The Mellotron Group

In a message dated 1/7/2008 8:04:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
e4103s@yahoo.com writes:

I  would like to take this opportunity to point out
that attitudes toward  music (listening, writing,
recording) have changed radically over the years  in so
many ways. 
Generally, music prior to the 90's was taken far  more
seriously. That is to say that one was able to be
overly dramatic  or cause-oriented and still be taken
in earnest. In the 60's and 70's (and  for a big hunk
of the 80's) music was going to save the world. It
was a  huge industry, communicating many ideas and
views, and the industry itself  provided tremendous
power to back up these concepts. Come the 90's  and
the grunge era, irony became the cool new thing. If a
band took  themselves too seriously, they were
dismissed as pretentious and that  continues to this
day, even more so.
Today, everything has to be taken  with a grain of
salt. If you preach, you alienate your audience. If
you  emote too readily or fervently, your crowd becomes
uncomfortable and  sometimes embarrassed. I love the
Moody Blues, all of it, and I'm often  embarrassed by
my love for them nowadays. But I'm a recordist, so  it
often gets me by in times when I tell folks that Abba
were brilliant  or that the 1st Boston album is one of
the finest recorded albums to come  out in decades. 
Not so cool, but I don't care and why should I? 
These  attitudes are especially pronounced with older
prog and metal. Original  fans BELIEVED in these bands
and their message. Now the kids listen to the  early
King Crimson and find it ponderous and silly, or Ozzy
and find him  hysterical, as I'm sure we all do to some
degree. It's all part of a  process of becoming
guarded in our opinions due to an overly  critical,
conceptually intelligent listenership looking to be
into  what's hip. It's funny how people demand honesty
in music, yet contradict  that need so obliviously with
needless posturing. We live and create in odd  times,
for sure.
That said, Happy New  Year!
-Jack

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Then please explain "American Idiot" by Green Day. It seems to defy  
everything above. Great record!
 
I think the 60s defined, 'Cause oriented' music.
 



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