When I feel it getting too 'meta', I like to peel back a few layers and deal with the references - i.e., go retro for a few spins. And after all, the layers were being stacked way before any of us were born; I think it's just the compression and speed of them these days that amounts to the sameness we find tedious.
It's a bit hard when it comes to an artist that seems to jump the line between 'style' and 'disappearing up one's own arse' to a set of listeners.
In that case, it just doesn't help to skip back to, say, the first three Roxy Music records. The former will still sound stale when you come back. Funny how those 3 Roxys always sound vital every time I return, though (after the third, Ferry seems to fall prey to his legacy).
None of this should be taken as commentary on BoC in particular; I haven't downloaded it. :-)
jeff
np : Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (title track, resplendant with Enossified piano)
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From: Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>
quoted 26 lines OK, I'll bite. I guess it's stating the obvious to point out that it bears
>
> OK, I'll bite. I guess it's stating the obvious to point out that it bears
> more than a passing resemblance (esp. 'My Eye'). Any relation? Who was that
> Lone man?
> 'November dream tape' almost sounds like a parody of one of their titles.
> So now we get artists knowingly recontextualising artists of the 90s/00s,
> who are knowingly recontextualising the sounds of the 60s/70s etc etc
> How post-post-modern do we want to get before we implode?
> Is 'Autophagy' a word? I just coined it, if it isn't...
>
> alan
>
> --On 18 May 2006 11:33 +0100 David William Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > we have all got distracted listening to "lone"
> > http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid
> > =38 232971
> >
> > wobbly writes:
> >> Blimey if you didn't catch me ignoring this new record!
> >> If you don't listen to it, it sounds great! If One doesn't buy it, One
> >> may buy something else! Blindly, even! Ach, they all fall down in the
> >> end, don't they? - Eno oinging Paul Simon, Aphids Twin(k), Broads of
> >> Canasta, etc.. Rather messy and embarrassing. I'd rather look away than
> >> watch the final bounce, splat....
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