Jon writes:
quoted 5 lines The hackneyed "Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven,">>> The hackneyed "Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven,"
>>
>> Hackneyed?!? As far as I'm aware, the definition of hackneyed is
>> "Something that has been done before." If you've got a line on more stuff
>> like "Budded", I want to know about it.
Floatdown responds:
quoted 8 lines Again Jon, I completely fucking agree with you ...> Again Jon, I completely fucking agree with you ...
>
> The album is brilliant and very inventive and very thoughtfully produced I
> think as well.
>
> Polyrhythms are perfect ... they're what really get me ...
>
> It seems to slag an album like this you just have to be looking to dislike it
C'mon everybody, what's with all the testosterone-fueled slaggings going on
here of late?
Here we have an example of something which is true for every damned music
release extant:
- There is somebody that loves it to death (Jon, J/Floatdown)
- There is somebody that likes it a little but (seemingly) mostly doesn't
(Miles) or doesn't like it at all (???)
- There are people that lie somewhere in between (yours truly)
This is a truism for every record I've ever heard.
I don't see Miles' review as indicating that he is looking to dislike it.
Maybe it's just something called "completely different musical taste", hmmn?
Personally I think that some of it is really great, like Jon does.
And I think some of it is pointless - "Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven" in
particular - like Miles does. (Insert Beavis mode: "If I wanted to hear vocals
I'd have bought a Curve album, hehhehheh heh" - or at least the FSOL remix on
BlackerThreeTrackerTwo, which I think uses her voice as an instrumental element
far more effectively.)
Yeah, yeah, so what's your point, etc. Well, it's the old Different Strokes
For Different Folks, Opinions are like Assholes, etc. theory. There really is
no point in slagging off stuff. Somebody else will love what you hate, and
somebody else again will hate what you love, and a big mass of people will be
indifferent to what you or somebody else loves or hates, etc. etc. Some of the
people on this list really love Aphex (or most of it), and some apparently
really despise him/it. All this continued wanking about may do wonders for the
ego, but ultimately it's completely pointless. Can we let it rest in peace,
please?
- Greg