Mark Pring wrote:
>>Well some progressive rock lyrics are bad, but some aren't inmy opinion, well after racking my brains I can only
>> come up with:
>> Times Table
>> The Night Watch
>> Lament
Hmm...I don't really know or remember 'Timetable' enough to make anykind of comment, but the other two are well enough known to me and theyare pretty ∗meh∗. One appears to be extemporising around details from apainting by Rembrandt (I think) and the other is just another take on'rock and roll....it ain't as much fun as it used to be, is it?' whichI seem to have heard about a zillion times before. I'll grant you thatPalmer-James is a significant step up from Sinfield, though. Sinfield'sexcruciating Sea Goat said that 'the nonsense makes me numb'.How right he was.
I don't really want to get into the issue of shouting about one set oflyrics and slagging off a whole pile of others because you also say
>> But in general no worse than other popular music or seriousmusic come to that.
My big issue with 90% of rock music of any genre is in thevocalist department. Good signers are a rarity. I mean a realrarity. Mediocre singers are more plentiful, but the utterly awfulcomprise the huge majority, and add to that horror the fact they haveto sing rock and roll lyrics. I love the sound of theBeach Boys but I'd rather listen to the sound than have to endure whathave to be some of the worst words ever thrown on a page. (Actuallythat is unfair. Jack Rieley was much worse)
>> There is almost nothing in music that Bach didn't do first.
That's really not true. Bach copied a lot from other people before him,just like any other composer ever did. However, he managed tosynthesise something new from that which he had picked up along theway. He also didn't ever go near trying to write an opera, which manypeople are a bit puzzled by. i also don't recall Bach doing a big linein rockabilly. Maybe I haven't got to that CD yet in my complete worksset. :-)
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