What Does The Term "Technical" Mean to You?

Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: For example, Yes' "Relayer" was considered as a "technical rock" album back then. Is that a pejorative term? Well, for someone who doesn't like it, probably yes. Not for me. I've never heard of "technical rock". Now you're making up stuff.  Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean that the term wasn't in use. The term isn't even completely extinct because we have "technical metal" now.

Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: For example, Yes' "Relayer" was considered as a "technical rock" album back then. Is that a pejorative term? Well, for someone who doesn't like it, probably yes. Not for me. I've never heard of "technical rock". Now you're making up stuff.  Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean that the term wasn't in use. The term isn't even completely extinct because we have "technical metal" now. excuse my apparent arrogance, but I haven't heard it because I've never seen it used, not in magazines I read in the past, not on the internet.

You haven't read enough.

Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: For example, Yes' "Relayer" was considered as a "technical rock" album back then. Is that a pejorative term? Well, for someone who doesn't like it, probably yes. Not for me. I've never heard of "technical rock". Now you're making up stuff.  Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean that the term wasn't in use. The term isn't even completely extinct because we have "technical metal" now. excuse my apparent arrogance, but I haven't heard it because I've never seen it used, not in magazines I read in the past, not on the internet. You haven't read enough. thank you for the insult, it was predictable...

It's not an insult, I'm afraid it's just a fact. Not even on the Internet you say? Technical rock music

Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: For example, Yes' "Relayer" was considered as a "technical rock" album back then. Is that a pejorative term? Well, for someone who doesn't like it, probably yes. Not for me. I've never heard of "technical rock". Now you're making up stuff.  Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean that the term wasn't in use. The term isn't even completely extinct because we have "technical metal" now. excuse my apparent arrogance, but I haven't heard it because I've never seen it used, not in magazines I read in the past, not on the internet. You haven't read enough. thank you for the insult, it was predictable...  It's not an insult, I'm afraid it's just a fact. Not even on the Internet you say? Technical rock music

Boboulo wrote: "Wakeman brought a whole cannonry of keyboard tricks - what caused new comparisons to Keith Emerson - and took Yes even deeper into the realm of what became known as "flash" or technical rock." - from an article about Yes in The Illustrated New Musical Express Encyclopedia of Rock, 1976. "Leading creators of technical rock" - from NME journalist Nick Logan's Emerson Lake & Palmer article, the same book.

Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: Cristi wrote: Boboulo wrote: For example, Yes' "Relayer" was considered as a "technical rock" album back then. Is that a pejorative term? Well, for someone who doesn't like it, probably yes. Not for me. I've never heard of "technical rock". Now you're making up stuff.  Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean that the term wasn't in use. The term isn't even completely extinct because we have "technical metal" now. excuse my apparent arrogance, but I haven't heard it because I've never seen it used, not in magazines I read in the past, not on the internet. You haven't read enough. thank you for the insult, it was predictable...  It's not an insult, I'm afraid it's just a fact. Not even on the Internet you say? Technical rock music Yeah, I don't use last.fm exactly because they got their own names for genres and subgenres. Oh really? Well, this would be regarding a proof that you haven't read enough before the Internet either: "Wakeman brought a whole cannonry of keyboard tricks - what caused new comparisons to Keith Emerson - and took Yes even deeper into the realm of what became known as "flash" or technical rock." - from an article about Yes in The Illustrated New Musical Express Encyclopedia of Rock, 1976. "Leading creators of technical rock" - from NME journalist Nick Logan's Emerson Lake & Palmer article, the same book.

I've never heard of Technical Rock, but I have heard of a "Technical" military pick-up truck with a machine gun mounted in the back.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 24 2020 at 05:22

I could assume that that is Paul The Stealth Jihadist in the back of that truck, but the one with the pot with vegetables on the head would be more stealthy.

By the way, I have heard of technical rock climbing, but more often rock climbing techniques.

As for technical music, I see it as music that takes a high level of technique/skill to create, and commonly those skills would have been developed with formal studies and much discipline. It can imply "soulless"/ more intellectual than emotional/ more formal than felt and as inorganic. The technicality will be found both in the musicianship and in the compositional skills. Much academic music could be called technical music. It can mean any music that takes a high level of skill to play and compose.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I've heard of Tech Metal (or Technical Death Metal), but without having listened to it,  I have a strong feeling Tech Metal wouldn't appeal to me at all. Symphonic Metal appeals more to my eclectic tastes, and I like some Progressive Metal too on occasion, especially Ayreon and Dream Theater.    On the subject of the Yes: Relayer album, it no doubt displays a high level of technical ability, but I've never heard it referred to as "Technical Rock" before.

Logan wrote: As for technical music, I see it as music that takes a high level of technique/skill to create, and commonly those skills would have been developed with formal studies and much discipline. It can imply "soulless"/ more intellectual than emotional/ more formal than felt and as inorganic. The technicality will be found both in the musicianship and in the compositional skills. Much academic music could be called technical music. It can mean any music that takes a high level of skill to play and compose.