Musical Intelligence of the masses

["MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>]

I like the music I choose because:

 

    a:  in its timing- relative to its "arrival" in my life- regardless of when it might have been recorded- chronology doesn't matter in the hands of Fate

    and

    b:  in its narrative, it is part of the prophecy foretelling the coming changes in the world as foretold by the musical prophets of rock- metaphorically- but not too indirectly.  My choices are careful.

 

All good musicians are visionaries, but my personally favorite visionaries are:  Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Sting, David Bowie, the Who, Pink Floyd, Eminem, TLC, Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Boy George, George Michael, Kenny Rogers (believe it or not- on later albums- particularly "If I was A Painting"), Johnny Cash of course- Madonna these days, Paulina Rubio, and Enrique Iglesias.  I'll tell you which songs and why if you want to know.

 

But DARE you judge the musical choices of others?  If I knew even less than I know now about music- I might still express my intelligence in a conscious or (as with relatives of mine I think) subconscious psychic attraction to the lingering aftertaste of songs with future realities defined in their prophetic words.

 

I challenge any one task me to read the lyrics of a song, or an whole album, like a palm or Tarot card, and tell you what it means and what it foretells.   I challenge you.  I can absolutely do it.  And with a great deal of confidence also.  And you don't have to like the songs either.

 

I could also point out when the songs speak nothing of the future, but this would only be me speaking of my own ignorance, probably- or stories that have been avoided or for which no hints have yet been dropped- but this is an unlikely scenario anyway.

 

But I will tell you this.  I have had to live the narrative in some of my own songs, and when I wrote some of them- the narrative was not LITERALLY true.  I won't go into it (you might want to listen to "Build a World" and "Throw the Baby Out" again.... LOL)- but I take no credit for the higher meaning...

 

Musicians - in fact most artists- don't know or see even their own prophetic statements until they have undergone spiritual evolution of consciousness (the s.. and e... might need to be reversed)- and in fact many of you right now don't get my "innuendo" comments unless you are "one of us" - who are not a happy lot nor a better lot- just people with bigger headaches than before that now we must call a world wwhere we are puppets.

 

i'd even go so far as to say that there is no artistic genius that exists other that as a love relationship with fate where fate grants you gifts now and thenin appreciation of how well ou have played with it... and there's nothing for which any true artist- having been rebirthed with the premonition of his or her onwn canonization somewhere- can feel him or herself able to truly take credit- it's dangerous to credit yourself as a music relative to a world that seems unaware of music- I know NO ONE, truly, who listens to NO music- I'lol die the day I meet such a person I think. We are part musical, all of us.  That's one of the angelic "hereditary traits" that make us not so much animals as different and gloriously strange "piece of work"- as Shakespeare would say.

 

Yes I'm crazy.  Yes this has nothing to do with looping.  Yes this has no place on this mailing list.  Yes, I'm an egomaniac.  WRONG on all counts.

 

LISTEN CAREFULLY.  I AM NOT MAKING MISTAKES WHEN I TUNE INTO A CHANNEL - A RADIO STATION FROM THE FUTURE- I CALL "Looking Backwards"...

 

The speaks Keith-"Delete-Me"-Urbaine" MIKO

From: jimfowler [mailto:jimfowler@prodigy.net]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Collaboration in music

"musically intelligent"

 

what does this mean?  that they know what they like or that they know why they like it?  simply knowing what you like doesn't really constitute much in my opinion.  knowing why you like it displays at least some concern. 

 

-jim