"If talking about music is so impossible and such a bad idea, how come Mudcat exists? :-)"

To share lyrics, to share melodies and chords, to discuss song origins, to explain lyrics, to post and hear MIDI's, to get help with joint or voice problems, to advertise events...
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Will Fly, I agree that that review you quoted is really pompous and doesn't convey much.

However, I believe that metaphors can be used to describe music. Once I went to a choral workshop, and a leader told us to sing "red satin" and then "brown corduroy." We did it. We didn't know how we did it, exactly, but we did it.

The thing is, we have a Manager, logician and critic in the left cerebral cortex, and it thinks it has to be in charge of everything. Much of music and sound are handled by parts of the brain which are deeper and more primitive, and they just go ahead and do their thing, and that irritates and mystifies the Manager.

At the choral workshop, the Manager could have ranted "Red satin!? That makes no sense. This is stupid!" But we were all ready to sing, and energized by being together, so we ignored the Manager and just let our music-making organs go ahead and sing red satin.
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Joe, thanks for your kind words.