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Caroliner is a perfect example of what I'm talking about: I'm not a musician whatsoever... so is there really a point for me to be listening to Beefheart when groups like that exist now-a-days? It just seems like so many more recent bands I've heard have taken his ideas, and built upon them to the point where... once again, don't slit my throat ... he almost seems irrelevant to me.
I feel the same way about Orson Welles, and film. He's really influential to cinema as we know it today. But I saw Citizen Kane. SHIT SUCKED. I'm not biased against older films - I love me some Casablanca, or any of the Universal monster flicks; but give me Mean Girls or Nightmare on Elm Street 3 over that crap any day.
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