Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

so when i listen to this do i feel the rape gaze on me, or am i giving off the rape gaze, or what

naw I think he means screwed 'n' chopped in feel, which I mean slowed down vox do give that feel to my ear anyway

oh hey these guys covered springsteen

all this music is so noisy

did you ever notice salem spelled backwards is males

makes you think

makes you think that it isn't actually true, I mean

makes me think you need reverse spellcheck.

and everyone in salem probably needs a bath.

I love that their site is http://s4lem.com/

are these guys the goths of the 2010s

they feel more like the ministry of the 2010s. were ministry "goth"?

i think of the knife as neo-goths. unless they were the 2000s goths, now replaced by salem's 2010 goths.

i think markers is like one of those characters in SVU where stabler & benson break into his apartment and he has salem press clippings and high res, long range photos plastered all over one room in his place

irl lol

they feel more like the minstrelsy of the 2010s

do they actually rap a lot? i havent heard them rap at all yet

IAMSOUND is a bad label btw imo

everybody cool it the crunk police are here

― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, October 10, 2010 7:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if i say the sky is blue will u argue with me?

ministry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

im not even gonna finish

crunk police

http://funnypicblast.com/wp-content/imgdir/2008_09/sexy-policewoman-pic3.jpg

that is not deej.

well, i mean, maybe, but i doubt it.

stop posting photoes of my wife

if i say the sky is blue will u argue with me?

yup

http://i53.tinypic.com/15hblw2.gif

markers you've had better shticks

actually I am usually pretty down on markers but his doggedness on this subject is developing its own sort of charm seeing as the actual truth about salem can be summed up by a certain jpg that bought whiney a temp-ban

markers, you can't clown on salem too much. the disc got a 7.5 from p4kmedia. that means salem is 75% good, so you can only clown on it 25% of the time.

<3 y'all

bought this today

i am truly sorry for your lots

idg why this band is popular

who cares, it's clearly an opportune time for me to make my grand entrance into the pop world making half-assed mumbly music with casio beats

the rap beat curtis sent me last sunday >> anything i've heard by salem

i like half-assed music mumbly music w/casio beats i dont like this oh well who cares but its not v interesting? like i mean id start a thread about the new C V L T S tape that i think is amazing but its not getting 500+ posts enh idk who cares, sure this is dumm to care about really

this band always has such terrible artwork though

^^ was this post written by fred armisen's impression of joy behar?

just a fantastic reference there

i started writing up something with actual words but its an ilm thread about salem so

glad you stopped by

thread policing on the ilm thread about salem is so nagl

lol i wasn't thread policing, i was making fun of lamp for saying "eh who cares" like 8 times in two sentences

exaggerated apathy is the only valid response &c &c

I didn't actively hate this when I listened to it this morning but I still can't really see what the point of this music actually is. Can't think its whole doomladen vibe would be better with some actual space to the music, and less ridiculously tinny drum sounds.

the point of this music is when it's late at night and you want some background music that's also a little ~discomfiting~ but that you don't need to pay much attention to

It seems to demand too much attention for that, a bit like the Flying Lotus album. Although Cosmogramma >>> King Night.

the point of this music is when it's late at night and you want some background music that's also a little ~discomfiting~ but that you don't need to pay much attention to

Bohren and der Club of Gore are the go-to for this surely. I agree with Matt, whether you love or loathe Salem I'd find it hard to use this as background music.

There's also the problem that Southern rap drum sounds sound like shit when divorced from actual rap music, especially music that aspires towards heaviness (both this and Lil Wayne's atrocious rock record spring to mind).

The whole sounding like shit thing works well for Salem imo

also, how does one get arrested by the Crunk Police?

Wait, I got it: "In 2007, the hottest name in crunk was in fact...Belle and Sebastian."

There's also the problem that Southern rap drum sounds sound like shit when divorced from actual rap music,

this is the kind of assertion about which I am really suspicious - any musical sound in any genre context could be just great depending on how it was used in my opinion - the notion that particular sounds/textures/tones can't sound good except in a given genre context strikes me as a claim that'd require more defense than could be mustered on its behalf

It seems to demand too much attention for that, a bit like the Flying Lotus album. Although Cosmogramma >>> King Night.

Okay can we please not compare one of the year's most brilliant albums to one of its most desperately boring and overhyped?