Guardian article on non-futurist pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2060953,00.html

Bands be borrowin'.

This is under discussion elsewhere on the interwebs but I thought I'd tap the wisdom of the Poptimist crowd.

Comments

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

"I've heard these points in one form or another a billion times over"

Exactly how I feel every time I read one of these things, and they crop up with such aching regularity. Last time I went home I read (for some reason) the liner notes to one of my father's Faust records, which basically consisted of articles written about the band. One of these, dated nineteen seventy-two, began with several paragraphs of complaint about how nothing new ever happens and that music is essentially dead and you may as well stop reading and go back to your houses.

It's just as bizarre an assumption now as then to assume that Progression Has Stopped -much like my theory that Panic! At The Disco signal the end of popular music because they make it painfully obvious that we're running out of names for bands.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remember getting very grumpy over the popularity of SUEDE and felt that they represented This Sort Of Thing and should be stopped. I wrote a lengthy essay (on a TYPEWRITER!) about the Death Of Indie when they released "Stay Together" arguing that the incredible tide of indie innovation had now been DAMMED by this mincing fop.

Luckily it was never published even in a fanzine. Also I quite liked Suede at the time so I think I was just being a knob.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

You were not necessarily an entirely incorrect knob though -- although I'm having some troubles remembering the incredible tides of indie innovation of 1992.

Also lol TYPEWRITERS i miss the bastards somewhat and actually earned my living selling them a couple of years!