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| From | "Don Stroud \(Nocean\)" <info@noceanstudios.com> |
| Subject | Re: Inconsistent songwriters |
| Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 17:05:57 -0700 |
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> Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06 9:43 AM, "Farrar Hudkins" wrote:
>
>> I nominate Stevie Wonder.
>>
>> -Farrar Hudkins
>
> Good call. And a shame, too because he's brilliant.
>
> Can we expect genius from our favorite songwriters for periods of forty
> years or more? Is it realistic?
>
I just caught some crap on prince.org, for bringing up the fact that
everyone has been raving about how good his latest album ("3121") is, where
it's actually a lackluster uninspired collection of tunes that sound like
the Top 5 from 3 years ago.
I don't know if it's realistic to expect an artist to keep dazzling us after
several decades of fairly constant recording. Look at Queen, my favorite
group of all time... Compare the creativeness of their first album with the
standard 4/4 rock/pop of their swan song. Not that I didn't like all of it
while they were around, but their product and style definitely
"standardized".
Don
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