Rock Report Listening Log - Essay Example

Rock Report Listening Log Rock n’ Roll All Night Album: KISS Live Artist: KISS Year of Release: 1974 Rock Style: Hard Rock A. Musical Characteristics. The music for this song is done in 4/4 time with a driving drum beat that is straight forward and without any intricate or imaginative musicality. The transition is a repetition of the main phrase of the song “I wanna rock n’ roll all night - and party every day”, creating an anthem type piece of music that spoke for a generation that was ready to escape the economic and political struggles of the period. Title: Cat Scratch Fever Album: Cat Scratch Fever Artist: Ted Nugent Year of Release: 1977 Rock Style: Hard Rock A. Musical Characteristics: This song is also very straight forward in 4/4 time with the guitar having the more prominent position in the way in which the music is driven. The lyrics are less anthem and more intended for sexually explication with shock appeal. The music is not complicated, nor is there any transition that is developed for highly imaginative solo artistry. It does create a great hook and allow for the idea of the sexual nature of the lyrics to be expressed somewhat in the style of the music. B. The music is similar in that it is hard driving and intended to have a straight forward and uncomplicated appeal. The music is very similar and does not really define two fully different styles. C. Although the nature of the individual artists, though similar is still definable through the way in which the beats are counted and the use of syncopation which is more prominent in the music of Ted Nugent. The two individual styles do not express a difference in musical style, but rather in the way in which musical choices in composing the work is accomplished. The most prominent differences is seen in the chorus lyric and the way in which the repetition is similar, but has a different texture in the way that it is composed. D. Both songs competently represent the style of a hard rock song, however I prefer the work from Nugent over that from KISS, although that may not have been the choice I would have made when they were released. The lyrics in Nugent area bit more clever and the type of music does not seem quite as dated, although it is definitely identifiable from the 1970s. KISS has always been a band that was about theater over music, thus the music is not complicated and does not really represent music of the hard rock genre, despite being squarely positioned in that genre. Therefore, Nugent more than likely better represents the hard rock style than does KISS. Read More