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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: (1)pigenholing music, (2) d*sco sucks
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 13:13:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 13:13:58 1983
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Call d*sco music? I'd rather program in FORTRAN. Music has
melody, rhythm, etc. D*sco has a constant pounding bass drum,
maybe a couple of cymbols and someone screaming "baby baby baby".
You want to listen to that? Might as well listen to a punch-press
machine. Its just as much 'music' as d*sco is.  Also just as
obnoxious.  Only difference is they don't play punch-press noise
on 90% of the radio stations, elevators, and stores. D*sco was
very hard to avoid. This ubiqtousness is probably responseable
for much of the hatred of d*sco.

I haven't heard Kraftwerk's newer albums, has their sound changed?
_A_u_t_o_b_a_h_n certainly is about as far away from d*sco as I can
imagine.

Trying to pigenhole different types of music into neat little
boxes doesn't work too well. We would need too many boxes. There
are just too many types of music to just lump things into
classical/jazz/pop-rock/c&w/??? Which box do we put fusion in?
How do we classify classical pieces done by 'rock' artists?
I can't call ELP's version of "Pictures at an Exhibition" rock,
but many people who are into 'pure' classical refuse to call it
classical, either. The term 'classical rock' was invented, but
ELP didn't agree, they did "Nutrocker" as their idea of what
'classical rock' was.  Then there is the 'third stream', a mixture
of jazz with classical. Which box do we put this in? And of
course, there's 'Gospel rock', which is rock music with Christian
lyrics.

I gave up trying to pigenhole music a long time ago, especially
since many of my favorites are mixtures of different types.
There is only one 'sound' I can pigenhole: d*sco goes in the
NOISE box, it sure isn't music.  If saying "D*sco sucks" makes
me a racist, then I guess I'm a racist.

			climbing into my Nomex (tm?),
				Dave Seifert
				ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert

ps. I put an '*' in d*sco to be consistent with those who
put one in other offensive words, eg sh*t.

yes, there are misspelled words in this article, but 'spelltell'
doesn't know how to spell them either.
-- 
				Dave Seifert
				ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert