Interesting about Nirvana and Kurt. If you like rock, as something other than entertainment value, or some form of mind numbness ( T. Adorno, Aesthetics Theory), Nirvana, had
some interesting things to say, with some blazing chordal progressions, white heat kind of music. Maybe in some very limited way the last of the great rock bands, that had roots from the 60s and 70s. Having said that, I do appreciate the White Stripes, and the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, as a take on garage band music of the 60s with a tinge of punk.
After Charlie Patten and Robert Johnson, there is not one artist I like for acoustical blues.
After Muddy Waters( the best concert I every saw) and Howlin' Wolf, there is not one artist I like for electric blues.
After Bo Diddley and Buddy Holley, most of the 50s music is
horridly unoriginal (Maybe Fats and Chuck B.), and even their music is highly uneven.
After the Yardbirds and Rolling Stones, most of the 60s music is a take off of their styles.
After Led Zeppelin, most of the 70s stuff is absolutely wretched.
After REM, most of the 80s stuff is bland and boring.
After Nirvana, most of the 90s stuff is unlistenable whining.
I cannot say anything affirmative or negative about the 00s.
It is not that I do not like other artists, but most of is not important or not very artistic, in a aesthetic way. In a very perverted way, I could listen to the Beep Beep song
by the Playmates, it was funny and entertaining.
There is only one pop group I cannot stand in any shape or
form and that is the Beatles.
Country music: After Hank Williams Sr. what more could be said or done, about drinking and lovin'.
Bluegrass: After Bill Munroe or Flat and Scruggs......
Jazz: After Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker........
Classical: Stravinsky was the biggest fraud.
Now that I got that of my chest: Pick up some Alfred
Schnittke and play it loud or G Ligeti and play it even
louder! Probably the most dissonant, incredibly dense
harmonically structured music I have ever heard. I want
more, makes Webern and Schoenberg look like gushing romantics that they were.
some interesting things to say, with some blazing chordal progressions, white heat kind of music. Maybe in some very limited way the last of the great rock bands, that had roots from the 60s and 70s. Having said that, I do appreciate the White Stripes, and the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, as a take on garage band music of the 60s with a tinge of punk.
After Charlie Patten and Robert Johnson, there is not one artist I like for acoustical blues.
After Muddy Waters( the best concert I every saw) and Howlin' Wolf, there is not one artist I like for electric blues.
After Bo Diddley and Buddy Holley, most of the 50s music is
horridly unoriginal (Maybe Fats and Chuck B.), and even their music is highly uneven.
After the Yardbirds and Rolling Stones, most of the 60s music is a take off of their styles.
After Led Zeppelin, most of the 70s stuff is absolutely wretched.
After REM, most of the 80s stuff is bland and boring.
After Nirvana, most of the 90s stuff is unlistenable whining.
I cannot say anything affirmative or negative about the 00s.
It is not that I do not like other artists, but most of is not important or not very artistic, in a aesthetic way. In a very perverted way, I could listen to the Beep Beep song
by the Playmates, it was funny and entertaining.
There is only one pop group I cannot stand in any shape or
form and that is the Beatles.
Country music: After Hank Williams Sr. what more could be said or done, about drinking and lovin'.
Bluegrass: After Bill Munroe or Flat and Scruggs......
Jazz: After Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker........
Classical: Stravinsky was the biggest fraud.
Now that I got that of my chest: Pick up some Alfred
Schnittke and play it loud or G Ligeti and play it even
louder! Probably the most dissonant, incredibly dense
harmonically structured music I have ever heard. I want
more, makes Webern and Schoenberg look like gushing romantics that they were.