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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Also... Glice, my point [B
wasn't [/b]that they shouldn't cover sun City Girls at all -- my point is, why do they bother? The only albums they've reviewed are those three reissues and a Carnival Folklore Ressurection release (which was limited to like 400 copies)... when they've had a brand new singles collection released last month that pitchfork hasn't even bothered reviewing. I don't understand why they review Kanye West and shit like that, you know, literally reviewing "everything" to appear to be the be-all/end-all source of music, and then they just kinda roughly cover stuff like SCG... why even bother reviewing a reissued soundtrack when there have a recent more noteworthy album that they could be reviewing?
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I'm sorry to repeat myself - I hate it when other people do it to me - but I still can't see what the problem is when a very well known organ of information relating to music covers a band that are not very well know but very well-liked by a minority of people. If you're criticising the quality of that coverage - fine, but I don't believe that a few innacuracies or ommisions really make that much of a difference.
You're right insofar as lots of people round here know SCG, but if it weren't for a handful or articles on much less 'obscure' groups in Melody Maker/ NME when I was a teenager, I wouldn't have picked up on a lot of the stuff I did.
Last.fm is just another manifestation of 'how to reach out to people who haven't heard 'good' stuff'. You can invoke qualitative differences (and let's let it be known here - I don't follow Pitchfork, neither do I use last.fm) but the bottom line, for me, is that regardless of how people get information about 'good' music, the fact that it's out there is a good thing.
I think you're a similar age to me, so I'm surprised by your attitude. I wasn't a teenager that long ago, but the internet was by no means a going concern for disseminating musical information when I was a teenager, and the possibility of me coming across a band like Wolf Eyes (let along SCG) was miniscule given the options available to me (John Peel/ The Evening Session/ NME and the like). Sure
the ability for people to find out about 'good' (but not well known) music, however blithely it's done, is
a good thing?
Regarding the obscure thing - I live in a city now; there's a healthy amount of people around who know about 'not widely known' music. When I was growing up in a village on the outskirts of no-wheresville, Somerset, there was
absolutely no-one around me who was even that aware of Blur, let alone something like Sonic Youth.