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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:25:58 -0800
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Re: [idm] BOC Extreme Contradiction
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Come on, they're Scottish. Everyone knows the Scots don't really possess the same sort of capacity for rational thought that others do. Cut 'em a break.
quoted 25 lines ----- Original Message ----->----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rob Salit" <rsalit@nyc.rr.com> >To: "IDM List" <idm@hyperreal.org> >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:26 PM >Subject: [idm] BOC Extreme Contradiction > > >These guys completely contradicted themselves in the two interviews that >were recently talked about. > >In the XLR8R interview, Mike says about the forthcoming album, "We want to >do this one at our own pace and only deliver it when we think we¹ve got >something that is absolutely perfect, with no flaws." > >Then in the NME interview he says, "It's okay to be imperfect - in >fact the imperfections are where the magic is. To us, perfect music sounds >sterile and dead. The tunes we write are imperfect, the sounds are >imperfect, even the artwork. I can't listen to perfect music, it bores me. >We actually put a lot of effort into making things rough and difficult and >noisy, even more so on this than on the last album." > >When I read things like this it makes me think that their philosophies have >no credibility. I wish I hadn't read that. > >TekDz9er
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