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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal |
| Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:13:50 +0000 |
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For me it was always about the music.Yes I now have the memory of that time
to reflect on.But since I experienced each Beatle album as they were
released,it was the music that swayed me.I loved every song on "Pepper" as
it was sequenced.Each time it played ,I delighted to the anticipation of the
next hook,or harmony,or guitar texture.Same with "Pet Sounds".Or to go
farther,The Kinks "Village Green" or Todd Rundgren's "Something
Anything".[just 2 examples of life changing music].These albums stand alone
for me.The only modern album I can think of that has that type of effect
would be "Soft Bulletin" by the Flaming Lips.
Not joining the fray.Just sharing some thoughts.
>From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:47:47 -0400
>
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>But I don't think that's anything to do with the *music* necessarily.
>It's all to do with the age of the listener and the intensity of the
>memory. And that goes to an earlier argument about Pepper's effect on the
>pop culture zeitgeist.
>When you're a teenager or in your early young adulthood, you just feel
>*everything* more intensely -- because it's new and because it's exciting
>and because you just don't have anything to compare it to. Obviously, that
>feeling diminishes some as you get older (but not when it comes to falling
>in love -- that rush remains the same no matter what) for a lot of stuff,
>music included. That's because you're able to draw lines between records
>and realize that this band was influenced by this band, who were obviously
>influenced by this band. You start to appreciate music along a continuum,
>rather than have those "Holy Shit!!!!" moments you had when you were a kid.
>I feel the same way about hearing U2 and R.E.M. for the first time. Those
>records, because they were the first ones I heard during my musical coming
>of age ("Under A Blood Red Sky," and "Reckoning" respectively) remain more
>vital and intense for me because they were the first. They were the ones
>that inspired me to become addicted to Pop music and to start playing and
>writing my own music. It's pretty safe to say I probably would never been
>in bands or made records without having heard them.
>But I wouldn't be so vain to say that everything that came after them was
>inferior or were pale imitations. And that's the essence of the argument
>that's being made in other posts, and it's the one I object to heartily.
>
>john
>(who really needs to get some work done today, but has writer's block, and
>cannot)
>
>
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