Where do you draw the line on music?

Question

Experimental music has always walked a fine line between groundbreaking and crazy. A perfect example is the Velvet Underground's White Light, White Heat Album; it was completely unrecognized at its time, and still receives only minor credit. Does music have to be easy to swallow? Where do you draw the line?

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Answer 1

Being original and doing something different is so rare cause everyone has to follow the trend but its good that some can push away the thought of being like everyone else,some of the best artists took chances,Zappa,Doors,Bad Finger.Its not meant to be easy to swallow,its suppose to make you hear expression of the artist.

Answer 2

I'm a huge velvet underground sound. Lou Reed is so underrated. Femme Fatale is one of my favorite songs. I digress, I pretty much draw the line when it comes to music that has no purpose. Most of this crap rap you hear these days is about getting diamonds put in your teeth and visiting a baby mama. What social significance does that serve. I listen to that crap as a novelty once in awhile.

I think the problem with bands like VU, Siouxsie and the Banchees and other great bands that are uncredited, is that they aren't in the top 40. Most of the kids these days only listen to music that is on the radio. The only radio station I listen to is a Public Access radio station we get here.

It's ashame.

Answer 3

I draw the same line that I do with any other art form. If I like it---great...if not----it gets the big raspberry. I don't think any art (of any type) has to be "groundbreaking", I believe it has to appeal on an emotional level to the audience. If it's too "elevated" for the average person to "understand" than it fails. It should be beautiful and/or emotionally powerful. If it fails to achieve at least one of these, then it isn't really art.

On an aside, I went to a university modern dance showcase for their graduating senior choreographers and performers with my friend who is a retired member of the Royal Ballet. What was passing as dance had us in stitches. These professors should be shot.

Answer 4

hell yea velvet underground is sweet. I always love unique music, or anything that sounds different then I've listened to before. Experimental music is so much better then all the easy to swallow **** music I hear these days.

Answer 5

This neo-classical garbage being taught at all the "great" schools like Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, etc. They've even created their own new scale. It sounds like cats yowling (although that's an insult to cats). It goes against all grains of my being because it doesn't even have any rhythm. I won't tolerate it. If they perform it, I leave, even if I'm somewhere like Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center. I just get up and leave.

Answer 6

I draw the line on rap and country music. Some country is ok but they all sound the same

Answer 7

I draw the line on any kind of rap, metal, and country. Rap is CRAP, metal gives me a bad headache, and country just plain SUCKS!

Answer 8

I draw the line on a piece of paper.

Answer 9

I draw the line on RAP music, that is not allowed in my house.

Answer 10

It depends on wether your going to tey making a living or making a statement.