At 07:27 PM 8/6/98 -0400, wells wrote:
quoted 29 lines At 10:40 PM 8/6/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote:>At 10:40 PM 8/6/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote:
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>>I'm on no Bjork butt-licking mission here. I've bought loads of Bjork,
>>loads of Mira Calix and enjoy them both. If you want to restrict your
>>tastes, then that's your lookout.
>
>yes, i'm sorry i restrict my musical tastes to stuff that isn't shit (i.e.
>bjork). i am sorry for you and i extend my condolences about you spending
>money on Bjork - it's not _my_ fault.
>
>i've listened to every record she's made.
>
>i've listened to every sugarcubes record.
>
>all of them are garbage. even at moments when they approach a tolerable
>level, she comes in and ruins it all with her obnoxious voice.
>
>she _sucks_.
>
>>But let's look at what we've got -- two Mira Calix 10-inches on Warp
>>(plus a compilation appearance) produced by Booth/Brown and Clifford
>>against a whole stack of Bjork productions handled by Graham Massey,
>>808 State, Mark Bell, Tim Simenon, Plaid, Black Dog, Funkstorung,
>>Tricky, etc.
>
>Yeah, put those Mira Calix tracks up against a whole slew of Bjork records
>that are garbage.
>
>Garbage upon garbage still equals garbage.
I just listened to the Talvin Singh remixes of Hyperballad. Brilliant.
The Howie B remix ... brilliant. Black Dog mixes of other tracks ...
brilliant. Photek remix ... brilliant. LFO remixes ... brilliant.
Homogenic ... brilliant. The 808 State tracks from Ex:el ... brilliant.
All I can say Wells, is that your musical taste is equal to your ability to
express yourself intelligently.
At 09:47 PM 8/7/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote:
quoted 10 lines I think some people get a bit scared when too many people start>I think some people get a bit scared when too many people start
>listening to music they're interested in. For them, a <insert
>innovative but commercially successful group here> album was once a
>little private place they could retreat to when the going got tough,
>but now everyone seems to stopping off there for a picnic.
>
>It's a purely psychological thing -- there are people out there who
>are completely incapable of enjoying (or admitting to enjoying) music
>that's enjoyed by a wide audience. It offends their sense of
>individuality.
For awhile I thought I might have this problem, but then I realized that I
love the Pet Shop Boys. So much for that theory! :)
Che
rock - rok (v.) - having a conventional and/or boring nature. ex: "Khakis
rock". "That Rolling Stones show rocked". syn: suck.