Bobby. wrote on Mar 19^th, 2014 at 8:29am:



bump because it's important.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 19^th, 2014 at 8:43am:


Music is like art ~ all in the eye of the beholder.

I come from an era when a musical piece had to have a tune.

Pop music had to be carefully crafted by really talented and exceptional people to have a ... tune ... some kind of melody that was clever and catchy and appealing.

But then along came the era of 'Jack-is-as-good-as-his-Master' ... ANYONE could now sing, paint, draw, write poetry, front a Rock Band and be told by Music and Art critics working for the Leftwing tabloids and magazines that they were 'fantastic', and talented, and of commercial standard.

Previously it was only your mother who would praise you like this.

Jimmy Barnes. How he avoided being assassinated for shouting into a microphone for 30 years, I'll never understand.

I have a single-parent mother renting a place across the road from me who is bringing up her two pre-teenage kids on very loud Thump-Thump-Doof-Doof tuneless noise from a couple of 100watt speakers.

This is quite clearly a case of child-abuse.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 19^th, 2014 at 9:02am:


Correct!

[quote author=bobbythebat1 link=1395096877/36#36 date=1395185877]Yes Herbert.
One person who understood drama on stage was Christine Amphlett.
I could never work out what she was touching.

This is precisely what I mean.

In my day music didn't depend on shock-value, dirty innuendo, sexual abuse, cop-killing lyrics, self-harm, black people-the-hood, gangsta rap, mo-fo 'bad attitood' ... etc.

It was just pleasant music that you could let your teenage daughter listen to without any fear of anti-social messages in the lyrics.

Still one of my all-time favourites ... because of Sophie Ellis-Bextor.