Re: (TV) Matter of Taste / Wrong / Can't Dance / Non-Musician-Angle

[robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>]

--- Jesse Hochstadt <Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu> wrote:
> One case in which I think a band's music became less
> interesting as they 
> became "better musicians" is that of R.E.M.
> (Admittedly, Mike Mills and 
> Bill Berry were probably solid journeymen musicians
> from the start, so I'm 
> probably talking primarily about Peter Buck here.
> Not knowing how to write 
> "proper songs" seemed to give them greater freedom
> in the early days. Have 
> they done anything as musically odd but effective as
> "9-9" since Murmur?


i was just thinking about this in regard to richard
hell.  spent a lot of time listening to his work
yesterday.  he wrote some really interesting,
memorable songs.  and as marky ramone noted in an
interview linked here recently, it was fairly
challenging stuff -- unusual time changes and such, a
bit jazzy.  yet by all accounts he was not a great
musician.  so how to explain his ability to write
great songs?  was it that he had a good sense for
music, without being a good musician?  

r


	
		
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