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Jorge Mourinha's avatar

Preach! ❤️❤️

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Tore Dimmestol's avatar

"I like that imagination can now trump virtuosity"

Roger that.

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Tim Elsenburg's avatar

Yeah... It’s not that I disapprove of being excellent at your instrument; just that the brain / imagination can be a pretty awesome instrument too, and now we can express it in previously impossible ways thanks to technology :-)

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Mike Wade's avatar

“A song is only good if you can sing it and accompany yourself with one instrument - the drums." That's more like it (wrote the drummer)

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Tim Elsenburg's avatar

Ha ! Joking aside, that actually describes a lot of the Hip Hop I love, but I'm not sure that's what the people who come out with this sort of thing mean. "Y'know... PROPER music". Grrr.

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David M Baker's avatar

Interesting points made. Funnily, I used to say the best music was made in the ‘80s, or came from Minneapolis, now I’m older and wiser I can see there’s a lot of dross came out of both. I think it’s about forming opinions based on biases be they conscious or unconscious

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Tim Elsenburg's avatar

Absolutely... but it's principally that idea of a song having a 'truthful' core that you can only prove or demonstrate by stripping it back to basics that annoys me. I mean, talking about Minneapolis, how much more stripped back could a song actually be than Sign o' the Times ? Technically, that's a one-chord song with no real chorus; by that metric, a disaster - but of course we know it's not.

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David M Baker's avatar

Yes. The truthful core. Even if that is a detuned piano, a rimshot and tone deaf muttering from Laurel Canyon!!!

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David M Baker's avatar

I think that’ll be my Alter Ego. I might start with a cover version of the aforementioned Minneapolis genius

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Paul Wright's avatar

“Music just isn’t as good as it used to be”. The 90s is underrepresented in my music collection not because the quality suddenly fell off a cliff after the wonderful 80s, but because I had other priorities in life. Similarly, I’m listening to (for example) great new songs from Brazil and indigenous Canadian music because it’s there at my fingertips if I have the time and curiosity (I have both!). Hence your reference to Bandcamp, Tim, is spot on 😊

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