usually very melodic. Jeez.

 

Instrumentals are boring and put me to sleep. My ears don't work as well when sleeping. Sorry.

 

No, but honestly I think instrumentals are a waste of time in rock music. They are fine as a classical piece or a score for a film/show, but I have no use for them otherwise. There is never a point in my life when I actively want to put on an instrumental to listen to it. I love RUSH, but like none of their entirely instrumental compositions. I tend to hate the word "filler" that is bandied about so loosely on this board, but if I would use that word for anything it would be to describe ALL of the instrumentals on the various RUSH albums. The only thing they do for me is take up space that would otherwise be reserved for a complete song with lyrics and vocals.

 

Hand Over Fist started off as an instrumental until they found it handy to fit some lyrics to it. Headlong Flight as well.

 

I like Hand Over Fist in part because of the lyrics. Had it been an instrumental, I would not have bothered with it. I WISH Headlong Flight had been an instrumental, because then it wouldn't have been released as a single and I could ignore it! I really dislike that song. It irritates me to no end that it was the 1st single from Clockwork Angels and that it is held in such high esteem by RUSH fans. I consider it the 3rd worst song on Clockwork Angels (Behind Seven Cities of Gold & Clockwork Angles). It would be easier to disregard if it was just an instrumental.

 

 

You're one of those people who has to 'sing' to YYZ aren't you? Ugh, I hate that.

 

No. I just don't listen to it, ever. I almost never listen to whole albums. I used to have YYZ on my RUSH Part I mix, but I dumped it for In The Mood because I realized that the only reason I had it on at all was because it was nominated for a Grammy and that it is held in high esteem by many. I decided that it wasn't so important to the RUSH catalogue that I had to have it in the 120 songs that I have in my mixes so I dropped it for a an actual single that RUSH played well into the 80s and feel pretty good about it. But no, I never sing to it. That would be silly and also imply that it is catchy, which it is not.

 

 

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Edited June 2, 2017 by diatribein