What makes a rock song great to you?

Question

Is there a message? Do the vocals have different a range or is screamo fine? The instruments? Or its doesn't matter just as long as it sounds great and you want ot get up and move? Oh and does it matter if it was in a language other than your own? (Example you speak English but the song is in german)

Answer 1

For me, its a combination of things.......first the words and music - you can have a wonderful melody, but if itis ruined by the wrong lyrics...well it loses its appeal and vice versa......... the emotion or mood evoked by the piece......if there is not a connection to the song, well then what's the point? Music is a form of communication that everyone can connect with, regardless of background, language......

Answer 2

Really, for me it's just a package deal. What makes a great song can be different from band to band given their strengths. I suppose if I were to try to put together an informal formula for it there would be melody (it's funny how this means a lot more to me than the lyrics. I appreciate great lyrics, but by the time I know them I usually already know whether or not I like the song, It's generally an afterthought, a really nice bonus), well placed and effective harmony definately being a bonus the type of stuff the Beatles were masters of, song structure and rhythm progressions (good parts, good melody changes), and something a bit unconventional to grab my ears. Something a little different (be it the type of thing the Johnny Greenwood generally brings to the table or a big time gear shift like the bridge section of I Am The Walrus or maybe the overall vibe and feel of the song). I am also a sucker for instrument harmonies usually on the more subtle side, but sometimes the more heavy handed ones work too. Mix all of that with some catch factor and you're in good shape in my books. Although, like I said, it's hard to describe. A lot of the songs I really love maybe have one or two of those only. Somtimes they're really simple. It all just depends.

Answer 3

It has to be organized, with a beginning, run, chorus, etc.

Some of the "screamo" rock songs they make (Saosin, AFI, Fallout Boy) are so fast and you can't tell when the chorus begins and where it ended, and it all melds together. I guess you can't blame 'em. They're all just teenagers that think too highly of themselves and think they are invincible.

Oh, and actually, I prefer it when a song is not in my language. If I understand the words, sometimes a word is vocalized in such a way that it seems to hold up the flow of the song. At the same time, there has to be vocals because music is just boring without it.

I like Rammstein, a German rock group, but I don't speak German.

Answer 4

Well, I like the lyrics to be catchy (of course) something that will get stuck in my head that i'll be singing over and over throughout the day. But, I also love cool guitar solos and cool breaks in songs...like the band will be playing and then all instruments will be quiet and they'll start playing again...things like that. And I also like great musicianship and that the band knows how to create cool music with their instruments. But, I love screamo music, so the screamer in the band has to scream good. There are differences between good screamers and bad screamers. Because. yes so people can scream better than others. It's really not that easy to scream, although it might seem like it. Some people were like born to be in screamo bands.

Answer 5

for me, a good song means that I can actually relate to it, not to mention listen to it without my ears bleeding to be blunt.
It also needs to have a semi-catchy beat, so I'm actually paying attention. Some screamo is okay, as long as you can understand what they are saying. As for the blending of words, I've kind of picked up on just depicting them as I go along, so thats not really a problem. I guess I'd like the songs to be in my language just so I can understand them, but I would still give it a shot if it was in a different language. Overall, a good song is just one that I listen to and want to get stuck in my head.

Answer 6

That's a really hard question, because there are so many great rock songs that don't have anything in common. Take "Whole Lotta Love" and Thunder Road", two of my all time favorites. I love Whole Lotta Love because it just flat our rocks and has that bluesy base (not bass) that is so great. The guitar and drums really hit you and get the adreline going. Thunder road has such great lyrics, deperation, meleody and musicianship. I guess it comes down to a song is great if it moves you stays with you for any reason.

Answer 7

I do not care about the message they are trying to give you, I do not even care if they cuss or anything as long as the topic is of my interest. The sound is also important to me because what if I like fast music and the song's lyrics are good but the music is so slow that it makes me fall asleep? It does not matter the language as long as it seems to be good even though I do not understand it.

Answer 8

Bruce Hornsby... "the way it is" bargains with the Civil Rights flow, or perhaps even with the undeniable fact that regulations have been positioned into place, issues will by no skill rather exchange (" nicely they exceeded a regulation in 'sixty 4, to furnish people who ain't have been given slightly greater, in spite of the shown fact that it basically is going so a strategies. through fact the regulation do no longer exchange yet another's techniques, whilst all it sees on the hiring time, is the line on the colour bar"). "look Out Any Window" is a music relating to the ambience and how it is being destroyed by skill of massive businesses, yet through great money they are making, the "leaders" look any different way ("a strategies away too many leaders enable them to get their way, close their eyes and enable all of it out into the bay, say they are going to sparkling it up yet another day). "stroll interior the solar" a music some guy named Vernon James, who seems to be a cashier at a strip club. From what I understand, he has a dating with between the dancers, ( "i'm taking tickets and staring on the adult males continuously finding down. specifically circumstances i think like an animal interior the zoo staring out. no person seems me interior the attention, they shop it for the ladies interior. i do no longer care a lot what they see, i know she saves it concentrated on me") however the dating can't be made public. "The Valley street" is a music some guy who's employed by skill of a wealthy plantation proprietor and this guy gets the wealthy guy's daughter pregnant, so she is despatched away, the two to have the toddler and supply it up, or an abortion, i'm undecided which ("somebody pronounced she replaced into long previous to her sister's yet everybody knew what they have been speaking approximately") and then got here back and existence went on like no longer something ever occurred. "around the River" a music some female who has desires of growing to be it great, had to come again back domicile after issues did no longer artwork out, yet isn't giving up ("She replaced into proud and so reliable, and she or he tried to no longer pay attention to idle communicate, downtown the place she walked. They sit down around and that they are asserting that she got here back together with her tail between her legs, like they continuously pronounced she could"). those are basically some examples. he's my widespread artist, so i'd desire to bypass on and on, yet time (and my young ones) won't enable me!

Answer 9

I like when a song can remind me of something I may have otherwise forgotten. Also, the singer's voice and execution of the lyrics is important, but they have to be on the same level as the instrumentation.

Oh and it's got to have a pretty sweet solo too.
:)

Answer 10

For me, its too hard to explain in words.

But go check out "Never Too Late" by: Three Days Grace.

For me that is the perfect rock song.