Better late than never

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This was my latest Pitchfork column, which was of great relevance to some things we were discussing 3 weeks ago but which also got published the day I went on holiday! The column was written in a pinch and is kind of a request-filler for something byebyepride wanted me to write a while ago.

It inspired an interesting discussion here by someone I don't know, and ALSO my first proper SLATING here. Sniping at P4k on my blog was how I got my gig in the first place so I can hardly begrudge them their venom!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's who need to get out from my life.

[(Anonymous)]

You are making my life miserable.
You are really sick person. I will sue you, Lewis Pinault.
Have a nice life in jail!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

^^^ !!!!!

I don't know how to follow that really. Um, I feel you re: familiarity, which is why I make a point of mostly only listening to music released in the past year or so - this enhances the older stuff too.

But I like my music taste! It has taken me a long time and several dead ends to finally "come home" to it, and I don't intend to give it up, especially not for rainy drones or humpy Europop.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I need a conscious decision to completely change my music listening habits - I seem to be quite capable of swapping polarity every other year or so. Five years ago I was almost exclusively listening to Radiohead and QOTSA. Three years ago I was exclusively listening to ska and dub. And for the last 18 months it's been techno, house and youtubed pop all the way. I think the next phase has already started, not with a new genre but with my recent purchase of an mp3 player - I'm unable to sit at my desk and listen to CDs as often these days, and instead I'm listening to bosh as I meander around London. It's a totally different experience, and one I am enjoying immensely.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that SLATING is pretty mild i guess, seems to have missed several points by a fair margin to me...

...yes, i am trying desparatly hard NOT to just call him a rockist, but y'know...

hahaha, also he's only been on blogger (i'm assuming it's a he here) 6 weeks, BLESS...

Me At 19

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I spent most of my (too brief) writing time on holiday thinking about VAMPIRE for I Was A Goblin so obviously I'm brooding on my late adolescence a bit at the moment.

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Funnily just last weekend I sold 20 CDs and plan to sell quite a lot more. I explained this away to the guy in the record shop I sold them to as 'thinning it out'. That's partly true, I've only bought about 5 CDs this year - but this coupled with a need to change, strip away the identity tied to these, maybe - all leading to beginning to listen to something else on CD. The again, its also to do with the fact that music has become much more about the physicality you might get from a live concert.

Otoh I've been d/l bits, its stuff I normally listen to, but 'something' is beginning.

Ever fallen in love

[koganbot]

The most effective way to expand (or at least change) one's musical tastes is to fall in love w/ Ashlee Simpson; even if you believe that the person you fall in love with has identical tastes to yours, this will turn out not to be the case.

If falling in love with someone new seems not to be in the cards, one can always have children.

I am that someone...

[(Anonymous)]

...that you don't know. Your Pitchfork article has been a rather profound inspiration to me & my circle of friends, both those who have commented on my blog & those who haven't. I'm personally setting November 1st as my day to give my hard drive away & start all over with my music taste. Most likely, I'll be collecting up every possible genre & time period my friends & I can dream up, tossing them all into a hat, and then picking what we'll each be listening to for the next 3 months. After that, we'll switch it ALL up.

All of that to say this -- thanks for the article. I quite enjoyed it.

APN (http://dryvetymeonlyne.theliquidcell.com)