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Re: Alanis bashing
Otherone at aol_com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/5/98 12:43:17 PM, CHRISTEL at uwplatt_edu writes:
>
> <<> What oh what oh WHAT IS IT about produced music that turns all you
> > intellgent people off????>>
>
> First of all,all music is produced by someone. There are clearly differences
> between good production and bad production. There are producers that have
> vision and those who dont. Take for example the production work of Daniel
> Lanois. Did he have a different vision of Bob Dylan than his previous
> producers? And his work with Emmy Lou Harris on wrecking ball? How about the
> difference between the production of say Rickie Lee Jones's albums? Traffic
> from paradise which she produced is far different than flying cowboys that
> Walter Becker produced. Those were two distinctly different wonderful
> approaches to the music and the artist.
I agree completely. I'm biased on the Lanois part, though. I pretty much think
his production is genius...
> Why would someone insist on imputting different lyrics to the same old
> droneing music of Rem. Why waste the time? I can stand and enjoy most of their
> albums. But why buy ten? Just download the lyrics from the net ,buy one,and
> save your money.
This, on the other hand, is pretty much nonsense, imo. REM hasn't made 2
same-sounding CDs yet in a couple of decades. The new CD is phenomenal. The
addition of "electronic" bells and whistles and Stipe's continued uncovering
lyrically both give me chills. "At My Most Beautiful," "You're In the Air"
(probably my favourite track), "Diminished," "Parakeet"... they're all absolutely
beautiful...
> As for Alannis,what I've heard from the new release sounds
> pretty good. Sounds like she is maturing like Sheryl Crowe has.
Um, Sheryl Crow is "maturing" and REM's stuff sounds the same? Think you got that
one backwards...
> They both it
> seems to me, sold out somewhat to get where they did. Sometimes you have to
> sell some of your self to get that oppertunity. It's a tough buisness. It
> seems that their music is being transformed to were they want to be. The past
> is the past. They made the decision to play the game to get there,and now they
> are excercising the power that they have to change it. God bless 'em
>
> A few years back I went to see Bruce Cockburn and Sam Phillips opened for him.
> She played her songs solo acoustic because of problems with her band. this was
> the first I had heard her. She was Great in that setting. I went out and
> bought the 2 albums that were available at the time, brought them home and
> wondered"what was going through this guys mind that produced this? It seemed to
> me that he was more worried aboud his own selfish musing than her music. They
> were horrible.
And, once again, I think those CDs are great (since they're probably _The
Indescribable Wow_ and the one right after it, the title of which escapes me).
Her husband was the guy whose mind you were trying to guess, btw... (T-Bone
Burnett)
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