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I certainly will. Its not memorable. Its mindless doper junk. And compared to Beethoven or Mozart, or even Thelonius Monk or Dave Brubeck, its junk. Yep...
I don't see that it's an issue of importance. It's more an issue of whether or not it is pleasing to people. If it's...
I certainly do. Rock is the ultimate product of the gross commercialization of popular music. In my estimation, the popularity of any given "composition" is almost wholly subserviant to the "pop icon" status of the performers and it definately is generational in character. Just as post Civil War "Tin-Pan-Alley" tunes don't speak to modern generations, I doubt seriously if post WWII pop and rock will speak to people in the latter half of this century either.
Well, the point is that Rock is largely topical "music" and historically, topical musical forms are short-lived. They speak to a certain generation, and except for a few extraordinary examples, almost all of it fades very quickly. Even some of the most popular pieces fade when the generation that produced them, fades. Its simply inevitable. As far as seeing anything on the horizon, that's understandable. You and I are probably not equipped to see that particular future. If we could, we
Because he chose not to engage you in an endless stream of your bogus drivel doesn't mean that what he snipped was removed dishonestly. He probably...
We are all a product of our time. Socio-musicologists tell us that each generation of youth since the Great Depression has sought to differentiate their generation from the previous one by redefining popular music. The main criteria seems to be that the music be as different in character as possible from the last, and that it be more and more outrageous and antagonistic to the parent's generation (the moreso, the better). Who would have thought that rap and hip-hop would ever be as popular as it is? I personally cannot see the appeal (except in the above social context). It reduces music to basically beat and doggrel poetry. There are no whistleable melodies (I can whistle "California Girls" or "Eleanor Rigby") and I find it difficult to categorize it as music. What it is, is different from what went before (boy, that's for sure) and I can't imagine what it will evolve into. I simply can't imagine a musical concept that's more minimalist.
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