Subject: (idm) The Wire etc. etc.

From sm
Sent Mon, Dec 29th 1997, 00:10

>I whole-heartedly agree. Any kind of ignoration (is that a word?) 
>based on something  as totalitarian as a concept (Adorno (he-he)) 
>is use- and worthless. 

on the pretentious tip, adorno banged on about 'negative dialectic' 
as well, i.e. that music must be "difficult" because the undemanding 
acts as a mass sedative, e.g. the feelgood factor of nationalistic 
compositions as used by nazis..

the manic street preachers expanded on this, in their own 
inimitable way on "motown junk"

watch out for adorno's new album on skam as well

>"Loveless" is better than anything ever called IDM or techno.  "To Here
>Knows When" is quite possibly the greatest 4 1/2 minutes of music in the
>history of the art form.  That is all I will say.

my bloody valentine?, commonly know as 'indie wank' in our house ,tell 
them to come back when they stop ripping of sonic youth & learn more
than an A- barre chord,  only decent thing they did was getting andy 
weatherall to rescue 'glider', strictly IMHO [BTW] before you start

imho the greatest 4 1/2 minutes of music in the "history of art form"
[whatever that means] is Cage's 'Silence' 

ho ho ho & a bottle of rum

[sm]