the BADCRAP BARFS more like

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. ok so out of "scholarly diligence" i watched the repeated omnibus about syd b last night
ii. and confirmed that barrett-era PF = post-barrett PF = post-PF barrett = ALL AS USELESS AS ONE ANOTHER
iii. except then i slept and dremt ALL NIGHT dreams soundtracked by barrett songs >:(

so this raises the deep poptimist question: is a tune that sticks in yr mind GOOD even if you HATE IT -- isn't the craft of melody a kind of nerve-glue to attach you to a ahem "work" so that yr feelings of some particular moment get externalised into it and there replayed?

anyway i am quite happy to grant that SB had an unusual facility with oddly shaped song-flow, burden and refrain* -- except i think i would also argue that the collective direction of the outfit he founded was increasingly at odds with this gift (cf also curtis and JD-NO)... they were fashioning a monumental high-volume drone juggernaut; his gift was quirkily quaint'Nquiet little broke-back ditties -- and that the split (as with joy div) was inevitable on musical grounds; the psycho-chemical context a pretext for sentimentalists and clueless romantics

ps the documentary itself was incredibly lame and lazy in almost every regard

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oops its a full-stop no ? mark there in my last sentence.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok you may be right abt IO as a tendency -- i think i would have to do more scholarly research (than i want to) to pinpoint the exact split -- what i'm getting at is that the COLLECTIVE, as it finds its feet, is def evolving in a direction which isolates or renders null the various things syd was good at

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that "high volume drone juggernaut" isn't a great descriptor of PF from about 69 on!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

(for one thing it sounds GREBT)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha yes well i was trying to REMEMBER what PF did and sounded like post-HVDJ and pre-DSotM -- it's not like i haven't heard ALL THE EVIDENCE fairly OFTEN in my long and misspent life* -- and I just couldn't remember! Hence need for more scholarship :'(

*only yes were more popular at school