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Edited Dec 30, 2008, 15:00
Re: Prog Britannia
Dec 30, 2008, 13:33
Whatever the merits of your argument it would carry more weight if you had actually listened to more than a handful of the records you write about.

Marillion have made something in the region of 15 studio records of which maybe three sound like one line up of Genesis or another. The last of those was released in 1987.

Like or loathe them, if you said they sound like a blend of Blue Nile, Talk Talk and Porcupine Tree you might be closer to the reality and then we could have a conversation about how shit they are.

Actually I am perfectly happy to accept you think they are shit and give that viewpoint credence and accord it validity if you had actually listened to any of their records in the last two decades.

It may well be that I am just disappearing up my own nostalgia lined tailpipe. However while you insist on making it up as you go along I can only assume your entire critical viewpoint is based on a set of hard-wired prejudices. Which is fine. It just makes for a rather boring Spongebob and Patrick type debate. Pink. Yellow. Pink. Yellow etc.

I would of course argue in return that the Mary Chain sucked harder longer on the VU tit than Marillion ever did on Gabriel's but so much easier to go for the crowd pleasing jibe than actually listen to the music.

Overall I think the problem is that I just can't get it up for the Spartist view of musical history. Reminds me too much of squats, dog eared copies of City Limits and Socialist Worker, snakebite, cat piss in the kitchen and the self-styled hipsters with plastic shoes, faux cockney Strummer accents and Lawrence Corner coats. 25 years later it's way too grim and self-limiting a world-view for a bourgeois fucker like me. Even Burchill and Parsons have let it go.

Happy new year.
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