EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com> writes:
quoted 13 lines At 05:06 PM 7/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> At 05:06 PM 7/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >Radiohead is taking idm into the mainstream. what are your thoughts list?
>
> I think it's not an accurate hypothesis. They may appeal to both people
> into IDM and they may appeal to people into indie-type rock, but I don't
> think they're providing any real cross-over.
>
> Perhaps if they hired matmos to do the backing for their next album, I'd
> argue that they're trying, but simply mixing in modern electronic tricks
> and techniques to their music style isn't going to clue people in to music
> that's made entirely of electronic tricks and techniques. Unless they're
> saying stuff like "if you like this, try this autechre cd!"
Which they are... Justin from Alder & Elius was all ga-ga last year
because Thom Yorke played one of their cuts in a DJ set on the BBC.
They've been quoted talking up Warp and Skam all over the music press
and radio.
Anyway I think they will cause *some* crossover just because if
1,000,000 people bought Kid A and 500,000 of them liked it enough to
do some reading on Radiohead and 100,000 of those had never heard of
"IDM" and thought enough of Thom Yorke's opinions to seek out some
Boards of Canada or whatever, I am pretty sure you'd still probably
see a bump in the sales curve ...
Anyway it's great that Yorke is spreading new sounds to people who
might not have otherwise heard them. I'd be happy to have him give a
shout-out to my band.
A funny story: When I bought Kid A (the very day that it came out
... i'm an unabashed Radiohead fanboy) there were four other people in
line with me: A high-school age girl in a cheerleader sweater, a
40-something business-looking man, a hesher-looking dude in a
Corrosion of Conformity shirt and a crusty punk-rock kid ... all of
them had copies of Kid A in hand.
Which is 100% excellent in my book. Anybody who thinks certain music
should be kept exclusively to one social strata or clique or shoe-cult
are elitist snobs. And it doesn't matter if you heard of a band
because "you were there first" or if you just picked up on it because
one of the guys from Blink-182 was wearing a Gold Chains t-shirt, it's
a great thing when peoples' horizons are expanded. That's what art
should always be about. Anyway I'm sure nobody on this list is that
narrowminded, so it's a moot point.
Jo5h
PS: Blink 182 is pretty fucking dope. :)
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