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nick_h_nz
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I’d personally like to think (or, at the very least, hope) that people with views like richardh are the minority in this forum. I’m here to explore, too - from any year, and within any genre. |
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Speak for yourself and don't assume others are the same. I'm here almost exclusively to explore.
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What do I want from artists ? ... Simply to surprise me !
That's why I listen to good (of course !) post/alternative/progressive sounds. And that's why I will not buy the new albums of Transatlantic, Wobbler (for classic retro progressive rock) and the new Steven Wilson CD (far from the level of artists like Massive Attack and Portishead).
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I want artists to pay me 10 € every time I listen to one of their albums... But since that is probably not going to happen, I want them to do what they want, and then I'll buy their music or not. |
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richardh
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Its a prog rock forum so we want prog rock. I get a bit fed up stating a simple fact , this forum wouldn't exist with ELP, Genesis , Yes etc doing their thing when they did it. You can pretend all you like that we all want new music but actually I don't really believe it. We just want a feeling that we had 40 years ago. Trouble is that just isn't happening , not really. The late sixties and early seventies was a unique time for music. It will never likely happen again. Get over it. Anyway where is M27Barney when you need him to talk about panheads or whatever.
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Catcher10
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I agree! I mentioned in the thread about the record that I'm not a fan of this social messaging krapp. If someone wants to spend money on useless stuff, who cares, and for whatever reasons. Although I am sure he is simply playing on that for song subjects, not sure he truly feels that way especially when he is buying expensive LP and CD boxsets of stuff he already has as noted in his most recent What's In My Bag video by Amoeba Records. Not sure I would call him hypocritical, I think he's just using it for topic...... I too think he misses the boat on creating a true pop album, he's not a pop singer or musician like ABBA, Prince or the Beatles (). Plus the musicians he used are not pop musicians, to create a pop albums he's really gonna have to go outside his box of support musicians. Again, that being said I do like the album. If he really, really wants to be a pop star, ain't gonna happen buddy, it's not in his DNA. |
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moshkito
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Hi, That's kinda strange for me ... and I'll give you an example ... sometime in 1972 or early 1973, I came across a bunch of albums that had a lot of English stuff and I ended up getting 2 or 3 of them, and they were "The Battered Ornaments" (Pete Brown), "Roy Harper" and "Kevin Ayers" ... and when I put on the albums, they were so different as to make your head spin ... but they were ... very interesting ... and you could tell easily enough that Roy was a poet, not just a coconut singer! INSIDE the Battered Ornaments cover was a record sleeve that had the "Hipgnosis Breakfast Ingredients" and it listed over 15 artists ... and in the next year I got just about all of them ... only to find out that these were all over the place and very interesting. The differences were out of this stratosphere. Lol Coxhill? How do you measure that THEN? And then I came across Capability Brown ... what a treat on both albums ... amazing stuff ... and of course, by the end of that time I had all the Kevin Ayers' albums (all great!!!) and all of the Roy Harper albums ... and the following year, I got into what was called "krautrock" but I never EVER lost touch or feel for the many HARVEST artists at all ... they were all far out to listen to. Krautrock did a different number with their total outright experiments ... but it felt like an extension of what the English musicians were not able to do, and a couple of websites saying that they were not interested in Westernized (Rock) Music concepts ... MADE SENSE TO ME .... Europeans have a music history that America does not have, and a lot of their music comes from different elements than the ones that we think are "progressive music", which by its current definition .... wake up ... it isn't progressive anymore. So listening to different things is good, and it is not always about you like it or not ... because too many things fit into the "middle" where you are not sure how you see it or feel, and this is what happened to me when I first heard PH/VdGG which I had already been listening to for a year before the Harvest thing happened. (I'll try to post the picture from the Hipgnosis book of the breakfast ingredients ... you'll look at it and go 1972? Crazy!!!!) |
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moshkito
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Hi, I feel that way sometimes, but the funny thing ... the minute I say it something shows up that is different and far out! Go figure. One last detail, and this is not meant as a plug ... but the inevitable question is, where are these things ... and for me the Space Pirate Radio show has been one of the best "new material" for some 40 years, since no other show has the variety and the ability to do something that is not a cookie cutter mentality and continuously make the show sound like another top ten! I think, Steve, that in the end, it depends on where you listen to things and how ... thus the same place with the same bands is not a good place at all ... and neither are some articles here about new bands when all they can say is that it sounds like ... and like ... and so on, something that turns me off immediately.
