[LAU] A belated christmas song

[Gwenhwyfaer]

On 03/01/2010, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/10, Ricardus Vincente <wizardofgosz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:13 -0800, Ken Restivo 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>

Interesting quote... and reminds me a lot of the lyrics to
Dismantled's "Get It Through", which was a lament of the sameness of
the EBM scene sung to a note-perfect pastiche of the worst
cut'n'pasters. Apparently it was something of a dancefloor hit...
*whoosh*