Re: [Amc-list] "Forbidden" CL ad, or, " There has to be a girl out there who likes me and my cars"

[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

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