If music be the food of love, play on...

[daharja]

(x-posted from my blog at Cluttercut)

No more McMusic!Who decided that only the 'best' were worth listening to

Comments

[brong]

Yeah, word.

I get annoyed at people who consider a piece of music isn't worthwhile unless it's "hard" or expect me to like the latest piece of atonal rhythmless modern Australian classical composition just because it's modern and difficult and has "credibility" of some sort.

Popular music is popular partially because of the marketing, and partially because it does resonate with people. There a reason why that mass-produced stuff sells, and it's because they are following rules which were created because they sound good and they are easy to listen to.

[hecticred]

Any chance this could go behind a cut? This polemic takes up about 3/4 of my friends page at the moment.

Umm. No.

[subtle_eye]

Most of (50%+) the music on my iPod is from artists I've seen perform at folk festivals and the like.

And I don't know what planet your sound engineer came from. The only album that I own that was a "run a piece through from start to finish in a half day" is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in 1959. It is exceptional because Davis and his band were that tight, and that in the zone the day they walked into the studio

[pyrrha17]

Erm, and don't jusge a machine by the colour of its headphones. I have one of those 'inferior' mp3 players, and it has white cables too. I happen to think it's superior actually, as it has a radio, so I can be bopping along to ABC Classic FM on the train - or perhaps my favourite recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, or, maybe even listening to the latest rehearsal CD for Gloriana and (shock horror) actually be practicing my music.

I have to agree with a lot of the comments above. I don't think it was a terribly well thought out post. Sorry.