Thanks for that. And let's leave out that other band of his with the distasteful name (but some xlnt songs). When you say "Albini," you've said it all.
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Bands with instantly-recognizable signature sounds
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Well, I get where they were coming from with that sort of rage and the desire to be confrontational ...but it's not really something I'd want to subject unsuspecting people to.
@oZZma here's a very unique band - nice avatar 
Did you say this already?
Did you say this already?
@oZZma here's a very unique band - nice avatar
Did you say this already?
LOVE THEM
Anyways IMO they had more a signature style/imaginery/poetics than a signature sound. Actually, they explored a vast variety of sounds!
LOVE THEM
Anyways IMO they had more a signature style/imaginery/poetics than a signature sound. Actually, they explored a vast variety of sounds!
Not the only thing they had a vast variety of.
Thanks for that, super interesting and informative. Sometimes I forget we live in the google/YouTube age. I should have looked that up a long time ago.
In theory you can use neural networks* (and some are available pre-trained to recognise elements of music) as feature extractors** and cluster to determine if bands objectively (for a certain definition of objective) have a unique sound. People do work on this.
* Depends how you define a neural network, but here we'd be talking about a deep NN as current parlance calls it with layers with increasing levels of abstraction.
** You'd be looking at various features such as types of sounds used as well as structure of songs, lyrical content, etc. Individual instrument tracks would help, but there is work ongoing to extract individual instruments from a full mix. Not from MP3s I presume.
I will work on this after my tonewood work, subject to funding.
* Depends how you define a neural network, but here we'd be talking about a deep NN as current parlance calls it with layers with increasing levels of abstraction.
** You'd be looking at various features such as types of sounds used as well as structure of songs, lyrical content, etc. Individual instrument tracks would help, but there is work ongoing to extract individual instruments from a full mix. Not from MP3s I presume.
I will work on this after my tonewood work, subject to funding.
Thin Lizzy! Someone mentioned them for their guitar harmonies, but it's not just that - the whole of the band really makes up a unique sound that I feel is instantly recognizable.
Interesting thread, and when I saw the title, OP, my first thought was Pink Floyd. An individual rather than a band, but Buddy Guy - and it's not a genre I listen to a lot. On a 5hr drive, a lot of the radio was taken up by a live Eric Clapton gig (again, not something I'd spend all evening with usually). I kept saying to my wife, "there's another guitarist in there - sounds a heckuva lot like Buddy Guy" and I kept saying it. Towards the end, Eric "wanted to introduce a very special guest who's been playing tonight" and cue my smug grin.
Also, because of the Energizers and broken footswitch in The Edge's delay pedal, U2
Also, because of the Energizers and broken footswitch in The Edge's delay pedal, U2
