Talk:Stuart Davis (musician)

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[edit] Genre choice

I reverted Cburnett's change of "contemporary American musician" to "folk American musician" for a few reasons. First, contemporary means "still alive" in addition to a type of music. Second, Stuart's music is no longer anything like folk. Go listen to "Doppelganger Body Donor" and tell me he's folk. His music now contains elements of folk, punk, rock, pop, haiku, prog rock, etc. Calling him a folk musician is simply untrue. --goethean 14:47, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I changed it back to folk music (you're summary didn't explain why this part was changed) before reading this. Perhaps the best choice here is instead of pigeon holing him into a genre, leave off the genre and say his music "contains elements of folk, punk, rock, pop, haiku, prog rock, etc". How bout that? Cburnett 17:34, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

great idea. --goethean 17:41, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Mmmmm, much better. Cburnett 17:45, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] grammar

Which is better:

"He has been performing throughout the United States and Europe for over a decade."

Or:

"He has performed throughout the United States and Europe for over a decade."

--goethean 18:28, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

The latter makes it sound like he's dead. Like he *has* performed and won't do it anymore. Whereas "been performing" sounds more like it's contual, still happening, and still plans on doing it. Cburnett 18:48, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Wizards"

I pulled wizards from the list of "cool good things Stuart's lyrics contain" because including wizards on the list displays a profound lack of understanding of any of the songs in which he mentions wizards. "She said some ugly wizard/stumbled into her room/dropped his gown/waved his wand around/and brought some bruises into bloom" is hardly the sort of Gandalf-like figure that including "wizards" on that list implies.