I like music like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNA7xfpkUXA especially around 0:55 and 1:41 Is this music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPBdBIFGNQ : ) Ken Quoting Victor the Cleaner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:13:51AM +0000, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Is Classic Rock sad because of the music? > > Ah, I probably shouldn't have started this... > > I just think it's pathetic to define one's tastes so narrowly, and > particularly to a window of Western pop music spanning about twenty > years. That's like spending the rest of your life eating nothing but > Chicken McNuggets. Don't get me wrong - I like a lot of Bonehead Rawk > just fine, but there are a couple of thousand years of music from this > culture *and* the rest of the world that lie outside the list of songs > comprising the well-known "Classic Rock" canon that can be pretty > thoroughly tabulated by a couple of people in a couple of hours. > Stepping out of that little tiny bubble can change your life. I can > play you music that'll bring tears to your eyes. Or make you so crazy > mad that you'll put your fist through a door. Or just confuse you so > badly you'll have to leave the room. If music has that kind of power, > why on earth would you ever need to hear "Stairway to Heaven" *again*? > > The brain is a muscle that, like any other, atrophies with disuse. Keep > pouring the same old crap into it, and not much interesting and new will > come out - GIGO. > > > I don't actualy go out of the way to listen to "Classic Rock" mind you, > > I just prefer songs that don't say Yo a lot.... > > I'm mostly with you there. I've got a strong aversion to hippity-hop. > 25 or so years ago it represented a novel direction, but it's proven > itself to be pretty much musically bankrupt - a real cultural dead-end. > Main exceptions: Public Enemy, Ice-T/Body Count (the rap-metal thing > kinda works for me). > > > Oh and that have actual music as their basis.... > > We could have quite a spirited discussion over what the prerequisites > for "actual music" are. Curiously, the genre broadly known as "musique > actuelle" would probably challenge your preconceptions. > > jl > > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list