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Dapper Bandit wrote:Have people confused importance with quality over the years?
The Sex Pistols were of huge importance to punk but Never Mind the Bollocks is not one of the best punk albums, for example. Velvet Underground inspired every band ever (allegedly), those other bands all released better albums than VU.
Dapper Bandit wrote:Have people confused importance with quality over the years?
The Sex Pistols were of huge importance to punk but Never Mind the Bollocks is not one of the best punk albums, for example. Velvet Underground inspired every band ever (allegedly), those other bands all released better albums than VU.
It seems that people are very reluctant to let go of their childhood idols as time goes by and we enter into a static world of 'Best 100 Classic Rock Albums of ALL TIME!' lists (spoiler, it's probably Appetite for Destruction) as fans refuse to believe that there's anything new under the sun. King Crimson released the some of the finest progressive rock the world has ever seen in the mid 80s but Yes had already recorded Tales from pissing Topographic Oceans so sorry guys, that genre is all tied up in a bow now. Or a fucking cape, in fact.
I'm probably way out on a limb but there is little desire for evolution and growth within distinct musical genres, let alone the output of individual bands. Celtic Frost released Cold Lake and people booed them off of the planet, Triptychon released the same song over and over and the world flicked it's bean and never asked what's under Uncle Tom Warrior's beanie.
Any musical entity, if it wishes to survive in the open market, must emerge fully formed and then simply refine the formula until it peters out. Iron Maiden is a classic example, aside from the singer, they pretty much put out the same album for 40 years. True, sometimes they put out an exceptional version of that album but how different were the Blaze Bailey albums to the earlier ones? Near enough every grindcore album sounds the same as Repulsed.
TL;DR, music is kind of boring after the second album comes out. We've got the best version of you now and it's all just going to go downhill now.
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