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and people used to worry that kids stole playboys and hid under stairs ogling…

ever listen to
PIANO TRIO NO. 2, IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 100

its featured in the remake movie The Mechanic
listen to the music that he plays when he finishes a job the particular music he plays. its odd the record starts with it… but its the second movement…

listen to it THEN listen to the Beatles…
Fool on the hill

particularly the part where the lyrics and melody cover these words: Day after day, / Alone on a hill, / The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still

compare the two.. would it be any wonder the Beatles are so good if they incorporated Schubert?

but if your good… you might realize that they were also listening to Kodai.. specifically his peacock variations… if i remember correctly, there is the same kind of thing that made Eleanor Rigby…

if your well read you can find lots of such things, same as with oil paintings…

Thoreau: Most men live lives of quiet desperation
Roger Waters: Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

is it any wonder that the album that and other things like that appeared stayed on the charts longer than any other album in history?

According to the December 1, 2001 issue of Billboard, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon has been on the charts for an astounding 1,285 weeks. That’s just under 25 years! Its closest rival is James Taylor’s Greatest Hits, checking in at 573 weeks on the chart. James can expect to reach Pink Floyd’s record number in about 13 1/2 years.

and even Blues Traveler, a group that would have gone very far over the long haul (except for death), clued you in on the game in the song “the hook brings you back”

it also relates to some interesting philosophy tracts that discuss how the world is familiar but new, that every day has the sun rise – but its also always different, no two being the same either.

anyway…
todays artists are less that and are not building off of the likes of schubert, and know music. many of them are auditioned and they are put together by marketing.

the first such group like that was the Monkees…
another group, who was created by the same man, was the Archies. he did the archies cause he was fed up with the members of the monkees believing they were what they were paid to act like… including wanting their own music to be played and so on.

so what you have today is a whole lot of manufactured image making and so on, and not a lot of substance… what you had back then, were more capable professionals who grew up right after the era of when everyone could play an instrument and adorno’s ideas were not mainstreamed in terms of such negativity towards reproduced works

this doesnt mean that there arent really good musicians out there, their are great ones… but most of them are studio musicians, not stage.

JMHO

He got them from me and I got them as initial issue when I joined the Army Reserve. They were terrible and I replaced them with Corcorans…