Har har that's byebyepride's birthday present sorted.

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My intemperate response on an ILM thread:

"WHAT THE FUCK WITH THE GUILTY PLEASURES SHIT.

I bet every one of those originals is better than ANYTHING ever done by any of those bands!

Viva Forever is better than anything by Jim O'Rourke AND Sonic Youth combined.

I FEEL GUILTY ABOUT LIKING WILL OLDHAM. [ha ha sorry pot80!]Perhaps when the Spice Girls reform they will cover Gulf Shore Blues."


But TBH, I'm bored of caring. Perhaps some of these will be improvements. I doubt it, but it's possible.

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Oops, meant to unitalicise the bracket reference to pot80. That wasn't on ILM.

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Anyway, I like some of Jim O'Rourke's stuff, and some of it is totally channelling 70s AM rock into avant circles, without guilt or whatever. I guess different people on this record will have different motivations. Selling it on the guilt thing is sh!tty because it just reinforces prejudicial social attitudes to music which very few people actually have, I bet, but which they might be tempted to reach for in organising their discussion of music. (IF THEY ARE K-LAME.)

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ha ha Sonic Youth -- 'there's always been a bubblegum element to our sound'