Re: [idm] radiocativity reply and Autechre briefly
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Drusca wrote:
quoted 12 lines On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Mark A. Firth wrote:> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Mark A. Firth wrote:
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> > I believe they played some anti-nuclear benefits with U2 (those masters
> > of empty political sentiment) around the same time.
>
> How exactly are U2's political sentiments empty ? You don't think they're
> actually concerned with the issues they address in their lyrics ?
> Can you give me an example of an act that displays "real" political
> sentiment ? It seems to me like Bono's rather actively and
> passionately involved with Jubilee 2000 these days for one thing.
>
> Andrei
To me, packaging a few broad allusions to whatever 'issue' into the context
of a blustery old rock song will rarely amount to more than empty sentiment.
Maybe doing so helps to publicise the cause. I'm sure it helps to publicise
U2. I don't doubt that U2 are (actively) concerned with the issues they
address.
I'm not saying popular music and genuine political sentiment are mutually
exclusive, but I think politics amounts to more than having somebody else's
opinions thrust down your throat. A stadium full of people chanting Bono's
opinions, worthy though I'm sure they are, back at him seems somewhat lacking
in genuine substance.
Music is surely at its most politicised when it's challenging, provoking,
stimulating, confusing, irritating (the power of, for example, Public Enemy
is surely as much to do with the sound they're making as what they're
actually saying). I would say that much "idm" stuff is actually highly
political.
Oh yes, idm. I hear the Autechre Peel Sessions release has been put back to
January...
m.
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