A Music critic after hearing Bizet's Carmen reported that the opera had no memorable melodies, this critic in Q must be related. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:34:15 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Time to take out a contract on Q magazine
> Q has a featurette called "Beware of the Dog - Bad albums by great artists" > > This month the award goes to... Don Juan's Reckless Daughter! Quoth Ian > Cranna: > > "After her quantum jump from singer-songwriter to the complex artist of > Hissing... and Hejira, Mitchell's increasing infatuation with jazz textures > and rhythms led to a fusion bridge too far. With bonkers lyrics, shapeless > melodies and Jaco Pastorius on bass, she attempted a kind of Impressionism in > sound, while such songs as did exist were nothing she hadn't already done > better. Her next effort - a widely ignored Charlie Mingus collaboration - > cured her of jazz fever." > > Hmm. Aside from the "IMHO" factor, this does beg a few serious questions, > chiefly: > > 1. Is being a singer-songwriter therefore by definition not a good thing? > 2. Is having Jaco Pastorius on bass intrinsically a bad move? > 3. Had she already written a song just like as The Silky Veils of Ardor, only > better? > 4. Is it fair to describe an album that made the top 20 (possibly top ten, I > can't check right now) in the UK, as many of its not-exactly-going-platinum > predecessors had, as "widely ignored"? > > Answers on a postcard... > > Steady now, I'm only the messenger, put the guns away... > > Azeem in London > -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
