It's the kind of bad that makes you feel guilty for laughing, because you're horribly embarrassed for the director, but you can't help laughing anyway. (via Neil Gaiman's blog)Īnd Stop the Madness, an unspeakably bad music video featuring New Edition, Whitney Houston, David Hasselhoff, Nancy Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraging you not to use drugs. VD Is for Everybody, which has a rather cheerful tune and montage that, coupled with the lyrical content, is effectively beyond description. It's a bold CD-you've guessed this already-bold and gritty and a lot of fun, with some remarkable tracks on it, most of them covers of songs that have been taken apart and rebuilt to get there faster and more dangerously. It's the aural equivalent of Leone's Man with No Name, a rock star Man with No Name who plays chunky distorted electric guitar and sings like a cross between Tom Waits and Link Wray, backed with rollicking barhouse piano or funhouse organ. The devil is in the preparational good Reverend has a CD out, a ten-track gallop through roots rock and outlaw country. In that singular way it's a lot like a recipe. (And they're/we're right.) No magic, no increased masculine mating prowess, or anything else celebrated/skewered in Zappa's "You Are What You Is".) It's just like any other scale or tonality a composer (extemporaneous or otherwise) employs, what you do with it is what makes all the difference.
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Most professional musicians (of my generation at least) think of the Blues as a "scale" or tonality. A fact that most R'n'R folks outright HATE) It was a literal gumbo of everything that existed before it in that (Nawlins) time and place.
It was a founding germ that influenced Jazz. (The instrument's hopelessly overexposed and has been for a while.). I pretty much make nobody happy about it, first and foremost "Guitarists". But I try to give "Da Blues" a wide berth because it's become a magnet for people with tortured ideas about how "Race" interacts with Music. If Randy Newman, Donald Fagen and most of the members of this band have all (in various venues) exclaimed that they could not find traction in the music industry as it now exists, then something has run VERY much "amuck". We need a return to REAL diversity and we haven't had it in a very long time. People try to hang various political motivations on it and I think that usually just makes it worse. I'd just like to see a better balance established. But the ratio of "ambitious" to "the opposite of ambitious"-(whatever that might be) is far worse than it used to be. I've worked both as a musician and as an educator and I do NOT think that every pop tune needs to be a work of orchestrational genius. But as a working trained musician, I will say that popular music has been (largely) de-evolving since about the time of "Punk Rock" and it seems to me that there was a peak in musical literacy in the early '70's that (while not completely extinct now) is greatly diminished. I kid my TRS loving (mostly non-musician) friends by comparing SFTD to various Andy Griffith show characters (Hooty-who! Hooty-who!!!), but because they're usually face to face with me when I do it they know it's done with a certain withholding of hyper-sincerity.
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