From: Alan Lockett ()
Date: May 7, 2008
Subject:
Re: (amb) What other music do you listen to?
I will not do Country, whether old or new, alt or trad, hick or chic. I'd
rather undergo rectal surgery without anaesthetic. It's a toughie, but...
between experiencing, say, Willie Nelson and extreme pain, I'll plump for
the pain 9 times out of 10.=20
Other things I don't do are, in no particular order of disdain:-
Folk, Opera, Metal, Rap/HipHop, Emo, MOR, AOR, Contemporary Pop, R=E2=80=99=
n=E2=80=99B,
Doom/sludge, Experimental Noise, Avant-garde Wank (we all recognise it when
we hear it, so it's a genre, I've decided), Mentalism, Spazzcore, Sh|tecore=
,
Smegcore, or whatever this week=E2=80=99s Core blimey variant is... I'm sur=
e there's
more intolerable stuff out there, but I can't think of it for now. Oh
wait...
!!Classic Rawk!!
Things I *will* do outside my ambient box are:-
- a bunch of =E2=80=98intelligent=E2=80=99 minimal techno (e.g. BC/CR, DC/M=
odell and
related, Villalobos, stuff on the Dial label like Lawrence, Carsten Jost,
Pantha du Prince, that type o'gubbins)
- a handful of IDM-y electronica by the likes of (early-mid)Autechre,
Arovane, Bola, Quench, Loess, Lusine, Anders Ilar, and the like. Throw in
BoC too.
- a smidgeon of quality psy-amb um... =E2=80=98groove=E2=80=99-type stuff, =
a la Ultimae
(e.g. Solar Fields, Ishq)
- a soupcon of =E2=80=98indie=E2=80=99 rock derived from the post-punk
JD/Bunnymen/early-U2/Comsats template
- a pinch of fuzzedoutdreampop-shoegaze (i.e. MBV, Curve, Lush, Cock-toes,
lovesliescrushing)
- a few works by Serious Late-classical Composers like Debussy, Ravel,
Mahler, Part (but
spare me That Whole Great Pompous Canon and Heritage of Classical Music)
- the (very) occasional bit of Mahavishnu, Miles, or Keith Jarrett, or, say=
,
wossisname... Cong Vu
- the (even more) occasional snatch of 70s British groups with
unfeasibly-long multi-part opuses, such as Genesis, Yes, and some of the
Canterbury Scene lot (but, as a rule of thumb, Prog can go kiss the anus of
a diarrhoea-suffering bison, as far as I'm concerned)
Hard to write off whole genres wholesale, but I think I did OK, on the
whole.
Right, then. What was the point of all this again?
alan
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