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Rhythm vs Melody
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Poll Question: If you could only have one or the other..
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Melody is like a movie script. If it's no good, the rest of it blows.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Meshuggah = Rhythm over Melody. I love Meshuggah !!
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Strange poll. You can't have a song without a beat. On the other hand I think you can have a song without a melody. Melodies I think have been done to death in any case. I don't think it's possible to invent any new melodies. However there still new rhythms you can invent. So rhythms win.
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Rhythm and harmony equals melody. The better the melody, the better the rhythm.

This may be why rap is so unpopular among certain strata of society. Often strong rhythms (vocally) determinedly eschewing melody and reducing the role of the real rhythm section. Upside down numbers...

If you want the absence of any I really (this is the only circumstance this will happen) recommend Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

Can and Tortoise eh? Tortoise a very strong drummer led band but I was attracted to the rather exquisite melodies Tortoise managed. My first hearing was a bootleg from a Bonnaroo Festival. Was hooked thereafter.

Can are magic. Both slightly unpredictable.
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Definitely rhythm for me - I prefer instrumental music and of course melody plays a role but not the most important thing for me. 

Besides Can (who I love and who introduced me to motorik) I also love James Brown - funk is the African rhythm matrix with each instrument filling in different parts - Fela Kuti too - are there any prog funk bands?
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Melody!
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Counterpoint.
OK, I voted Rhythm.  My taste in jazz, classical and prog run strongly to the avant garde.  Dissonant and polyrhythmic.  Too pretty and it's like nails on a blackboard.  I've been that way since my mother introduced me to 20th Century classical well before adolescence.  Melodies and harmonies from non-Western European cultures can be appealing.  Like Antonín Dvořák or Alamaailman Vasarat or the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra.  Mom also raised me on the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern et al and a melody has to be pretty damn special to meet that bar.  Peter Blegvad can hit it.  Leonard Cohen could.  A few others.


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Very lol poll.

I'm a bass player, so I'm biased toward rhythm.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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