How Did We Get From There to Here?
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How Did We Get From There to Here?
I'm back on the 40s channel on XM Radio and I am at a loss to understand how we got from tuneful, literate, and sophisticated music like that to hip-hop and rap and heavy metal and punk. It's more perplexing than the question of how some parts of the universe could be older than the universe itself.
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I had an elaborate response prepared, and then discarded it. There is a one word answer to your inquiry.Corlyss_D wrote:I'm back on the 40s channel on XM Radio and I am at a loss to understand how we got from tuneful, literate, and sophisticated music like that to hip-hop and rap and heavy metal and punk. It's more perplexing than the question of how some parts of the universe could be older than the universe itself.
Sex.
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They didn't have sex in the 40s? I'm amazed.jbuck919 wrote:I had an elaborate response prepared, and then discarded it. There is a one word answer to your inquiry.Corlyss_D wrote:I'm back on the 40s channel on XM Radio and I am at a loss to understand how we got from tuneful, literate, and sophisticated music like that to hip-hop and rap and heavy metal and punk. It's more perplexing than the question of how some parts of the universe could be older than the universe itself.
Sex.
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*****Corlyss_D wrote:They didn't have sex in the 40s? I'm amazed.jbuck919 wrote:I had an elaborate response prepared, and then discarded it. There is a one word answer to your inquiry.Corlyss_D wrote:I'm back on the 40s channel on XM Radio and I am at a loss to understand how we got from tuneful, literate, and sophisticated music like that to hip-hop and rap and heavy metal and punk. It's more perplexing than the question of how some parts of the universe could be older than the universe itself.
Sex.
There was some of that, not much.
But jazz often was viewed as decadent in the 20s and 30s. And serial music was decried by many.
Each generation has its own styles which older folks can't understand.
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I was not an "older folk" when I already realized that I could not stand even the Beatles or Bob Dylan, though I could not avoid them.Ralph wrote: Each generation has its own styles which older folks can't understand.
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The problem with modern popular music is that it's inflicted on all of us whether we want to listen to it or not. You only have to walk into any high street shop for your eardrums to be assaulted by the latest noise. It makes a pleasant change on the rare occasions the shops in my town change the CD for a classical one.
"Look here, I have given up my time, my work, my friends and my career to come here and learn from you, and I am not going to write a petit menuet dans le style de Mozart." - Ralph Vaughan Williams to Maurice Ravel
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I will let them speak for themselves, but I am afraid we live in a world where there is no sense of good and bad taste and, as Cole Porter, one of my few secondary concessions, put it, anything goes. It is a great sadness that people are conditioned to be ashamed to state outright that classical music is better than anything else. I have no problem with that, and nothing to lose, except my life, except my life, except my life.Corlyss_D wrote:You're both havin' me on. Your other musical habits are so excellent, it cannot be so.miranda wrote:Glad to hear that....I like those types of music too.BWV 1080 wrote:Some of us here like hip-hop and rap and heavy metal and punk.
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