Nah, 4'33" is only a single part of his work out of thousands. Do you really find this pretentious?



Looking at interviews, he comes across as the opposite of pretentious, but I think people confuse that term with open-mindedness.

^could you recommend me some

One work of monumental pretentiousness can undo a lifetime of real work.

Yeah, I can't compare with most of this forum but I've heard and know a ****load of music compared to the average person and I can't name a single Janet Jackson song, but I definitely know Ice Ice Baby.

Since Vanilla Ice is white I anticipate Soulflower calling me racist now.

You don't know Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation? I thought everyone knew that. I thought it was iconic.

Oh and also this might be kind of uncomfortable overall so I'm not really going to say anything, but I'm going to go ahead and post this picture of Michael Jackson

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...el_Jackson.jpg


yup

Four Walls, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, and In a Landscape.

I'm sorry that you feel that way, you're missing out on a lot of beautiful music. Have you heard John Cale's early work? Does it undo his later work or vice versa?

I'll check him out, bro.

I don't particularly care if an artist is pretentious, so long as they make good music. I'd rather listen to pretentious but entertaining, rather than grounded but boring.

I'm curious. Do you sit there and listen to that kind of stuff like other people listen to mainstream? Like say you have an hour drive ahead of you, would play you these musical "noise experiments"?

I'm not knocking you for it. I just don't get it.