Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation betweenĪ great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from. Publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically Worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. If a major label picks upĪ musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him
The world, most rock critics will ignore him. The most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around Too little to the merits of real musicians. Whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena and In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a RockĬritics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classicalĬritics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. Over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all time.Ĭlassical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians ofĪll time are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous Music still is from becoming a serious art. Significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most
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