RE: What's wrong with loops

["Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)" <emile@foryourhead.com>]

At 12:29 PM -0800 12/27/05, David Gans wrote:
>At 1:46 PM -0500 12/27/05, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
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>>I'd add that it also makes sense to accept the fact that one's lack 
>>of interest in what the art is trying to say does not imply that 
>>the art is 'bad'.
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>Funny how many people seem to need to put the hurt on music they 
>don't like or understand.  What was Joni Mitchell's famous line, 
>something like "The virtue of your taste inscribed upon your 
>contempt for mine"?

It seems a lot of critics are looking for a way to show how witty and 
clever they are, and dissing work they don't like gives them a chance 
to do so. (I do admit to a guilty fondness for the way the NY Times 
movie critics pull this off.)

It does get back to context.

e.g. I don't care for industrial strength noise music, but it doesn't 
bother me if I don't have to hear it. I've been known to violently 
object when it is played through huge speakers  10 feet from a 
complex rig that I am trying to take down.

e.g. I don't think much one way or the other of Wynton Marsalis's 
music per se, but I do get very upset at his putdowns of people whose 
music I care for greatly.

e.g. I used to go dancing at a place where the people who made the 
dance tapes had an unfortunate tendency to program things like 
Michael Jackson's "On a Beach by the Sun" (-:

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>>I'm sure we've all had the experience of hearing music we really 
>>liked at the time and then rapidly grew sick of.  I know I've had 
>>the opposite experience of hearing a disk I just couldn't get, 
>>putting it on a couple of years later and wondering how I could 
>>have missed it.
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>Yes, and yes!
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