[lbo-talk] Let's Argue About Sonic Youth's "Retro-necroreverence"!

[Alan Rudy]

Cool daughter...
I feel like I'm watching Sesame Street, tho... which of these things is not
like the others (skipping the VU line)?
The Beatles are derivative and imitative of Hendrix?  I'm not saying the
Beatles are better than Hendrix, I'm just saying that line doesn't work the
way the other ones do.
And anyway, even if we no this is a game of infinite regress, and the
mainstream-ish parallel should have been Hendrix over Clapton, shouldn't it
be Phineas Newborn (or someone of his ilk) over Hendrix?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


> My 18-year-old prefers the classics to contemporary music. And this has
> nothing to do with me. She merely believes that since most of today's output
> is derivative and imitative, why not listen to the originals?
>
> Patsy Cline instead of Taylor Swift.
>
> The Clash instead of Green Day.
>
> Public Enemy instead of 50 Cent.
>
> Velvet Underground over anybody.
>
> Jimi Hendrix instead of The Beatles.
>
> Yes -- she even distinguishes b/w period bands.
>
> Dennis
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