It Can Only Get Better From Here.

You can't dismiss pop music. Pop music has such an emormous influence on our culture. It may suck, but when it doesn't... it's a plume of colour shooting out over a dreary, grey wastland. People notice it and come running for miles, from all over the earth hopeing to get another view.

Look at Nirvana. boom. Then everyone buys the second album the day it comes out, so they can be present, this time, from the beginning. Look at the Beatles, you just heard all that crappy 50s music, then out of know where (by know where I mean england) all this amazing music erupts, like kids running through fountains people flock for a taste. Screaming in a state of nature, like the bacchae, in a mind blowing extascy. It's Perry Como and Andrew Sisters fault. If they didn't SUCK so hard then the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, (and the Kinks) would never had stood out so clearer against that shitty shitty background they painted.

Without the SHITTY periods you could never have the good. When it's good, it means people have won, the marketing isn't working anymore. All is in balance. Unfortunately, the marketeers recalibrate there sell-o-meter and get to work dimantling anything artistic or interesting about the good and crank out new some happless attention seeking tool in the 'beatles' or 'nirvana' package. Like fractals, it's hard to predict where one is going to start and the last in going to end, but boy is it ever magic when things change.


Today's Song of the Day is "Cristo Redentor" by Donald Byrd off his 1963 ablum "A New Perspective" (recorded January 12, 1963 at Van Gelder Studio)

Crazy Fact: Check out his FULL name: Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II. wow.