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!harvard!think!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Musical asparagus vs. musical twinkies Message-ID: <273@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 06:58:44 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.273 Posted: Fri Nov 1 06:58:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:30:16 EST References: <1179@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 48 > From: blickstein@tle.DEC (Dave Blickstein) > Of course this does have a slight indication of authenticity: The > person seems to be saying that it's only wrong to imply that music is > "bad" when the music really is "good" (according to Dougs definition I > suppose) but you just can't appreciate it. Exactly! Like Joni Mitchel makes good music. I just don't like her music much. I would never call her music bad. Joni Mitchel is a true artist. I just don't appreciate her art. But maybe that's just my problem. If some one else loves her music, that's perfectly fine with me, and I wouldn't try to convince them that there is anything wrong with liking it. Diversity is a good thing. Lionel Richie, on the other hand, makes bad music. He is not an artist. He is an opportunist and is in it for the money. If he could make it rich some other way, that's what he would be doing instead. His "music" is worthless and very probably brain-damaging and people who buy his albums are helping to starve real artists and wasting their time and minds. An analogy with food seems reasonable. I don't like asparagus. But is asparagus bad food? Of course not. Would I ever try to convince someone that they shouldn't be eating asparagus. Of course not. On the other hand, if I see someone living on a diet of Cool Aid, Coco Crispies, and Twinkies, and who smokes three packs of cigarettes a day, I might try to convince them that this is not a healthy lifestyle. This would atrophy the body. And Lionel Richie atrophies the mind. I've said all this before. I guess it needed to be said again. > P.S. I thought it worth mentioning that I'm writing this while listening > to "Never For Ever" for about the 12th time trying as best as I can to > learn to "appreciate" it, the result of having received recommendations > for Bush from more objective sources. Well, that's the only KB album that has songs on it that I don't like (like "Babooshka" -- blech. (Didn't expect me to say that, now did you?)), but it also has a couple of my favorites (like "Breathing"! Ooooh, what a song!). It is also her weakest album lyrically (but you don't care about lyrics, right?) You really don't have to try so hard, though, if you don't like her. It doesn't bother me if you don't. Just don't say she isn't good, and I don't care. "Chips of plutonium, twinkling in every lung" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)