tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post362819798744427353..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Four Songs You Need to Hear?Bryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-25444158114819583692015-07-28T17:03:53.744-05:002015-07-28T17:03:53.744-05:00My liking for Genki Sudo and World Order is probab...My liking for Genki Sudo and World Order is probably eccentric--I think I like them because they are nothing like any other pop musicians. Yes, sometimes it is the appropriateness to the personal historic moment that cements some pop music into your brain. There are some Beatles' tunes that function that way for me.<br /><br />But I don't think I would try and argue that the Beatles and Bob Dylan are in the same league with Bach and Beethoven. They do have a league of their own, though.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-5398450909537841732015-07-28T16:48:52.663-05:002015-07-28T16:48:52.663-05:00I did finally get around to listening to the G&...I did finally get around to listening to the G&M writer's four songs. Eh. I used to listen to Wilco, a lot, up through Mermaid Avenue, the year 2000 or so. Was one of the last pop bands I gave much time to before reverting to 98% classical, 98% of the time. A grey mass of aimless washes of confused greyness, ha-- but they fit my personal historical moment. <br /><br />"You can tell it's Canadian because it doesn't have a nasty edge and the lyrics are kinda literary." Ha. I don't listen to enough pop music, but if you add 'TV' after 'Canadian' and substitute 'the dialogue is kinda educated with the English being actually well articulated' for the clause about lyrics, that certainly hits the mark; I do indulge a Netflix etc craving every so often.<br /><br />I listened to those World Order tracks and don't 'get' your enthusiasm!! but the choreography is amusing, and they do sound like music and not like electronic noise i.e. what I hear on the car radio when I have to reset the tuner after another driver has changed the station away from the UO's KWAX.<br /><br />Will have to read your Beatles posts eventually. A friend tries relentlessly (or would; we have agreed to disagree...) to get me to admit that they and Bob Dylan are great artists 'in the same league' with Bach and Beethoven etc etc.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-13736633597019003502015-07-28T07:55:44.158-05:002015-07-28T07:55:44.158-05:00Nothing saying you have to like the Beatles, but y...Nothing saying you have to like the Beatles, but you might want to look a little closer at what they did. Maybe sit down and listen all the way through Revolver just to get a sense of the range of their creativity.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-6613185508970986262015-07-27T12:26:56.767-05:002015-07-27T12:26:56.767-05:00Ah, pop music, something you can live without (unl...Ah, pop music, something you can live without (unless it's forced upon you in a store or whatever). I guess the examples are in the article are more of the "indie pop" variety. However it still sounds as uninteresting as ever. It's like you said about the 2nd song (roughly paraphrasing): The blog variant of pop music. Maybe a good name for it would be blog pop. And yes, the author took made a not so discrete attempt at white guilt. Obviously it must have been racism because Kayne West is black. It can't be because his music is pop trash and is getting way too much attention. Of course Bono etc. are equally bad. However it wasn't as if they were the ones that are going to perform in the first place. Plus it seems that people in general prefer whatever artistic (or other) qualities Bono has over what Kayne West has. This would NOT happen if for instance Michael Jackson was still alive and was going to perform.<br /><br />Speaking of pop music, I have a confession to make. I don't like The Beatles in general and don't see what people in general (especially people who otherwise dislike pop in general) see in them. The only true Beatles song I enjoy is "Yesterday". I also enjoy the Live and Let Die theme song by Paul McCartney and Wings (not a true Beatles song but still) partially due to it being a Bond theme song and partially because it's actually very nice.Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08084578675339015204noreply@blogger.com