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- From: danb@zx.qsp.UUCP (Daniel Benbenisty)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: *How* did you meet your SO (And do they know?)
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:02:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.113151.16829@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >I'm under 30, and I posted the original quote. Doesn't anyone listen
- >to any decent music any more?
-
- <WARNING - OFF THE SUBJECT>
-
- I will heartily agree that almost all the new music you hear on the radio
- today is pure crap, and lacking in originality. However, it is also true that
- most of the stuff you might have listened to on the radio 15-40 years ago was
- pure crap, and lacking in originality.
-
- The only difference is that you mostly listen to the 'best' stuff from the
- 'old days' nowadays - the music that (presumably) by dint of its integrity
- has survived to get more airplay in proportion to its peer music than it
- used to. If you were not aware of this, you would naturally conclude that
- older music was proportionally 'better.' What you should be aware of is that
- most of popular music you hear now, which is designed for quick consumption
- rather than for staying power, won't be heard by people 20 years from now;
- these people of the future may conclude (as you do now) that music from the
- 1990's was superior to music from the 2010's, and so on down the corridors
- of time...
-
- I mostly listen to music from 1700-1850, myself. Beethoven's my favorite.
-
- >>>===Pan-Handle-Dan===> danb@qsp.com
- Daniel Benbenisty Guitarist for EARWURM
-