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Moon Cat
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Edited Aug 23, 2011, 17:03
Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 17:00
FifePsy wrote:
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Grateful Dead. Utterly uncomprehensible to me other than Oswald's plunderphonic cut up of Dark Star.




On my list also for similar reasons. My dad's ex-brother in law (it's complicated) was/is a HUGE Dead fan. One of those nutters that has crates and crates of bootlegs from every pico-second of every gig they ever played since the dawn of time. And, I just didn't get it! Sure, the playing was nice and the guitar was nice...but I just couldn't reconcile the amazing band name, the fab album art and the supposed cosmic-ness with what sounded all the world to me like...a bit countryish, bit more improvy...fairly benign soft-rock. Seemed disappointingly and incongruously normal, like if GWAR sounded like Air Supply or something.
Best thing is to look at an album sleeve and stick something trippier on.

Oh I should also like to add Bruce Springsteen to my list.
Again, there's the odd song I like - tends to be the more restrained stuff -but on the whole I have thus far avoided the charms of the supposed blue-collar AOR of a man that often sounds like he's SO sincere he's taking a massive dump in his working-man's Jeans.
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