konaman
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 21:44
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pah ! give me a ladder, a roller (!), & a can of Dulux wicker any ime.......
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konaman
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 21:48
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ah...forgot the t....typhoo, of course
that's all, folks
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Moon Cat
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 21:49
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SHy'EAYH!
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Severin
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 23:13
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" waify fishnet godessess"
*wistful sigh*
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Phrenobulax
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 23:18
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I saw ZZ Top on the Old grey whistle test about 30years ago saw them play a couple of years ago walked away...But I remember I had to keep walking for ages to get away from them because they were very very loud....
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Lugia
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 23:28
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Oh, even off-wack music has its uses. Personally, I found Sputnik's first album (the thing that kicked this thread off) to be the sine qua non of lawnmowing music. It goes well with the drone of a 10 HP Tecumseh with a dual-blade deck while motoring around giving the crabgrass hell!
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keith a
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 25, 2004, 23:28
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Sigur Ros ( ) is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard.
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Lugia
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Re: Hmm...
Jan 25, 2004, 23:49
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Having had a toe in on that scene from circa 1989 or so, plus having encountered the early acid stuff (ie: "Washing Machine", etc) when it was around, I'd have to say that there was a real curve to the scene that peaked right around the end of 1994/beginning of 1995 over here in the States. After that, I first saw the word "electronica" used in _Spin_ in the latter half of '95, and to me, it was the handwriting on the wall. Sure enough, within the next 12 months, the whole mess went thru this fit of commercialization, and then it all went sailing down the toilet. For every 10 quality Detroit productions or IDM-types trying to push the artistic envelope, you had some naff thing like The Prodigy (ugh...I typed that word...I feel dirty now) that had the hype-o-tron turned up to 11 and who got the major label budget needed to ram itself down our throats. Toward the end of the decade, you could find greats like Juan Atkins working in a D-town record store, his groundbreaking records gathering dust in the bins, as suburban candyravers yowled for him to sell them the latest booty house rubbish. I know for a fact that that was emotionally crushing to him.
There was a lot of promise there. There was some amazing work done, stuff that can still be held up a decade or more later as being Truly Great Music. But when it was near or at its peak of good, it was underground, and when it started to go aboveground (speaking States-wise, again) it got buried under the deluge of major-label poo.
If there was a SAD 'failure to deliver', if there ever was such a thing of tragedy, it would have to be in what was done to the scene in the years 1996-97. It defined what so many people think of when they hear the word 'techno', and that commercialized claptrap simply WAS NOT IT. It saw the influx of dumb body chemicals in deference to the mind-expanding ones that defined the original scene. It saw loads of cheapass "ravE" events held by wack promoters rolled out. It saw a bunch of people who had little to no interest in the music wander onto the premises. It was a reason to cry...and I often did, for what was lost.
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James Aswell
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 00:01
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Transvision feckin' Vamp. Not that The Kids were let down, but what alot of hot air was exhaled at the time. Over what????
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anthonyqkiernan
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..'Sake
Jan 26, 2004, 11:26
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Sick fed up of your constant naysaying, Moony. If you can't say anything nice about a band don't say it at all.
;-)
Dress For Excess the second SSS album is a much more 'formed' vison and features much better songs.
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