easycure

very big!

uhuh yes, what a nice definition! :-D

The best tracks by the Beach Boys are the ones with his arrangement. Good Vibrations, but especially Heroes and Villains... it has an incredible arrangement! It's a pop song that sounds like anything but a pop song.

This album is one of the masterpieces of the post-modern, neither more nor less (therefore) one of the great masterpieces of the '60s. Great mention!

AHAHA lux, I love you! :-D no dust to be honest, at least not consciously.. but I happily notice that you’ve been the only one so far to catch something from the text AHAH

Ehm, but in '64 "A Hard Day's Night" came out, so what kind of turning point would that be?? …'65, rather, is a much bigger turning point. To return to the examples I mentioned earlier, not by chance, "Blonde on Blonde" by Bob Dylan, both for influence and for innovation. "Volare" turned the page… "Volare" turned the page in the song from mere entertainment, which is just ONE of the thousands of pages that can be turned. If you reduce an entire cultural background to pure entertainment, you end up descending into the most sordid X Factor culture. Be careful… there's a significant difference between what is understandable to the general public and what is MADE for the general public; it's the same difference I mentioned before. Does Schoenberg go down in history for enthusiasts?? Well, here I completely disagree. It seems to me that your point of view is purely audience-oriented, which once again is terribly biased. Just to refer back to the objective criteria you were talking about, if Schoenberg goes down in history, it's because HE MADE music history, not because some hypothetical audience made it history. The difference, once again, is enormous. It would seem that from an artistic history one could disregard the artist, in your view, which seems impossible to me. Bye!

Moreover, your speech above is definitely debatable: first, whether yesterday represented an era is all to be demonstrated...if we want to talk about that era, iconographically it was better represented by Woodstock, or The Doors, or even Bob Dylan, of course; all of them much less "correct" than the Beatles were. This is to emphasize that many things represent an era or "make history"; the question, as always, is perspective. Secondly, the fact that something makes it into history, according to your logic, is simply a matter of imposing itself on a large audience. But this is at least limiting. Schoenberg was anything but an easy composer (he turned harmonic standards upside down that had been in place for centuries and are still relevant today), and yet (thankfully) he will go down in history as much as or more than the Beatles. You forget that often to make it into history, one must also be a revolutionary (artistically speaking), which does not necessarily invalidate the discourse of communicability, but often invalidates the equation "makes it into history because it reaches the large audience." The Beatles, for instance, were anything but revolutionary. Bob Dylan, on the other hand, was in his own way, and the difference between the two is that the Beatles are fundamentally and primarily a cultural phenomenon, while Bob Dylan, although also one, is primarily a cultural revolution. And again, there's quite a significant difference there.

Well... it doesn't seem to me a matter of living in one's own kingdom... I rather see it from my point of view of not living with blinders on (or rather earplugs). Because a shared history, then, also includes Robert Wyatt, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, the Red Crayola, and so many others... the difference is that these are shared history for those who have sought them out and found them, while Elvis Presley is shared history due to the sheer number of times he has been on television. And the difference is qualitatively and culturally quite significant.

great unrest..much more punk than many punks in the way they never really gave a damn about anything, musically speaking; one of the most free and eclectic bands of the '80s-'90s

great lagwagon..so many memories.. I always preferred the double platinum and let's talk phase..the drummer was a beast and I always liked the singer (wow, it's been ten years and I can't remember the names!)