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TheHutts · 2018-05-10T21:47:44-04:00

I enjoyed reading these - generally I like Scaruffi's lists as sources for avant-garde album recommendations, but find some of his attitudes insufferable: http://www.furious.com/perfect/pieroscaruffi.html http://www.furious.com/perfect/pieroscaruffi2.html Scaruffi's tastes were formed in a different era than our own; his likes and dislikes are an understandable reaction to the currents and anxieties in popular music's nascent era. But his criteria for great art posits popular music as a contradiction: it can only be great when it is no longer itself, when it becomes inaccessible, no longer fully human. Scaruffi assumes a world where the only art is High Art, where art is only such in its most heavily alienated forms, is sick only when its bargains away its own soul. His is a world where the high- and lowbrow do not coexist and nurture one another, but are forever embattled. To be clear: this is a world where art can no longer be met on its own terms; in short, a world ruled by prejudice and dogma. This is a world in which ninety-five percent of music lovers are too stupid for their own good, in which your friend's naivety in music choice is not simply misinformed, but categorically wrong. What I am suggesting is that for listeners and critics, especially the rising generation of critics, this worldview is unacceptable. In Scaruffi's world, Beatles fans are not allowed even the dignity of holding opinions- they're sheep. In this world, there is no conversation: by definition, they're wrong.

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I don't think there's going to be any good posts from following that further, maybe just stop it there

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Wow...

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TheHutts wrote:

I like to read lots about music - it's good to learn about new things. I think the best approach as a 21st century music fan with access to an overwhelming amount of music is to take recommendations from everywhere and form your own opinions.

I agree with this so much.
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I don't think there's going to be any good posts from following that further, maybe just stop it there

Maybe you're right, the answers just seem so obvious to me lol, kinda like a trivial answer in science

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