quoted 4 lines sorry, i think the analogy is more like "i took one look at this> sorry, i think the analogy is more like "i took one look at this
> painting but it was just a complete mass of unintelligible swirls and
> colors." you're looking at something like an impressionist painting
> and only seeing the little dots, not the picture underneath.
To-may-to to-mah-to. I can appreciate that their work is quite
impressive to a number of people, but I can't shake the impression that
they're just trying too damn hard to impress. Remember, some of the
impressionists were crap, too. :) [for the record, I don't think FSoL
are crap, just curiously overrated.]
quoted 11 lines perhaps FSOL is just> >> perhaps FSOL is just
> >> too... well... *futuristic* for the people on this list (i'm not
> >> singling you out dave) who claim that they want to hear the future of
> >> music but in actuality prefer a thumpin' 909, some gratuitous weird
> >> noises, and a few simple synth lines around it.
> >
> >Forgive my bluntness once again, but that's a truckload of buffalo ordure.
>
> well, i've already got a few letters in private from people who agree
> with me on that point, so you'll forgive me if i continue to believe
> it.
And I've gotten numerous pieces of private e-mail from people who felt
that your original implication was _creative_, if not downright insulting
and condescending to those of us who haven't been blessed with the
gift of FSoL appreciation.
What it comes down to is this: I believe I understand what FSoL have set
out to do, and to my mind they haven't succeeded... yet. Perhaps
_Lifeforms_ will be brilliant, warm, and coherent. Maybe it will
be "Papua New Guinea" parts 2 through 13 (Acperience, anyone? :) ).
But (my opinion, of course), if it's as directionless as "Ephidrina" they
might as well not even bother.
quoted 4 lines i didn't mean to say that "in the future, all music will sound like> i didn't mean to say that "in the future, all music will sound like
> FSOL" - just that they are doing stuff that is too complicated for
> some people to grok in the present day and perhaps in the future it
> will all seem simpler.
In a private email, another poster vocalized something that's been in the
back of my mind for a while: that lately Dougans and Cockbain are playing
primarily to the critics and other musicians, and that their vision is
suffering as a result. The pretentious piffle they were spouting in that
interview clipping you posted a while back seems to back up this line of
thinking.
quoted 3 lines for you, yes. but i get the sense from you (and others) who are> for you, yes. but i get the sense from you (and others) who are
> perplexed by AA that an album full of PNG-style music would be quite
> welcome.
You're quite wrong. I'd find that dead boring, in fact. You seem to
have misinterpreted my disinclination towards their current sound as
a desire to hear the same damn song over and over again.
quoted 1 line listening to "accelerator" right now and totally grooving...> listening to "accelerator" right now and totally grooving...
...let tha riddim hit 'em...
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