wolfus
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Posted: June 17 2008, 20:13 |
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mmm - well, the Australian media probably doesn't care what you think, either
but good luck to you if you find MOTS beautiful
criticism is about context as much as merely rating the work
does it matter that MOTS returns, often, to the first theme that Mike brought into the world in 1973?
in the context of a retirement album, probably not
non-one raised an eyebrow, for example, when Joni Mitchell put some of her old songs like Both Sides Now on her classical farewell album, even though her voice had dropped an octave or so..
but Mike's restatement is different for two reasons:
a. Joni was doing the *whole* song again - the artistic equivalent, then, of TB2003.
b. Mike is, in his own way, a classic if not a classical instrumentalist. Can you imagine the outcry if, say, Beethoven had banged out the famous figure that begins his fifth symphony - on his third, fourth and ninth symphonies?
People would have said it was lazy and repetitive.
Relying so heavily on the the opening theme and some of the structure of TB for MOTS is the equivalent of banging out a greatest hits package at Christmas. It says: "remember me? I did this." Creatively, it's a step backwards, justified by pushing forwards into a new genre.
What I'm saying is that I don't buy the justification.
wolfus
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