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Monday Night Music: Them Crooked Vultures, 'Mind Eraser'

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cliffster4/12/2010 9:28:10 pm PDT

re: #238 Cato the Elder

This is why I hate most contemporary music.

In the old days, there was poetry, and then someone set it to a tune.

Since, say, 1948 - arbitrary cutoff date - it’s been tune-driven. Come up with a catchy one, then write horrendous lyrics to go with it.

I do not except anyone from this barring, perhaps, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Leonard Cohen.

You’d best exclude John Hiatt from that…