On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 02:26:58PM -0700, Sean Cooper wrote:
quoted 25 lines Skam can do no wrong at the moment but you only have to look at the
> >Skam can do no wrong at the moment but you only have to look at the
> growing disatisfaction with
> >some of the latest Rephlex releases to see that the tide can turn.
>
> in the interest of a certain parity of opinion (given all of the
> skam-stroking going on lately), skam have to my tastes done almost nothing
> but wrong for the past 18 months. except for the bola LP, which i
> legitimately enjoy, everything else they've released has struck me as
> tedious and musically regressive. it wouldn't bother me -- there's nothing
> particularly new in a flood of mediocre music being released; that, after
> all, is the status quo -- except that their releases are discussed so
> frequently and in such glowing terms that i wonder if its just a kind of
> laziness. people go and see, for example, the latest tom cruise film
> because tom cruise is in it -- that's their guarantee of something vaguely
> amounting to "quality" in their minds. does skam carry similar cachet?
>
> i realize there's no accounting for taste and that what's "good" amounts to
> nothing more (or less) than what can be argued as such. but it makes me
> wonder whether people actually listen to these records, or just collect
> them. or is that the point...?
>
> mystified,
>
> sc
>