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From: pjt@BRL-VOC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re:  the disdain for newer music
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:33:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 01:33:57 1984
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I disagree reasonably strongly.  Look at any of the ex-Beatles.  The
quality of their work correlates pretty well with its age.  You gonna
tell me 'Ebony & Ivory' or 'Cook of the House' (already turning musty)
compare to bona fide Fab Four stuff?  But McCartney would be assured of
making a bundle whatever he produced.  He wasn't compelled to go pop in
order to feed his family.  On the contrary, it seems to me he took the
route of least resistance and became a pablum peddlar.  Of course, he
always did lean toward the cutesy quaint vaudeville stuff (e.g. 'Martha
My Dear', 'Honey Pie').

Furthermore, I personally don't just like performers' earlier work because
I got in on the ground floor.  'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' was the first
hot-off-the-presses purchase I made of a Genesis album, but I've always found
their post-Gabriel stuff inferior (at best).  By the time I got around to
Eno he was well into ambient but 'Another Green World' is still my favorite
of his albums.
     +++paul