All kinds of musical juxtapositions.....
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location: Landscape Challenged Illinois
listening to: 16 Horsepower, black music from the 70's & and still going broke from Paste Magazine
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Last night after watching The Promise, I went back and listened to some of the songs from Born and Darkness.
It also made me think back to a professor I had back in the 80's in a class on American Music. He kept harping on us about the difference between "hearing" and "listening" and when it came to modern day popular music, most Americans tended to just "hear" it and not "listen" to it (he loved to point out how many of us tend to use music as what he called a "distraction" - background noise - and that that was not "listening").
Then, later in the evening I saw on a channel the current day Rolling Stones doing "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." Now, after watching that mess, I'm sorry, but if there is a band who has grown to deserve the moniker of "irrelevant" then it is them. Those fellows have become a parody of their former selves (I couldnt' even understand half of what Jagger was singing and think if he just blurted out some old man's "yahhhhsssss" and "ggggaaaaggggsss" they would have made as much sense.
Which gets me back to the fear of music fans today and if the ability to follow a meaningful artist over the span of thirty and forty years will be available like it once was. Will it still exist to watch the growth of this artist and our own growth as well. And if, as serious fans, with the person be able to understand what is going on during this journey.
To me, one of the most interesting things Springsteen talked about was his growth as an artist and how it was for him to look at his early work versus the refined work. He put it greatly when he described how he had grown (my father tried to get people to understand this about his own artwork and why the growth was why he had the want to burn his early art work).
Oh, well...
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Last night after watching The Promise, I went back and listened to some of the songs from Born and Darkness.
It also made me think back to a professor I had back in the 80's in a class on American Music. He kept harping on us about the difference between "hearing" and "listening" and when it came to modern day popular music, most Americans tended to just "hear" it and not "listen" to it (he loved to point out how many of us tend to use music as what he called a "distraction" - background noise - and that that was not "listening").
Then, later in the evening I saw on a channel the current day Rolling Stones doing "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." Now, after watching that mess, I'm sorry, but if there is a band who has grown to deserve the moniker of "irrelevant" then it is them. Those fellows have become a parody of their former selves (I couldnt' even understand half of what Jagger was singing and think if he just blurted out some old man's "yahhhhsssss" and "ggggaaaaggggsss" they would have made as much sense.
Which gets me back to the fear of music fans today and if the ability to follow a meaningful artist over the span of thirty and forty years will be available like it once was. Will it still exist to watch the growth of this artist and our own growth as well. And if, as serious fans, with the person be able to understand what is going on during this journey.
To me, one of the most interesting things Springsteen talked about was his growth as an artist and how it was for him to look at his early work versus the refined work. He put it greatly when he described how he had grown (my father tried to get people to understand this about his own artwork and why the growth was why he had the want to burn his early art work).
Oh, well...
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