> I certainly feel the audience is important in the overall equation (since
> most artists are doing more than just communicating with themselves), but
> when the audience's approval becomes the artist's number one objective, then
> I feel that their work will ultimately prove inferior to that created by
> artists who are in some way driven by a inner fire to reach a certain
> plateau, and after having done so, then show it off to the world.
>
Most of the time I would agree with you but life isn't that simple, sad to say.
The songwriters of Tin Pan Alley practically invented the whole genre of popular music in the early 1900's and all of them were working solely to write hits for different artists and sell sheet music. In the early '60's, the Brill Building songwriters were doing the same thing- writing songs to get hits
out of artists. Crass as this may sound, they wrote beautiful, enduring songs for Aretha Franklin, the Drifters, the Shirelles and many others. Similarly, other great songwriters of the '50's and '60's like Doc Pomus (Elvis, Ben E. King, Dion, Joe Turner) and Lieber/Stroller (Elvis, Coasters, Drifters)
wrote to order while coming up with classic songs. That's not even mentioning the songwriter teams that Berry Gordy had in place at Motown and the committees he put together to judge their work and access if they would be hits and thus worthy of release- the results speak for themself. Sadly, today we
have the likes of Lou Pearlman (Backstreet Boys, NSYNC), who does the same thing though nowhere NEARLY as well as his predecessors (sorry to anyone on the list who's a fan of the boy-groups!).
Best,
Jason
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:47:04 +0100
From: "In Out CD Store" <in.out@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: A few things to sell (LP first)
hi all,
Sorry for thisintrusion but I have a few Lp I'd like to sell and that may
interest some of you.
E-mail me privately if you are interested on some of them and to know about
MORE ABOUT IT.
next time I will send a cd selection.
Sorry again for the rest of the list.
mikl
All are LP in very good condtion.
Name : E.Chadbourne- Title : Torture Time Label : Parachute 16 - Price : 30
Euros + S&H
Name : Faton/Bloom - Title : S/T - Label : cryonic inc - Price : 13 Euros
+S&H
Name : L.Mazzacane Connors/J-M. Montera/T.Moore/L.Ranaldo - Title : MMMR -
Label : Xeric - Price : 13 Euros +S&H
Name : Philippe Herpin/Daniel Parboeuf - Title : Nous D'eux - Label :
Celluloid - Prix : 13 Euros+ S&H
Name : Jame's blood Ulmer - Title : Are you Glad to be in Americ ? - Label :
Rough Trade - Price : 20 Euros + S&H
Name : Brion Gysin/Polo Lombardo- Title : S/T - Label : Mosquito - Price :
25 Euros + S&H
Name : Jame's blood Ulmer - Title : Are you Glad to be in Americ ? - Label :
Rough Trade - Price : 20 Euros + S&H
Name : B.Laswell/P.Brotzmann - Title : Low Life - Label : Celluloid - Price
: 13 Euros +S&H
Name : Alex Grillo Quintet - Title : A table !- Label : The sorcerer - Prix
: 15 Euros + S&H
Name : L.Mazzacane Connors/J-M. Montera/T.Moore/L.Ranaldo - Title : MMMR -
Label : Xeric - Price : 13 Euros +S&H
Name : Slikaphonics - Title : Modern Life - Label : Polydor - Price : 13
Euros +S&H
Name : Jurgen Wuchner's string project - Title : S/T- Label : Blue Flame-
ice : 10 Euros +S&H
Name : Various- Title : Hardcell- Label : Celluloid- Price : 13 Euros.S&H
Name : R.Bruninghaus/M.Stockhausen/F.Studer- Title : Continuum- Label : ECM-
Price : 13 Euros+ S&H
Name : A.Mangelsdorff/J.PAstorius/A.Monzon- Title : Trilogue Live - Label :
MPS- Price : 15 Euros + S&H
Name : Martha Bass/ Fontella Bass/David Peaston - Title : From the Roots to