Forget about Newsweek; check out this month's issue of Details.
Page 56: "A Concrete Guide to Jungle".
Apparently, this magazine for people looking for opinion leaders has
made the attempt to provide a formula for muzik with no name. There is
a nice little disclaimer inserted before they mercilessly display their
ignorance:
"But be warned: Every know-it-all with two trurntables and microphone
has his own idea of what's what."
Is it just me, or is it really that music is not really something you
can learn from magazines? All these sessions on what is what, or what
to buy really annoy me. I don't trust any bastard who writes some sort
of "review" or whatever beyond the fact that it is another opinion out
there, and mine is prone to be painfully different. I also don't think
that you can really learn music in one sitting, or a few times in your
car stereo <<if it is real muzik>>; there are some things that annoyed
me at first, but as time went I _got_ the track more and more.
David S.