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.

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IMPORTANTLY!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Keiran McFeely (simple kid), quoted in that article was previously in the Young Offenders who were a complete Bolan rip-off! OH THE IRONING!!!

actually i swear they just publish pieces like this so that we have something to argue about on a friday...

ALSO!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

morley rly has lost it, right? whilst he still has the writing chops he just doesn't understand the young person's music anymore does he? i can see him slipping onto a greil marcus-esque world writing more and more detailed books about exactly why the art of noise were the apogee of all humang creation...

Re: ALSO!!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

His OMM piece about the Arcade Fire, which I found in the bathroom yesterday and proceeded to try and procrastinate about cleaning the sink with, is one of the most singularly absurd things I've ever read. Out of touch doesn't even begin to really touch it.

Re: ALSO!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

well "absurd" is hardly a new element ot his work ;)