From Warren Shadey Sent Sat, Nov 1st 1997, 07:15
I am a bit surprised that expressing my musical tastes warrant me being labeled a "fussy narrow-minded IDM nazi." I can't apologize if my muscial tastes aren't on the same level as yours. Having individual tastes makes the world go round, I would never attack someone for not liking something I like, that's narrow minded. I like what I like and that's all I know, my opinons aren't the right opinions, they just happen to be how I see it at this point in time. My opinions change with time. I originally posted because I wanted to know what other people thought about the Plaid album, and whether the vocals added to or subtracted from the overall sonic environment. It's easy to attack someone's character, especially when you're weak, but when you don't even know me, or my tastes, and then you attack me because I am not particularly fond of the Plaid full-length because of the vocal additions then you only prove who here is the real "fussy narrow-minded IDM nazi." I'm stating my opinion, which happens to be about something that should be discussed in this medium. Stop trying to impress everybody with your hardcore stance. I appeal to you to address my comments intellectually, don't waste this space to just play the bullie. >Are you suggesting the likes of Nicolette and Bjork are nothing special? What I am suggesting is that I would like the Plaid album much better if there were no vocal tracks. I don't particularly like vocals in electronic music, but that's not the case all the time. For instance, I really like the Mouse on Mars single with Laetia from Stereolab. I could state other examples of vocal tracks I like, but that's quite besides the point, how broad my music collection is isn't what is being discussed. For now I'll make a simple request since I want to understand where other people are coming from, I'm interested in hearing suggestions for the best idm tracks with vocals, so that I can expand my horizons. Feel free to send me your opinions privately. With all this wasted mail sent out about some subjective opinions I had posted, all I can say is that I hope people start cleaning up idm, so that it's not just a bunch of flames and attacks. I would like to think we can have concrete discussions here about issues pertaining to electronic music. This is rediculous. Needless to say, I still love you all. Hope you had a wonderful Halloween. I'll give that Plaid cd a few more twirls in the meantime. warrenshadey np: Terry Riley - In C ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com