Tuesday 6 October 2009
Collateral damage
I'm slowly unpacking. Very little is damaged, but I have lost some of my favourite CDs - several Nick Drake and all but one of my Damon and Naomi albums, which is very strange. If you don't know them, they make a darker version of dreampop. They used to be in Galaxie 500: the other bloke, Dean Wareham, founded Luna subsequently. Highly recommended for the wee hours. Gotta love bands with songs like 'The New Historicism', which is funny because I'm currently reading that movement's founding text, Greenblatt's Learning to Curse.
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You only like Nick Drake because he is dead.
Absolutely right… Same as Bach.
Sorry couldn't resist that given your persistent rants against people liking dead rock stars.
Haven't you ever noticed though that Nick drake isn't actually that good?
"With the weasel by the steeple with the people on a weasel in a steeple in the morning." What?
Benjy, nobody has a 100% strike rate, and there's more to Drake than the occasional weak line.
Fair point about dead rock stars, though it's slightly more nuanced than that: what I object to is going to a nightclub and finding that most of the music played is by dead people - as though our own generation has nothing to say at all. It's also depressing to see someone's music collection is dominated by dead people. Some, here and there, is healthy. A lot suggests a form of isolation.
Folk and classical are excluded from this, by the way, because texts are passed around, changed, reinterpreted, whereas pop etc. is fixed and usually not reinterpreted.
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