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The funny thing about all this is all these guys were basically fingerprinting on the walls compared to like 10,000 jazz artists at the time
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, September 5, 2015 2:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This like a million times. At the time too it was so exciting just that rock lyricists were now dealing with "serious" lyrical themes, albeit in a "fingerpainting on the walls" level compared to, like, actual literature. While everybody has gotten over that move decades ago, and even prog revivalists don't go around defending Richard Palmer-James as a poet, the combination of "lyrical sophistication" and "musical sophistication" are a huge part of what created the whole idea of "progress."
Weirdly, prog is pretty great anyway, but I've never agreed that rock critics who weren't impressed at the time were totally wrong about that, because there was a lot of bogus shit wrapped up that we've forgiven and forgotten over the decades.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 6 September 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link