not sure if its fits here, but why are so many edm tracks 2:30?

[Corti]

See, he votes for "simply/briefly", ^ those are the ones that listen to 2:30 min EDM tracks, shame on you!

 

[bigshot]

You know, if the track is too short, you can always play it back on loop!

 

[Corti]

I think we have the final answer to the question “not sure if its fits here, but why are so many edm tracks 2:30?” now.
It’s because you can play them on loop.
Case closed.

 

[csch92]

that dosent solve my question about why most of it is trash

 

[Redcarmoose]

I remember in 1989 listening to a DJ play "The Humpty Dance" for 4 hours straight with a plethora of other songs mixed in. The fact that EDM songs are commercially released one way, does not nessesarily mean that's how they are heard in their intended place. Also typically EDM releases come in 4 or so different vertions.

 

[71 dB]

I remember in 1989 listening to a DJ play "The Humpty Dance" for 4 hours straight with a plethora of other songs mixed in.

I don't think I have ever heard that song before, but then again I have never been much into rap. I do like Mr Lee's album "Get Busy" thou from that era. I am also into UK hip house (house music with rapping) from those days, stuff like this:

 

[bigshot]

When I was in high school a DJ at KROQ locked himself in his booth and played Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" over and over. Eventually, the execs at the station found out and you could hear them pounding on the door demanding that he stop. After over an hour, they broke down the door and the DJ was suspended. But it hit the news and there was a spike in listeners, so he was hired back the next day.

 

[Davesrose]

When I was in college, I got into the group Orbital. They had songs that were considered dance in the form of being performed at raves. One of my favorite mixes is a full 9:30 (and the condensed music video was still 4:30). You can see how there's quite a swing with intro towards outro (though still not a solid "dance" beat like today's standard). This was when probably more young people were consuming music with CD ripping and trading mp3s (then say looking for a quick uptempo with their streaming for getting right to moving to a beat: be it exercise or shaking your booty).

 

[71 dB]

When I was in college, I got into the group Orbital.

Who didn't? I was never fanatically into Orbital, but I do have their six first albums on CD.

 

[bigshot]

When I was a kid, there was a genre of music we used to call "TV rock". It was albums that sounded like the music you heard on TV shows in the 1970s when it involved 'teenagers'. It used the same instruments as rock music did, but it was meandering, seemingly endless and without a point or distinct individuality. It was the rock music equivalent of Muzak. Some people took it seriously and bought those albums, even though no one was really a fan of it. It wasn't bad, there just wasn't anything to grab onto. That track sounds like the same sort of thing for electronic music. That's OK though because Brian Eno made a lot of records that way and found a way to convince people that they were more than just something he cranked out using a sequencer loop after lunch one day.

 

[VNandor]

that dosent solve my question about why most of it is trash

This trash keeps getting churned out because not everyone can possess such an original and refined music taste as you do so the unwashed and filthy (and not to mention very very ugly and bad) masses keep these crappy EDM "artists" afloat by listening to their trash that they, for some unholy reason call "music".

 

[71 dB]

People should care about their own music taste and let other people have theirs.

 

[bigshot]

Discernment is a skill. It has to be honed on the grist of discussion and analysis. If someone doesn't want to become more discerning, they can just ignore the discussion of those who do.

That said, blanket dismissals don't qualify as discussion and analysis. You're free to ask for clarification about why they hold that opinion if they don't support their argument.

 

[Davesrose]

So critics who say Brian Eno is one of popular music's most influential artists lack discernment. I should tell bourbon drinkers who will discern subtle flavors with their whiskies, that they lack discernment if they can't stand a peated single malt and compare it to motor oil.

 

[bigshot]

Make whatever argument you want. My feelings won’t be hurt. (Appeal to authority isn’t a good one though.)