"Sell Out with Me Tonight"

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's a hard call, but I'd rate the seasons of The Wire, from best to least best: 3, 1, 4, 2, 5. 

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 24, 2014 7:30 PM
>To: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>Cc: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: "Sell Out with Me Tonight"
>
>Re: The Wire
>
>Who could possibly prefer season 2 to season 4?!
>
>:-)
>
>Jerky
>
>On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
><thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Am 23.08.2014 12:31, schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
>>
>>>  As much
>>> as I recommend Adorno's thoughts on classical music, one shouldn't
>>> overestimate what he has to say on popular music. And TV-serials like
>>> "Mad Men", "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire" (at least the first three
>>> seasons are solid gold) can in their artistic complexity not be
>>> explained with the relative simple model of the Kulturindustrie, which
>>> was born in World War two and thus always emphasizes the relation of
>>> media output and political propaganda.
>>
>>
>> My take, not being an expert on Adorno, much less classical music: The guy
>> did not understand the first thing about popular music. Given the choice, he
>> probably he would have preferred Yes to early Beatles...
>>
>> I am sticking with Robert Christgau: "(...) unless we can somehow recycle
>> the concept of the great artist so that it supports Chuck Berry as well as
>> it does Marcel Proust, we might as well trash it altogether."
>>
>> http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/berry-76.php
>>
>> "The Wire" is simply astounding.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
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