From Kelley Hackett Sent Tue, Aug 31st 1999, 17:22
This is an interesting interview......I would like to hear his music.........but in some ways, especially when he says: I firmly believe if you can't take an acoustic instrument and make people from a different culture butt-dance, you aren't doing shit. he has got a point...... Maybe he just hasnt heard Stasis/Phenomyna--ha ha O-10! > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron S Michelson [SMTP:asm2+@andrew.cmu.edu] > Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 12:42 PM > To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: (idm) mojo workin' > > From the Onion's interview with Mojo Nixon: > > O: Your new song, "Machines Ain't Music," says that all techno music is > disco, "and disco sure does suck." > > MN: There's been a resurgence. I was at Woodstock a month ago; the radio > station sent me up there. The Chemical Brothers and stuff--it's just > horrendous! Horrendous. > > O: To you, it's as bad as disco in the '70s? > > MN: And it could possibly be worse. But it's equally as bad. I mean, if > you have shit sandwiches, it's one of 'em. There's no soul; there's no > funk. All this--what's it called, techno or somethin'?--is all just > noise. I mean, to me, anyway. It's just disco, just bad disco. > > O: What are the kids getting off on, then? > > MN: Well, hopefully they're getting laid. And hopefully, they're on > something. 'Cause from my perspective, you've gotta be on something to > listen to that crap. They had these raves going on. Rave music sounds > like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. It > was all kind of minor-key and ethereal and somewhat ominous in a light > way. That's what it sounded like to me. I about went berserk. I firmly > believe if you can't take an acoustic instrument and make people from a > different culture butt-dance, you aren't doing shit. > > > > Aaron > np: a shit sandwich from King Britt and Sylk 130 (Season's Change)