[LAU] A belated christmas song

Ricardus Vincente wizardofgosz at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 17:29:06 EST 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 23:17 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:

> >  Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book?
> >
> >  I have to find my copy of that, because he had a REALLY GOOD rant
> > against people who think they like music.... as long as it sounds just
> > like every other song that goes BOOM... CHUCK... BOOM... CHUCK.
> >
> >  I have been wanting to quote that for years.
> 
> Do you mean this?
> 
> <quote>
> So, if music is the best, what is music? Anything can be music, but it
> doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the
> audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.
> 
> Most people can't deal with that abstraction -- or don't want to. They
> say: "Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another
> tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear
> those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along
> with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy
> one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go
> boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very
> much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs
> like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into
> music."
> </quote>
> 
> Andras

 That's the one.  Thanks!  You are the bomb-skiddly-shiznit.

 Rich...




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