Another one my wife tunes into religiously. I dig the Rat Packer devil – possibly the most plausible Satan I’ve ever seen.

“to the ignorant, yes”

To the ignorant, yes. Structure CAN be too simple and too repetitive, e.g. most punk music. Its all about finding that happy medium boys.

Plus punk ain’t got no funk and its rhythm is junk.

This sounds like an argument about the GREATNESS of punk music, doesn’t it Jim?

Up on the backstroke!

Only a Biblical reference can do this justice:

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, ‘The dog turns to his own vomit again,’ and ‘the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.’ ”

I’d be glad to give you my test scores if that would help you but I did that once before and everyone erupted into fits of jealous rage.

“jealous rage” = shrugs & giggles

seriously believing posting one’s alleged scholastic stats is anything other than a pathetic attempt at bravado = hilarious

Carry on, my wayward stun-bunny. Your deadly Underwhelming Ray has us trapped right where we want you.

Compared to what? Classical music? Who cares? Roll the fuck over. I guess if you get a Ph.D. and take out a microscope and examine the sheet music really carefully you can argue there’s all kinds of rhythm there but maybe its not repetitive enough. It seems that the secret to rhythm that human beings (as opposed to musicology Ph.Ds) actually respond to involves a fair amount of repetition. Up on the backstroke!

We can debate whether classic rock is all really all that simple or not but certainly much of it is. But now who is the one who is resorting to sheer technical ability and technical ability alone?

The bottom line? It ain’t all about structure (and there are points of diminishing returns) when it comes to pathos, excitement, emotionality, and genius, genius.

Sure Zappa was technically accomplished but that’s not enough to achieve greateness.

I suspect that Steve Vai, Johnny Guitar Watson, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty & a lot of other REAL musicians would say you’re talking out of your ass. Hmm, who to agree with about a musical matter – people with long successful careers which involved actually writing & playing music, or some anonymous smarmy twit on the Interwebs?

Help me, Magic Eight-ball!

Your contemporary rhythmically repetitive and structurally simple homophonic music sucks, while my contemporary rhythmically repetitive and structurally simple homophonic music is TRULY GREAT.

Objection, facts not in evidence, etc.

I don’t think ‘nihilistic’ means what you think it means.

Or ‘humor’.

I hate to see a grown sockpuppet cry.