On 17 Dec 2004 at 18:11, Paul Thomas wrote:
quoted 6 lines I thought that idm is just a ghey label thought up by conceted Americans
> I thought that idm is just a ghey label thought up by conceted Americans
> who feel the need to categorize their tastes in some kind of self
> important way. Over here in the UK if you use the words "Intelligent
> Dance Music" people will generally look at you very strangely indeed and
> if I'm honest, quite rightly too, I think... What makes certain music
> more 'intelligent'?
and later wrote:
quoted 4 lines Sorry mate, I call bullshit. The only other people I've ever heard using
> Sorry mate, I call bullshit. The only other people I've ever heard using
> the term is Americans, over the internet and I've been in plenty of places
> where it would have been used. Also, the reply : "Oh we were being
> ironic, didn't you know... <cue pitying glace>" is pretty poor.
To leap at one's keyboard, a tad foamy at the mouth, and scold Americans
for their use of a particular term while openly admitting the value UKians
place on terminology (by virtue of their strange looks, "quite rightly
too"), is, to me, the very definition of ironic.
But to answer your question (what makes certain music more 'intelligent')
we need only consider the negative case. If no one piece of music is more
intelligent than another then Vivaldi = Brittney Spears. And that,
friends, is the definition of absurd.
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~Rick Strom
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