At 02:01 PM 7/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 1 line Why should music require something inherent to "get" in the first place?>Why should music require something inherent to "get" in the first place?
I agree to a point. Nearly all of the music I like I listened to and found
*something* I liked on the first listen. Sometimes it took a while to
really get into it, but there was nearly always something that stood out to
me. Whether it be a particular sound, an overall vibe, or whatever.
Oddly enough, the stuff I didn't really "get" on the first listen was
always leaning more towards the simple side, rather than the complex
side. For example, when I first listened to "music has the right to
children," I thought "what's the big deal?" I thought it was sort of
boring and I "didn't get it." I listened to it about a month later and
realized that I really dug it.
So usually it's the stuff that's beguiling simple, rather than technically
complex, that takes me a while to "get." Perhaps I'm jaded by listening to
more "complex" music in the first place :D Or maybe music that devotes so
much energy to being technically complex should rather devote energy to
being "good."
derek
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