you're both wrong.
there's this wonderful little system that runs in a circle like a snake
eating its own tail... it works something like this
radio listeners hear a pearl jam song a hundred times on the radio ... it
sucks less than all the other crap that's on so they get fooled into
thinking it's good music, so they buy millions of dollars worth of pearl
jam, and the record industry says "hey those pearl jam guys are onto
something. we need the next pearl jam" so then you get creed and stone
temple pilots, who sound a bit like pearl jam so the record labels pump
money to the independent promoters to hype pearl jam with the radio
stations by sending up starlets to give blowjobs to the program directors,
who then play creed 1000 times a week until the poor listeners get
brow-beaten into buying the new creed album, and it starts all over again
but the fact remains that the kids listening to the radio would rather
have their tastes dictated to them by the radio rather than going out and
forming their own opinions by having them dictated by an internet mailing
list.
--
String Theory : Digital Music for Humans
http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jordan Hare wrote:
quoted 132 lines i'm not on this list to give the finger to capitalist herdism. but i do
>
>
> i'm not on this list to give the finger to capitalist herdism. but i do
> enjoy giving the finger to ignorant leftists like you.
>
> do you honestly think that the public at large would be open to hearing
> complex and difficult electronic music instead of saccharine pop? you
> give too much credit to human nature. blame the blandness of most
> people's taste, not the people who were shrewd enough to turn widespread
> bad taste (or lack of taste) into a highly profitable industry.
>
> when i'm a billionaire i'll school your ass on music.
>
> - j.
>
> matt loathing wrote:
> >
> > The most amazing thing about awards shows is not the
> > music itself. It's the morons who decide who wins the
> > awards. A committee of like minded idiots(corporate
> > assholes with the money to decide if we live or die)
> > chooses what idiots(the general public ie. people who
> > buy whatever they're selling) should listen to. The
> > most necessary thing about a list like ours is to band
> > together, listen to each other and each others music
> > and give a big middle finger to anyone who subscribes
> > to Capitalist Herdism. (I am not a communist and I do
> > believe that Capitalism is good, however there is a
> > point when too much is too much. What the hell does a
> > billionaire Know about music anyway.)
> >
> > Sorry for the Filibuster
> > But Corporate Music is still Muzak(music listened to
> > in elevators and department stores) in my book.
> >
> > ServUs Industry
> >
> > --- "...(Sunsp0t)..." <sunspot@subdimension.com>
> > wrote:
> > > No, no, no!
> > >
> > > I think guitars are wonderful.
> > > MANY goofd things were made by the beatles, the
> > > Stones, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, and so on..
> > >
> > > What I'm driving at is this blidn acceptance of CRAP
> > > geared for commercial consumption and without
> > > interest in the music itself. Any of these bands on
> > > TV, although musically sincere at first, end up
> > > writing and playing for deadlines and coporate
> > > defined tastes.
> > >
> > > IDM sure has facile melodies, that is part of the
> > > beauty. The glitches, are not meant to obscure, but
> > > juxtapose.
> > >
> > > And why can you appreciate that "bands appearing on
> > > awards shows are hardly cream of the crop"? This is
> > > my contention, exactly. Since when are awards meant
> > > for shit?
> > >
> > >
> > > At 1/9/01 8:21:00 AM you wrote:
> > > ><Sound of head hitting wall>
> > > >
> > > >I'm sorry, but the one thing more annoying than
> > > indie kids slagging 'dance
> > > >music' is technoheads slagging anything with
> > > guitars. IT'S ALL GOOD.
> > > >Okay, I can appreciate that bands appearing on
> > > awards shows are hardly the
> > > >cream of the crop, but this is supposed to be an
> > > open minded list for God's
> > > >sake.
> > > >In any case, IDM has some fairly faciloe melodies
> > > of it's own, and hides this
> > > >by turning the glitches up high.
> > > >
> > > ><Thud, thud, thud>
> > > >
> > > >d.
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> I CAN'T STAND This motherf*cking country's
> > > attitude towards music. What
> > > >the
> > > >> hell is so damn alluring about yet another four
> > > guys and a guitar? They all
> > > >> sound the same, the all turn up the distortion
> > > high to add thickenss to an
> > > >> otherwise empty and facile melody, and they CAN
> > > NOT sing to save their god
> > > >> damned lives. Yet, there are cheers and hollars
> > > after a performance. I feel
> > > >> like I'm watching a 6th grade talent show.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ______________________ _ _ _ _ _ _
> > > _ _
> > > Sunsp0t
> > > sunspot@subdimension.com
> > >
> > >
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