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Anyone heard of these guys?
Kai:
He said it at the PMRC Hearings. Someone was quoting some of his lyrics (which were abouts newts and nightclubs and stuff) and that they found it "disturbing".
Garcin:
--- Quote from: FeralCats ---Quoth Frank Zappa- "If it sounds good to you, it's bitchen, if it doesn't, it sucks."
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Ahh, but let us also recall that the Funky One said, in the liner notes for Freak out:
--- Quote from: Frank Zappa --- On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of
thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
--- End quote ---
Also:
--- Quote from: Frank Zappa --- Modern music is a sick puppy.
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Also:
--- Quote from: Frank Zappa --- I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always
Michael Jackson for them to listen to.
--- End quote ---
Music doesn't commercialize itself. People commercialize music. Big, corporate-minded labels tend to motivate their artists to produce regularly, and produce toward the lowest common denominator. I mean -- this is truistic -- that's how you make a buck. In no way, never, can commercialization be good for music, to the extent that we seek spirituality, meaning, and inspiration from music. But on the other hand, if you see music as something pleasant you put in the background while you're doing something else, commercialization can be great for music.
In sum, "commercialized" music doesn't necessarily suck (hey, I liked Gorillaz), but music, by dint of being "commercialized", can never be improved, and almost always suffers in its artistry. And Zappa would agree with that, I think, even if he would make fun of me for how I expressed it.
Dimi:
--- Quote from: FeralCats ---Commercial music can be good. It's music that TRIES to be commercial, and in the event bastardizes itself that's bad.
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thats exactly what i meant O_O...i meant - commercial music CAN be good...i just really hate the shit that sounds like everything else. And I was never really into indie music until last year when a friend introduced a few new bands into my life. I love music in general...the fact that it's a way we like to express one another. And some music is good in the way that it can envelope a person in another's world, if you don't like that world you can just press 'stop', however if you love it...then u keep listening. That's why I hate commercial music which is nothing that's from, forgive the corny line here - 'deep within'. I prefer music that's stylistic on its own (doesn't sound like something else). Many good commercial bands have pulled this off well, and succeeded in doing so. Lynkin Park for example.
Anyway...incase I haven't mentioned this before...not sure I have...I'm merely stating and have been stating my own opinion. I haven't been trying to make everyone side with something like 'COMMERCIAL MUSIC IS SHIT AND SHOULDNT EXIST BECAUSE ITS SUCH CRAP THAT I LIKE TO GO ON ABOUT STUPID STUFF AND I DONT KNOW WHY IM STILL TYPING AND SO ON AND BLAH BLAH BLAH SOMEBODY SHUT ME UP' O_O
so anyway...
werrr
Dimi:
seeing as we've currently jumped to talking about Zappa...I would like to pointlessly mention that I personally believe (yes that means its my opinion im not trying to make everyone side with this like you thought i did with the commercialist crap)...that Joes Garage is the best album I have ever heard O_O. I'm still trying to find albums by other artists that would overrule that...but personally (refer to previous in-bracket thing) I really love it.
ozphactor:
--- Quote from: Dimi ---I prefer music that's stylistic on its own (doesn't sound like something else). Many good commercial bands have pulled this off well, and succeeded in doing so. Lynkin Park for example.
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SIGQUOTE.
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