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IanB
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Edited Feb 11, 2012, 13:13
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 11, 2012, 11:37
stray wrote:
IanB wrote:
I hate to be ungracious when the artist is the host of such a fine web site and hence provides the meeting point for this community of fellow travelers but surely I am not the only person listening to this record and shaking with laughter at some of it? Buy Folk The Banks instead would be my advice. Better sleeve too as it happens if you want to have something that Occupies your record collection. Sorry but to my mind he is simply much better (a pop genius in fact) with metaphysics than with geopolitics.


Heheh.. His metaphysics isn't that great either tbh.. I don't think I'll try this album, judging from the responses its everything I feared it would be. This whole appropriation of the anarcho communist flag (or anarcho syndicalist if you are so inclined.. er.. and confused ;)) just.. irks me. Well that, and then whacking a quote from Hegel on a recent sleeve, its silly, or opportunist, or oddly inconsistent, or something. I don't mind appropriation at all really, if you've got a Dadaist or a Situationist approach. He.. um.. hasn't.. to my eyes anyroad.


Well, yes. It's as if the entire aesthetic of the record was based on the Pop Group's "Rob A Bank" (a track which had its tongue so firmly planted in its cheek as to be almost pornographically absurd) but forgot to bring the Dada that was such a vital component in the Pop Group experience. It is the difference between being The Dave Spart Five and a musical equivalent of John Heartfield.
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