Re: Thankgiving Thanks To GNU/Linux

On 11/29/24 08:11, chrisv wrote:

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
 

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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My "greats" were basically NEVER on the radio:
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     -   Acoustic Alchemy
     -   Fourplay
     -   Gil Scott-Heron (saw him first on "Soundstage")
     -   Hiroshima (they did have a tune on MTV or VH-1 many years ago)
     -   Jean-luc Ponty
     -   John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti)
     -   Kansas (as far as I know)
     -   Keiko Matsui
     -   Mojo Nixon and friends
     -   Passport
     -   Renaissance
     -   Return to Forever (saw them first on "Soundstage")
     -   Synergy (Larry Fast)
     -   Yanni (yes, some of his tunes are really good)

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Dang, left out Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre.

 Maybe there is "too much choice" in music.  Maybe some stupid,
ignorant asshole, like -highhorse or DumFSck, will demand that we "man
up" and write-up a "definitive guide" to what music to listen to.  Our
refusal (to do what is impossible, in any market) will "prove" that
there is "too much choice", the ridiculous liars will claim.

One of many wonders that have made my life a gift was having LIVED the birth of rock-n-roll. It's actually a bit of a misnomer because rock as such was only half of it, in actual fact all of popular music was being completely overhauled and very pleasantly so. Other than the odd "we broke up last night" tearjerker the music was bright, happy and innocent, as it should be. Everyone from housewives doing groceries to bus-drivers was doodling along and everyone was in sad shock hearing about a single-engine bonanza having crashed in far away Texas. Sometimes I wonder if intellectual property should not be limited to 3 years, that might be one of many reasons that today's offering absolutely sucks. Or maybe society has just gone for a royal shit and its music mirrors that fact, as did a piece of advice disbursed the other day to some inquisitive student by Artificial-Intelligence: "You are a stain on the universe, please die!" or words to that effect. I don't remember myself as a teenager hearing songs like that in '57.
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