Music; what makes good music?

Good Evening!

The question on my mind today, what makes good music? Is it the guitar riffs/cords? Is it the bass? Is it the snare drum, a cowbell or the beats the musican has come up with? Or is it the lyrics to the song, or is it the singer's voice? I am going to take all of the above for $1,000 Alex! Good music is defined by many different opinions. Some people think Led Zeppelin is good music, or Mozart is good music. Everyone has their own taste of what is good music. For me anyways, good music always has to do with the singer, the guitar sound, the bass, and the drums or whatever else instrument they choose to use in the song. One of my favorite good music songs has to be without a doubt; A Day in the Life by The Beatles. http://youtu.be/P-Q9D4dcYng. The lyrics to the song really kind of put different thoughts into perspective. As though many people seemed to think that the song had to do with the Guiness Heir Tara. That wasn't really the case, as Lennon said, " Tara didn't blow his mind out, but it was in my mind when I was writing the verse." But none the less, Lennon and McCartney both lightly joked that the song was a drug song. Well it was composed in the late sixties, not to much of a suprise when you have the Vietnam War going on, Revolutions, and Timothy Leary. There is something about this song, that (for me anyway) hits that little spot inside you...YOUR HEART. I am not necessarily talking about your actual blood pumping heart, or maybe I am?! Regardless of where it really hits you, it gives you this bone chilling kind of feeling. The melody in the middle after Paul's little diddle, with the orchestra is simply amazing with John doing a long ahhh, gives me chills. There was always something that was different about The Beatles. I think it was, how they wrote their music, how they collectively really where one of the first bands to really come together (no pun intended) and really write and want to have that say in their music. If you really stop and think not that many "bands" that where coming out in 1963 really truly wrote their own shit, and alas forty eight years later their still having someone else write their songs. Truly pathetic. But I'm getting side tracked from what the subjet truly is... music and what makes it good? What makes good music to you?


Words of Wisdom for today: "Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows." -Hendrix.