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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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You could put one bar of the OP song on repeat for four minutes and it would be obviously better than 98% of the shit myoozick of any fucking genre produced in any time period, but especially lately.
The washed up analogy is weak and seems to imply that music is something only young people do, since youth, or more specifically the lack of youth, is the defining factor in much "washed up" athleticism. I disagree. While the rawness of youth certainly contains much to be appreciated, so too does the practiced hand have something to offer. I think that you discount that out of hand without a critical analysis is quite telling about who you are.
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You're arguing from subjectivity, so there's no objective ground to be had in order for a rational agreement to be reached. I like Sabbath, but I've heard all I wish to hear from them. Someone plays a song on the jukebox at the bar I don't flip out cause I've heard it 50,000 times because it's their money they put into the machine and that's what they want to hear. At this point, it's analogous to the Rolling Stones doing tours. Yeah another few million dollars is nice and I don't blame them for doing so, but the majority of their fans are as old as they are and want to be in some nostalgic dream that transports them to their youth. I don't think that that's healthy behavior because of what nostalgia does to the psyche. Sabbath's place in music history is cemented, and they will always get credit for starting metal. Now it's time for them to fade out and go about their lives and let that ego go because there's a point where it's just sad that they can't let it go and abandon their ideas of who they are and what they do in order to gracefully bow out with some class (Johnny Carson comes to mind). If this is their last ride together then great. Make it the last and be honest about it.
Your comparison of music and athletics is flawed. Music isn't a physical thing in terms of its creation where as athletics is absolutely physical and, usually, a competition in some form. I'm not interested in what Sabbath can do now because I don't think they would be willing to drift out of what's expected of them. If they did a gospel album I'd be willing to listen, and, yes, this sounds like what they have already done but with better recording equipment and some odd click on the tom toms (could be the speakers I have).
04-18-2013, 09:03 PM
Hybrid Mode
