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| Subject | Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal |
| Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:38:49 -0700 |
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U2
Yes, thank you. I would buy that. There's one.
Many years of collected songs, and many excellent songs
that can hold their own. And with a unique sound-very
unlike the Beatles.
Excellent.
That's all I wanted folks ...
Put the guns down .....
I stand corrected.
UOn Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:47:47 -0400
"John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I do think part of it was being there when it all
>>happened.I am old enough
>> to have experienced the entire British invasion as it
>>happened.Talk about
>> good and exciting times.The Beatles were the buzz at
>>that time and "Sgt.
>> Pepper" blew everybody away."Pet Sounds" had a huge
>>impact as well.
>> I do love FOW and Supergrass .I'm a huge pop fan.But
>>they can't take the
>> place of hearing all the early Kinks albums.
>
> 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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