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

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Uh, 

I work at WVU's Creative Arts Center.

You ain't going to show me much I haven't allready seen or heard before........

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

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From: 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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