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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Industrial & Pink Floyd, Einstuerzende Neubaten, Swan..
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:08:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 12:08:41 1985
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A few comments...

>     Ideally, I'd hope what flows from an artist is the result of spontaneous
>     creative force -- if listeners from limited, retarded, or deprived
>     musical backgrounds are offended -- so be it! 
> 
And if listeners from limited, retarded, or deprived musical backgrounds
are too easily impressed -- so be it, also. Just a general comment - I have
no specific examples in mind.

>     Actually, I'm surprised he didn't find them TOO pop (they were recently
>     reviewed in a `Tiger Beat' type rag!!). As a point of constructive
>     criticism, I wish people might say WHY they dislike music when panning
>     it -- this gives the reader a far better chance to make an intelligent
>     evaluation of otherwise unfamiliar artists.
> 
Isn't this about as difficult as saying why one likes a piece of music? My 
reaction would be - I like a piece of music because it moves me irresistably,
I dislike a piece of music because it bores me. I don't think that's the
level of detail you were after, though.

Boredom can occur among the loudest of textures as well as the softest, the
least repetitive as well as the most repetitive (at least on the surface).
And so can the irresistable emotion. Analysis can be fun, and occasionally
it gives insights into the whys of a piece, but more often it resembles an
attempt at a closed form solution of a 12-body problem. (Had to stick in
a 12-something somewhere!)
					'nuff rambling,
						Jeff Winslow