nightspore
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Posted: June 27 2008, 09:21 |
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| Quote (Alan D @ June 27 2008, 04:38) | Looking back at Sir M's post, I must say that I find his centre paragraph in particular is highly intelligible, and I understand very well what he's saying about Crises - and therefore, by implication, Foreign Affair (because of the comparison he's drawing). He's communicated how he experiences the music quite effectively, and to single out the words 'listenable' and 'worse' for criticism is to be unfair to the main thrust of his post, I think, which repays careful reading.
Also, I'm uneasy about the undue pressure it would put on all of us, to require us to weigh each of our words so carefully. This is a public forum, not an academic seminar, and often posts are written in a flurry of thought squeezed in between doing other, more pressing things. If someone comes on here and says no more than that they listened to Amarok last night with the lights out and it was just bloomin' marvellous, then they have every right to say that, and this is a good place to say it. I, for one, will enjoy their moment of shared enthusiasm, however imprecise the term "bloomin' marvellous" may be. |
Oh, I think we can let Sir M fight his own battles, Alan. Fairly obviously, his point wasn't apparent to me (beyond the fact that he simply didn't like it); otherwise I wouldn't have drawn attention to it.
Yes, of course people have the right to say that "Amarok" is blooming marvellous. But isn't it nice sometimes really to investigate the music on a different level, really to see what's there, to be as precise as we can (and, yes, bring in the tools of academic if we want to)? If people had been content simply to say, on the recent Amarok discussion, "it's unlistenable", I think you'd have been rather unsatisfied, because you were desparately seeking new points of entry into the work.
I note a general change in your tone since I criticized Tres Lunas fairly intensely. I apologize for that; no one likes to have something to which one is greatly attached savaged. But equally, if you really like the work nothing I say is going to make you stop liking it, so why worry?
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I'd go so far to say it is his best stuff of the 80's....that vocoder part build incredibly and it's mind boggling why he stopped with it so soon. 
and then the whole mood changes, and again, and again...
But, well, I'll try.
