tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188724299312356218.post6899351787798985226..comments2023-11-03T06:30:10.926-07:00Comments on parotechnics: the b-side of this whole rock music thingparotechnicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533598285111795343noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188724299312356218.post-4048953776692402952008-08-15T12:05:00.000-07:002008-08-15T12:05:00.000-07:00Chamcham:I agree the article is stretching an expo...Chamcham:I agree the article is stretching an expostulation into a thesis. But although I like Dylan and willing to concede PFs interestingness - it's not about that - it's about the calcification, the canonising, the deifying of artists and all the fundamentalisms that follow. Believe me, when you've had to spend as much time with folks from the 70s who keep singing Dylan songs, or think music ended with PF, you're going to start thinking Anu Mallik might be more revolutionary and more interesting.parotechnicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11533598285111795343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188724299312356218.post-85251481760134779412008-08-12T06:50:00.000-07:002008-08-12T06:50:00.000-07:00I really should be writing on my blog, not yours. ...I really should be writing on my blog, not yours. Anyway. Who wrote that boring BORING sounding piece about rock music? My first (and sometimes I think my only) friend was Bob Dylan, and he didn't have too much to do with love. Plus, after 1962, he's the God of all rock (and I suppose pop) musicians. He made the Beatles so nervous that Allen Ginsburg had to crack a few silly jokes so that they could get talking to each other. Anyway, he scolded them and they wrote less of the love stuff after that, or so Mr. Dylan and the surving Beatles claim. <BR/><BR/>Totally agree about how IIT made Pink Floyd irritating - air guitar etc. - but the band did do some INTERESTING stuff. As did other people like Lou Reed and Janis Joplin and Neil Young and Grace Slick and - need I go on and start sounding like the guy who wrote that article probably hoping to get his PhD grant for the Deconstruction of the Medieval Love Lyric in Contemporary Popular Culture. A lot of rock music was about rebellion and revolution and very popular. And a lot of the revolution IS the music - the totally obscene sound an electric guitar makes, or weird weird electronica beyond anything Mr. Glass can dream up. Ok I'll stop now.chamchamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07747292804556928479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188724299312356218.post-2713000384004630342008-08-10T22:06:00.000-07:002008-08-10T22:06:00.000-07:00Hey, I spent hours as a kid giving grand interview...Hey, I spent hours as a kid giving grand interviews for Stardust, and imagining myself on the last page with My Favourite Things.<BR/><BR/>As I heard Pink Floyd first when I got to FTII, I found it a little annoying myself. Now, reading this, I understand that what irritated me was the smugness of the people who listened to it, and hummed/sang along .<BR/><BR/>I like the jumble of your thoughts on a Sunday morning.Bannohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03855784743978203037noreply@blogger.com