tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post8129540933951069231..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: I Am Not Listening to You. Or: High Arts as Capitalist Running Dog Consumer Culture Service IndustryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-51255571766628585892009-03-18T17:55:00.000-07:002009-03-18T17:55:00.000-07:00Totally amazing and compelling, and on so many lev...Totally amazing and compelling, and on so many levels! Whoever wrote this, thank you for your time and energy! I could not have said it better myself. Bravo! <BR/><BR/>All the composers reviewed in the article are dilitantes (go look that up!) anyway. Their music is easily forgotten and irrelevant in the grander scheme of things.<BR/><BR/>As for the critic thusly and rightly lampoonded, readers might be interested to know that he has no real musical background, but apparently he can type. So, perhaps he should be forgiven or forgotten.<BR/><BR/>Wide BoyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-70113961300847919262008-04-17T15:20:00.000-07:002008-04-17T15:20:00.000-07:00C'mon people! For as many views as this particular...C'mon people! For as many views as this particular post is receiving, there are no additional comments! What's up with that?<BR/><BR/>Please participate in our experiment. That's what we exist for.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-21425487971092791772008-04-09T06:30:00.000-07:002008-04-09T06:30:00.000-07:00Well said, Murderface.Schoenberg was absolutely ri...Well said, Murderface.<BR/><BR/>Schoenberg was absolutely right.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16371363571092946834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-62416472358841280732008-04-07T21:04:00.000-07:002008-04-07T21:04:00.000-07:00Yes, Mr. Ruhe, tell us what they want, what they r...Yes, Mr. Ruhe, tell us what they want, what they really, <I>really</I> want.<BR/><BR/>RUHE: Yo, I'll tell you what they want, what they really really want.<BR/><BR/>COMPOSERS: So tell us what they want, what they really really want.<BR/><BR/>RUHE: I'll tell you what they want, what they really really want!<BR/><BR/>COMPOSERS: So tell us what they want, what they really really want!<BR/><BR/>RUHE: They wanna, they wanna, they wanna, they wanna, they wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha!!Murderfacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01220337199108444992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-86340923688516624632008-04-07T16:10:00.000-07:002008-04-07T16:10:00.000-07:00Barf. His opinion couldn't sound more uninformed. ...Barf. His opinion couldn't sound more uninformed. It's as though he knows absolutely nothing about art. That's the kind of shit my well-meaning relatives spew.<BR/><BR/>Nothing pisses me off more than non-artists telling the artists how to fix what they're doing. That's the job of the unsuccessful, bitter artists.<BR/><BR/>Answer me this Pierre Ruhe, what is it that the audiences really want? And remember, show your work and be specific.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-87912118453199960282008-04-07T15:54:00.000-07:002008-04-07T15:54:00.000-07:00Just to add to your Beethoven criticism intro:"Bee...Just to add to your Beethoven criticism intro:<BR/><BR/>"Beethoven's Seventh Symphony...is a composition in which the author has indulged a great deal of disagreeable eccentricity. Often as we now have heard it peformed, we cannot yet discover any design in it, neither can we trace any connection in its parts. Altogether, it seems to have intended as a kind of enigma--we had almost said a hoax." (The Harmonicon, London, July 1825)<BR/><BR/>and my personal favorite, just a snippet from a longer diatribe about the Ninth Symphony:<BR/><BR/>"The Finale...is to me for the most part dull and ugly...pages of stupid and hopelessly vulgar music! The unspeakable cheapness of the chief tune..." and so on. (Philip Hale, Musical Record, Boston, June 1, 1899)<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Philip Hale. That was fucking awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-32181863691400176672008-04-07T15:27:00.000-07:002008-04-07T15:27:00.000-07:00The rest of the article suggests a corrective, or ...The rest of the article suggests a corrective, or middle ground. This amounts to, basically:<BR/><BR/>'Give in to the Market already, you effete fucks! It's your fault if your music isn't popular!' (paraphrase)<BR/><BR/>Outstanding drivel.Sator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-21461536342868486552008-04-07T14:59:00.000-07:002008-04-07T14:59:00.000-07:00I should also say that I don't have anything again...I should also say that I don't have anything against Atlanta, except what I've heard and read about it.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-13815947878829137092008-04-07T14:57:00.000-07:002008-04-07T14:57:00.000-07:00I applaud your restraint SA; only one "fuck." I, o...I applaud your restraint SA; only one "fuck." I, on the other hand, would be driving to Atlanta right now to burn it down, metaphorically speaking. Pierre is now on my shit list, forever. FOR. EVER.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.com