On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, David Seruyange wrote:
quoted 21 lines Forget about Newsweek; check out this month's issue of Details.> 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.
>
Music critics are like cuckholded husbands - they're always the last to
find out....
Che