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In Reply to: RE: This kind of nonsense gives audiophiles a bad name posted by lancelot on September 22, 2008 at 09:40:29
Where did I say my listening preferences were superior.
That is crap and you know it.
All I said was get out of your comfort zone and but some new music, not re-issues.
Bizzare, It is fine for gents here to crap on equipment saying how bad or good it is, but mention Diana Krall in a negative way and you are personally attacking the listener. Ohh please get over yourselves.
Follow Ups:
You said: "Where did I say my listening preferences were superior."
In the original post your direct statement was "piece of shit jazz cover artists..."
I'd suggest that strongly conveys a certain sense of superiority on your part when it comes to your preference in music.
Krall has her following as well as her detractors. Every artist, alive or dead, has listeners who don't care for them. Read a bit of history and you'll find critics who said "Vivaldi didn't write 450 concertos, he wrote one concerto 450 times." Rossini said "Berlioz is a regular freak without a vestige of talent." Or Tchaikovsky about Richard Strauss: "Such an astounding lack of talent was never before united to such pretentiousness." Tchaikovsky also did not like Brahms whom he called "... a giftless bastard! It irritates me that this self-conscious mediocrity should be recognized as a genius."
You can repeat the above sentiments about any performer, including the ones you worship.
Time will tell what the world thinks of your guys 50 or 100 years from now. ;-)
I'm a jazz fan and I haven't heard every jazz album in existence, so if I buy a reissue it's actually new music as far as I'm concerned. Yes it wasn't recorded yesterday but that doesn't make it any better or worse musically, it just makes it enjoyable or not. I don't understand why reissues are to be frowned upon. Obviously I also buy a lot of new jazz as well, mainly from Scandinavian or European bands these days but again, if the music is new to me and of great quality then I don't care if it's 3 months old or 50 years old.
Cheers,
Craig.
heh Craig, how you doing
nothing wrong with re-issues and jazz if you don't have the album in the first place. It is buying the same re-issue of albums you all ready have and not venturing out to buy other albums. I have bought some nice Nina Simone re-issues lately.
My whole point is that we should all (me included) buy some new music that is out of our general comfort zone and not necessarily audiophile approved.
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