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Originally Posted by Glice
I'm really enjoying your posts of late ni'k. I think there's a certain irony to people saying they don't like music journalism on a message board which has as its central nexus discussion about music.
I think it's a very conservative, antiquated aesthetics that wants to see music as a rarefied craft hermetically sealed off from external influences; often, there's so little going on in rock music that it's impossible to talk about anything but external influences. Writing like the above, while not entirely too my taste, definitely contributes more to our understanding (even if entirely negatively) than a vapid assertion of personal affection like 'oh, I just love it because it's good'. That's what 9-year-olds do.
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Musical appreciation is sort of childish and primal. Of course there's reasons beyond "it's good" for liking music. It has to do with past histories and such. The heavy interpretations of the Fall have no bearing on my appreciation of them. I like "Industrial Estate" because of that blend of that manic guitar playing with those keyboard notes. I think the keyboard notes are what sells it to me.
I'm not sure why I like that, possibly because it reminds me of the crazy music I made up in my head when I was a toddler that I only very vaguely remember. Maybe it speaks to my more primitive instincts. I'm not 100% sure.
Who MES is, MES's England, etc. have affected how the music sounds, but it doesn't really have an effect on me liking it.
Maybe this is just me, but the music I liked when I was a child, I still like. And music I like now that I didn't know, I think I would have liked as a child.
This doesn't apply to every art form though. Though I like much of the television and film and literature that I liked as a child, there's a point of divergence. I don't like Captain Planet or Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers or Berenstein Bears anymore. And I don't think I would have liked Annie Hall or Dostoyevsky when I was young. At the same time though, I think I could have found things to appreciate in them as a child.
My taste in paintings, sculpture, and architecture has remain largely unchanged through my life, much like music.
But in most forms of art, there are two sides. The best way to put this is that when I was a kid there was a lot of comedy I liked: Kids in the Hall, Spaceballs, etc. but I didn't get the jokes. I guess I could say that about music, literature, film, painting, television, etc.