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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
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IanB
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Edited Sep 22, 2010, 17:21
Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 17:17
thesweetcheat wrote:
IanB wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
Large amounts of pioneering electronic/futurist music has still never been used to sell cars or perfume, to my knowledge. I'm thinking Russoli, Marinetti, Schaeffer, Xenakis, Varese, even Stockhausen. All of these were revolutionary, every bit as much as Stravinsky was.

I'm not sure the Residents' music will ever be fully embraced by the mainstream.


That's pretty much what I was thinking i.e. that maybe pop / rock music has no cultural teeth any more and ironically it is the largely cosseted (these days) world of Art Music is where all the true revolutionary outsider music resides. I might be wrong which is why I asked the question. Would be an interesting list, though not one Mojo would be publishing!


The saddest thing about my first para is that all this was taking place well over half a century ago! Even the Residents prime period was over 30 years ago.

Maybe my difficulty is that I don't really like much of the "dangerous" or "revolutionary" music of the last decade, e.g. grime, dubstep, etc. I buy plenty of new music, but I wouldn't say it could be classed as in any way revolutionary. The Wire CDs always impress me (the magazine, rather than the equally excellent group), perhaps they still showcase the periphery?


I gave up on The Wire a long time ago more or less around the time when they gave up on a lot of the music that interests me. I should maybe dip back in.

Talking of dubstep I bought the two Burial albums and loved them for their intensity for a short while but ultimately there was the same element of commercial compromise that Goldie brought into Inner City Life with the female vocals. I don't mind people selling a lot of records (good on ya if you can make money out of any music these days) I just don't want to be told that music is revolutionary when it isn't.

The only music magazine I buy now is Gramophone. I am old.
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