Music And Immortality

Excellent and thought arousing post on To Die By Your Side, about short living bands with the most perfect records - and the hypothetical question of what would there second and third and more records looked like? Better? (if possible) Or was the perfection a one time thing leaving no where to go?

I do find most of what he says quite intriguing but I do have to split hairs with him on one point

It’s worth bearing in mind how time and circumstances affect how we retrospectively evaluate bands. Sometimes, I don’t think it is all about the music.

But the music is sometimes all bands leave us with.

I do agree that time and circumstance will affect how we evaluate these bands over time. But I have a problem with the next sentence.

Music is not something that you can say “all” about in that sense.

Music is more than just itself. It is what it evokes in you when you hear it the first time, it is absorbed by your mood and circumstance and molded into your own personal sensual experience.

It is not something that exist in its own right, really. It needs somebody listening for it to be.
So a band that leaves us music - is really leaving us with much more than that.

What do you think?