Re: (TV) Unbelievable!

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

Drivel! I liked ( a relative term) a lot of what he played.  That stuff is
unique and weird - it is the debris of pop culture. The stuff everyone likes
(in music) because it's just plain great: Radiohead or pretends to be great:
Coldplay, rises to the top. In Radiohead's case, no one from the true
philistine to the best trained critical ears can deny that Radiohead is one
of the best bands out there. Everyone buys their records. In the case of
Coldplay - well, they sound good - but on a closer listen, their songs are
superficial, poorly crafted and appeals purely to the lowest common
denominator in pop culture (the least elites). At the other end of the
spectrum there are the artists who may have had a great concept, but it was
awkwardly executed - these would be your "outsider" artists like Jandek or
Daniel Johnston.  These artists will perpetually be left behind by the main
streams of pop culture. The weird stuff that Verlaine likes and played on
the radio show falls into this category. Strange orchestral mambo stuff from
the early sixties, amelodic saxephone jazz, reverb drenched "spy" rock
guitar - surf rock influenced - this stuff only has a severely limited
appeal . Again great in concept, but always something just not quite right -
probably too much "cow bell" instead of not enough. This pop debris is
interesting if not terribly listenable. I think maybe that's what Verlaine
gets out of it...?


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk>wrote:

> leif joley wrote:
>
>>  Who in his
>> or her right mind would want to listen to this?
>>
> Verlaine, probably, going by some of the drivel he played on his Guest DJ
> program.
>
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