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That about sums it up for me. |
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Necrotica
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EXACTLY! I knew I couldn't have been the only one who had issues revolving around the marketing and messaging as much as the music itself. Not to mention, this is the same guy who constantly criticized technology and phone use, while promoting the damn album on TikTok! I don't mind him using TikTok - there's not much money in music anymore as it is, so good on him for using new marketing strategies - but it's the hypocrisy that bothers me. And unfortunately that's a flaw that runs deep in the album as a whole (especially on Personal Shopper)
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For me, the problem with The Future Bites was the marketing hype that was going on for months before the album came out (I think it was delayed by COVID). It was a smart campaign that seemed to be taking the p*ss out of his own fans and with that type of campaign you're expecting the greatest album ever (I think it was called "OK Computer for the 2010s or something like that) and it's therefore quite likely to be a bit of a letdown for some.
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moshkito
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Hi, I had a bit of this same point in a private conversation with a member about "improvisation", that the idea was to take things COMPLETELY to an unchartered territory, but I am not sure that he felt comfortable considering that option ... within an improvisation, I asked, when would be your "tricks" and "bits and pieces" you knew over and done with before you repeat yourself silly? And I think that this is an issue with the teaching of music in schools for the most part ... I can tell you, for example, that Berklee is the worst school at improvisation, but their folks all know how to count and know the chords, and that makes them a musician, see? And if they try to improvise, try it for an hour or two, to see if you can get past your bits and pieces and tricks ... you will be dry wondering what to do next, and ... An artist experiments, in terms of the way we think ONLY ... because for them it might not be an experiment at all ... this could easily be said of Peter Hammill for example, someone that many people don't like because he is so different all the time ... maybe less these days, but his incredible catalog of music shows an impressive array of moments ... something that we rarely find in any artist!
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Necrotica
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Also, regarding the original post, I really hope you're not referring to my Future Bites review. I specifically stated that I'm fine with Wilson making a pop record as long as it's executed well (see: To the Bone). But to me, it simply was a matter of poor execution and messaging rather than a matter of genre
Edited by Necrotica - February 24 2021 at 19:58 |
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Necrotica
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I think it's all about having that "one" album that moves you so much that you'll seek out more music like it and expand your boundaries. Up until my junior year of highschool (when I was about 16) I would only listen to prog or metal music with no other genres interesting me. But one fateful day, following a Devin Townsend and Children of Bodom concert, I decided to give Ghost by Devin Townsend a listen. The relaxing, new age-inspired material astonished me and soothed me at the same time, and all of a sudden there was a whole new world of music that I'd never considered. By that next year, my genre list had expanded to include folk, new age, ambient, indie rock, jazz, pop (don't worry, not just the top 40 pop), and just about everything in between.
For me personally, I don't like to write off an artist doing an unfamiliar genre until I actually hear it. The results may just surprise the listener, as Ghost did for me
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For once, I agree with mosh. I don't want anything specific from artists because I don't know what I want. I didn't know I wanted hip hop until a few years ago. It all depends on whether at that particular point in time, what the artist makes resonates with me.
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Manuel
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You sound like me a few years ago. I guess as I get older, things have a different color for me.
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Atavachron
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There are rare times when music will still surprise me. I guess I'd say I don't know what I want until I hear it. |
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Homotopy
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An album can be not "not prog enough" and not "more of the same" simultaneously. The two types of complains you contrast are not contradictory.
As always, the most annoying whiners are people whining about other people whining.
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