[NewMusic] breathtakingly bad

[barry threw]

> I don't tend to like reading any kind of prose where a writer has so
> much contempt for his/her subject. I didn't enjoy reading this  
> article.
> There's no reason why I should enjoy reading everything, but I don't
> tend to finish reading things I don't enjoy.

I guess this article just didn't bother me on that front as much.  I  
felt like the writer came to an honest opinion about Zorn, and it was  
just a bad one.  I also didn't feel like he dismissed him  
outright...but to me it read like he was trying to give Zorn a  
chance, but his experience of the music got crushed under the weight  
of a lot of other things, which were enumerated at length...

I'm hardly a Zorn fanatic but I do really enjoy a great deal of his  
music; this article in itself didn't change my opinion of him.  But  
were I  to follow Zorn enough to learn that some of the criticisms  
that were alleged in this article were true, then I would probably  
express some of the same frustration with his artists persona.

Perhaps I'm wrong and it was really just sensational.  In that case,  
I enjoyed the sensationalism.

> As far as Phil Collins is concerned: who the fuck cares?

Possibly Phil Collins.  But not me.

b

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