[78-L] Limited time of recordings (was: Snopes debunks another "rumor")

[Michael Biel]

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

From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> > 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         


From: 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. . . . 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.

Might I make a prediction that we are about to be bombarded with long
lists of exceptions.


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com