From Gil Yaker Sent Sat, Jun 26th 1999, 21:05
From Gil Yaker Sent Sat, Jun 26th 1999, 21:05
Just curious here... For those of you who listen almost exclusively to techno / idm / etc... do you find you have a hard time listening to more conventional pop music and that techno that strays from a purist model (like all the progressive crap) is difficult to listen to? I ask this b/c I find myself in an odd situation sometimes. Like the other night, went out to an Elvis Costello concert, and it was great - pure pop music, but the approach to listening to it is SO different from listening to IDM it's shocking. With IDM (and techno, generic) I find myself listen for changes, for motion in the song, for progression and for contrast. But if you apply these criterium(?) to pop music, you get screwed and the music often seems empty. I get dinged by my friends when there's a pop song on the radio that I like. Usually because of the full distored guitar sounds, the mix, or whatever. I tell them i like a song and they say, yeah but the lyrics suck..."oh, i never really bothered to pay attention to what they were saying, i'm just listening to how it sounds..." comments? -Gil np: derrick may/innovator _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com