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>From: rdhouse@ilstu.eduquoted 1 line I think "Music Has the Right..." sounds dated and old.
>I think "Music Has the Right..." sounds dated and old.
You know, if that's all you'd said or seemed to mean, I wouldn't have taken
a bit of exception. Instead, you made a fairly silly overarching statement
that you didn't see how anybody could still care about them when they hadn't
released much recently or done any touring.
It's good, I guess, that we make each other laugh.
And FWIW, no, of course I don't expect Boards of Canada to have the same
staying power as Coltrane, or, say, errr... ummm... Led Zeppelin. If I were
drawing an actual parallel, I would expect BoC, eventually, to occupy a
position something more like the Raincoats do in rock. They didn't release
much, really (and a good portion of their fans kind of abandoned them after
that first gorgeous album, although they really should have waited out
Odyshape, which is lovely), but they did stake out a very distinctive and
affecting area of sound that didn't quite exist before, and a few people
still remember them for it. The Raincoats, in turn, ended up influencing,
although not defining, nice little college bands like the Throwing Muses.
And incidentally, Arovane, on his Tides album, is building on and nuancing a
lot of what BoC created, although I don't expect Arovane to have the same
staying power as even BoC. Despite the fact that he makes very, very nice
songs and textures, I don't see what Arovane is doing as being as
distinctive or important as what BoC did, even though Arovane's recent
output is much more consistent in quality than are BoC's post-Hi-Scores
releases, which can be a bit spotty and redundant.
BoC, however, distilled a very warm, vague feeling (nostalgia, mostly)
better than anyone else, and I expect that once certain strains of music
have gotten out from under their influence, they could sound fresh again, if
still very much a product of the late-90's.
All the best,
M.
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