Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: The Return of Yes - (nf) Message-ID: <463@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 16:10:12 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.463 Posted: Mon Feb 13 16:10:12 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:58:29 EST References: <5528@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 > It just may be, although most creatures who criticize the > tastes of others would probably never be so sensitive to > realize, that members of groups like YES and GENESIS, > two bands that have or are undergoing similar changes in > musical style, have come to realize that songs concerning > fantasy-lands, tall spires and castles, and magical miracles > has little to do with the world WE live in, and hence has no > meaning or emotion to everyday people. Take your head out of > your a-- before you speak through it ! > - Rich H. uiucdcs!henthorn C-U,Ill. I don't believe that is true at all. Obviously several years ago those songs did have meaning to the "everyday" people who listened to them. The problem was that the groups who wrote them failed to grow and change and mature, choosing to make poor attempts at rehash rather than to innovate the way they used to. Do Kenny Rogers songs have meaning or emotion to everyday people? -- Pardon me for breathing... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr