On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, wells wrote:
quoted 13 lines On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Kent williams wrote:> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Kent williams wrote:
>
> > Some people on the list seem to not like any music but 'this-listy' stuff
> > like Autechre and Boards of Canada. I don't want to tell anyone what to like
> > or not like, but the fact is that there isn't a genre of music that doesn't
> > have really great music. Conversely, there's Sturgeon's Law -- 99% of
>
> Gospel!
>
> no such thing as good gospel.
>
> really.
>
Counterexamples: Gospel Recordings by Aretha Franklin. Early Carter Family
records. Recordings by the itinerant black gospel quartets that toured the
southern US during the first half of this century. White gospel is, I
will say, universally dreadful. It's worth buying a few at thrift stores
just so you can fully know how bad music can be and still get people to buy
it.
There is a 2 record set of Aretha Franklin performing at her father's
church in Detroit that is phenomenal, and includes as a bonus a Jesse
Jackson Sermon that I've heard sampled on house tracks.
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