On 19 Jul 2000, at 10:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 07/18/2000 7:38:51 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << i'm so serious... horribly, bone-chillingly serious. read very carefully:
>
> I DON'T LIKE THE BEATLES AS MUCH AS I LIKE PAVEMENT.
>
> That is what's known as an opinion, and you can't argue with an opinion;
> there's no point.
> >>
> You're totally right, no one can be sick for expressing their opinion. I
> could add as a big Pavement fan, however, that the breadth of style in what
> Malkmus/Spiral/Ibold write for hooks is much more limited than the breadth of
> hooks that the Beatles (and many other bands, for that matter) wrote. I think
> if you ran some kind of official statistical analysis of their music, you
> could state that as an objective fact.
You're probably right. Like in the movie "Dead Poet's Society"
where they have that poetry book about plotting the greatness of a
poem on a graph, I'm sure if you did something similar for The
Beatles and Pavement, The Beatles would be deemed a better
band. For me though, music boils down to "what do I enjoy
listening to the most?" and in my case, that's Pavement. Looking
at music analytically seems terribly depressing and sterile. I
wonder how many people who contend that The Beatles are the
greatest band in the world actually listen to them more than any
other band. I've actually heard people say "yeah, I don't really like
The Beatles, but they ARE the greatest band of all time"... I mean,
what the fuck?
