old music that you love

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

looking at tom's popular entry on louis armstrong -- whose 20s music i ADORE -- and thinking abt the lex's "b-but i am too young to know" device, i started thinkin abt CUT-OFF POINTS IN TASTE

ie do you or do you not have an EARLIER THAN THIS I CANNOT GO as part of yr listenin armoury? if so sa wot

the earliest piece of music i am aware of liking is SALTARELLO (warnin: may be locked to non-sukratlings) -- it is 700 years old!

Comments

[juror8.livejournal.com]

If you like modern day recordings of old songs, can you really be said to be liking "old music"? Surely that's just like saying "I really love 50s music, Gareth Gates' "Unchained Melody" is the awesome!"?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

yeah, but saying "I like Beethoven's 9th" - you're not going to hear the original performances are you?!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there is a whole branch of (classical) music-making devoted to "authentic performance" precisely bcz fashions in delviery change so much

[sbp.livejournal.com]

And in pop too - viz The Bootleg Beatles, Counterfeit Stones, etc etc.