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QC Music Blog discussion thread
Ishotdanieljohnston:
Tommy, you write real good, loved the Polvo piece. You have been responsible for getting me into many of the great bands I've been listening to this year. Thank you.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: Lummer on 19 Dec 2007, 05:23 ---I completely agree with Jeph about Baroness. Good god, do they kick ass!
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Jackie Blue:
You spent half that Polvo article talking about Black Flag.
That's like spending half a Bright Eyes article talking about Led Zeppelin.
:?
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 27 Dec 2007, 10:44 ---It's amusing to me that great music was being made on the other coast by genuinely independent bands while the press and record-buying public were convinced of the brilliance of all those shitty Seattle groups (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and their ilk). The point I was trying to get across was that Black Flag's musical legacy is that they made a bunch of shitty bands very rich. Through Greg Ginn's label they put out a lot of great records, including those undeniably influential Sonic Youth albums.
I think that is more than enough direct correlation for it to be considered relevant.
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Perhaps it is because you are writing from outside America and outside the time period, but I'm not sure the apple/orange mixing your're doing here is particularly relevant (which is where my Bright Eyes/Zeppelin comment comes in). Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and other similar bands were, at the time, entirely mainstream and not even in the discussion. The same heyday for them was also the heyday of Matador records, when even in backwards little towns you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Pavement fan. Polvo were as popular as they possibly could be, so I don't see the poiint in rambling on about what was happening on the Billboard charts as a result of Black Flag as a segue to talking about Polvo. It's just not interesting.
To expand on the Conor/Zep: It would be like if you opened an article on Bright Eyes by discussing at length that Led Zeppelin had created a rock-centric musical climate, with even the vast majority of successful indie bands being about rocking and looking cool, and only with the advent of Neutral Milk Hotel and Bright Eyes in 1998 did it really start to become "cool" to write personal, awkward, uncool music again.
Now that I think about it, that would be an interesting article. Too bad I was never considered for the music blog.
Jackie Blue:
I supposed I was just assuming that the average teenage QC reader never bothered to look at the music blog, or check out the bands in it.
My experience has been that such people, no matter how eloquently you wax about a pre-2000s band, generally listen to them if you absolutely press the issue, say "Eh, I guess that's okay" and then go back to Funeral. Perhaps you are more of an optimist than I. At this point I've given up on "enlightening" people to good old music unless they already show an interest in such. I think a large part of it is that a lot of the new crop of younger indie people are resistant to authority and resent anybody telling them what to listen to, preferring to find out about the bands for themselves, because they have a sense of "coolness" that they cling to which derives from "finding it out on my own". Which is frankly the complete opposite of my younger experience; I was always more than happy to find out about bands by listening to older, more knowledgeable people (usually college radio DJs).
As far as an article about how the indie world has been very slow to shift to personal music, I think it would be as relevant as any piece of rock journalism, which is to say, academic. One wouldn't specifically have to talk only about Led Zeppelin and Bright Eyes, those were just two examples.
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