Glory- really a terrible song

[longship]

23. Elitist?

I am not so pleasantly surprised by a popular music industry which seems to think that the only way to make music is by loud electric guitars, electric basses, and banging drums. Heavy metal, rap (hip-hop, or whatever it is called this week), and all the rest of the pop, is just big business.

Witness the Oscar winning film Whiplash which is an abomination of what a music school would be like, let alone how drums are actually played, other than by the Muppett, Animal. George Hrab eviscerated that movie in a recent podcast. But then, George is an actual drummer, not the pretend and pretentious cartoon drummer played on the screen.

You want drums? Try Gene Krupa's Tom-toms in 1938 at Carnegie Hall with Bennie Goodman's big band. The song was the capstone of the night, Sing, Sing, Sing (with a swing beat)

And yes, it brought the house down.

Some people just do not listen to enough music, or have such a narrow view of what music is.

As I posted earlier, Duke Elligton said it best. If the music sounds good, it is good.

Elitist? BAH! Expand your horizons. Try some Brahms for a change.

It's a requiem. And yup, he was likely an atheist. It's also good shit.