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no shit, but who cares. all fiction is a lie, right?
its inspiring. take it for what it is.
| Inspired?? If this is what you vicariously choose to live through that's you deal. I personally don't believe most of what I read.  |
FWIW, I don't believe most of what you read, either.
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Originally Posted by bobby yarrow  [...]
I dunno. I'm not even convinced that Nebraska was recorded with 2 SM57's, and that record really sounds like 2 SM57's.
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I appreciate the rigor of your skepticism.
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Originally Posted by joeq not to me it doesn't
dry as toast - sorry
after reading this thread, I thought it was going to sound "great", not "great, considering..."
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Me... I
like dry as toast. I hate mixes slathered in goopy reverb. Yuck. They sound
so fake.
Now I
don't think this sounds like it was necessarily recorded on expensive gear. But it
was clearly tracked and mixed by someone with a vivid and distinctive musical vision. In a world of cookie-cutter product, it sounds fresh and clean and unencumbered by current fad and fashion.
I can easily see why this would be classified as
lo fi (with the understanding reinforced by a recent thread that
that term means
wildly different things to different people).
But it also sounds very
good to me. Very satisfying. Very pleasant. (I did just put
Michigan into my playlist to see if I could suss out the discomfort issue someone mentioned. I'm a coal miner's canary for many fatigue/discomfort/phase problem issues.)
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Originally Posted by travisbrown [...]
There's a difference between being a christian artist and an artist who happens to be a christian. Bruce Cockburn and T-Bone Burnett being examples of the latter. I think Sufjan falls in this category. T-Bone actually refers (ed) to himself as a "christian agnostic", but I think he's just trying to be a pain in the ass.
"Gospel music" is a bit of a neutered term. Was more useful when it referred to old soul music that had burst out of the southern baptist churches. It literally means "good news", and that's what those old gospel tunes professed. |
What might be called
Christian agnosticism is part of a
long tradition of people who feel that Jesus' teachings of compassion, charity and ethical behavior transcend the pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking with which many folks approach Christianity as a reassuring, comfort zone religion.