Extremes: Loudest/Softest

[AboutAGirl]

This is one of my favorite topics!!!!!!

Since Fish didn't wanna, here's Nirvana:





And their mentor Pixies:





One of the pioneers, Led Zeppelin:





My personal hero, Neil Young





A modern marvel of the form, Opeth





My favorite metal band, Burzum:





and of course, Alice in Chains:





I could go on all day but I'm not sure what the video limit per post is..!

 

[AboutAGirl]

I feel like it's a basic tenet of rock music to go from loud to soft and back again. If you only ever play soft... you may be verging on folk or pop. If you only play loud... you may be verging on metal or punk. I wish I could show you a bunch of crazy ass artists that go from bubblegum pop to harsh noise, or lite jazz to gangsta rap, or classical piano to breakcore. I mean, I could post you MY (own) stuff but that's been there, done that. All I got fer ya is rock n roll...

Beeetlz





Jeff Buckley






Petty





ole' Dylan's iconic switch





the Floyd





Pantera

 

[The Beatles]

 

[Kuaizi]

Peter Gabriel comes to mind





Queen





I agree Soot, The Smashing Pumpkins have a wide variety of songs





Cool thread!

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

I may as well do my customary Genesis post and get it over and done with

 

[Kuaizi]

Salmacis, you'll be with me on this one, both extremes in one song, multiple times:

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Oh definitely, it sets a dramatic picture for sure! Actually hard/soft is a style Genesis mastered in many of their epics! Like Supper's Ready, there's the grace of Lover's Leap and the eerie ambiance of How Dare I Be So Beautiful? contrasting with the aggression of Ikhnaton And Itsacon And Their Band Of Merry Men and the chaos of Apocalypse in 9/8. Cinema Show, you've got the acoustic melodic intro mixed with the epic instrumental section, and "There is in fact more earth than sea" belted out. It even shone through to the later albums too, Mad Man Moon is a good example, as well as Blood On The Rooftops

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Oh this is a great one for me. The artists that I love who don't make use of dynamics are quite few in numbers.

Here a couple few...

Queen

(Loud)


(Soft)



X Japan

(Loud)


(Soft)


Dream Theater

(Loud)


(Soft)


Alice Cooper

(Loud)


(Soft)

 

[Terra812]

I'll start with what I think is one of the greatest slower songs ever composed





Another of my favorite slower songs






Ohh... Can't forget Steel Dragon!!

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Bad Brains

Probably one of the most extreme shifts from loud to soft IMO. You go from Banned in DC which is hardcore punk to I Luv I Jah which is reggae.




Metallica



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