5 reasons why 1400BC-100BC was the best period for music EVER

[The Sad Punk]

The muses were doing well and good during this era. Get out your petasos and chiton and rock the fuck on like old times!

1. Anydga of Syria - Hurrian Hymn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMbnj_Ei2A

2. Melody And Dance In Honour of the Ninth Magnificent Horus-Incarnate Pharaoh Amenhotep the Third In This Glorious Eighteenth Dynasty of Kemet (top chart spot: 13)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CJew86cOg

3. Demetrios "Silenos" Athenides and the Good Time Satyrs - Daimonos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7d4jUdLPeo

4. Halaris - Epitaph of Sikelos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIBF-2k9wfw

5. Harem of Rammeses II - Doing Kemetic Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MimmTdn9314

 

[LemonMelon]

You stole this list from Pitchfork, ass.

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

i wish i could've been there

 

[melon]

I've found this stuff to be amazing over the last few months, actually, but I know I'm a bit weird.

 

[U2isthebest]

"Anydga of Syria" was a new song when John McCain danced to it at his Prom.

 

[No spoken words]

I've found this stuff to be amazing over the last few months, actually, but I know I'm a bit weird.

Weird is a relative term.

Maybe on interference, some could deem you to be weird.

But, in Ásgarðr, I'm guessing that you blend.

 

[got_edge]

i wish i could've been there

I was

 

[The Sad Punk]

I know some people think that 400-800 had some cooler tunes, but personally I thought that was kind of a dark age for music. I much prefer this stuff.

 

[No spoken words]

Pitchfork shits all over 400-200.

 

[LMP]

I know some people think that 400-800 had some cooler tunes, but personally I thought that was kind of a dark age for music. I much prefer this stuff.

It was the heydey of the lute, which warrants mentioning. Sting tried to bring it back, that's why he's in the superior 1975-1985 thread, where all of the creativity and ethereal lies.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

no wayouts?