It all comes down to artistic integrity. If the artists use the medium to express ideas, then who is to say if its good or bad? I just finished listening to Van de Graf Generator's H to He, and it is damn good. Sounds a little dated, but pretty expressive lyrically and musically.
Couldn't agree less with you on this issue Mike. Elitism, hubris,
arrogance and self loathing knows no genre in my limited experience.
Fritz M400#1697....doesn't know squat
-----Original Message-----
From: tron@...
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:18:29 GMT
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: MOJO magazine - top 40 prog albums
> You can say the same for almost any style and genre of music.
I don't think you can. The silliness and conceit of a rock musician who
suddenly thinks that - just because he has been ham-fistedly ripping off
the bits of classical music he can understand for the last ten years -
he can write an erzatz concerto is only beaten by the sheer drudgery of
listening to his eventual effort. What makes progressive rock risible
thus is because you don't tend to find that hopeless level of idiot
aspiration in other musical styles.
The only thing that makes these unusually irritating people get by is
the fact that their audiences wouldn't actually know what a sonata was
if it drove over their heads in an eighty seater coach with with the
word 'sonata' written on it. Having grown up with people like this I
always found that deep down they were really wanting to hear a 4/4 jam
in E as much as anyone else, but that they felt secretly guilty about it
and chose instead to pretend to like music about hogweed and lighthouse
keepers, artifically stuffed into 9/8 by someone who would probably have
been happier doing the 4/4 in E as well.
Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
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