How much can you cram into a
single minute of a song? In the Eurovision Song Contest each entry has to be
around three minutes maximum, forcing one to have to create the perfect ditty
to win. Three minutes is said to be the perfect length for a song, but punk
managed to need less time than that. Napalm
Death managed to encapsulate the concept of suffering in 1.316 seconds. The
latter might sound absurd, but the grindcore subgenre of metal is not only
responsible for some of the most intense music I can hear, but it enforces how
much you can cram in only a minute or so and still make a full song with
multiple complex structures to it. Sprinkle its influence over avant-garde
jazz, and you get Naked City, the
second time musician John Zorn
appears here and will likely not be the last for him either. Probably what
makes this selected song better is knowing there's a great sense of fun behind
it as well like a lot of great confrontational music, especially when the
jaunty piano piece kicks in...
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