Rearrange PA top 20 to your personal tastes

Hi,

I take a softer stance on this ... things may have been this and that, but everyone said the same thing about Jimi, Janis, Jim and others, and all they were doing is being themselves so hard, and so much, on a stage that it was difficult for many to relate to ... 40 to 50 years later, when so much music is thought to be "great" and it has very little depth of feeling, other than ... just ideas! Jimi, Janis and Jim were so strong, that many folks could not relate to it, even then ... heck, Joe Cocker was laughed off real quick and all of a sudden, people got used to his voice, and he ended up really being very strong. Same for Roger Chapman (Chappo/Family).

The one thing I know about college/university is this when it comes to music ... ANYONE that creates a piece of music and call it a suite, or a concerto, or something that is usually meant for music and composers long DEAD, has no chance whatsoever. Someone like Keith coming to his mates ... look, I got a concerto here, how do we do this? And he shows TARKUS ... and they worked it to perfection in the end ... and then one day you listen to Rachel Flowers do this on the piano (and organ at a different time) and she just absolutely displayed what a magnificent piece of music it was ... but in those days, no one was going to pay to hear this within the rock music idiom ... and we are still punishing Keith (and ELP) for this ... he died because no one understood and appreciated his classical abilities and how he had to change them to get somewhere ... something that is gut wrenching to anyone that has any creative juices. You take your baby and you defile it so it satisfies something else. I suppose that Keith was appreciative that it still got made and played, but I imagine that the lack of seeing what a piano concerto (how else would he show it to his mates?) was done, would in later years have him in tears ... I created all this, for a mucking song only, and no one sees anything in it! It will kill your spirit!

That said, seeing things like "Love Beach" was almost a finger to a record company, and even fans! They want crap, let them have it!

Reminds me of a few composers that when their pieces were introduced they were booed and made fun of, and some of them even lost their commissions and jobs. Only to find out later that their work was excellent, and has stood the test of time ... at least in the last 100 years. How many more died without that pleasure and ability since we have been able to hear the music and eventually have it recorded?

Hi,

With all due respect ... I find it sad that all one can say is call "filler" on some parts of the music, when it has been a part of music history for THOUSANDS OF MUCHING YEARS, and not one is saying that Vivaldi or Beethoven was not guilty of it.

The "filler" is there for a reason, that many top of the pop listeners can not understand, because it has no lyrics ... and it is often much easier to say that these folks lack the imagination to listen, if they have to have lyrics to tell them what the "filler" is all about.

I'm sorry ... but every time I read about "filler" this or that, I just want to throw up ... so all of music has come to this, a bunch of fans considering 90% of all the music that has EVER been made, just a bunch of crap that means nothing.

This has to stop. We're destroying progressive music and its monumental passages of music! This is not top ten!!!!