I'm saying this after listening to Black Bear - Like Venice, Gorillaz - Stop the Dams, and Gorillaz - Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head. I don't know why exactly, but I find myself drawn to these songs because they feel more like poetry to me or something. These aren't the only songs that feel like that, either--ranging from King Crimson - Neurotica--not that regular poetic cadence but definitely not traditional 'singing'--to Nana Grizol - Mississippi Swells--which, while more melodic, I actually read as part of a poetry reading for a few friends--these tracks feel more, I don't know, focused on the words rather than the action of speaking them with the music simply being accompaniment.
Anyways, I tried showing a few of these tracks to some folks I know, and they did not seem to very much enjoy them, and I don't know exactly why. What are y'alls thoughts on it? If you're a fan of this sort of feeling of music, do you have any personal favorites to suggest?
Slint is so good. Also very weird, my buddy was texting me about them earlier. They don't come up too often and that's twice in a night!
honestly the best songs are just poems put to music. See: the highwayman by phil ochs, take this waltz by leonard cohen. Feel free to add more you know them.
It's great. Recitative is one of the oldest genres of western art music, though that's obviously a lot more tone oriented than modern spoken word.
sounds good but bro I don't think I can support any conflict themed music, even if it is a minor one
Love it, my absolute favorite of the genre is king midas sound.
I haven't really listened to much of it, if you count that part at the beginning of F♯ A♯ ∞ by Gospeed You! Black Emperor as spoken word music, I really like that. I do definitely want explore some of it at some point though.
