Paul’s Polls

If the voting had gone the other way, then I guess I could've taken the rest of the year off from polling. 

Hi,

That's the hard part or it all ... someone with blue/green balls posting that the artistry for the progressive website is a drag, and probably not realising that it is a show of so many bands that we love dearly ... which kinda states that such a fan, is not a fan of the music at all, otherwise he would recognize many of the little details in the work, and appreciate them ... but the issue might be that he does not see anything that he/she likes in the past 20/25 years ... and then, yeah ... one would think that an update would be nice and needed, but the artist sort of disappeared ... and I guess he has just now surfaced from his big sleep.

The weirdness, and sometimes hippocrisy, is that such a fan that "loves music" would not be criticising things that are older, since Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky and many others are also "MUSIC" and deserve the respect. It's just weird, that some "fans" do not know this is an art ... not some bubble gum that you can chew and then chuck!

It would be nice to see the artistry continue ... for its lifetime, but these days, with the nature and ways of the internet, it looks like "talent" only exists for a nighttime ... and is gone the next morning. Which sadly, is not how the arts have lived for hundreds of years, but it might be a way to separate the ones that mean it, and the ones that don't care ... but sadly, this means that we will never again will catch, and see, another Grateful Dead band ... that gave it away, and became one of the richest ever, while also having the best sound system of them all! 

PS: A side bar here ... my own sister, lives in Paris and has done art shows in more than 50 locations all over Europe in her time, and now reaching her 60's, in Paris (where she has been for 40+ years), she still has to have a side job ... and has not done an art show in sometime. Art, for her, is now a sort of private thing for herself, and screw the public side of it. And it's hard to criticize that when you see someone try so hard for so long, only to still be empty and having to collect peanuts to make a daily meal and keep a roof over her head. Something here is not right, but everyone will always assume that she doesn't care anymore, and her stuff is just as good as ever, just not appreciated ... because it doesn't have the "look" and the "feel" of the current style!

Thanks, even I'm not quite sure about that.

But that would mean me having to listen to all of the Swans albums first. It could have been worse though. You could have asked me for a poll of Current 93, Henry Cow or The Residents albums. 

Great idea! 

It could have been worse, she could have attempted to spoof the Countrylife album cover!