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What makes a song appealing to you?

Date: February 11, 2006 @ 11:52 PM

Is it the lyrics? The music? The beat? The production qualities? The arrangment? The instrumentation used? The energy? The vocals? The hooks/riffs? All of it together?

There is no real answer to this question, of course. Just curious what people key in on.

For me to really REALLY like a song (that means "be able to play it over and over and still like it for a good long while" for the most part), the vocalist has to have an emotive, unique sound. For example, Tyler from Stara Zagora, or Ben Gibbard of Death Cab/Postal Service. Just have to have that. Not to say that there aren't talented singers out there (or that those 2 mentioned are great singers for that matter), but there are SO many singers that sound SO much like someone else out there...

Beyond that, it's a rhythm, structure, arrangement quality (which varies depending on the type of music - ie: electronic vs. rock vs blues, etc.)and production (again depending on the style of music - I like garageband recordings of garagebands, etc.)

But that's just me..

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