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I don't know his stuff all that well tbh - only ever seen him on the odd panel show! But yeah, that sounds about right. And your second point is definitely a good one, and I've often had similar thoughts regarding progressive rock: there could feasibly be a band that doesn't record a single individual track we would consider 'prog', yet they could still be a 'prog' band. I think Kate Bush, and Peter Gabriel's solo stuff kind of fit into this. But maybe the best example would be The Wall - I don't think I'd be able to point to a single song on that album and say 'this is prog', but the album as a whole clearly is. I think every prog band has at least a few songs that aren't individually prog (sometimes not even remotely), but it would probably still be best to call even those songs 'prog' (I think), just because of the context of the band/album. This actually goes into some of the stuff I left out of the video haha, and I'm not going to write out another essay here 😅 but I think even with the Beatles' White Album, it's worth remembering that although they do hit upon a very wide range of styles, they are still a 'pop/rock' band. So when they do country music, it's not actually full-blown-country-music - when they do *whatever*, it's usually not really full-blown-*whatever*. It's usually 'The Beatles dabble in *whatever*'. Not at all to diminish their acheivements - just a realistic assessment of the fact that they weren't (and no one can be) a master of all styles. For one, because genre is culture, and no one can be all cultures (I hope this makes sense - pls challenge me if you disagree. Or head over to my subreddit and we can talk there! www.reddit.com/r/bigyellowpraxis/ it's very quiet at the mo, so any contribution is valued!) And on your third point - I did write that bit thinking 'this is an overgeneralisation' (a common theme for me!). But just to be clear, what I said was 'bad lyrics - or maybe just trivial lyrics - are less acceptable in folk music than most other genres'. Which is a bit different to what your understanding of my point was (I didn't say complexity). That's partly on me, of course, and it still isn't a perfect statement! (After all, Quinn the Mighty Eskimo sounds pretty trivial to me). Obviously, none of the lyrics you quote there are 'complex' - but I also don't think they're trivial either. And I certainly think that folk music *does* have higher standards for lyrics than most other genres, with a lower tolerance for triviality - I might argue that Bob Dylan could only get away with the occasional dabble in trivial lyrics precisely because he so rarely did. I do actually want to do a future episode on 'what is complexity', so I'm sure some of this stuff will be in that. Though I'm not sure when I'll make it. Next video: one chord songs (and why David Bennet Piano's video is wrong) 🤔 Thanks as always for watching, and your comments are always appreciated!

@@bigyellowpraxis Ah my mistake on the misunderstanding, I think a video on lyrical and compositional complexity, its merits and drawbacks would be incredibly interesting, and maybe it could be another project video like this one.

Yeah, I'm sure I'll get round to it someday! 😅

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