Musings on music, Steve Earle, and stuff...
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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
registered: 2002.08.26
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First, sorry about the Steve Earle promotion....don't know what happened. Rolling Stone said he'd be on the O'Lielly show (crap, I sat through and wasted an hour of my life on that show hoping to see Steve Earle on it). As for music, something hit me the other day and it has to do with quality music and muscians. Quality music is somewhat hard to find, or at least in a mass market method and what gets me is how our perception of music of the past relies heavily on the most commerical aspects of music. To further illustrate, so many of our perceptions of music from our past are based on the most popular of acts and not necessarily those of higher quality. In a way, our perceptions are based on the tastes of the masses and it takes a conscious act to seek out the better stuff.Opinions?
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First, sorry about the Steve Earle promotion....don't know what happened. Rolling Stone said he'd be on the O'Lielly show (crap, I sat through and wasted an hour of my life on that show hoping to see Steve Earle on it). As for music, something hit me the other day and it has to do with quality music and muscians. Quality music is somewhat hard to find, or at least in a mass market method and what gets me is how our perception of music of the past relies heavily on the most commerical aspects of music. To further illustrate, so many of our perceptions of music from our past are based on the most popular of acts and not necessarily those of higher quality. In a way, our perceptions are based on the tastes of the masses and it takes a conscious act to seek out the better stuff.Opinions?
