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That goes for their first four albums really!
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^ just listened to both of them back to back*: I must’ve been thinking of something else...
...sure I’ve heard that RATM riff somewhere else in something older: but it’s gone! 
Not that it matters.
*This was quite a trial: I can’t abide rapping (the human voice at that speed with that many plosives... ouch! My head, my head 
). Kashmir I’ve always found tedious in the extreme.
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...sure I’ve heard that RATM riff somewhere else in something older: but it’s gone!
Not that it matters.
*This was quite a trial: I can’t abide rapping (the human voice at that speed with that many plosives... ouch! My head, my head
). Kashmir I’ve always found tedious in the extreme.For what it's worth, most rappers (whether in hip-hop or in other genres) don't really go much faster than conversational speed, but there's something about sentences with a lot of the same syllables repeated that tricks our brains. I'm not an expert, but I believe this is related to the phenomenon that occurs when we hear a phrase repeated and perceive it as music due to repetition. I started enjoying hip-hop a lot more once I had picked up enough of the vocabulary to make sense of it and catch the wordplays, similes, etc.
13 Mar 2020, 9:21 am
^ yeah: I know that a lot of skill & wit goes into rapping, just I can’t comprehend it because sensory issues 
(I get the same with excited or passionate talking, regardless of the emotion behind it)
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(I get the same with excited or passionate talking, regardless of the emotion behind it)
Fair enough. My musical taste suggests I crave over-stimulation, even if there's still sensory issues causing that. I'm curious how you'd react to Woodpecker No. 1, because for me it was like my entire brain was being massaged, even the insides.
13 Mar 2020, 10:44 am
^ had to turn it off after 16 seconds I’m afraid!
I could feel the heat buildup on the crown of my head and make of my neck and pulsating in my temples: which usually means I’m heading for a zone-out followed by a meltdown if I push it.
Would that be an example of what they call noisecore?
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had to turn it off after 16 seconds I’m afraid! I could feel the heat buildup on the crown of my head and make of my neck and pulsating in my temples: which usually means I’m heading for a zone-out followed by a meltdown if I push it.
Would that be an example of what they call noisecore?
I could feel the heat buildup on the crown of my head and make of my neck and pulsating in my temples
That's basically how it feels for me, only I interpret it as an almost overwhelmingly pleasant sensation. Like brain, only on my brain. Actually, that sensation probably plays a big role in drawing me further and further down the rabbit hole of music that causes sensory overload.
It would be an example of powernoise, although noise tends to be one of those genres with endless micro-genres. Not all noise is that harsh, it can be much more minimalist. Not all noise will have that prominent of rhythm either, powernoise is relatively musical as far as noise goes, even if it's really harsh and ugly.
Noisecore is more what happened when no-wave and noise rock met grindcore. The Locust or Melt-Banana would be good examples. Anal c**t might qualify too, even if they're more traditional grindcore that just happens to be noisy too. It's ultimately more musical than noise, since it's ultimately just really ugly sounding punk rock.
14 Mar 2020, 6:55 pm
^Yes, I think I’m getting more sonically sensitive as I get older: at age 19 I enjoyed Sonic Youth’s early albums, Cradle of Filth, Aphex Twin... But I couldn’t cope with any of them by the age of thirty!
What was once enjoyable has become oppressive, but: I’ve developed a love for solo guitar music in the classical tradition. 
