No, no, no!
I think guitars are wonderful.
MANY goofd things were made by the beatles, the Stones, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, and so on..
What I'm driving at is this blidn acceptance of CRAP geared for commercial consumption and without interest in the music itself. Any of these bands on TV, although musically sincere at first, end up writing and playing for deadlines and coporate defined tastes.
IDM sure has facile melodies, that is part of the beauty. The glitches, are not meant to obscure, but juxtapose.
And why can you appreciate that "bands appearing on awards shows are hardly cream of the crop"? This is my contention, exactly. Since when are awards meant for shit?
At 1/9/01 8:21:00 AM you wrote:
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>I'm sorry, but the one thing more annoying than indie kids slagging 'dance
>music' is technoheads slagging anything with guitars. IT'S ALL GOOD.
>Okay, I can appreciate that bands appearing on awards shows are hardly the
>cream of the crop, but this is supposed to be an open minded list for God's
>sake.
>In any case, IDM has some fairly faciloe melodies of it's own, and hides this
>by turning the glitches up high.
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>d.
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>>
>> I CAN'T STAND This motherf*cking country's attitude towards music. What
>the
>> hell is so damn alluring about yet another four guys and a guitar? They all
>> sound the same, the all turn up the distortion high to add thickenss to an
>> otherwise empty and facile melody, and they CAN NOT sing to save their god
>> damned lives. Yet, there are cheers and hollars after a performance. I feel
>> like I'm watching a 6th grade talent show.
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