A review of the film Sound City Sound City is a documentary made by Dave Grohl and it focuses on the story behind Nirvana s album Nevermind. It also tells the story of how bands used to record their albums in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s/2000s. This is a great documentary that will hopefully inspire you to create some fantastic music during your time on the Music Technology course. Information about recording techniques throughout these decade are also essential for your listening paper. Type the following into your address bar and you should find the documentary. You can always purchase it via the Sound City official website. You re a film critic who has to write a film review of Sound City. Fill the space provided below and give a detailed commentary on the film, i.e. tell me what it is about. Talk about specific things that are mentioned. This should give you a good introduction into the world of recording music. Consider the following topics in your review. How have recording techniques have changed over the years? How does a band actually record an album? Record together? Separately? Drums first/last? Why? Digital vs Analogue What s the process of recording an instrument?
History of Popular Music Part of your listening paper will focus on the stylist features of a wide range of popular music genres and sub genres (1910 2017). Below is a list of genres and sub genres, please note that there are more than what s listed below, i.e. EDM, Funk, Electro Pop, Trap, etc. But the ones below will be enough for now! You need to listen to the suggested listening tasks and write out the main musical and production features for each genre. Consider the following when listing the features: Instrumentation Rhythm Structure Production: How would you describe the sound and effects? It could be quite bassy/lots of reverb/lots of distortion etc. Genre: Dance Sub-Genre: House Faithless - Insomina Black Box Ride on Time John Revox - Olé Genre: Dance Sub-Genre: Garage Tina Moore Never Gonna Let You Go TJ Cases You Bring Me Joy Craig David ft Artful Dodger - Rewind
Genre: Dance Sub-Genre: Trance Paul Van Dyk For an Angel Tiesto Adagio for Strings Markus Shulz Do You Dream Genre: Dance Sub-Genre: Dubstep Skrillex Bangarang Bif and Slim Game Over Chase and Status Blind Faith Genre: Dance Sub-Genre: Drum n Bass Pendulum - Tarantula Goldie - Triangle Noisia - Diplodocus
Genre: Jazz Sub-Genre: Ragtime Scott Joplin The Entertainer Jelly Roll Morton Blues Hesitation Fats Waller Ain t Misbehaving Genre: Jazz Sub-Genre: Swing Glen Miller In the Mood Duke Ellington Take a Train Benny Goodman Sing Sing Sing Genre: Jazz Sub-Genre: Bebop Charlie Parker Ornithology Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia Charles Mingus Moanin
Genre: Jazz Sub-Genre: Cool Jazz & Smooth Jazz Miles Davis So What? (Cool) Dave Brubeck Take Five (Cool) Will Downing The Nearness of You (Smooth) Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Rock N Roll Elvis Presley Hound Dog Chuck Berry Johnny B Goode Little Richard Tall Sally Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Psychedelic Rock The Small Faces Itchycoo Park The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever Iron Butterfly In A Gadda Da Vida
Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Hard Rock AC/DC Highway to Hell Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love Aerosmith Nobody s Fault Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Heavy Metal Metallica Enter Sandman Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark Slayer Raining Blood Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Grunge Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit Pearl Jam Even Flow Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Brit Pop Oasis Don t Look Back in Anger Blur Park Life Pulp Common People Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: Nu Metal Linkin Park - Paperclip Limp Bizkit My Generation Korn Freak on a Leash Genre: Hip Hop Sub-Genre: Old School NWA Straight Outta Compton Grandmaster Flash White Lines Run DMC It s Like That
Genre: Hip Hop Sub-Genre: Grime Dizzy Rascal - Bonkers Skepta - Shutdown Stormzy Shut Up Genre: Soul & Motown Aretha Franklin Respect Bobby Womack Across 110 th Street Stevie Wonder Isn t She Lovely Genre: Disco Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive Bee Gees Night Fever Diana Ross Upside Down
Genre: Blues Big Bill Broonzy Hey Hey Eric Bibb Walking Blues Again Joe Bonamassa Mountain Climbing Genre: Country Hank Williams Hey Good Looking Willie Nelson Good Morning America Johnny Cash Ring of Fire Genre: Folk Bob Dylan A Rolling Stone Jodie Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Mumford and Sons I Will Wait