"Mellow"

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Does it ever bother you to hear music called "mellow", just because it's relatively soft or slow? I mean, there's plenty under the mellow banner that I hold dear, but, say, the Black Heart Procession ain't among them. Perhaps I'm hearing it as rockist pejorative, when all that's intended is shorthand for anything less than in-your-face. I guess I also object to it as a compliment meaning "ooh, this music serves to mellow me out". So tell me, have you never been bugged by mellow?

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm bugged by cheeses that are labeled 'mellow.'

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, sometimes people apply it to things like Indian classical music (which can get more busy/energetic/intense than lots of rock) or Glenn Branca because it doesn't have the kinds of changes that they're used to so they just hear it as background music.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "Another Mellow Spring" by Mellow.

Of course, it's pretty mellow.

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 21 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Mellow."

So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all "Mellow."

Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.

― man, Saturday, 21 December 2002 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

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