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You might as well ask "How old are you?"

Kids today listen to music that seems calculated to push me over the edge. I lived through Disco, and Punk and Hip Hop and Rap, each of which was as roundly denounced by the previous wave as the latest new thing is today.

My parents denounced Rock and Roll, Motown and the Beatles. They were sure these were the end not only of music as we know it, but civilization as we know it. It was all about drugs, sex and 'those people,' don't you know. My grandparents denounced my mother's idols - Pine Top Smith, Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, and for the same reasons: it was all about drugs, sex and 'those people.'

And through it all a single refrain rings out over and over: "That's not music - that's noise."


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Here are some contemporary critiques of a well-know musician. Care to guess who?

"[His Music} is a crass monster, a hideously writhing wounded dragon, that refuses to expire, and though bleeding..."

"mere fetishism...insufferably long-winded...dull and ugly…stupid and hopelessly vulgar music!...unspeakable cheapness..."

"sounds to me like the upsettings of bags of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer."

"a raw and undigested mass!"

"eccentric without being amusing; and laborious without effect."

Last edited by flatfoot; 01/02/13 08:26 AM.
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