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Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:23 am
by PPE_Archive
Has anyone said Bach yet?

God, I'm sorry.

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:33 am
by Ruben23_Archive
PPE wrote:Has anyone said Bach yet?

God, I'm sorry.


Ralf Bach ?

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Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:37 pm
by Eierdiebe
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

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:42 pm
by Tom_Archive
Circle

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:43 pm
by burun_Archive
Jandek
Scott Walker
Pelt
Haino Keiji
Merzbow
Marc Ribot

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:43 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Leonardo DaVinci.

And yeah, Moondog and Harry Partch I would definitely agree with for music. Add Beethoven and Stravinsky too. And Thelonious Monk.

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:58 pm
by Skronk_Archive
sphincter wrote:R Kelly


That was hilarious, kudos! I wonder if you're serious....

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:22 pm
by Brett Eugene Ralph_Archive
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.

Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:25 pm
by lemur68_Archive
Ruben23 wrote:
PPE wrote:Has anyone said Bach yet?

God, I'm sorry.


Ralf Bach ?

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No.

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Name A Truly Original Artist

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:32 pm
by Bill Swansea_Archive
Am I going through this thread too fast because i have yet to see the words "Velvet" and "Underground", also "The" if you feel like.

Please excuse me if someone has said them, i seem to have this problem all the time...