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

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
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>>>> songs should be three minutes tops, maybe four if you're fancy and want a 12" disc.
>>>>         
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> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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>>> 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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> From: fnarf at comcast.net
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>> You call it "quickie", I call it "concise".
>>     
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>   
>> 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.
>>     
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> Might I make a prediction that we are about to be bombarded with long
> lists of exceptions.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   
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Not from me.
 From this piano player / songwriter's standpoint, if you can't hook 'em 
in less that 3 1/2 minutes you should give up! The rest is noodling 
(extrapolation).
Mal

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