If you don't like that you don't like music
Posted by Sven on 15 February 2008 - 1:41pm.
Was listening to Mark Radcliffe last night and he played Nick Drake's At the Chime of a City Clock. Afterwards he said 'If you don't like that you don't like music really'. I am not particularly au fait with Mr Drake's works, although I have heard the odd song, but I must say after hearing that track I tend to agree with the sentiment.
Is it possible to say the same about any other pop or rock music I wonder, or perhaps you disagree with the above comment?
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Reminds me of that stupid
Reminds me of that stupid Samuel Johnson quote: "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life". No he isn't; he's tired of London. I think the same principle applies here.
Not that I don't like Nick Drake. Or Mark Ratcliffe for that matter.
I don't think that is the same
since London is so varied and changeable and you can have a bad experience one day but another time it's great etc, whereas I am only talking about that one particular song and I don't understand how a person wouldn't like it, if they like rock/pop. Usually I can imagine a different perspective on a track from my own and see that it won't appeal to all. In this case I find it hard to think of such an alternative anti point of view. Or is it just about what you like and that's the end of it? In which case there is nothing in this idea. If that makes sense?!
"Here we come, walking down the street,
we get the funniest looks from everyone we meet."
As far as I'm concerned, if you don't like that particular distillation of fun, at the very least you can't claim to like POP music.
Agreed
on that one
I like music...
I even like Nick Drake. But not much and only in small doses. But I formed that opinion 20 years ago, so I cannot be fashionable enough.
I told my children they had to like Chumbawamba, as I forcefed them the cassettes in the car, and took them to odd festivals to see them: the original Guildford at Losely Farm and Bracknell etc. I still like the accoustic version. Yes, some of the anarchy stance embarrasses now, but I would still say that if you don't like them, you haven't tried hard enough. And if you don't like George Romero zombie films, likewose you haven't tried hard enough and can't like film.
Seems a reasonable enough point of view to me.
Mark
also daid that about the Ramones. The difference being in that case he was absolutely right
Sitting here listening to the Feelgoods...
..and I have to say that if you don't get 'Roxette' and 'She Does it Right' then you don't get invited to any dinner parties round mine.
A good excuse for this....
Go Wilco baby...
I'm also with Jack White who says he has never trusted anyone who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.
Radcliffe said
the same about New Order's True Faith on his first ever Radio2 show. And he says it about Van Halen's Jump and Stereolab's French Disko.
I must say that every time I've heard him say it I've agreed.
I didn't realise
he said it so often. I obviously don't listen often enough to know that. But I agree with those three too as it goes, but perhaps with not quite so much conviction as with the Nick Drake.