Re: Subject: (idm) The Wire etc. etc.

From Steve
Sent Wed, Dec 31st 1997, 01:44

[sm] wrote:

> >"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

yeah but then what about the flipside of that record! his remix of
'soon'!an atrocity.... mbv are undeniably indie... and guitar wanky...
but not indie wank... . . and they drone better than sonic youth!! :-D

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

up yer bum ya prancing nonce ;-D heheh

Steve