On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
writes:
quoted 51 lines --- tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:
>
> --- tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:
> >
> > you dont know shit about the context...just admit
> > it.
>
> Either this is very funny or it's very sad. Context
> is different for different people. For example:
>
> > its got everything to do with it...doesnt
> > originality and newness count
> > for anything? if you had been listening to the
> > beatles and the rolling
> > stones for 6 years prior, ud realize that NEU!
> > (among others) was a
> > breath of fresh air...
>
> ...if someone hadn't been listening to The Beatles or
> the Rolling Stones 6 years prior, but in fact had been
> paying attention to different musical trends (sorry
> I'm not as much of a scholar to mention anything
> specific, but certainly Beatles & Rolling Stones
> weren't the only two options back then), Neu! (or
> anything else) would be perceived differently.
>
> Case in point: In the summer of 1997, my big loves
> were Tori Amos, They Might Be Giants, and Nine Inch
> Nails - the latter being the most "adventurous" stuff
> I listened to. On a whime I bought this CD by this
> guy called "Aphex Twin." He blew my mind. It was
> unlike anything I'd heard before and I knew I loved
> it.
>
> However, if I'd been paying attention to electronic
> music and "IDM" and all of this throughout the 90's,
> Aphex Twin would have been much less of a shock to my
> system. In the creator's context of his influences,
> contemporaries, label, etc. - Aphex's RDJ Album is
> good, but not really revolutionary. Especially
> considering the Hangable Auto Bulb releases two (or
> one?) years prior.
>
> So, yes, context is everything, but whose context?
> The artist's, the label's, an abstract historal
> context, or the listener's? In which case, which
> listener? You? Me?
>
> I hope I don't sound like I'm lecturing, but just
> saying "context is everything" and then lambasting
> someone else for not sharing your context and
> therefore your views is kind of short-sighted, IMHO.
of course context is personal...it's easy to dismiss any artist NOW...but
that does not make them "irrelevant" or "over-rated", particularly if one
has no clue of the context (environment; historical era; time) that they
made their impression.
tom w
np: augustus pablo - dubbing with the don
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