Re: Final Thoughts on _Rocket Man_

[caen!bsbbs!nrc@harvard.harvard.edu (N. Richard Caldwell)]

boris@ocf.berkeley.edu (Boris Chen) writes:

> In article <3yecFB1w164w@bsbbs.UUCP> nrc@bsbbs.UUCP (N. Richard Caldwell)
writes:
> >I'm glad that you got that out of it.  I wish that I could say
> > that I had, but for me it doesn't work.  No, it's not that I
> > haven't listened closely enough.  I simply don't feel* the
> > synergy between contrasting lyric and melody that worked so
> > well for _Army Dreamers_.  Rather than playing against one
> > another to create an ironic twist, in _Rocket Man_ they clash
> > to produce a confused message.
> 
> You plebian pug hog! How dare you think you somehow can listen
> closer than I. Or that you even have the right to have an opinion.
> You don't feel the synergy because you have the sensitivity of
> re-enforced concrete, finess of a steam shovel, and taste
> worse than my spelling.

I hope that this was a joke.  I certainly never intended to
suggest that I could listen closer than you.  In fact, the very
point I was trying to make was that it is generally not valid to
suggest such a thing when dealing with subjective judgements. 
This is particularly so when dealing with people who are as deeply
into the music as Love-Hounds generally seem to be.  I'm sorry if
this point was not clearly expressed in my original post.



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