Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Settling the JSB/KB controversy once and for all Message-ID: <4982@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 04:01:04 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4982 Posted: Thu Aug 15 04:01:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:17:34 EDT References: <1446@pyuxd.UUCP> <387@mhuxr.UUCP> <1455@pyuxd.UUCP> <391@mhuxr.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 > From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) > I define work of artistic consequence as having some degree of > influence over work created later, by others, and as being able to > withstand passing fashions and evoke appreciative emotions over long > periods of time ("forever") I'd say Ellington meets those criteria and > the Go-Go's don't. Marcel, does this mean that a great artist isn't great if they go unrecognized, and thus have little influence on others? Hogwash! Total and complete! >> [Rich Rosen:] The Go-Go's had enough good music in their repertoire >> to label your judgment of them as sour grapes. > If that is so, where are they now, and why did they suddenly disappear > when the initial wave of hype washed over? I'm not wild about the Go-Go's, but they did have a couple okay songs, like "Our Lips Our Sealed" and "This Town" (though they're nothing great). In any case, just because someone disappears doesn't mean they had no talent, so your argument is pretty silly. I can think of several true artists who disappeared into relative obscurity after massive popular success because they decided to transcend what they had been doing before, and this led to a great deal of popular rejection. Then again, I don't think this describes The Go-Go's. "I've turned my revolt into style" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)