Do you like catchyness?

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:48 am

Stupid poll.

noodles · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:29 am

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If you like something—and this is completely subjective—then it is inherently "catchy" to you.

You have a point, but for the purpose of this thread I meant catchy as in music that gets stuck in your head, not music that's memorable/makes you want to listen to it again.

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Absolutely incorrect. I'm listening to Butchered at Birth right now. By the end of it I won't be able to remember what a single one of the songs sounded liked other than "riffriffriff burgle burgle burgle" and I still enjoy it and go back for more.

exactly!

Eyesore · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:42 am

derncare wrote:

I like this idea...just for fun, I'm replacing the word "good" with "catchy" for a while until it drives my family nuts :lol:

"Catchy night, son!" :dio:

EDIT: To be honest though, I think noodles has started a thread where everyone is actually more in agreement than not, but due to everyone's own terminology and definition of "catchy", we have a debate

Honestly, I just think we all got off on the wrong foot because we always just assume noodles is being himself—a nonsensical retard. :lol:

Antonakis · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:48 am

Eyesore wrote:

Honestly, I just think we all got off on the wrong foot because we always just assume noodles is being himself—a nonsensical retard. :lol:

So you did just admit, since you're part of the whole, that you also got off on the wrong foot thus being (at least partially) wrong. Is this true or is this minute joy I feel unfounded?

noodles · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:18 am

Eyesore was right about what he was talking about, but it wasn't what I started the thread about :blink:

also by the predictable/simple comment, music that gets stuck in my head generally has a far lower relistenability for me :sad:

Eyesore · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:41 am

Antonakis wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Honestly, I just think we all got off on the wrong foot because we always just assume noodles is being himself—a nonsensical retard. :lol:

So you did just admit, since you're part of the whole, that you also got off on the wrong foot thus being (at least partially) wrong. Is this true or is this minute joy I feel unfounded?

I admit to being wrong all the time, foo! :mad:

But noodles clarified himself by saying "...for the purpose of this thread I meant catchy as in music that gets stuck in your head, not music that's memorable/makes you want to listen to it again." Had he said that initially I wouldn't have replied what I replied. :wink:

rio · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:11 am

Eyesore wrote:

I didn't redefine anything. You guys are thinking catchy is "The Ketchup Song" or that Chumbawamba song or shit like that

Not so, if I thought that then I would never have said

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Catchy is often a positive characteristic

Quote:

Yes, that is catchy, but that's not the definition. It's like you like to eat something, you love pizza, and then you try to justify it by saying it's not something that really grabs your palatte, it's just good food. What is that? Good food? Pffft! That's catchy food, son! And good. Thus catchy. Thus good.

Thus I win. :unsure:

I think the word has to mean something more specific than just simply memorable. Most importantly it has to signify immediacy, which is certainly not something that good music has to have- see Rad's Cannibal Corpse example.

Thus I win :dio:

Ness · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:49 pm

I overreacted in this thread. Eggnog and rum is gooooood.

Radagast · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:09 pm

I win. BURGLE! :dio:

Eyesore · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:55 pm

Noodles isn't banned yet.

We all lose. :sad:

leee · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:29 pm

Eternal Idol wrote:

If the album doesn't stick in my mind in some way or another, the odds of it seeing my CD player again are usually pretty slim. Catchy does mean more than having a sing along chorus. A riff can be catchy, a bassline can be catchy, and so forth.

What he said. Exactly.

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:33 pm

Yay, most of the time.

Today I played Zombie Ritual in the common room and everyone was like "OMG u death noiz person" and I think it's catchy as fuck-my friend Matty liked it because he thought it was noise, ahah.

Metalhead_Bastard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:34 pm

Rad wrote:

Absolutely incorrect. I'm listening to Butchered at Birth right now. By the end of it I won't be able to remember what a single one of the songs sounded liked other than "riffriffriff burgle burgle burgle" and I still enjoy it and go back for more.

Haha, exactly.

rio · **Posted:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:49 am

Eyesore wrote:

Noodles isn't banned yet.

We all lose. :sad:

That's certainly true :sad:

heatseeker · **Posted:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:50 am

I just think of catchiness as being a part where I think "Whoa, that's sweet" and stop what I'm doing and air guitar or headbang :dio:

. And then I'll have it stuck in my head for hours.

I like having good songs stuck in my head. It's like listening to metal 24/7.

mentalmark · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:06 pm

I really think everyone's saying the same thing but a point has been missed. I think a way music catches you depends on your mood. I find that if you've got the radio on in the background and a song comes on that best represents your mood, you'll be hooked on it. Experience decides whether you class particular music as good, so I find that I'll buy stuff to represent certain feelings.

For example, I find that if I'm down in the mouth, I'll want to listen to Alice in Chain's Down In A Hole. If I'm in a happy mood, maybe I'll want to listen to something uplifting like Dragonforce. And one of my biggest sins in music is that I love a blast of Slipknot just before I go to the pub on a Friday night!

I'm into Mainly Thrash/Heavy Metal, but I have a wide range of Rock/Metal that I'll only ever listen to when the mood is right.

Morlock · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:17 pm

I don't like songs that are stereotypically catchy, so I put no. Obviously I find the music I listen to catchy, but from a mainstream perspective it wouldn't be at all. I like to be surprised by my music though, and if I know whats coming next because they continously repeat a catchy chorus or something then I'm not going to enjoy it.

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