BBC pop music series Walk On By

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This is the best music documentary (non-concert) I have ever seen. Better even than the similar BBC series Dancing in the Streets because it gets to the heart of what makes music reach us, even when it is populist crap (justifying Britney Spears and other horrible guilty pleasures!). Plus it acknowledged The Eagles as capitalistic wankers, while still acknowledging artists like Carole King, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Presley, and record producers in general (Phil Spector et. al.) as capitalistic but okay in spite of it (all true!). Maybe this doco foreshadows the end of the music/money marriage can = art? Dunno... Suggest you all listen to I Dream a Highway by Gillian Welch, a message there, still trying to figure what, and in the j

karmik sometimes, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...and in the journey, joy...

karmik trying, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

subconscious j = joint

karmik wanna, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think even a book was published based on the series.

helenfordsdale, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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