Posted by Xtian at ool-4353a695.dyn.optonline.net on February 22, 2004 at 23:50:03:
In Reply to: sshhh, don't say renaissance... posted by nogoodnik on February 22, 2004 at 23:28:31:
: On topic, I view fighting this as rather futile and somewhat silly as this was a low point in music for me.
its as pointless as it is to argue any movement that happened in the past, as if it happened in a vacuum. i mean, to the modern ear and eye, wordsworth and byron have quite a major vista between them, but the fact of the matter is, they are both romantics. events that were happening in culture, music, literature (prose), and politics all fed in to the collective psyche that was their time and fueled what became their poetry. grunge music (or any type of scene for that matter), for all its flannel and nihilism was created under similar circumstances. now i'm not saying romatic poetry and mother love bone have much to do with each other, but periods in art are products of what surrounds them, and if the mad bad lord and the grecian urner can have differences yet still be a part of the same current, then so can mookie blaylock and the guy from the foo fighter's old band.