Music Rules
Here are all the rules of music.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a middle quality band unless John Frusciante is with them, then they are often a good band and occasionally a great band.
If the record involves Charlie Haden on bass and just one other person, buy it, they are all incredible discs.
Turntables have only sounded good in rock settings twice: Andrew Broder’s Fog project and Modest Mouse’s “The Lonesome Crowded West” record
Except for the years 1972-1980, the live version is never better than the studio version.
Songs with excellent drum breaks are often good songs.
Songs with sample friendly saxophone moments are often garbage songs.
If the first solo on a song is a bass solo, the ensemble is trying to hide something.
Percussion has to be really bad to make a song worse
If you can’t tell if it’s a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer, it’s a Rhodes
No band has ever made their best record after making ten or more records, keep swinging, but you’ve hit your peak
If you think a song doesn’t need back up singers on it. . .you’re right
Rage Against the Machine is punk mixed with rap. That’s great. Limp Bizkit is rock mixed with rap. That’s terrible.
Sade is even better than most of us realize.
If your song needs a fourth verse, there might be something wrong with the first three.
Trumpets make things better, and trombones make trumpets better.
The only Gorillaz songs you need to care about have rappers on them.