Subj : Quiet!
To : Sean Dennis
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Fri Feb 16 2007 07:52 am
Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Bob Ackley:
SD> Hello, Bob.
SD> 14 Feb 07 06:51, you wrote to me:
BA>> Nothing about current music, haven't listened to it in decades.
SD> I haven't listened to the "top 40" stuff since about 1995 myself
SD> (granted, I'm 34, so the "decades" are different for me).
<sigh> I'm not quite twice your age ...
SD> I mostly
SD> now just trade in MP3s with friends of the same musical tastes.
SD> The problem is that music is no longer music; it's a machine that
SD> grinds out talentless idiots for a less-than-intelligent crowd that
SD> will settle for anything that remotely sounds like it has a beat.
The only time I hear it is when a car driven by someone who wants to
be stone deaf by the time s/he's your age is nearby. Some years ago
when I lived in Plattsmouth, NE, I could hear car sound systems two
blocks away - through the closed windows on the house.
SD> That reminds me of the line that Elwood Blues says on the
SD> introduction of the Blues Brothers' CD, "Briefcase Full of Blues".
SD> It goes something like "in 2006, blues will only be found in the
SD> classical section at your local public library". It's darn near that
SD> now with many types of music, sadly.
Didn't see the movie but IMO he was right. FWIW, 'The Bill Miller Show'
is more to my taste in music. He plays stuff from the 1930s through the
late 1960s; he started out as a DJ in radio in 1951 (when I was in the first
grade). The show is available on the net (rwpr.net, among other places), and
he sells 1-hr CDs of each show. KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa, carries the show
on tape delay.
