Music That I Like: Defending the indefensible

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Defending The Indefensible - 16: The Rolling Stones

The concept of music criticism-as-dialogue works a lot better over this exchange of views about The Rolling Stones on Facebook than (say) the one about The Doors, for several reasons.

Defending The Indefensible - 16: The Who

(again, from Facebook.)

As Alistair puts it, these articles are merely sketches of an argument not the fully-realised canvas. I still think they hold interest, though: music criticism as dialogue. Any excuse to print Neil Kulkarni's words...

Defending The Indefensible - 15: The Doors (part 2)

(From Facebook - another fearsomely long post.)

(From Facebook - warning, this is a horrendously long post.)

Defending The Indefensible - 13: Courtney Love

I don’t like bands reforming usually – and I certainly don’t like bands reforming when they contain only ONE original member.

Defending the indefensible – 12: Vampire Weekend

A brief return for a former series on this blog: it seems timely, bearing in mind Vampire Weekend's outrageous current popularity in the States. The following is reprinted from my old Village Voice blog, dated Dec 11, 2007. Its publication led to an offer from bassist Chris Baio for me to "suck his dick" - a generous offer indeed, which I have yet to take him up on.

Defending the indefensible – 11: Chris de Burgh

Oh, this one is just great.

Defending the indefensible - 10: Radiohead

Go on then. Double dare ya.

Defending the indefensible - 9: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

So when does a pallid copy of the past cease to be a pallid copy of the past? It is simply when enough time has gone by, that everyone has forgotten how rush-of-blood energising this music can be?