On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Charles R. Terhune wrote:
quoted 5 lines Yeah. There does not seem to be to much innovation in the world of> Yeah. There does not seem to be to much innovation in the world of
> rock. Is it me, or was the music I listened to back when i was a teen in
> the 80's infinitely better than most of the shit out there now? An dI was
> digging Big Black, The Fall, The Cure, The Smiths, Bowhows, and alla that
> stuff.
You can find very worthwhile music of any stripe in any era if you look
hard enough (although the 80s were a particularly low point for jazz, for
instance). The stuff you mention above were pretty big bands and their
recent analogues would probably be CMJ chart-toppers like Tortoise,
Stereolab, Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Pavement, etc, etc. I could
totally understand not being able to get too excited about that particular
grouping of bands, but I'm sure some teenager is getting high off their
sounds and will remember this time as fondly as you do yours. I also
think there's a lot of cross-over potential between the post postrock
landscape and IDM (c.f. Fridge, the Hausmusik label and the Morr comp).
If you want to be more adventurous, I'd say that the Dead C and
Fushitsusha are both as fine a rock band as have ever existed.
While we're all sitting around, pontificating "what's wrong with IDM", I
will proffer the observation that too much of it sounds like it's made by
people who never listen to anything else. Not that IDM has to necessarily
be influenced by other things to be good, but I think it lends a certain
sense of perspective and hey, cross-pollination works in nature. Anybody
who remembers the nth-generation Pavement rip-offs that swarmed the record
bins in the early to mid 90s can surely attest to the horror of
inbreeding.
-rob
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