On 03/01/2010, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/3/10, Ricardus Vincente <wizardofgosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:13 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote: > >> Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book? >> >> I have to find my copy of that, because he had a REALLY GOOD rant >> against people who think they like music.... as long as it sounds just >> like every other song that goes BOOM... CHUCK... BOOM... CHUCK. >> >> I have been wanting to quote that for years. > > Do you mean this? > > <quote> > So, if music is the best, what is music? Anything can be music, but it > doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the > audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music. > > Most people can't deal with that abstraction -- or don't want to. They > say: "Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another > tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear > those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along > with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy > one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go > boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very > much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs > like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into > music." > </quote> Interesting quote... and reminds me a lot of the lyrics to Dismantled's "Get It Through", which was a lament of the sameness of the EBM scene sung to a note-perfect pastiche of the worst cut'n'pasters. Apparently it was something of a dancefloor hit... *whoosh* _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
