The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149377   Message #3479178
Posted By: Ron Davies
13-Feb-13 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: [Formerly BS:] Musical snobbery
Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
OK, that makes it clear. Please put me firmly in the unrefined taste category.    Bobby Vee beats the pants off the pretentious twaddle of Example 2.    He's fun to sing, you don't need the absurd list of electronic enhancements which plague Example 2,--and you don't have to take him seriously.

Sorry but my unrefined taste is also squarely with the Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky symphonies (all of them), Scheherezade,   the Schubert String Quintet, the Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Tallis, Byrd, etc.   Or maybe they make the cut of being refined--who knows?

The ironic thing is that all the personnel involved in Example 2 seem to have lots of skill. Pity they waste it on the Secret Garden or whatever it was called.   But I suppose it sells--and they were paid for their efforts. The music business is rough.