Industrial Music

Today in class we listened to a few industrial music songs, and although they are a completely different genre than Paul's Boutique, I had the same problems with both pieces of music. I really like the more upbeat rhythm that is popular in the 80th more than just the rock genre of the 70's, but I couldn't come to like the songs because of the singers. For example when I first heard the song Terrible Life, I was excited for a pretty good song, because a really cool and pumpy beat was set up, but as soon as the words started, I didn't like it. To me the voice of the singer has to do a lot with whether or not I like the music, and I really wasn't impressed with the voices in Paul's Boutique or most of the industrial music. Maybe it's because I am used to the poppy songs of today, I almost prefer the "drill the chorus into your head" songs, because I feel that the singing was better. I really don't like the flat voice and lack of range in the notes. For some reason I am ok with rap, but only as long as the words kind of add to the beat, but I feel with a lot of industrial music, the voice actually takes away from the song.