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Originally Posted by ink.
I dont mind Tracey Emin, I find her raw fetidity and honesty in her work quite touching. Perhaps you need to be female to identify.
I like the cure and I like the smiths.
nik imho there is a difference between 'worst' and those who you say should be left behind because they are 'dated'. Do you just mean you're sick of people drawing references to artists who are not longer relevant ( despite having an impact or being relevant at one stage) or do you mean artists who are truely shite?
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the former.
but the former usually includes the latter.
i think its useful to try and imagine a world were there is no warhol or punk for example, becuase we are at a stage of such cultural overload that there is little space to meditate without the interference of some media or another, or some sort of unnoticeable assumptive framework clouding your perspective. there's little time for gaps between things, either you are plugged into the matrix on hyper mode consuming too many albums/movies without enough time to reflect on them or you are bored and surrounded by too much empty reality.
like i have massive problems triyng to write music or lyrics because it is so hard to get out of these frames of what i think they are supposed to be judging on what's gone before. i getting caught up in crappy ideas about what music is supposed to be right now and what im supposed to say. its harder than ever in the era of instand narcisstic selfhood, facebook and reality tv to withdraw and not get trapped under a gaze of self concioussness.
the most useful thing about slagging off particular artists is that it helps to move things forward. like, NO, it is not acceptable to be referencing that anymore or doing something in that style, fuck off back to the drawing board. so many people need to be told that. especially in the noise/drone/experimental scenes. its not experimental if you are not actually doing something new. if there are no actual experiments being done.
like if you are playing random crap that doesn't sound like a pop song, its not experimental, thats not a good excuse. its not drone if you just play slow drawn out notes and cant take it anywhere. its not noise if you are just wailing feedback for no reason and not actually trying to weave some sort of picture out of it. if you play like 3 seconds of cool noise then cant come up with something else after those 3 seconds its not acceptable to just make more boring randomness for another 25mins and call it a noise album. its supposed to be called noise because it is music or anti music that can only be described as noise because its structureless yet makes that very structurelessness into a structure. noise just for the sake of it is mostly boring, except for in the hands of a few. same can be said for pop i guess.
altho, reading back on that its kinda just a retread of the same anti noise argument everyone who doesnt have the patience for it makes. i guess im just saying, add more layers to it. you have the technology and the time now. there needs to be a new format for noise, like the best of, only something like one of those old megamixes you would get pop bands doing, were the track is just a mix of all their biggest hooks flowing into each other. i like to see a band like acid mothers temple doing something were they made an epic album synthesing parts of all their other releases into one big piece.
and im so fucking sick of pop art. its not art anymore. its just crap. |
