At 02:12 PM 3/9/97 -0000, you wrote:
quoted 1 line This kind of thing pisses me off big time about a lot of people I know. All>This kind of thing pisses me off big time about a lot of people I know. All
of >a sudden grungoid rawknroll is no longer quite as trendy as it was, the
masses >are on a dance tip, E is the shit (*hahaha*), and wanker pop star
muso's are >cashing in on it. Friends of mine believe the wanker poppy music
coming out is >the new edge. Bollocks!
But you must remember, there's a monied majority out there, all of whom have
these issues, rendering them incapable of digestion-appreciation-CONSUMATION
of music for music's sake. In a Calvinist, anti-esoteric posture thesxe poor
souls cannot be luresd away from that which has stated meaning, or at least
direct vocal association to another not myself. Silence+harmonics defeats
word virus: only work here, me.
quoted 1 line I mean cases like U2, Tori Amos (Professional Widow - makes me wanna puke!!>I mean cases like U2, Tori Amos (Professional Widow - makes me wanna puke!!
& I don't care who remixed/produced the dancey version).
quoted 1 line The problem is when POP wankers & the MAN hijack kif producers they tend to>The problem is when POP wankers & the MAN hijack kif producers they tend to
lose their street appeal. I mean can I trust HowieB again after doing work
on POP. Likewise what about Eno?????
quoted 1 line>
Everybody likes money, I suppose you'd have a point if you said bagging
groceries has a more positive effect upon an artist's output than producing
rock albums---methinks milkman is a product of the former, or at least one
of those "trippy" visits to the supermarket.
quoted 3 lines But now the other problem is. How far do we go...>But now the other problem is. How far do we go...
>
>U2 is one thing, but what about bands like Underworld. I still have a bit
of a hard time liking them because they will always be a POP band (does
anyone remember "Underneath the Radar") in my eyes, it smelt to me the first
time I heard dubnobasswithmyheadman that Underworld had hijacked a genre
started by people like Orbital and made a POP album out of it. Even the
Shamen made POP music in the 80's.
Underworld admits they were unhappy with themselves in their first
incarnation, but then they hooked up with a DJ...oooh...now we get pop star
self indulgence over mediocre white-boy trance.
n a w h' m a' c u p p u' t a e
quoted 4 lines but there is one thing we all know IDM is not: rock!>
>>but there is one thing we all know IDM is not: rock!
>
>And must be our resounding athem.... IDM is not ROCK!!!!
yer anthem sound like a rock song