Originally Posted by
MarkBastable
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The other problem was a tendency towards the apparently arbitrary. Any kind of art - but particularly music - ought to convince you that that's exactly the way it goes, and if it didn't go that way, it wouldn't be what it is.
When you listen to prog rock and you hear tiddley-bonk-tiddle, biddle-whack, biddle-whack-whack, you can't help thinking, "Well, that's alright, but there seems to be no real reason why it could not just as easily have been tiddley-tiddle-bonk, whack-biddlewhack, bonkity-bonk-whack."