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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: 25 overrated thingies |
| Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:37:25 -0500 |
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From: "Michael vg" <govango@yahoo.com>
> --- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
>> 2. The Arcade Fire: Neither transcendent enough to warrant the
>> effusive gushing that greeted FUNERAL (a very good and at times
>> genuinely great album, but not the life-changing event so many
>> claimed)
>
> Are you saying that those who said this album changed
> their life are not telling the truth, or just that it
> didn't change your like.
I literally read a review of FUNERAL that said it would change my
life. (I forget where, but I want to say it was a newspaper, not a
magazine or an online review.) And it's a good album -- as I've said,
"Power Out" has the single rockingest glockenspiel part ever in the
history of the instrument -- but my life remained unchanged.
>
> Oh yeah, I love Dylan. But of all the claims that
> Dylan is overrated I have heard thru the years, your
> explanation was the first one that made sense.
Dylan is kind of like the Mona Lisa at this point. We've always been
told that the Mna Lisa is the best painting of all time, and most of
us haven't bothered to investigate further to see if we really believe
that. Similarly, if you asked someone who didn't really care about
pop music who the best songwriter of the '60s was, most of them would
say Dylan, just because they've heard he's the best and they haven't
bothered to see for themselves.
S
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