> I love Jim as a producer, especially on Bat II, as a few
> others commented, but I think that sometimes he becomes a
> little self-indulgent.
>
> Basically, I'm talking about Pandora's Box. For an
> example, take the beginning parts of "The Future Ain't
> What it Used To Be," with the rattling chains and the
> shouting No's. It detracts from the beauty of the song,
> and I usually fast-forward over those parts.
If you felt that the small mouth on the Mona Lisa detracts from her beauty, would you say that the painter was too self-indulgent? Artists are meant to be self-indulgent. Else, art would be produced like machines. Despite the fact that there is a mechanicized music business, does not inhere to the artist denial of the art. Commercializing of art to the extent we know is a modern phenomenon. Those chains and No's are essential to the work in question.
>
> Also, Little Red Book bothers me, as well.
>
> But, when he's on, and he's almost always on, I love it.
You could be a fan of someone who annoys you less, yes?
> The grandiosity, the wall of sound, well, I'm just
> rambling now--we all love his production style, that's one
> of the reasons we're here.
>
> Oh, I love the way pianos sound in his songs. He mentioned
> it in his blog a little ways back, that it's a carefully
> crafted timbre. It shows.
He carefully creates everything he does, it shows, in all of his works. Just because you are not in on what his inspirations are, do not give you the right to question his applications of them.
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