Inscrutable

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm trying (and mostly failing so far) to work out why I like New Order for the review of their reissues I'm writing.

What are the bands you love but find hard to write about? (Or, if yr not a writer, love without being able to articulate why?).

Comments

Re: the vocals issue

[koganbot]

Well, you're right of course that obviously people can and do like it, though people actually do like, say, Don McLean's lyrics, and I think they're falling for a shuck. Also, I wonder if, were I ever to have actually heard the albums rather than just catching the singles, I might get more of how they're really an "instrumental" band - which is to say I can imagine* albums being full of voice melding into overall sound. Whereas the singles were more along the lines of American '80s club music - at least one of 'em was by Baker & Robie iirc - which means that you expect voices not to meld but to complement, but instead there was this sudden weariness that superseded the dance as soon as the singing started.

*Notice that I'm inventing a sound that I never heard.