Speaking of filler...

[Chris Allen]

If you're gonna assess the word "dated" out of context, yes you're right, 
but in context, is it not a perjorative term denoting the fact that the 
period style of the art is overwhelming the content?

Surely BOC's early albums sound like they were recorded in the '70s, but is 
that the first thing you hear when you listen to them, the songs or the 
release dates?

On 9/15/05, David Kuznick <dkuznick at alumni.brandeis.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Wow! The early BOC albums *aren't* dated? You can't be serious! Whatever
> one's opinion of them, you mean to tell me they don't sound like they were 
> made
> in the early-mid 70's?
> 
> I've generally found "dated" to be one of the most irksome labels to apply 
> to
> music, right up there with "pretentious" - convenient and generally 
> meaningless
> cliches used most often by rock critics who can't (or in most cases simply
> aren't able to) think of anything to actually say about the music. Very 
> little
> music *isn't* dated; music (and art in general) tends to be a product of 
> its
> time. That's part of the point of art.
>