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!@#$%! · 04.20.2018, 08:32 AM

in retrospect i think the dizzy & getz versions of siboney, while interesting in their bebop interpretation, are too lively, and miss the point that the original song is a semi-melancholy horndog call for something faraway and unattainable, but wanted hard, and so they sort of destroy it into a simple musical motif with variations and lose the emotional core of it.

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and YES about nirvana. people forget that the late 80s/early 90s were a huge downer themselves— bush I was in office, there was a huge recession after the failure of reaganomics, gen-xers were overeducated and underpaid, the specter of global thermonuclear annihilation was still present, AIDS was rampant, the working class was destroyed, there was a huge crack epidemic, etc etc.

their depressive chants were a huge fucking catharsis rather than a pathetic moan. that’s what was great about them. there was a happiness in letting it all out.

but anyway, millennials are the new baby boomers now, and have taken over, ha ha ha.

04.20.2018, 08:32 AM	#49570
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,466	in retrospect i think the dizzy & getz versions of siboney, while interesting in their bebop interpretation, are too lively, and miss the point that the original song is a semi-melancholy horndog call for something faraway and unattainable, but wanted hard, and so they sort of destroy it into a simple musical motif with variations and lose the emotional core of it. — and YES about nirvana. people forget that the late 80s/early 90s were a huge downer themselves— bush I was in office, there was a huge recession after the failure of reaganomics, gen-xers were overeducated and underpaid, the specter of global thermonuclear annihilation was still present, AIDS was rampant, the working class was destroyed, there was a huge crack epidemic, etc etc. their depressive chants were a huge fucking catharsis rather than a pathetic moan. that’s what was great about them. there was a happiness in letting it all out. but anyway, millennials are the new baby boomers now, and have taken over, ha ha ha.
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