I used the word "song" loosely, in truth it is an innovative and sophisticated piece of music by a group of talented and highly proficient Musicians, more akin to a Classical composition than a traditional 3 minute Pop or Rock & Roll song. I'm very open minded with music, I can find something that can move me emotionally or intellectually in almost any genre, there is great music everywhere! Without Prog, it is doubtful that we would have the Kate Bush we know and love and with the advent of bands like Radiohead and Muse it is no longer "uncool" to like it, even Johnny Rotten now admits to liking Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull and he was mates with Keith Emerson!.
Well said! Like you I like all sorts and don’t discriminate according to genre. I think it goes back to growing up in the 60’s and 70’s when music wasn’t categorised the way it is today, so you either liked something or you didn’t. I certainly never liked or disliked a piece of music purely in terms of how long it was, although John Cage’s 4’33” was a challenge!
I either like something or I don't, though I was born in 89. I have no idea what all the seemingly infinite genres and sub genres are or what counts as what, maybe I'm just ignorant, but it just doesn't matter to me. Actually that's a lie, it annoys me all the categorisations, I have no idea if it has a use as I'm not musical in the slightest, but I sometimes hear people having deep conversations about genres and I just don't get it.
It's interesting to me personally because i've always been fascinated by the history and evolution of music and it is very rare that you will find an artist that hasn't been influenced by previous ones and it's useful on this thread to describe the type of song. I've never had a long indepth conversation about categories though!
Always preferred the original as I found the rap parts a weird fit. Oddly enough they were put in by the record company so the song would appeal more to radio audiences.
I get what you and Chilco are saying. It's just that I've always been a singles fan far more than albums hence the tendency to 2-4 minute songs. I like glam, punk/new wave, 2-Tone and some folk-rock but can't recall any songs I own being significantly over 5 mins long. Some of Wire's stuff is really short e.g this 79-second treat:
I somehow missed your Nick Lowe posts at the weekend which covered most of his bases. Anyhow, here's my belated contribution.
Here’s 11 minutes of pure folk-rock perfection. Just listen to the way this builds, it just wouldn’t work if they’d made it any shorter!
Talking of Muse earlier, here is a video of nostalgic interest to me and possibly Chilcs because he knows my home town Teignmouth I believe. It's a Beeb documentary of their momentus (for the tiny Town!) 2009 concert there where they grew up together...
There is an 80s American Hardcore Punk band actually called Minutemen, because their songs generally last about that long!...
Because Spring is upon us, and it's near enough drummer Pick Wither's birthday, here's some appropriate pastoral prog whimsy...
