On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Colin Buttimer wrote:
quoted 10 lines I just remembered, Confield was in Wired magazine a> > I just remembered, Confield was in Wired magazine a
> > few issues ago, among their music picks near the back
> > of the mag. They said something along the lines of it
> > being a great album, and that your kids wouldn't like
> > it. I thought that was funny...
> Wired is right - when I put on 70sMiles/Autechre/etc my kids do exactly
> that, covering their ears and telling me to turn it off. Stuff they like is
> Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown and 70s disco (Amy's four Gabriel two
> and a half).
>
Funk and Disco are all about connecting to people's 'feel good' center
in their brains. Stuff like Autechre is all about redefining and extending
the concept of musical beauty; there's an intellectual component to what
they do that is going to be lost on people of an age where they can't totally
understand "Blues Clues."
I love Autechre, and I love Funk and Disco. They have different purposes,
both valid. I especially love stuff like Marumari that takes some of the
warmth and human accesibility of the latter and combines it with the ambition
of the former.
When my kids were small my favorite bands were Husker Du, Sonic Youth,
and Dinosaur Jr. Once, when Lucas was two, we were driving somewhere with
Zen Arcade playing, and Lucas told me "Turn Off that Loud Monstery Music!"
We were in agreement, however, on Kraftwerk and They Might Be Giants. On
one trip to Chicago, all they'd listen to was "Computer World" and Weird Al's
"Off the Deep End."
Now that Lucas is 13 and Sean is 17, the shared tastes are more about
Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and pre-1970 Bob Dylan. Sean is all about Hip Hop
as well, so we intersect on that, notably with a love for Atmosphere, and
the Anticon crew.
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