Author Topic: What is the worst note in music?  (Read 12257 times)

ben buff

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What is the worst note in music?
« on: February 21, 2013, 10:15:28 AM »
Thirty-one seconds into the classic 90's dance floor filler 'Hideway' singer De Lacy makes a noise that sounds like she's vomiting into a metal waste paper bin.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the worst note in music history.
I'm not asking you to 'think outside the box'.  I just wish that once in a while you'd have a rummage around inside it.

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 12:25:37 AM »
C#

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 06:01:17 AM »
A lot of people think that C# is one of, if not THE worst notes.

I say they're just copy cat wannabe Philistines who can't make their own minds up.

C# has stood the test of time and I think it will be a while yet before it's dropped from the musical scale or even relagated down to the far end that most people generally ignore.
I'm not asking you to 'think outside the box'.  I just wish that once in a while you'd have a rummage around inside it.

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 08:07:11 PM »
C#M is Johnny Marr's favorite chord and god bless him for that.

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 09:52:39 PM »
I hate music; it's got too many notes.-- P. Westerberg.
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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2013, 04:43:44 PM »
C#

C#maj7 is a solid, solid chord, and a great place to go to after E or A.

D# on the other hand is pointless and should be removed from all instruments past or present.

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2013, 05:29:37 PM »

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2013, 06:26:38 AM »
When I was young because I was tall our music teacher forced me to play the double bass.

Like putting the 'fat kid' in goal is good enough for a lot of PE teachers being the tallest lad in the class is a curse that usually winds up with you playing the double bass.

I had no musical aptitude at all and couldn't fathom where the notes ont he page were on the strings.

It's only now that I realise that it's because the 'DB' has TOO MANY NOTES ON IT!  If they got rid of about 3/4's of them I might have stood a chance, plus it would have opened up this horrible instrument to some of the smaller kids who got away with playing two acorn shells or a match box with elastic bands stretched over it.
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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2013, 02:43:25 PM »

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2013, 01:10:46 PM »
Ah, Tom Hulce.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2013, 06:26:10 PM »
Among all the notes played on Chicago albums, how can only one be singled out? They're all the worst.

However, I learned this interesting fact from the Wikipedia entry on "Color My blearrggh -- wait. "Color MBLAAAAGGGGGH -- Sorry.  Can't type it out.  You know. That song:

"The major seventh chord that begins the song has been called, 'the most famous major seventh chord in the history of music.'"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_My_World_%28Chicago_song%29
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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2013, 12:10:14 AM »
I think the first 3 Chicago records have some interesting stuff on them.

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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2013, 10:05:43 PM »
I think the first 3 Chicago records have some interesting stuff on them.

I agree.

Chicago never made a great album. But they did make one or two very good ones.
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Re: What is the worst note in music?
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2013, 11:09:20 PM »
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