I wonder, is it possible that Paul Simon gets his musical inspirations from weddings? Not from the wedding band themselves, but from that alcohol soaked time of the wedding when some idiot old relative gets on the stage and says to the drummer, “give me those sticks, son, I know how to play” then categorically proves that he doesn’t, that the most musicality he is actually capable of is striking a drum head five times in a row and then stopping for a fraction of a second and hitting it two or three more times. Whenever Jay Z wants to big up himself, someone should remind him of “Ghetto Techno”… ( Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)ĥ0 PAUL SIMON / 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER The truth will set us free, yes, but it’s going to hurt sometimes… There was no consensus here - everyone involved is disappointed to see at least one song on this list and thinks someone got it wrong. And it was important in creating this list to be objective and distinguish between really awful recordings and songs we just don’t like. There’s no Sting on this list because, seriously, what do you think we are, savages? We don’t murder low hanging fruit. That’s valuable, right? Don’t we get enough bullshit in our daily diets to once and a while crave, need, a dose of truthful criticism? This list is not meant to be mean spirited! Really! Admittedly, it is not entirely generous, or very forgiving, and could be, in spots, construed as less than kind.
At least, if they weren’t great, we probably wouldn’t have noticed… You don’t know if they know, or know and don’t care, or if they are just U2 and know, don’t care and deep down don’t believe it anyway.Īnd maybe, twisted alternate universe thinking, it’s a sign of greatness that a performer/band appears on a list like this, because it means they’ve been around so long at the top that the law of averages trips them up and even the gods make a mistake. So it’s only really news when a great musician or band puts out a turgid stinker. But then again, as science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon once said, when asked why so much science fiction was garbage, 90% of everything is crap.
0 kommentar(er)
