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by John Clarke » Tue Jun 01, 2021 10:35 am
Rap, hip-hop, drums 'n' bass - in short, anything devoid of melody, harmony or variety. And that form of jazz which has saxophones pretending to be hyperactive blow-flies ("scribble music", I call it).
Anything being played in a pub, bar, restaurant or cafe that's too bloody loud for ordinary conversation to be possible.
Any music on a film or TV soundtrack that tells you how you're supposed to feel about what's going on, or where the scene is set (accordions for France, mandolins for Italy, bouzoukis for Greece, etc, etc).
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)