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Tom Herzog's avatar

Although I haven't thought as deeply and as carefully about pop music as Celia has for some time now I've had the intuition that pop music in the West became a form of toxicity to young people with the advent of electrically enhanced music.

To me there's something mind and soul numbing about virtually all pop and rock music. And please don't misunderstand me, I listened to way too much of it as a youth. And look how I ended up. Like the caricature in the Beatles' "Nowhere Man."

I took a class in college called something like "Western classical music appreciation" or something like that. It changed the way I looked at music, for the better.

The West has brought a lot of harm to the world but the West's classical music legacy is one of the greatest things mankind has devised. Ironically then that pop music and rock is among the worst, the later being both mind numbing and soul killing.

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Chris's avatar

Fourteen year old me also played covers of “Guns of Brixton” and “London Calling” many times in same aforementioned cover band, with my $50 bass guitar. As it should be.

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