Hello,
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 18:37:12 -0800, aciddrop@earthlink.net (Philip
Evans) wrote:
quoted 4 lines Actually, my belief is that Aphex Twin:2006 as Sonic Youth:1996. In other>Actually, my belief is that Aphex Twin:2006 as Sonic Youth:1996. In other
>words, he'll be seen as the curmudgeonly grandfather of once-dismissed form
>of music that went on the complete saturate the airwaves, and that all
>right-thinking people will be absolutely bored of by then.
This may be tangential to your point, but since I kept seeing
references such as the above, I made a point of listening to the
supposedly good Sonic Youth albums (ie not the latest ones), and I
think they are highly overrated - but then that's not surprising since
there wasn't much else during those years that was any better.
If you went back in a time machine, and prevented Sonic Youth from
forming, I don't think you'd affect 1996 in any negative way.
I think the ultimate musical effect of Aphex Twin is significantly
greater.
Be seeing you,
Ken <*>
kstuart@mail.telis.org
"That's, like, the whole point of college music, to,
like, make the suburbs look bad." - Butthead