BassTractor

May well be, but you need a film maker to use that one 👍

Yup. Or what you do next. People already mentioned joking about it, and I remember Dutch classical pianist Daniël Wayenberg, during a light-hearted Sunday afternoon gig, crawling under the grand piano to collect the wrong notes - formal tail coat and shiny shoes 'n' all. 😃

It is, but it ain't "one" either. I care, and I like it. Now this thread wasn't for critiquing other people's music, but I do think @snorkie635 and the lads could've recorded and released this officially and it could've been a hit too. Nothing wrong with the song; "everything" wrong with what makes or breaks a hit. When I started the thread, I was originally thinking of music that could never be a hit (like classical, jazz, experimental etc), but changed my scope before writing the OP, and hoped many would feel at home in the thread, like people who could've had a hit but didn't. From what I've heard up to now (I can play most of the YT vids on my tv, and none of the rest), many kinds of music are represented, which is good in my book. Keep'em coming!

@Dad3353, I'd love to hear that, but still have no sound in my laptop. I forgot that little bit when starting the thread. 😟 😄

Might as well throw in some classical. (Admittedly, you might see it in a classical list ... in a very good year.) This time, I don't even know whether I'm on it or not; it depends on when it was recorded and on who you ask.

Sparked by the one-hit wonder thread, I thought it could be interesting with a thread for music you'll never see in the lists. I thought we had a thread, but can't find anything like it. I'll kick off with music composed and recorded by others. I just was in this band after they didn't have a hit ... and remained hitless even though I joined them. 😁 Dutch band The Group: "Ballad of Hathor" from "Omniphonic Music", 1975. Not their most marked song, but the only one I could find.

Still had it going in the '80s myself, and lurved it: a lot easier than playing blues, and with more chords to boost. Win win.

'40s without any doubt, even though I wasn't a teenager back then. I mean: Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, St John Passion, Mass in B minor ... ... the list goes on and on!

Delia Derbyshire must've written some of the first electronic music I heard as a boy, but I thought they were sound effects, not music. However, being the sensitive and inquisitive lad back then, I thought about it for a minute and told Mum that one could write music like this. That's when I learned that I'm crazy and need to be in a ward somewhere. Hm. She probably still thinks that, so BC is not alone! 😄

If you haven't seen it yet: watch "Tina Live" from 2009 and be impressed. She was 69 at the time! And a half! RIP

Exciting times they were, with all kinds of ideas being developed by lab coaters and composers alike, the composers also starting to wear lab coats and the lab coaters getting wild hair and a possible beret 😊 ( ... based on a misunderstanding, as only painters, sculptors, actors and architects use berets; everyone knows that). Díck Raaijmakers, a Dutch composer, worked at some technical plant and was not allowed to use the equipment for personal pleasure, so he'd clock out at the end of the work day and pop back into the nat. lab, carefully locking the door, to make his music (basically simple linear, tonical music set to electronic sound), and in order to remain under the radar, took his moniker at work, Díck Nat. Lab, and changed it into the composer's name Kid Baltan. Me, coming in a whole generation behind these guys, I always thought I invented stuff, and I never did. They'd already done it, and better. BTW, certain aspects of Daphne Oram's drawing system (how ultra cool so early in the development!) also returned in Xenakis' UPIC machine a lot later.

Nice! I remember that footage and even remember his sweater, but must admit I'd forgotten about the Kaleidophon up to now, so I guess nothing ever came of it. Many people did stuff like that with simple means, and, whilst absolutely commendable, most of the time nothing came of it. BTW 1, he's product placing his album White Noise 2. IMS it was a nice album. Must revisit and check. BTW 2, I just love that you can buy an EMS VCS3 for less than the price of a piece of plastic pipe. Count me in. 😀

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Aye, in general terms you must be right. I was only thinking of our bass playing friend Mick Mason (who has a whole thread dedicated to him and his many years of scamming people), as several BassChatters have predicted that somebody at some point will give him his comeuppance - - not that they condone it.

If only this could happen somewhere in Leicester ... One can live in hope. 😉

Didn't even manage to get through this exact song. Sound is not composition. BUT the other song they'd published a few weeks ago gave me some hope, and I was in fact ready to buy it so as to give it a chance. Don't remember its title though.

I liked it. Would have preferred a different mix (lower solo voice) and less live antics, but at the core I liked it.

Oh yeah, Coffee Grindr is a great app!

I only clicked the link to this thread in order to pay my 250 quid in administration fees before cashing in the 1,000 quid. Disappointed.

It's a thing of beauty. Well done!

He can't. He'd have to spill the liquid.

We had a thread, but I can't find it right now, so ... "Tractor" means "player". Etymology: Latin "trahere" ("to pull") to English "to treat", "a treat" and "a treaty". More should be said better here. I'm also the BassTractor coz when working at a farming school I got a call from a farmer whose tractor was stuck in the mud on a bad field. Found the largest, heaviest 4WD tractor I could find, spent time taking off equipment and re-equipping it with snow chains and towing cable and whatnot ... Arrived at the field and was to engage the 4WD and ... no lever! Flabbergasted, and it took time before I understood we had two versions of the same model, and I'd taken the 2WD. No way that thing would pull out the farmer's one. Sigh. Back to the garage, time-consumingly de-equip the 2WD and de-equip and re-equip the 4WD, and back to the field ... Story came out, and one of my pupils drily called me BassTractor as opposed to BaritoneTractor etc. It stuck.

One of my composition teachers, who shall remain nameless, doesn't want to discuss or even mention one of his older compositions, as it caused dizziness and nausea in the audience. This was probably not due to frequencies though, but possibly due to the tiny frequency changes that were central to the piece. IOW, Mick's list is entirely correct if you just change the frequencies a little ... and also remove the claimed effects. 😀

Similar stuff in French high-brow authors' circles in the 60s and 70s - - some of these people having terrible practises and spreading nauseating ideas through their texts. In that case it's not even about discerning between creator and work, as one can with instrumental music.

My broken 3D printer is full of the stuff. Works a treat.