Spiral Dynamics - Send me your music examples

[paradiseengineering]

Hi!

Im currently working on a folder with Spotify playlists for every stage in the spiral. 

It would be nice with some input and examples, just write the artist and song title and stage.

You can distinguish it in Lyric / artist / Instrumental / marketing / culture. You have to look at it according to what the music is about, how complex it is, how it is connected in culture when it came out, whether it is mass produced etc. Also take into account what stage the musicians themselves are in.

I will post the playlists when they are done.

Thanks for reading 

Edited April 12, 2020 by paradiseengineering

[VerballyHazardous]

Eminem is an interesting guy

The song below is red

The song features drug abuse, violence, stalking,... Marshal wasn't in a good mental state when he was writing this song.

The song below is orange

The song kind of encourage the listeners to pull themselves up.

This one is green

M&m was afraid that he is going to die so he made this song as an apology/message to his daughter

Jack Stauber is also a personal favourite, he is green with a tint of orange

Buttercup tells the story of a masochistic man. The animation isn't official in anyway but as you can see, the wrestler guy liked getting beaten up by the wrestler girl. In his mind everything was fine and beatiful, but eventually he got enough and dodge the final attack from the girl.

Mr. backwards in my interpretation, describes the neurosy of orange

Dead weight tells the listeners to let go of "dead weight", to not hold on to negative thoughts.

There are barely any yellow/turquoise musics.

[paradiseengineering]

15 hours ago, VerballyHazardous said:

Eminem is an interesting guy

The song below is red

The song features drug abuse, violence, stalking,... Marshal wasn't in a good mental state when he was writing this song.

The song below is orange

The song kind of encourage the listeners to pull themselves up.

This one is green

M&m was afraid that he is going to die so he made this song as an apology/message to his daughter

Jack Stauber is also a personal favourite, he is green with a tint of orange

Buttercup tells the story of a masochistic man. The animation isn't official in anyway but as you can see, the wrestler guy liked getting beaten up by the wrestler girl. In his mind everything was fine and beatiful, but eventually he got enough and dodge the final attack from the girl.

Mr. backwards in my interpretation, describes the neurosy of orange

Dead weight tells the listeners to let go of "dead weight", to not hold on to negative thoughts.

There are barely any yellow/turquoise musics.

Thanks! The eminem examples where intersting! Added Music Box to the red list.

I think IDM artists like Flying Lotus, and Aphex Twin would be yellow. Also Bjork

[Roy]

Trent Reznor has always been an amazingly creative artist, and has a piercing take on a lot of the bullshit in American society. There are some good examples in his work for a few stages.

Stage Red example - "The Beginning of the End" by Nine Inch Nails talks about a man willingly regressing into selfishness his own primary survival concerns because of a crisis.

Highlight Lyrics:

"You wait your turn, you'll be last in line
This is the beginning
Get out the way, cause I'm getting mine
This is the beginning
God helps the ones that can help themselves
This is the beginning
May be too late as far as I can tell
This is the beginning"

Stage Orange example - "Capital G" by Nine Inch Nails talks about a man who traded in his traditional God for the person he voted for (George Bush). He worships him in the sense not of what HE can do for his new God, but what his new God can do for him. Oppress others around the world and domestically for his own benefit.

Highlight Lyrics:

"Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala
Don't really see what all the fuss is about
Ain't gonna worry about no future generations and I
Am sure somebody's gonna figure it out
Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
You haven't had enough to know what it's like
You're only angry 'cause you wish you were in my position
Now nod your head because you know that I'm right, all right!"

 

Stage Turquoise example - "What Your Soul Sings" by Massive Attack is from the perspective of someone hearing a voice in their head telling them to love themself. I don't know if this is a turqoise example but it seems pretty advanced and has to do with true self-love.

Highlight Lyrics:

"Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly rearrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Will mean no harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you"

 

[SamueLSD]

True red :        

 

[intotheblack]

I find this song uplifting. I think stage green/yellow. French/English band Stereolab. 

‘Although Stereolab found success in the underground music scene and were influential enough to spark a renewed interest in older analogue instruments, they have never had a significant commercial impact. The band were released from their recording contract with Elektra Records due to poor record sales’

English translation: 

Cybele's Daydream

Sensual matters and without continuation

Childhood is more nice

Childhood brings the magic

 

What to do when we have done everything

Read everyting, drunk everything, ate everything

Given everthing in truth and in detail

When we cried on all the rooftops

Wept and laughing in the cities and in the countryside

 

Childhood is more geniune

The garden with the high porch

 

The rocks, the trees, the walls narrate

The house, the house of old, the house, the house of the future

 

And silence

will penetrate me.

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by intotheblack