Re: OT: Chart Music

[kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com]

Quoting Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>:
>
> Annoying rather! ;-))  Humanity has been haunted by this horrible
> "sound" since the early eighties when MIDI was invented...
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, doc rossi <docittern@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting use of the dreaded Songsmith = a postmodern tragicomic 
>musical:
>>
>> http://www.kreidler-net.de/charts.html
>>
>
>
Actually,  this cheesy approach to music-making goes back to the  
rhythm units, autochords, and other gimmicks on electronic organs of  
the 1960s.

There is a scene in the movie "Beethoven" (a movie about a dog, not  
the composer) where a babysitter croons while playing on a spinet  
organ while she ignores the kids that are nearly drowning in the  
backyard pool.

And who could forget Monty Python's Flying Circus that featured a  
naked man (John Cleese??) seated at a spinet electronic organ.

This kind of add-water-and-stir music-making seems to be the province  
of musical psychopaths.  Songsmith simply perpetuates this abominable  
approach to music.

There are worse things, I suppose.

Such as Springsteen's crotch-attack on the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozu1qqa7rfQ

At least there wasn't a "wardrobe malfunction".

(end of rant)