Post #50945 by emspace on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 1:30 AM

Aloha all, time to take some risks here...

I gotta tell you, I don't live in a cave, but in a city with 3 million people...but I have never even heard of "Sublime". Whoever they were, screw 'em, they don't signify.

The problem here is easy to see: the radio. Video may very well have killed the radio star, but radio killed music in the first place. Why? Cuz since rock 'n' roll was invented, radio has played music for children. Are we children? I hope not - children shouldn't even be thinking of Mai-Tais, never mind discussing how many they drank. :)

You can call me closed-minded too, but I listen to jazz, Baroque, reggae, funk, modern and trad music from many lands all over the world, downtempo, all kinds of new experimental stuff - but I emphasize rhythmic, not just noise-making, though I guess it has its place, and on and on, too much to mention. So my question is, if this isn't your practice life, why on earth would you waste it listening to SHIT? You only have so much time people, and only so much of that can be spent listening to music, so for Christ's sake get out and find the good stuff! Turn all your radios OFF, don't EVER watch MTV or any music awards shows...I mean, do any of you guys listen to, for example, Miles Davis? If you do, why would you ALSO listen to, for example, "Hooked On A Feeling"? It is a grotesque novelty tune, nothing more. ABBA - don't get me started. Cute saccharine bubble-gum, horribly dated, possessing only nostalgia value, and probably bad nostalgia.

If you haven't allowed it to happen before, it's never too late to let your musical horizons grow, not shrink, as you approach middle age. To me there's nothing sadder than a guy my age (44 BTW) who still listens to the dreck he did as a child. Music is important, REALLY important; give it the respect it deserves.

Rant over, don't take offense, we all have to have a religion of some kind...

:),
emspace.