datalus wrote:Atheory wrote:
thats the thing, once it stops being dancefloor focused, there is a million records from the last 50 years of sound experimentation that would probably wipe the floor with it for originality, ideas, emotion etc.
Oh, sht, well I guess we should just call it quits then. God damn, I had no idea this wasn't about self-expression. Some pursuit of doing something that possibly might lead to some sort of fulfillment in this fucking dead plastic-faced world.
Let's not even go back 50 years, let's go back four times that, or hell even further. Read: Classical music. kthxbai.
And also, genres are sht. People need to breakdown the walls they've put up between different types of music. Oh wait, that's just the dirty fucking human nature side of things, trying to place everything in it's own little box. Trying to master things outside of their control.
Richard D. James laughs at all the punk bitch IDM kiddies who use that term like it were some sort of religious cult only for the righteous. fck those Scientology-esque fucks, and fck genre barriers. There's a reason things are cyclical, we all die eventually, so who gives a sht if it comes back around when you're already dead? Vagner would wipe the floor with your face, but he's not here, so why the fck does it matter?
Seriously.
P.S.: I'm in a pissy mood...at work on a Sunday.
sorry that you have to work on sundays, but thats no excuse for the paucity of depth in your arguement, and the fact that they were delivered with the grace and elan of a braying donkey.
i'm not sure if broad, sweeping micheal mooresque mistruths are really going to cut it for me either.
For me, self-expression isn't a parrot repeating other peoples work or themes. it might be ok in your book to copy people, excused by your half understood and frankly comical interpretation of the cycles of life, but for me, no thanks. i wouldn't read your book, i bet its a cliched, badly written mess in need of a good editor.
richard d james hasnt made a relevant or consistent record in about ten years, but he is very quotable, and i will let him sum up the mood i felt when i read your post.
"wagner is one of those oft quoted popular classical musicans that people name drop when try to add that air of gravitas, that may be sorely missing, to their opinions. however, most people who are aware of his work in any serious way, know that his name is spelt with a w, and not a v. it sounds like its pronounced with a v, but it isn't. this is an important distinction."
richard d. james (interview, the times, 20/8/03)
i dont have to work sundays, so i'm in a jokey, fun times mood.