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So, you want to listen to music with breasts?
Clobbersaurus:
i respect rasputina with all my pee pee, but i have never really been able to get into them.
i dont know why. i really thought i'd adore them when a friend recommended them to me...
Wayfaring Stranger:
Stars is definitely a band with mostly fellows in it, but I like Amy Millan's contributions, so they can has honorable mention?
Johnny C:
Torquil from that band is notoriously a douchebag of the highest order.
Wayfaring Stranger:
It's a pity, too. I think their music is pretty good nonetheless.
Clobbersaurus:
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--- Quote from: tommydski on 17 Oct 2007, 11:11 ---You could argue she is one of the best song-writers but I think as a musician she wouldn't rank in the top million or so.
She works with very good people on every album but I do not think her actual musical talents are particularly amazing. I am not sure if she can actually play any instruments though I am convinced she dabbles. If you look at the credits for her albums, every album uses a host of session musicians. Not a criticism of her, just an important distinction.
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she is most definetly a musician (i'll go ahead and mention that she was a drummer, can play a few wind instruments--including the flute, and plays piano) as well as a composer (understands the language of music to the nth degree--and isn't that what makes a musician a musician anyway?).
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Right, so what I said is accurate. She still wouldn't be considered "one of the best musicians of this generation". No doubt she plays a few instruments to a reasonable standard but we don't have to kid ourselves into believing she is a virtuoso with every instrument. She's a very good songwriter, arranger and vocalist without piling unnecessary tributes upon her.
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are you saying that playing a multitude of instruments at a virtuoso level constitutes as the only attribute of a great musician?
that seems a little too left-brained, if so, and i can't say i'd agree with that completely.
i've always been opposed to the idea that a musician isn't a musician if they don't have, say, an acoustic guitar wrapped around their neck.
If someone makes music, they're a musician. songwriter, arranger, and vocalist all fall under the "musician" umbrella, not beside, above, or set apart from it.
now i imagine someone saying "so do birds and whales make music?" and then there would be this whole mind-fuck over the defining and overlapping features of communication and music and babies would cry.
i think.
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