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Title: a joke that isn't funny
Review: It's not surprising that there is a difference of opinion about this record. I mean if you're going to sell out, you have to sell out to SOMEONE. If everyone recognized it for what it is, there wouldn't be an filthy lucre in it and no point to it.I disagree with one of the reviewers that anything that evokes the sixties in any way is necessarily good (and just because you happened to grow up in the sixties, as did I, doesn't make the sixties inherently wonderful). Hucksterism was as annoying then as it is now, in the naughts. I laughed the first time I heard the title track, but the joke wasn't funny the second time. I don't really think it's a matter of live and let live, each to his own, there's no accounting for taste, etc. No, I think Muzak (and this IS Muzak--with a different brand name) much more insidious, much more oppressive. It squelches art; it smothers sensitivity; it crushes culture.
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