On 4/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Did we already write all the good songs? Or did they just migrate over to<br>the country western stations? Or what?<br>
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Seems to me there was a drift; music wandered from the simple and
catchy into areas of greater strangeness and complexity as the 70s, 80s
and 90s went by, ultimately losing its form and disintegrating. (It's
been awhile since I've listened to the radio, but when I hear it played
in shops, current music seems to be a 50/50 mix of random noise and
corrupted versions of older hits.) That's in the West, mind you; the
Japanese still seem to be doing some good stuff, though I don't know
all that much about their end of things.<br>
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Speaking of Japanese music, there's... I'm not sure how to describe it,
an _inverse_ viral tune? The Matsuri Uta from the anime series 'Blue
Seed', one of the most divinely brilliant pieces ever composed; one
could quite believe it has the properties ascribed to it in the
story... and it cannot be retained in memory. Not just the lyrics
(since they're in a language I don't speak, of course I can't remember
them), but the tune itself... oh, if I heard it played again in a
thousand years I'd recognize it instantly, but a day after hearing it,
I can't reproduce a note of it from memory. Anyone else ever come
across tunes like this?<br>