Posted by Jeremiah
on 5/31/2012, 7:38 am, in reply to "That's the kind of thing that bugs me"
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Great art resists categorization, and I have no problem saying that Ween made great art. Or at least, 4-star band art :)
--Previous Message--
: People are so quick to dismiss a band because
: they're "a joke band" or
: "they're satirists". But it's
: totally possible to be both resonant and to
: satirize at the same time, or to find
: resonance in the silliness. Ween didn't play
: country music (for example) because they
: wanted to make fun of it, they played it
: because they love the genre honestly. And if
: they got the chance to poke fun at a cliche
: or two along the way why not? They were a
: band who first and foremost wrote songs. And
: if a song would sound best played in an odd
: genre so be it. To call Ween a joke band is
: like calling the Beatles a Merseybeat band,
: it's true on occasion but it narrows the
: truth so much to be unrealistic. And that's
: not mentioning the sizable portion of songs
: they've done that are 100% honest and
: genuine, like Stay Forever, It's Gonna Be
: Alright, or I Don't Want It.
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