Some thoughts
Bad musicians go in and out of rehab, possibly to be isolated from having to listen to the crap they produce:
Keith Urban
Robbie Williams
(maybe James "at least my music gets me laid" pipsqueak, er Blunt would complete the unholy trinity)
Good musicians are so pained by the existence their music attempts to quantify, they actually leave us for real:
Kurt Cobain
Elliot Smith
(the list goes on but I'm feeling a bit lazy today)
Why is it that the good ones check out permanently while we get the revolving door rehab of the ones that stay with us shoved down our necks every time we open the paper?????
**i just heard that the voice of boston is no longer. it completely changes the timbre of their upbeat songs for me. forever.
posted by susanna @ 11:12 am
9 Comments:
oh, i don't know, i have a rather a soft spot for robbie.
but i take your point.
you know when i always ponder this very thing? every time i listen to 'chelsea hotel #2' by leonard cohen. i think:
"here you are, singing about/to janis joplin, and while you were both in that place, both 'oppressed by the visions of beauty', both tortured and flayed and hated by your own selves - one of you is still here, and one of you is gone".
i guess in that case, one of you is a woman and one of you is a man. go figure. but kurt is gone too. and jeff buckley. and nick drake. and river phoenix [not musical but you know]. and ian curtis. men with hearts of glass. but debbie harry made it.
i guess if you're a genius, you're also probably fragile.
and if you're not a genius, you go to rehab instead.
much better put than my post, miz! i love that you think about what the players in a song might be thinking now. on that note - see the update to my post.
ian curtis - how could i not mention him. re the others, i was trying to limit the field to actual self-induced departure, because the list of those who've left through misadventure (and the misadventure of others - rip the great kirsty maccoll) is too long and troubling. and i was feeling lazy!
re debs harry - when the women survive, they survive forever! marianne faithfull is indestructible.
ps - i was floored when river phoenix died. it was so shocking to hear.
This probably sounds awful but I wouldnt have been upset if it was any other Beatle that had got shot.
really chai?
so you'd risk that person being the wonderful, soulful george harrison, whose solo stuff is so good it makes me cry? despite my defence of paul (a few posts back) against the awful heather, he is far from my favourite beatle. actually, it goes:
george, john, ringo, paul.
but i hate opportunists parading as feminist animal rights campaigners when they are in fact nothing of the sort. hence my defence of uncle paul.
It's for the same reason that you always ruin the dress you love while managing to not destroy the one that you never really warmed to: sod's law.
I am afraid so. Like Sophie (in Sophie's Choice), if one had to be chosen to "go", the order would be Ringo, Paul, George, John (from an artistic and ability to contribute p.o.v). I do realise that John was quite the bastard.
But it is just an opinion.
opinions are welcome. i agree, john lennon was ace - it doesn't matter if he was a bastard or not!
Gawd... since commenting on this, I've had McCartney's "Another Day" in my head (viz Wings). Send help.
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