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geir, what is your favourite synthesizer?

I haven't actually been able to play the original heavyweight monster, mind you, but Arturia's Yamaha CS80 softsynth sounds incredibly warm.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

not how the song sounds -- how the medody and harmony sound

Yeah, I mean, it'd be nice to see arrangement get some credit. The notes don't assign themselves to instruments, you know! And orchestration is a big deal in classical music.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Geir which period of Hüsker Dü do you prefer best?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I believe this link will answer any and all questions about Damnation:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfpxqeald0e

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Geir which period of Hüsker Dü do you prefer best?

The post-period. (Sugar, that is ;) )

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, please rank these bands :

Yes
Genesis
Jethro Tull
Dream Theater
Rush
ELP
Camel
Barclay James Harvest
King Crimson
The Beatles

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Genesis
The Beatles
Yes
ELP
Camel
King Crimson
Rush
Barclay James Harvest
Jethro Tull
Dream Theater

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Some surprises there.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

geir hongro: this things i believe

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Geir Hongro: does the suicide of

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

I pressed return in the middle of that sentence, but it looks better without the final ten words

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

that ranking looks about right (though I haven't heard most of the bands including Genesis, mostly I'm just happy Rush is in the bottom half and Dream Theater is dead last)

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you've heard PLENTY of genesis, curtis.
just probably not the good stuff.

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, what are your favorite songs on Rubber Soul? Rank them if you like.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"In My Life", "Michelle", "Girl", "You Won't See Me". Not neccessarily in that particular order, but those four stick out.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nice. "In My Life" and "Girl" have always been my favorites.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Geir,

Why is anything heavier than Genesis or Yes too heavy? Also, how did you arrive at that specific heaviness threshold?

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Gier: do you under any circumstances believe that simplicity is a virtue in music?

― chap, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why is anything heavier than Genesis or Yes too heavy?

Because good music isn't supposed to be heavy at all. Good music is supposed to be pretty and soothing.

Hi Gier: do you under any circumstances believe that simplicity is a virtue in music?

Only if the music becomes so complex that tonality is being abandoned.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

"good"

"pretty"

"soothing"

Yer a riot.

― JN$OT, Friday, 4 May 2007 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Like the one at the Exhibition of Degenerative Art organised by Goering in Nazi Germany 1938!!!!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Because good music isn't supposed to be heavy at all. Good music is supposed to be pretty and soothing.

Absolutely the dumbest thing ever posted on ILM.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Geir,

If that is the case, do you only like soothing and pretty movies/books/paintings?

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

So what if he does?

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not making any judgment calls here. It's a pretty innocuous question! I obviously disagree with him, but I'm honestly curious if that's how he views just music, or all art in general. No need to get defensive about a question that wasn't even aimed at you. The thread is, after all, titled "Ask Geir Hongro."

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Only if the music becomes so complex that tonality is being abandoned.

That does not compute. Tonality and complexity are not opposing forces (SEE ALSO: JS Bach).

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

If that is the case, do you only like soothing and pretty movies/books/paintings?

In the case of paintings, probably. In the case of books or movies it depends on whether they are meant just for entertainment. Music is meant just for entertainment.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I tried to stay away, but that's complete bullshit and the new stupidest thing ever said here. Music has said more to me than any film and most books.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is making my head spin. Who posting here ISN'T Marcello?

― Euler, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Music has never ever said anything to me other than music itself, and it shouldn't say anything to anyone else as then you devalue the value of music as a value in itself.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

aesthtetic pansy delusions, lol

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not even mad, just blown away by how wrong that is. I don't even know what to do.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Geir is Ralph Wiggum.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's less Geir's extremely particular viewpoints, it's his pretentions to authority and objectivity. Where is he getting these ideas of what music is "supposed" to be other than his own personal reactions?

-- sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:10

Didn't Geir say somewhere in the archives that every post he makes is prefaced by an understood IN MY OPINION?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

we need a geir macro

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's fairly obvious. Everything stated here is opinions. (Other than definitions etc, which may sometimes be opinions too, but sometimes not)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I HAS A OPINION
http://www.gallery19.us/images/100-75167.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, if someone has a 'good' voice but has no songwriting ability, should they just give up their singing career or only sing their own material no matter how bad it is?

― Billy Dods, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mr Hongro:

1. What exactly do you get out of contributing to ILM? Do you enjoy provoking folks here? Or do you find it odd that your views, as stated, generate typically visceral responses?

2. I asked this on the Eagles thread, and am genuniely curious as to the answer, so I ask you again: have you ever visited America?

― Veronica Moser, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

More to the point, has he ever visited Majorca, particularly in the last fortnight?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, if someone has a 'good' voice but has no songwriting ability, should they just give up their singing career or only sing their own material no matter how bad it is?

Today there is this funny and useful little tool called Autotune. When it is being used to make it sound like completely untalented supermodels (who should never ever have been signed) are able to sing, then it may also be used to make it sound like an obviously talented songwriter (but with an awful singing voice) can sing

The other option, used a lot throughout rock history, is of course to start a band, and make sure to be the creative "dictator" of that band.

1. What exactly do you get out of contributing to ILM? Do you enjoy provoking folks here? Or do you find it odd that your views, as stated, generate typically visceral responses?

Whenever people aren't too hungup on "rockism" I find that there are a lot of interesting people here, with a lot of knowledge about music. And the non-canonical approach may be interesting at times (that is, when not used to mock non-rhythmic music)

2. I asked this on the Eagles thread, and am genuniely curious as to the answer, so I ask you again: have you ever visited America?

Visited New York for one week 23 years ago.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

And, yes, I have visited Mallorca, but the last time was 17 years ago :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://solbjorg.com/images/GEIR%20Bottle%20&%20Box%20(straight%20on)%20(1).jpg

― zaxxon25, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Geir, I saw from some of your Usenet posts that you prefer The Ramones to Fleetwood Mac. Why?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno. I am not really a big fan of either.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

geir, who's better: george martin or nigel godrich?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 27 September 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Will you marry me?

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

be careful what you wish for

― Just got offed, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Which is worse: 2 tone or 12 tone?

― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

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