Trendmonger wrote:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18080HJ wrote:
Trendmonger wrote:
And as this Zappa worst list grows over the last several days I tend to think if all those songs were never released
and appeared as titles on some unreleased list you all would be fetishing over it begging for Gail to release that material.
Your point being? That one cannot be critical at some (tiny, tiny fraction of) released material, and
at the same time have desires or dreams about new releases? Gee, the horror! You would be an excellent officer at the brain police.
I am not suggesting repression but Lenny Bruce backed up his words with dialog.
The point being critical analysis of art compartmentalized to Best & Worst Lists is entirely a bit too preposterous.
If people want to do a critical analysis of what a song is regardless of how much they like or dislike it is one thing
but little to no critical analysis is done with many of these best and worst lists. It's a good thing the artist
work speaks for itself and peoples opinions can easily get bundled into the no accounting for taste
and lack of brain density categories where hopefully such thoughts become worm food and the art lives for
all of humanity with an open mind.
The time people take to look at art, what that art is in relation to a set of known and unknowns is something
for some with an investigative mind that is quite a bit more open minded than these blank empty opinions of the this is great or this sucks attitude.
I mean look at how FZ used the Louie Louie Vamp throughout his career. Is the chord progression in Louie Louie
some Picasso? Regardless FZ showed how it can be used in different contexts and that is just as much part of the critical analysis
as how one may like the basic sound of the chord progression.
These Best & Worst Lists look like Bold Empty statements for attention more so on who is making the statement than the art itself.
Not only who but when are they making these lists and why are they making them.
"IS YOUR WIFE SNORING BY THE SINK?" No I bet she watches reality TV and it is rubbing off on YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP.
Even when someone provides some meat and potatoes in the critical analysis category for someone to go out on the limb of best and worst sets up a whole scenario that is at times preposterous.
When one reads a cliff notes on any given William Shakespeare play it is all about critical analysis of what is happening in the play and seldom if ever is best and worst used in the critical analysis.
So while others ponder these best and worst trends I just tend to think there are other things that deserve a look
such as the MIxing scenarios of YCFOSA formats. While I may very well be sitting here in my best Louie Louie lapel singing
Best & Worst You Gotta Go ....Sincerely Best I mean it & Sincerely Worst I mean it..... Best & Worst
lists gotta goooooooo
in all sincerity while no one here is stopping these people from commenting on such
I do feel a little MEDAC is in order.
So as I come to this junction The Persuasions Mary Had a Little Lamb Video is playing on Noggin TV.
yes indeed ......It's fleece was white as snow.
or should I say a serious case oh moo-ah
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