What is the most complex song?

Question

What do you think is the most technically complex song ever composed?

Answer 1

There's actually a movement in art music called the 'new complexity movement'. There's this composer, Brian Ferneyhough who composes in this style. If you ever get a chance, take a look at the score for his Fourth String Quartet (which, for all those who think only music with voice is complex, has a soprano voice part).

I believe this to be one of the more technically complicated pieces ever composed. It doesn't even really sound like 'music' when you listen to it because it's so complicated. There's crazy rhythms, crazy poly-rhythms, crazy time signatures, crazy technical passages, crazy musical instructions...

Popular music is never this complex. Generally speaking, as a rule, you never have more than 3 different things happening in music at the same time, otherwise, there is way too much musical information and the listener can't make sense of it. Popular music relies on it's... listenability. No song would ever be a hit if the masses of people couldn't understand what the heck was going on in the music.

Answer 2

Depends on what you want to be complex.

Classical music can have very complex techniques, but a lack of lyrics can make it feel much simplier.

There are many current songs with really weird, abstract, unclear lyrics, but the actual instrumentation is simplier in comparision.

I'd say any Pink Floyd song, because the lyrics and the instrumentation are both hard to follow, and they have sound effects, laser light shows, etcetera.

Answer 3

Neil Diamond's cover of Ebb Tide uses all of the following chords:
A9 Am Am7 AM Am7/G
CM7 CM C/B
Dm Dm7 Dm7/9 D7
Em Em5-/7 EM
F Fdim Fm7
G6 GM G7

That's 21 different chords in one song!

Answer 4

Flaming Lips - Zaireeka. And i will tell you why. Four discs make up "Zaireeka." When played simultaneously, they create a maelstrom of sound. Setting it up with four CD players sounds a bit arduous, but the experience is worth it when songs like the brilliant "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)" burst out of the multiple speakers. It gives an expansive feeling to the music, as if it's billowing out like smoke and surrounding the listener in a big cushy wall of sound.Four disks play at once to create a wall of sound, there's nothing like it.

Answer 5

Is this what you wanted? This is what you get.
Turned all your lives into this ****.
You never accepted or treated me fair
Blame me for what I believe and I wear.
You ****** yourselves and you raised these sheep
the blue and the withered seeds you will reap.
You never gave me a chance to be me
or even a ******* chance just to be.
But I have to show you that
you played a role
and I will destroy you with one simple hole.
The world that hates me has taken its toll
but now I have finally taken control.
You wanted so bad to make me this thing
And I want you now to just kill the king

And I am not sorry, and I am not sorry
This is what you deserve
King kill 33

Answer 6

song=lyrics and music......

therefore, since classical music only consists of instruments, not words, the most complex song ive ever heard is Question! by System Of A Down.

i know what ur thinking....but if you listen to it and dissect it, it is very complex.

Answer 7

for a rock song? and considering the music as a whole?

diary of a madman - ozzy osbourne

bohemian rhapsody - queen

Answer 8

One of the songs that metallica did with the sfs orchestra i think, not sure which though

Answer 9

toxicity by system of a down, its in like 12/8 time.

Answer 10

Anything by Marc Ribot...