Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!pjt@BRL-VOC.ARPA From: pjt@BRL-VOC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: the disdain for newer music Message-ID: <6668@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:33:57 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6668 Posted: Thu Dec 20 01:33:57 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:59:48 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 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