In a message dated 11/12/2004 5:42:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, jonesalley@... writes:
Listen to the state of contemporary music. The stuff that is saturating the air is so clumsy and amateurish, yet it is being foisted upon a musically illiterate public as great work. Music written by people who can't play, who really don't know much about music other than a collection of licks and hand positions, hackneyed song structure, lines lifted whole cloth from other compositions, is being lifted to high acclaim by people who should know better simply because it is making them rich.
Reminds me of a line from the Sopranos, where Christopher says something like, "4th grade poetry and a drum machine and every ditsoon thinks he's Chairman of the Board".
The other Frank S.