[78-L] Snopes debunks another "rumor"

[fnarf at comcast.net]

You call it "quickie", I call it "concise".

Or as I prefer to call it "pop music", which includes all of pop, vocal, jazz, folk, blues, R&B, rock, funk, and so on, from 1890 to the present. Long-form classical music is about the only exception I can think of (and even then, the singers seemed to fare pretty well when reduced to short, discable arias and extracts). Jazz tracks that go on for longer than 3-4 minutes are usually boring, and rock ones unspeakable. Usually.

That includes virtually all of the many, many kinds of music horrifyingly lumped together under the heading "world". I regroup these under the nationality ("Brazil", "Mexico", "Burma", "Zaire", etc.) and even that is rather inadequate. My ipod has more than 75 genres listed, mostly of my own devise. I can't swear that everything is under four minutes but a heck of a lot of it is. Of course, this cuts both ways; a good third to a half of it is from 78s, so of course they're short. I think they're best that way. Get in, tell it like it is, get back out again. If there are some previously-unknown Bob Wills or Clarence Williams recordings out there with 45-minute noodley guitar solos in the middle, I don't want to hear 'em.

MHO, of course.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:05:44 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [78-L] Snopes debunks another "rumor"

From: fnarf at comcast.net
> songs should be three minutes tops, maybe four if you're fancy and want a 12" disc.

You must have an exceedingly narrow range of musical interests if ALL of
the things you would listen to could be started and finished on within
time lengths of only three or four minutes.  None of your interests
apparently include anything that requires some exposition and expansion.
 In other words, quickies.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


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