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Topic: Italian Vocals Posted: August 11 2009 at 14:15
I've never bought an album from an Italian prog band, but I'm thinking about getting Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi. Is listening to Italian lyrics easy? Because I have never listened to lyrics in another language (apart from Phideaux's Storia Senti and some Mars Volta songs). Appreciate any answers.
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Posted: August 11 2009 at 14:31
The Truth wrote:
I've never bought an album from an Italian prog band, but I'm thinking about getting Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi. Is listening to Italian lyrics easy? Because I have never listened to lyrics in another language (apart from Phideaux's Storia Senti and some Mars Volta songs). Appreciate any answers.
IMO, it is an absolute pleasure ...I prefer lyrics sung in Italian over English any ole day
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Posted: August 11 2009 at 14:48
Captain Capricorn wrote:
The Truth wrote:
I've never bought an album from an Italian prog band, but I'm thinking about getting Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi. Is listening to Italian lyrics easy? Because I have never listened to lyrics in another language (apart from Phideaux's Storia Senti and some Mars Volta songs). Appreciate any answers.
IMO, it is an absolute pleasure ...I prefer lyrics sung in Italian over English any ole day
Me too, I'm actually distracted by English vocals now, it's hilarious. I prefer voice to be just another instrument rather than a bunch of words that my mind needs to ignore, so I can enjoy the sound
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Posted: August 11 2009 at 17:42
I love vocals in several different languages, Harmonium, Sigur Ros, and PFM all have beautiful soaring vocals that just don't work in English. It is said best in this clip from The Shawshank Redemption:
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Posted: August 11 2009 at 21:01
Yeah, and if you like Italian, maybe you'll like Kobaian. I'm with Padriac, I don't care what language the vocalist(s) use as long as the vocals fit the music.
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Posted: August 13 2009 at 19:48
I think my language is one of the most musical ones.
It's great especially for rhymes, assonances and plays on words...
And the sound of many words is concrete...because words describing bad things indeed sound menacing, while many words with a positive connotation have a softer sound
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Posted: August 13 2009 at 19:51
Luca Pacchiarini wrote:
I think my language is one of the most musical ones.
It's great especially for rhymes, assonances and plays on words...
And the sound of many words is concrete...because words describing bad things indeed sound menacing, while many words with a positive connotation have a softer sound
Cool! Thanks for sharing that Luca, I wasn't aware of that and it is very interesting to me.
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Posted: August 13 2009 at 22:53
Finnforest wrote:
Luca Pacchiarini wrote:
I think my language is one of the most musical ones.
It's great especially for rhymes, assonances and plays on words...
And the sound of many words is concrete...because words describing bad things indeed sound menacing, while many words with a positive connotation have a softer sound
Cool! Thanks for sharing that Luca, I wasn't aware of that and it is very interesting to me.
I always thought YS was a great example of that.. music aside... you could tell he wasn't singing about a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino in one hand and hot Italian babe in the other....
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Posted: August 15 2009 at 18:52
Finnforest wrote:
Luca Pacchiarini wrote:
I think my language is one of the most musical ones.
It's great especially for rhymes, assonances and plays on words...
And the sound of many words is concrete...because words describing bad things indeed sound menacing, while many words with a positive connotation have a softer sound
Cool! Thanks for sharing that Luca, I wasn't aware of that and it is very interesting to me.
For example...
even if someone ignores the meaning of these words, compare the sound of :
"gioia, pace, amore, sole, mamma"
with the sound of "mitragliatrice, distrutto, carroarmato"
You can tell the difference between the connotation of the softer and the harsher words.
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Posted: August 15 2009 at 21:34
Grazie Luca for a new insight that will help me with listening. Maybe this was obvious to many but I honestly did not realize it. Tone and emotion I've become good at discerning but I'll have to listen for this.
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The Truth wrote:
...I prefer lyrics sung in Italian over English any ole day 
I'm with Padriac, I don't care what language the vocalist(s) use as long as the vocals fit the music.
