![]() Why? Because he believed that music became less beautiful the more it attempted to represent a definite "feeling", so framing words in music, or using music to tell a story, was deemed vulgar compared to the abstract constructs of "absolute" music.īut as we move into the jazz and classical-influenced realms of Prog, however, we find more inspired instrumental fare. Vocal music was judged by 19th-century critic Eduard Hanslick to be inferior to that of instrumental music, like Beethoven's peerless late quartets. Within jazz and classical music, of course, a reverse snobbery is evident. ![]() That rock critics should applaud these lacklustre arrangements is bizarre because the best instrumentals are capable of stimulating the most intense emotions. Another fine band, but the instrumentals are again the weakest links, neither achieving great musical heights. Surely this was a case of the band's clouding the panel's judgment rather than the instrumental having any great musical value? Similarly, Flaming Lips have won the rock instrumental Grammy twice, for Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon and The Wizard Turns On. The Smiths' Oscillate Wildly makes it into Rolling Stone's top 25 instrumentals of all time. Yet, tiresomely, some insist on conferring greatness on such padding. Blur litter their albums with pleasant enough interludes that, on both Lot 105 and Intermission, morph into grating lad romps. ![]() ![]() Most pop and rock instrumentals are mere filler. ![]()
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