smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Decemberists? |
| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:44:25 -0800 |
[Part 1 text/plain iso-8859-1 (1.3 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
Being around college radio a good part of my waking hours during the week
this has been a growing irk of mine as well. Lowering the bar on singing,
production
values, and playing ability in support of being an "anti rock star" or
whatever it is...is
seems to be a growing trend in indie music. I guess in reality the "bar" is
set by people
buying the stuff....but from my perspective (as a musician) there has to be
some
quality control, otherwise the definition of "music" will become terminally
diluted.
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:08:01 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
> From: Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: The Decemberists?
> Message-ID:
<23940585.1134662881349.JavaMail.root@mswamui-valley.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
>
> This has been increasingly problematic for me too. Not that I require
technically good singing or anything, and the devaluation of the lead singer
is probably at least in part a logical, natural anti-"rock star!" reaction,
which philosophically I can understand and even support to an extent. But
at the end of the day, turns out that most of the time I want to hear an
interesting, charismatic voice. Is that so wrong?
>
> I blame J. Mascis.
>
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.