From Che Sent Sat, Aug 8th 1998, 11:30
From Che Sent Sat, Aug 8th 1998, 11:30
At 07:27 PM 8/6/98 -0400, wells wrote: >At 10:40 PM 8/6/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote: >> >>I'm on no Bjork butt-licking mission here. I've bought loads of Bjork, >>loads of Mira Calix and enjoy them both. If you want to restrict your >>tastes, then that's your lookout. > >yes, i'm sorry i restrict my musical tastes to stuff that isn't shit (i.e. >bjork). i am sorry for you and i extend my condolences about you spending >money on Bjork - it's not _my_ fault. > >i've listened to every record she's made. > >i've listened to every sugarcubes record. > >all of them are garbage. even at moments when they approach a tolerable >level, she comes in and ruins it all with her obnoxious voice. > >she _sucks_. > >>But let's look at what we've got -- two Mira Calix 10-inches on Warp >>(plus a compilation appearance) produced by Booth/Brown and Clifford >>against a whole stack of Bjork productions handled by Graham Massey, >>808 State, Mark Bell, Tim Simenon, Plaid, Black Dog, Funkstorung, >>Tricky, etc. > >Yeah, put those Mira Calix tracks up against a whole slew of Bjork records >that are garbage. > >Garbage upon garbage still equals garbage. I just listened to the Talvin Singh remixes of Hyperballad. Brilliant. The Howie B remix ... brilliant. Black Dog mixes of other tracks ... brilliant. Photek remix ... brilliant. LFO remixes ... brilliant. Homogenic ... brilliant. The 808 State tracks from Ex:el ... brilliant. All I can say Wells, is that your musical taste is equal to your ability to express yourself intelligently. At 09:47 PM 8/7/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote: >I think some people get a bit scared when too many people start >listening to music they're interested in. For them, a <insert >innovative but commercially successful group here> album was once a >little private place they could retreat to when the going got tough, >but now everyone seems to stopping off there for a picnic. > >It's a purely psychological thing -- there are people out there who >are completely incapable of enjoying (or admitting to enjoying) music >that's enjoyed by a wide audience. It offends their sense of >individuality. For awhile I thought I might have this problem, but then I realized that I love the Pet Shop Boys. So much for that theory! :) Che rock - rok (v.) - having a conventional and/or boring nature. ex: "Khakis rock". "That Rolling Stones show rocked". syn: suck.