Name A Truly Original Artist

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honeyisfunny wrote:Moondog


I finally heard this guy for the first time last night and I was bowled the fuck over!

His music is at once original and compulsively listenable... the compendium I was listening to was surprisngly well recorded and well mastered.

Moondog! Moondog! Moondog!

We are going to get along just fine.

Name A Truly Original Artist

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I think that originality is way overrated. Of course, I appreciate a seemingly unprecedented artist like Devo or Beefheart or P-Funk, but as someone suggested, if you look (and listen) closely enough, you can plot the course that was taken by just about anybody. There's a part of me that thinks that such emphasis on originality is just the aesthetic facet of an obsession with technology and consumption--everybody wants to the newest, brightest thing, the thing that's different (or at least packaged differently).

I mean, weren't Limp Bizkit "original" when you get down to it? I'd much rather hear Bob Dylan or Merle Haggard or the Everly Brothers, who were all--in their ways--totally derivative of their forebears. All I care is that music (or any art) is good--and I don't think something stops being good simply because it's been done before. Its goodness is not determined by its being unprecedented.

Don't get me wrong: vive le difference! and all that. But I don't think something's good simply because it's different or original, and I believe there's a lot of that going around--always has been. Don't believe the hype.
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