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Teaflax wrote: The Wizard wrote: Jack White is a rock'n'roll hero.  I'm with you there. I loathe Rock n' Roll heroes.

    

I'd quite like to know which ones you loathe

Teaflax wrote: Certif1ed wrote: Music doesn't have to be clever or cleverly written to be great - and there's nothing inherently lazy about this approach. I don't know, stupidity - especially when enforced as an artistic ideal - seems to me to be pointless. If anyone can do it, why bother with it?

    
That's a different question.

Teaflax wrote: The Wizard wrote: That's a shame. I don't think so. Very early on in my life, I sided with the cerebral against the thoughtless, and few Rock'n'Roll heroes qualify for the former, whereas all too many are firmly in the latter camp. Intelligence is a valuable commodity, and I really don't see why one should praise those who seem hell-bent on not exercising theirs.

May I ask, have you ever listened an entire White Stripes album?

If would listen to ther albums you would some well crafted rock'n'roll that may be simple, but certainly isn't dumb.

So your saying that if a song is catchy is in not artistic and therefore dumb? How incredibly prentetious. I guess you don't like The Kinks either, all of there songs are catchy. Your basically saying that all music thats accessible to a mainstream audience is dumb.

The Wizard wrote: So your saying that rock music is unintelligent? I guess you think that the only good music is prog.

First of all, mine is not saying anything.

But no, not all of it, just that which uses the very obvious and simple tricks that anyone who has played an instrument for a year or so can easily figure out. That's called pandering, and it really is a pretty cheap thing to do. I guess some acts do it without meaning to, but that doesn't say much about their acumen.

And, yes, I do find the Kinks's biggest hits to be incessantly annyoing and simplistic (but I respect Ray Davies for many less famous tunes and for being a good lyricist - his recent solo album was pants, though).


Edited by Teaflax - June 26 2006 at 19:25

Nope, can't see it.

Jack White seems to me to be about as sharp as sackful of slugs in the rain.

And where songs?


Edited by Teaflax - June 26 2006 at 19:53

It's weird, I find a lot of prog to be catchier than pop music which is intended to be catchy.  At work the other day (while pushing carts in the rain... how fun), I had VdGG's Scorched Earth, Anglagard's Kung Bore, and a bunch of other random prog songs stuck in my head.  I find these songs much more catchy than say, The Pina Colada song.


Edited by Bluesaga - June 26 2006 at 22:12

Bluesaga wrote: It's weird, I find a lot of prog to be catchier than pop music which is intended to be catchy.  At work the other day (while pushing carts in the rain... how fun), I had VdGG's Scorched Earth, Anglagard's Kung Bore, and a bunch of other random prog songs stuck in my head.  I find these songs much more catchy than say, The Pina Colada song.