And what have you got to put to all that? Bjork. She may be interesting, but show some humility and respect, please. Sheesh. jks
--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Shane Taylor wrote:
>
>
> > I don't know. The White Stripes did a superb
> cover of Son House's Death
> > Letter. But it seems like you have to wade
> through the muck for
> > musicians like them. Maybe it's always been this
> way and the passage of
> > time acts as a sieve. But sometimes I feel the
> tug of the same
> > "primitive reaction" Justin notes above, despite
> the fact that there are
> > volumes of fresh new greats of which I'm
> oblivious. I guess we recall
> > mainly the best from the past and can't help but
> see the majority of crap
> > in the present.
> >
> > -- Shane
>
> Yep. George Massenburg (recording engineer) likes to
> tell the
> story about Linda Ronstadt's breathless respect for
> songwriters
> in "the good old days", when they created all those
> great
> songs. The old studio geezers just laughed: "there
> were
> lots of awful songs written then, everybody's just
> forgotten them."
>
> Moral: at any one point in time, most of the popular
> music
> is pretty pathetic, but there always some
> interesting stuff
> going on. (Case in point: Bjork.)
>
> --And on this "Hendrix as hiphop" conceit: by that
> logic,
> Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker are "hiphop".
> Isn't
> that casting the net a bit wide?
>
>
> Miles
>
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