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Music as Poetry

There are a lot of chumps out there that will try to tell you their music is poetry. You’ve heard it a thousand times before, and chances are you’ve probably gotten pretty good at calling their bluff: Their music isn’t poetry. In fact, most music isn’t.

Sure it serves other purposes. We live in a world where speakers are so widely and cheaply available that they’re cramming mini ones into greeting cards, so to say that music isn’t and essential part of life would be a whole different argument, but to say that the music that takes the awkward out of a two-man elevator ride or the beats that turn a gathering into a party are the same as the music that “moves you” (for lack of a better grasp on what verb a poem would choose to describe its act of being) is a sorry way of a looking at life.

Some music is different. Some music actively makes the choice to stop speaking about the size of its penis, and to instead tell a story about the world and all it’s surprise and wonder without even utilizing a single spoken verse.

The Three Minute Novel

Here are a couple of tunes that poked and prodded around inside me to the point where I felt I could write an entire book on just three minutes of audio. If a tune can tap so deeply into my own personal nostalgia that it unlocks memories from my childhood that I did not even know I had, that’s what I call poetry.

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Nosaj Thing – Aquarium

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Scribbled Paper

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The Clonious – One At A Time (Funked Up) ft. Muhsinah

If any of the tunes contained in this post happen to suit your taste, the artist would probably be thrilled if you considered buying them on iTunes, Beatport, or Amazon.

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by Stephen Corwin

This entry was posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010 at 8:45 pm and is filed under Disco Daily. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Music as Poetry”

  1. aOkej says:
    July 12, 2010 at 8:21 am

    i 100% agree with you. I’m a producer as well, and when I try to produce a song it really has to come from your emotions. It’s your lifes memories/thoughts/dreams crafted, if not always beautifully, into music. So because you can relate to certain songs and can’t with others does not mean it is not poetry. Only the artist can TRULY appreciate his own work- regardless of whether others can relate. Good shit though, agree with you on the tracks you posted!

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    July 12, 2010 at 5:17 pm

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    July 13, 2010 at 7:17 am

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