To: Little Pig
Music Nazis are gigantic bores. There is a certain amount of fun to be had criticizing music, but personal tastes are just that; personal. For the life of me, I never saw the "genius" of Prince, but he is widely recognized as a brilliant musician for some reason. Likewise, I never saw Madonna as anything other than the hype.
When people start vilifying the music, it just comes across as either snobbish or parochial. The only critique you can really trust is that of the die-hard fan. An REM fan who laments their latest release, or the Metallica fan who pines for the black album days. At least you can respect their point of view.
35 posted on
07/09/2004 1:46:58 PM PDT by
Mr. Bird
(Ain't the beer cold!)
To: Mr. Bird
When people start vilifying the music, it just comes across as either snobbish or parochial. And we have a winner!
37 posted on
07/09/2004 1:48:03 PM PDT by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Mr. Bird
>>the Metallica fan who pines for the black album days.
Most Metallica fans I know dislike that album. Most pine for the "Ride the Lightning" or "Master of Puppets" days.
39 posted on
07/09/2004 1:48:55 PM PDT by
Betis70
To: Mr. Bird
But your point is a great one (didn't mean to imply otherwise).
Always take a fan's word for the quality of the music in question.
40 posted on
07/09/2004 1:50:02 PM PDT by
Betis70
To: Mr. Bird
Prince may not come across as much over the radio, but it wouldn't be a big stretch to call him a "musical genius." He can play just about every instrument there is, and usually plays the backup to his own albums in studio.
50 posted on
07/09/2004 1:59:21 PM PDT by
Xenalyte
(No one will be sitting in sackcloth and ashes wailing, "Oh, if only we had listened to Art Bell!")
To: Mr. Bird
When people start vilifying the music, it just comes across as either snobbish or parochial. The only critique you can really trust is that of the die-hard fan. An REM fan who laments their latest release, or the Metallica fan who pines for the black album days. At least you can respect their point of view. Oh man, those people are the worst. They rarely judge a new album on its merits. Instead they just listen to see if sounds like the last album, and if it doesn't, they trash it.
123 posted on
07/09/2004 4:09:23 PM PDT by
Melas
To: Mr. Bird
"When people start vilifying the music, it just comes across as either snobbish or parochial."
I was talking about musical tastes with an older (90+) gal from our church, and how the kids always seem to need listen to something just to go against their parents.
She said HER mom didn't like her taste in music. I asked her what was so different? She said that when she was young the kids liked the music with strings AND horns - but her parents thought the horns were just so much noise!
133 posted on
07/09/2004 4:31:21 PM PDT by
geopyg
(Peace..................through decisive and ultimate VICTORY. (Democracy, whiskey, sexy))
To: Mr. Bird
or the Metallica fan who pines for the black album days.If a "Metallica Fan" pines for the Black Album Days, then they are no 'Tallica Fan. True fans pine for The Days up to and including Master of Puppets.
;0)
257 posted on
07/09/2004 8:32:48 PM PDT by
Chad Fairbanks
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