quoted 1 line Subject: Re: IDM - Polyrock of the 90's?> Subject: Re: IDM - Polyrock of the 90's?
Heh - hey, we liked Polyrock 11 or so years ago ... they were pretty good.
quoted 3 lines Just an observation - it seems like the demographics of IDM match those of>> Just an observation - it seems like the demographics of IDM match those of
>> the Prog Rock crowd of 10-20 years ago - white, middle-class, college-aged
>> guy.
Is this flame bait? :-)
Isn't this - "white, middle-class, college-aged guy" - the main demographic of
*all* of the Rock crowd, of any era?!? Sure, there are women; sure, there are
people outside of the mean age range, but hey, when it comes right down to it,
the Rock crowd will always be mostly 16-25. You get older; the audiences tend
not to.
quoted 1 line I agree. I wonder what we'll all be listening to once we're in our 50's.> I agree. I wonder what we'll all be listening to once we're in our 50's.
Hmmn, I've been on Usenet for 9 years now, I suppose there's a finite chance
I'll still be on it (for some definition of "it") in another 14 ... I'll let
you know :-)
quoted 2 lines Klaus Schulze's original fan base in the early 70's are likely to be listening>Klaus Schulze's original fan base in the early 70's are likely to be listening
>to Classical music. Schulze is even trying his hand at an opera.
Well, in the "early 70's" I actually had my 15-year-old self convinced that
wank sh*t like ELP, Yes, Black Sabbath and the like were the cat's meow.
Luckily, thanks to time and maturity I got better :-)
I suppose the original point has premise in that people who were young and who
listened to ProgRock usually "grew out of it" and then later denounced their
earlier "This is the *best*, maaaaan" tastes as "immature" and ProgWank, so
hey, isn't this just the Same Thing? But I really don't think so. This music
doesn't have mindless noodle-roni soloing or other pretentious wank elements to
it that the musos were so fond of in my callow youth, so I don't see a future
Revisionist History taking place denouncing early 90's IDM as "Pretentious
neo-ProgRock wank".
On the other hand, I've actually seen people post here with Rush quotes in
their .signatures. Unbelievable :-)
I may be a few years younger than "Klaus Schulze's original fan base", but the
day I suddenly feel the urge to shift to predominantly Classical listening,
please shoot me.
quoted 1 line Tamara's the only woman I know of here on IDM too.> Tamara's the only woman I know of here on IDM too.
Erm, what about these ladies, I'm sure they'd love to know they don't exist:
Helen Adriaens
Cecelia Reynolds
Cindy Desmarais
Erika Sherman
Kathleen Blohm
Kathleen Vrshek
Kelli-Jeanne
Roxanna Stieber
Yvonne Lui
joanna
Belinda B. Drake
Belinda B. Bowen
Kate M. Roberts
All have posted to IDM since I've been subscribed ...
quoted 1 line NP: "Bughouse" - Elastic Purejoy.>NP: "Bughouse" - Elastic Purejoy.
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