| Re: 1967 the greatest year for rock music |
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Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: tension_on_the_wiretension_on_the_wire Date: Apr 27, 2008 01:01
On Apr 26, 12:53Â pm, poisoned rose rmb.com> wrote:> I always have a difficult time with this question, because of the
> quality vs. quantity issue. I could pull a Raja, and simply base my view
> on "counting" how many albums I like from given years. But that would
> duplicate Raja's usual problem of not measuring internal quality. But
> which is better, a year with 15 great albums and 60 good ones, or a year
> with 30 great albums and 30 good ones? Beats me. That's the relevant
> sort of question for me.
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> One thing's for sure: My interests really explode in 1986, which I
> believe is coincident with the alt-rock world breaking out as a
> flourishing movement and giving far more acts the chance to record.
> That's the point where I abruptly jump from being interested in 60 or so
> albums a year to well over a hundred. So, it's especially hard for me to
> compare 1986-??? with ???-1985.
How about the idea that maybe it's neither quantifiable nor
qualifiable because at the end of the day, your personal assessment of
great and good albums is so entirely subjective it would be like
trying to read your fingerprints. Everybody might actually be
defining the greatest year of music as the year in which the available
music played an important role as the soundrack of your life. It's as
personal as the story of your life. Don't you remember what the
dominant music was for most of the momentous milestones in your life?
When you hear that music again, after a long time, you can have an
instant flashback of total recall sometimes, if the experiences were
significant. When and where they are may have a lot to do with the
time and place of the music that you were most receptive to, even.
But perhaps you perceive music more intellectually, and not so
personally? In which case you may be impervious to it's influence on
your vantage point.
But if not, it may take only one superlative album amidst a pile of
tripe shining like a pearl amongst swine to make it the best year for
music since the Gregorian monks sat down and had a drink together.
--tension
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