on 6/6/00 3:46 PM, Bill Wright at wwright@clemson.edu wrote:
quoted 5 lines I think a subtle point was missed a while back with the initial posts on the
> I think a subtle point was missed a while back with the initial posts on the
> subject. Someone mentioned that they had 4-5 releases by Kid 606 but still
> didn't "get" it. Why did he/she keep on buying Kid 606 records despite the
> fact that he didn't like what he was hearing?
>
it's possible to not understand why you like something and continue to value
it for a number of reasons. i haven't heard any Kid 606 but it's obviously
worth checking out due to the fact that his music causes such bipolar
reactions.
bands like the Locust also seem to have this impact on people too. the music
is so far removed from anything else currently produced that there is no
context in which to address it. closed minded people immediately dismiss it
as "noise" but some people are going to hear something in the music if it's
there. if it was actually just shite, nobody would be hyping it, right?
well i guess the Prodigy proves this wrong. never mind. it's like picasso
or the impressionists or any type of "new" art ... when it first arrives on
the scene, nobody understands it, critics slag it, then people start copying
it, and it becomes a historical precedent after the fact. boom. you're
Monet. personally i think the impressionists were boring, but that's me.
when i bought my first aphex twin record (SAW II) i totally didn't
understand what the hype was about but i kept listening to the album because
i could tell there was something up that wasn't immediately obvious ...
granted SAW II is like Aphex's version of Monet, but there's definitely
something behind that music. or take Oval. the first time my roommates
played that record, i was like "What the fuck? it sounds like a CD skipping
for 70 minutes..." then once i got past the initial shock of the surface
level of the music, and actually listened to what he was doing, it made more
sense.
i don't know about you , but i'm going to check out this Kid 606 cat. i
think he might be onto something.
josh
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